You need a CMS system. The best FREE CMS system out there is CMSimple. http://www.cmsimple.dk/
As long as you have PHP enabled on your host, your good to go. It doesn't even use a database, just an HTML file. There are hundreds of great templates already made if you don't want to spend time designing a skin. It's small, fast, easily manageable and of course..FREE. This is for building an entire site.
If you looking for just a portal type page, there are other CMS systems like drupal,xoops, PHP-nuke and many many more.
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