Hi JoJo,
I recently started a blog myself, so I can't say I'm an expert. I am also not a software developer. However, I got something super basic up and running using bluehost as well. If you'd like to meet up to chat, I live in south Kirkland so we could just grab coffee (or a beer) and go over what I did sometime.
I'm always happy to make mustachian friends close to home!
-supersudo