Or combine Fibula Mattock's two approaches - pay someone to show you how to get started. I've done this for a few people and it works - in one afternoon you get a simple page that you've created by yourself in hand coded HTML, and you know how to build it up and maintain it yourself forever afterwards.

One client wasn't even sure if he had a text editor - it was the blind leading the blind as I tried to find a text editor and how to use Fetch on his Mac! We got there in the end though, and he's since filled his site with photos and MP3's of his band and moved the whole site to a different URL without any help from me!

If you want a package to do it the "easy" way, Dreamweaver is OK.
Don't use MS Word and its "save as HTML" feature, nor MS publisher. I've seen the result and it's nasty!

Anahata