so I've already made quite a few homepages.
Thing I can say on this subject, that if you want to publish only text and images should use free providers vorliefern to an already designs. a very good one is here
http://www.homepage-baukasten.de/index.php.
I got my hp's completely self-generated (ie design source code included), some providers allow free time to run over what I will never do it again. the risk is just too grou the ideas are stolen. modular so the thing with the homepage. if one wants to do everything alone, one should look for serios Hoster, as Strato. there are the contents rechtlichgeschutzt and you can sleep easy.