I started learning the programming necessary to develop a decent website
about a year ago, and I thought the learning curve was really steep at
the beginning. I do ok now, though I'm certainly no "whiz," and I
recently produced a nice new webpage for one of my NGO clients.
It's a geopolitical site, and we're getting about 200 hits a day, which
isn't bad, considering we're not doing much to promote it.
If I was actually building a commercial web site I would use a program
like Front Page or maybe something more powerful.
I just use my web page as an FTP site so I don't need that much
software. You can make something functional with word.
Most normal people would use Front Page or similar!