Years ago I bought copy of SAMS Teach Yourself HTML 4 in 24 Hours when I wanted to create a web page. I found it quite straightforward to do a simple page. By simple I include pictures, calling additional pages, other sites, etc, etc. I suppose there is now a newer edition.
Most browsers allow one to look at the source coding of any web page ... but pages created by applications from the big guys are so verbose and convoluted that you probably won't be able to figure out what's going on.
As others have said (below), paying for a professional job may be cheaper if your time is worth anything.
Be sure to test your web page with a number of different browsers. Some authoring software sometimes produces non-standard web pages that don't work with major browsers such as Firefox and Opera.
Last two paragraphs added 4 June.
Last edited by seacue; 4th June 2008 at 11:32.