New to blogging. Please help me i have no idea what to do

(Forgive me English is not my first language) So for a while now I have been thinking of getting into blogging however after researching it seems bit hard to start. First of all i have no idea what website is free and beginner user friendly. I hoped that there would be some free templates to use for a personal blogging but it is really hard to find some. Does anyone here have any tips or websites that I can use to start this journey. And also question can you make income through blogging??