You should also consider using a web editor which takes a lot of the donkey work out of creating web pages. The standard of web editors is improving all the time, and there are many free shareware and freeware versions available on the Internet. You can also download the ftp software to do this if you do not already have it. If you use another ISP, you should contact their support for help. You will need to decide initially how the site is to be managed and what structure it will take.
Many schools successfully use student editorial groups to maintain and update the content.
The school website is used as a Transition Year Project in some schools. You may be surprised at how creative and quick some of the students can be. Yes, although at the moment there is only one newsgroup for Irish teachers.