First I must acknowledge that Adobe has set a Standard in the industry (E.g. DW / PS). I / Myself only use One Adobe software - Acrobat Reader -

It's not that I dislike there products concepts its more along the lines of:

• Saturating the Design Market with wannabe Designers that think because they Own DW they are all of a sudden Professional Designers, Thus retro actively destroying the Foundation on which designers / Artists took so long to build.
• I would much rather support the smaller software company's (e.g. Serif Software) & help them compete with monopolizing corporate entities such as Adobe, Microsoft, Etc... (Retroactively creating more competition & employment opportunities through expansion)

As to not drift off topic & get into a debate on my dislike for monopolizing corporate mongers, I suggest that you first start off with helpful tutorial sites like www.w3schools.com along with maybe viewing a few source codes of Live Sites, Opening up NotePad & start practicing hand coding.

No, this won't make you a website designer overnight, in a week, or even in a month. However after repetition for 6-12 months you will get a firmer grasp & understanding of what (HTML) Hyper Text Markup Language is.

Learning code I find to simply be an issue of time & self motivation, if you have both, you can learn. However the creative aspects of Design / Art can NOT be taught to you, you either have it or you don't - PERIOD!!!!! -

Good Luck

I'm back On Linux, I love Vim but also use Blue Fish or Anjuta. So I started thinking about IDE's for Windows. I downloaded Aptana http://www.aptana.com/ It's free and open source. I think it is good for the experienced web designer and and IMO, an IDE is good at helping the newbie at learning html, css, or javascript. Typically an IDE will somehow highlight matching tags such as <div> </div>. If you indent your code this will also help. IDE's such as Aptana will also offer code completion. When you type in a tag or partial tag it will pop up the completion alternatives or syntax.

Aptana has many other features including a built-in FTP and Validation. The Validation shows errors and warnings in a section of the IDE.

I also downloaded Komodo-Edit http://activestate.com/Products/komodo_edit/
a free IDE that has some of the functionality of the Komodo IDE. I tried Komodo-Edit and thought it was a very good. I then downloaded the trial version Komodo IDE and can see where someone might want to pay for it. If you ever do any perl or python scripting, shells for each are built-in.

I always vote for Dreamweaver. It is very powerful yet so simple to use.