I use a smugmug basic account ($30/yr) to host my family's picture website, primarily to share with distant family & friends. I find it VERY easy to use, and well worth the money spent. If and when I desire to go for a more professionally oriented website, I will likely use the high end smugmug account. I've made websites before from scratch, and it was frankly a pain to update and maintain it as time went on. This is much easier; creating a new gallery now is just click, type a name, and upload pictures--done. Count me in as a very satisfied smugmug user. Our website is at:
http://4roses.smugmug.com
Good luck!