Thinking about making my own during this year so I'm curious to about various opinions. Also if you have an experience with blogging, sharing with it will be much appreciated. Thanks!
It depends on what of blog you want to make. I mean its main topic, commercial or non-commercial type because according to this you'll need various tools for your site. Anyway for both of them the most important things will unique domain name, content and design :)
There are many special resources for hosting and web building, for example, in case of commercial site I can recommend Weebly and Bluehost for using, they're rather good and cheap, you'll need to pay smth like no more $12 per month for using them. And for non-commercial projects, especially if you're a total newbie in web building, WordPress will be your best friend. It's a free platform and is very convinient and simple even for beginners so you can make your blog with your own hands, there are so many nice tutorials about using WordPress.
Nice and well-functioning design is a very important thing too. Making it totally from scratch isn't a good idea for newbies because it's rather complicated and you'll need to employ someone for this which won't cost cheap. For non-commercial sites web builders usually recommend to use web templates, they provide you ready models for site which you can just simply modify according to your tastes. Wordpress styles
https://www.templatemonster.com/wordpress-themes.php are the most popular in this case but there also many templates for other platforms too. They aren't expensive and can be free too but the second ones often have limits for design and some other functions so you should check them before using.
And the last important part is advertising, especially for commercial sites. For making you blog popular you'll need to have a cool attractive logo, also use SEO and SMM tools for attracting your possible readers. These tools are the main ones in case of online advertising but of course you can use more of them. And yeah, these things are a rather expensive thing too.
Hope that was helpful!