blog or site?

I would do a site. The blog can be a link or the url you give people, but a normal site gives you a lot more flexability. You will need a web editor such as Dreamweaver, Expression web or your choice. You will then be able to do both and create links between the two as if they were the same site. Which they are. WordPress seems to allow more people the ability to create a presence on the web and has a lot to offer, but it is still a blog.
Hope that helps.

Thank you very much! I felt paralyzed, but now I can move forward. Thanks!

You can do both with WP.

For the web pages you envision as a “site”, you can use WP’s Page functionality. In the cPanel, just click Write, then Page, then do your thing. You can disable comments on your Pages as well.

If you really want to get into creating a web site, I would recommend creating it using CSS and keeping it separate from your blog. The web pages will simply live in your space on your host rather than as records in a database as is the case with a blog.

Joomla might be something for you to consider for creating your site.

Buy the hosting, the domain name, do as you will, Cascading style sheets are a very handy way to change appearance, they aren’t the end all. It will take a little more knowledge and effort to start from 0, but you get a greater flexability. Just my opinion. I can control everything on a site, WordPress as wonderful as it is isn’t what things are written in. Maybe it will be, maybe there will someday be a WordPress language like java, html, php, joomla, blowma. I don’t have the questions about how to insert flash. Insert this or that. I have a page and with a little help from Xara Xtreme, or Amara or dynamicdrive, so much free stuff out there for sites. Xara and Amara are not free. Anyway, I am a novice so get a web host and you can decide the index.