it's not going to be complex at all. I just want to be able to send out a notice to those who are interested that new work has been posted to the site. I may add to the blog page every now and then as well. I can certainly get an email address devoted to the site, that's not hard to do, but I need to keep this simple. Do I have to subscribe to the services you mentioned? I am a starving artist, and all these subscriptions really add up. The simpler and less expensive I can keep this, the better. I am not likely to have a giant mailing list and if I get one, I will deal with the problem then (it would be a great problem to have!)