How to create a website and not die trying?

Well, the first step is the selection of the software to html edition, you can see the following description of the software:

Bluefish: Is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdevelopers, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code.  Yiep, its has many elements and is a very good tool for development. But it is difficult for novice users for not having view "design". Bluefish is opensource and download is free.
You can download from website
here





Dreamweaver: Dreamweaver is a professional visual editor for creating and managing web sites and pages. On the internet you will find many tutorials for the design and construction of site with this software. This software is recommended for beginners because they view "design".
Dreamweaver is privative software, but you can buy.
here
Also you can use trial version for 30 days



Notepad: Notepad?, wow you don't need  tutorials, you are master of the universe, maybe  you should install notepad ++.
You can download from
here






Second step
We must create the index archive, the basic elements the index archive:

The elements basic in the website

Head (cabezera):  Place the main configuration data, for example the stylesheet "styles.css". also the title of the tab.
Title (título):  Is the title that appears in the web browser tab
Body (cuerpo): In the place all the components of the web for example: tables, images, forms, insert code, etc.

Also you can find different tutorials in
W3Schools