[atmosx]

Hello,

Ruby should be your language of choice for anything 'web', among the ones you know. Might be helpful in the future for other projects as well.

As most people said, Sinatra (+HAML or LESS), is an excellent framework to build up a simple website really fast.

However, I'd say go a step 'up' and use octopress[1]. It's a Jekyll-based blogging platform. You can set it up on Github, to avoid hosting. If you're not expecting extremely high traffic Github is fine for static content and JS. It's flexible enough to do whatever you really wanna do and there's plenty of documentation online.

You can find many of themes and howto's on how to use 'Liquid' in order to roll your own or modify one of the current themes. It shouldn't take more than 2 days to have something acceptable, a little longer if you plan to design a theme from ground-up.

Good luck :-)

[1] http://octopress.org/