Bev and Jerry just beat me to the exact advice I was going to give you. HTML for the World Wide Web is a great tutorial and reference. I've been building web pages for several years now and it is still my main tool. The other advice above that is particularly helpful--don't do it in Word. It sucks. Try to avoid FrontPage. I have had to use it for several years at work but am now switching to Dreamweaver and it is much much nicer! There is a learning curve, so it might not work for your first page. HOWEVER, Dreamweaver offers a 30-day free trial of the program, so you can download it and play around, build your page now, and think about buying the program later.

Good luck! Don't let all of the advice here intimidate you. Let there be a little bit of magic as you learn--it can be a lot of fun.

SRS