[lani9loo]

Dreamweaver is up there with the best of them, you can get plugins to make life a little easier. The trick with dreamweaver for beginners is to use templates, something you can update once and apply to the rest of your pages. There are certain drawbacks, i.e. if the site is quite large, then these updates could take a little while to update the entire site. However for small sites its a perfect way to keep things simple. Couple dreamweaver up with fireworks and you could create some really visual elements to the site, like buttons, backgrounds, banners, navigation bars and it's all user friendly. Fireworks has a similar work ethic to Photoshop, after all they now owned by Adobe, so you'll get the best of both worlds. ( I sound like a salesman!!).

My dad even uses Dreamweaver to keep our website updated, his knowledge is very limited, so if he can use it anyone can.
That's my pounds worth.....

Good Luck