For my first web site I bought a template and spent hours and hours trying to put my photos and words into it using a snide copy of Dreamwraver.
I probably spent 100 hours doing it and couldn’t do the email bit so paid someone to do that for me.
The site was well lovely, flash based. Old hat these days probably though.
No bad I thought considering I had no idea about flash or much about HTML for that matter. That was about 10 years ago. I’m sure templates are easier these days and HTML is certainly easier than flash, I think.
You could go down the template route, I would if I wanted a web site again.
Template monster would be a good starting place I guess.