sauropol.com is a website which provide free website creation service with AJAX interface. It has around 20 website templates which should cover the basic needs. But after using wordpress for many years, this looks a bit too simple and not extendable.
I have created a technow site using their service and it only takes couple of minutes to make it up running which is not bad. Here is the link – http://technow.sauropol.com/
They also offer a service for you to buy or transfer domain to that site which is pretty much the same like google blogger. This is nothing special but if you want to try something new, have a go with it.