Hi!
Well..I like books..but not normal books:

http://safari.oreilly.com

If you are interested..I posted a link to a page that may be able to save you quite a bit of cash:

http://www.safaribooksonline.com/informit/ibm/

Regardless the path you choose...there are many editors at various cost/feature levels.

You can download many free trials to try different tools. There are also very free tools..like seamonkey.

http://www.seamonkey-project.org

There are books that will help you learn seamonkey on safari...if you want them.

http://www.webmonkey.com

is a very good site to learn web design.

There are so many ways to go at this. There are free templates to start out with..and then learn and design your own from there. You can build something from scratch..it just depends on your skill level.

Bryon