just a thought, but you shouldn’t really have to get your hands too dirty with this kind of stuff.. there are many online publishing platforms which you can simply customise somewhat with minimal knowledge and effort without designing each page in a 3rd party html authoring package on your pc, or a web based one.
eg. wordpress (free CMS/ Blog software @wordpress.com) might be a good candidate as it has a WSIWYG editor, supports templates and there’s sh*t loads of them around for free..
there’s also lots of SEO plugins etc which will make your life a lot easier without you having to understand much except the basic principles.
I have actually moved to wpress for most of my sites now, and with a decent template and the right plugins, you can’t really go wrong as you have a good starting point and good code to play with.
anyway gl.