OT- building a lightwave website

This is driving me nuts, help please.

I want to put my work on a website, my website, for promotion, jobs etc.
I've tried several times over the years but always gave up. I started with
Frontpage but found that after you'd typed a heading, anything more fancy
required Frontpage extensions on the server and more money for the ISP. On
line create your own tools are a waste of time, all you end up with is a
heading and an email link. I want a photo's gallery, a video page and a
blog diary thing. So I bought Adobe Creative Suite 2. Now I know what
Photoshop and Illustrator do but I cannot figure out what Designer, In
Design or go Live are all about or why they exist. Nothing in the manuals
or the website actually explains the function of this software. Ok so I've
now sort of figured out that go-live is for websites but jees is it tough to
understand. Then for no explicable reason the help menu on all my adboe
software stopped working, it just starts to load then nothing.
*&@@@****..&%@>*

I then decided to put that lot on the shelf and look for a simple consumer
website creator. I came across www.coffeecup.com which has lots of peeps
going on about 'simple this' and 'easy' the other. I download the trial but
find once again that I can type 'My Website' at the top but thats about as
far as I can get. Anything else requires understanding HTML. Are you
trying to tell me that all those grandpa's on the website know HTML. THey
even have handy help instructions for pasting HTML javascripts into the
code....It just doesn't work for me. I get error on line this and cant
execute the other. Load a template and learn from that the website
suggests....so I do but all the template seems to be is some fancy photoshop
image thats been sliced by some other godforsaken programme into squares and
imported as code that leaves me non the wiser.

Please don't tell me that with all those websites in the world, with all the
software in the world, there isn't an easy way to make reasonably
sophisticated websites without learning type in html coding......please
help....damn this crap has wound me up....I want to give up completely on
computers.


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