Daysleeper
Just to clarify, are you looking for a WYSIWYG HTML editor or a content management application?
If the former,
Dreamweaver or the excellent (and British!)
Freeway Express are both worth a look (especially if all you've tried is the lousy GoLive). Freeway in particular offers full, simple control of layout and makes it very easy to create and publish sites - and it's
much cheaper than DW!.
I don't want to pre-judge your knowledge and experience, but from what it sounds like you are trying to create, I'd steer clear of the open source CMS programs (excellent though some of them are) - for now anyway.
You should be able to use either your .Mac space or your Zen space to host your output with no problems (.Mac can host non-template sites too, but you'll probably find Zen much quicker and you have 1Gb of free space to work with there). Only fairly complex, dynamic sites would require a server-side database such as MySQL.
PM me if you require further information.
Jx
PS - For information,
.Mac is Apple's mail, online backup and web hosting service. It runs on
WebObjects , an Apple-developed Java web application server and as such uses neither Apache nor MySQL.