Personally what I've found easiest to use when building a website is a CMS (Content Management System), such as Symphony (
Overture – The Complete Resource Center for Symphony) or Joomla (
Joomla!) (both of which are open source). Basically what it is, is you install their web software to your site, and then you install a template* (which will be the same for every page - you don't have to worry about coding 30 different pages).
There is a back end to these sites where you can manage the data that is shown to users. It's fairly simple to get a hang of.
You can find more CMS's at:
Home - OpenSourceCMS
*Templates are easy to find premade and you can also just download some and edit them (in dreamweaver) and have a custom one made.
The cool thing about Symphony is that it's pretty much completely open ended (however it's a little more advanced), where as some of the others are easier to learn, but do have their limits.
Tony (or anyone else),
If you're still looking for web site design help, or need any help with the design you're working on feel free to PM me. I am in the middle of rebuilding my own site as well.
Good luck!