Kat, Do check out Front Page. I like it...but I will confess, that prior to the advent of Front Page, and wanting to do up a website for my company a few years back (and not willing to pay a web design company thousands of dollars to do it for me) I took it upon myself to learn basic HTML and a few tricks along the way...

The first commercial version of Front Page was pretty buggy, but fortunately with my existing knowledge of HTML I was able to go in and edit code where need be.

(For a while I got so nerdy about HTML code, that when I would surf websites, I found reading the source code to the pages far more interesting than viewing the pages the way they were meant to be seen. That's when I realized it was time to spend more time with the guitar and less in front of a computer.)   8-)

Microsoft for the most part got it right with Front Page 98, and the vast majority of the time, I just sit back and let it do its thing, and use it just like a word pro. It's a very user friendly web design program - one of the few Microsoft programs I actually like. The only editing of code these days within that program that I add are just sections where I want to use Java script ehancements. Microsoft doesn't offer much automated support for Java as they'd like to think that Active X is where it's at...but it's already dying a fairly rapid death.

Java is an interesting beast, and I tend to use automated Java scripting programs also called ''Bots'' to do most of the grunt work, and then insert the java scripts where needed into the web pages.

If you're going to do any serious web page creating, I'd recommend a stand alone web design program, especially if you don't have the time or the discipline to learn HTML and its always evolving variants.

Also, it's always a good idea to view all pages you create through both Netscape and Internet Explorer browsers, as they both handle HTML a little differently, and, as well, view the pages at different screen resolutions, as in what they'd look like viewed through 15'', 17'', 19'' and 21'' monitors.

17'' is practically the current de facto standard these days for monitors, but with the prices dropping rapidly on 19'' ones, that could change...

My 0.02 anyway.