Another excellent option for making getting going with blogging simple is Docusaurus - makes it very easy to get up and running!
I migrated my own blog to Docusaurus from Blogger about a year and a half ago. I became very enamoured (and still am) with the idea of writing blog posts as markdown, storing them as code and publishing them as a website.
I was delighted at how much Docusaurus aligned with that. So much so that I wrote a guide to help others migrate:
https://blog.johnnyreilly.com/definitive-guide-to-migrating-...