If you're after an 'easy' antenna look at the end-fed halfwave. OK its 'span' is as great as a classic halfwave dipole but you don't have the often-inconvenient coax dangling (and weighing the rest of the antenna down) from the centre.
The feedpoint matching unit is dead simple - a toroid and a variable capacitor. See this article by the late Mr. Cebik
http://www.qsl.net/v73ns/backyardwireantennaes.pdf