i agree with using Dreamweaver MX, even absolute beginners.
A problem with starters is they think "dreamweaver, etc is too difficult and advanced for me, so i'll start off easy with Publisher or something..." - this will start off bad habits, and you wont get to learn how to create
website hostings quite as clearly as if you used an advanced tool like Dreamweaver.
like anything we start from beginning, its going to be hard at first, and theres going to be lots of things you dont understand, but the best way to learn is to try.
One way i started learning was to find a
website hosting that i liked, and then try to re-create it on my own from scratch. This way you have a goal, you can easily say to people "how do you do this:
. Now, im not suggesting you copy other peoples website hostings and infringe copyrights - this is simply for practice, and learning techniques. Once you get the hang of things, you can start on your own pages.