just a warning:  front page tends to make somewhat messy, IE specific code.  save as html in word creates horrendous files.  several apps have functions dedicated to cleaning it up.  having performed such clean-ups, it took me amazingly long, considering most of what i had to wait on was the computer removing lines of code in an .html file.  but then removing 2800 instances isn't going to happen in a second, in general.  office html files are not only IE specific, but huge because of massive code bloat.

the open source community is a good place to look, because standards compliance tends to be important to them, as well as clean and efficient code.  if you're a designer or have any reason to have an understanding of html and what's going on, i'd suggest starting with a text editor like editpad lite and looking at the W3 Schools site under xhtml and css.  really, for most simple sites, your html should be dead simple, proper html header defining doc properties and linking to your css file, a body with  a section (div) for header, footer, navigation and main area,  and a main area with a title (h1 or h2, depending on what's in your page header) and some content.  the look and feel should be all css, which you_can_ do pretty simply.