Academic home page with low maintenance burden
tl;dr: Wordpress (installing a Markdown plugin), if you are a techie, Jekyll. 

(My website is in Wikidot, I created for my group with Wordpress.

EDIT: Now I use Jekyll; here's why)

See Software for Scientists: Website tools:

For personal homepages, lab notebooks and conference websites.


  
  WordPress - code  and WordPress - hosting
  
  
  Examples:
  
  
  https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/
  https://gowers.wordpress.com/
  http://netsci2013.net/wordpress/
  
  
  Jekyll
  
  
  For writing blogs in Markdown and easily putting them on GitHub 
  Tutorial for using LaTeX in it: http://cwoebker.com/posts/latex-math-magic
  Examples:
  
  
  Open Lab Notebook in Jekyll
  A homepage
  
  
  Wikidot
  
  
  e.g http://offtopicarium.wikidot.com/
  
  Wikispaces
  
  
  Simple wikis, very easy to create and manage
  Used as open science notebooks, for instance http://usefulchem.wikispaces.com/
  
  Site44
  
  
  Showing small site by putting files into a Dropbox folder
  
  GitHub Pages
  
  
  Static websites with Git 
  
  Instiki
  
  
  Wiki especially for mathematical collaboration
  Examples:
  
  
  http://www.azimuthproject.org/
  http://ncatlab.org/
  
  
  WorkingWiki
  
  
  Wiki especially for mathematical collaboration
  
  Sphinx
  
  
  Great for writing documentation
  Example (in Polish): http://django.carrots.pl/
  
  Jekade
  
  
  Jekyll-like static pages with built-in LaTe support, in Node.JS