@McGillJohn- yes, I agree wordpress is easier than doing your own. I would say, for a beginner, that Google Sites is the easiest of the lot. You click on "Image" it lets you put an image in (which you can move around and resize "live" with your mouse cursor), you want to put in some text, well just click on the text icon and it makes a text box for you. You can upload the image or use Google Drive (or any other image hoster) and point to that - I load whole groups of over 20 images all in one go, from Drive. Seriosuly, it's so easy there is no way you can get it wrong.
I found in wordpress I sometimes got a bit lost trying to find out how to do something (such as menus - a good example, and every time I wanted to do something with a menu I had to go searching again, because I would forget the process as it wasn't simple enough). Another downside with wordpress is picture sizes - even on a pro package my pictures were limited to about 800x600.
So if you are after really easy and have no experience, I would definitely recommend Google over WP - but if you have someone who knows the WP system to help you, that could work well for you. I don't know if you need a Google account or not. Put it this way, though - having run that site for years myself, then wordpress and finally Google, I am sticking with Google now because it does what I want with zero fuss, it takes minutes to get a page up - and it's free :) Biggest bonus of all.
PS - have a look here - it may help you decide:
https://support.google.com/sites/answer/98081?hl=en