Help making a lightweight blog.

Well I did it, I registered a domain, got a host, and my website is technically live but all I have is a single test page and only now do I realise I'm pretty much in over my head because I've never done anything like this before. Oh well, sink or swim innit.

My first port of call was bearblog which appealed to me with how excruciatingly lightweight and simple the pages it produced were. I don't want something with bells and whistles, just simple pages that load easily and can be collated in a list.

Unfortunately you can't self-host with bearblog so that went out the window. A lot of other blogs seem to require Python which I have no idea how to use... And I'm overwhelmed and honestly a little bit anxious.

I'm half-tempted to put my minor html + css skills to use, act like it's 1998 and simply write out my blog as static pages. I realise how foolish it is but that's the sort of simplicity I'd be looking for. I don't want any bloat, really.

Any advice for someone in over their head would be appreciated, thank you.