bitaddress.org - yes, though if paranoid download from https://github.com/pointbiz/bitaddress.org and use it offline.

brainwallet.org  - no brainwallets are not for newbies. Its far too easy to choose a bad passphrase (basically anything you can google that will come back with a hit, or any simple variation of said). There are crooks out there generating rainbow tables of all conceivable passphrases and the first you'll know of it is when your coin is stolen.