you can use free web design fro practicing. i think that would be a good start.
free software doesn’t mean bad software. most of them are good in quality, eventhough less in support.
cheers.

I think you can use Visual Studio Express and do ASP.NET development that way.
If you don’t want to do anything programmatic, I would recommand creating your documents in Word and saving them as HTML.
If you want to do anything advanced at all, you pretty much need to learn some Java Script, and you can edit the files in NotePad.

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Begin with setting up your own webpage as your current internet provider will provide free hosting as discussed below.
If you are currently a paid Internet subscriber, you are entitled to a “homepage” which often contains simple navigation and editing tools. And if you use the Netscape browser, the built-in Composer feature is a superior HTML authoring tool which is totally free. You can easily generate a full-blown website as a Homepage.
Nevertheless, the “homepage” URL is likely to be “http://homepage.earthlink.com/subscribe… name” and that URL can easily be overwritten via a redirection service, i.e., “mydomain.com” which allows you to link any registered domain name to “mask” another website. For example, should you type in the “domain name,” you will be immediately transported to the homepage and the hompage URL of http://homepage.earthlink.com/subscriber… a homepage URL which will be masked by the domain name. And the charge for the redirection service [even at godaddy.com] is normally FREE.
When you acquire a domain name, connect it using a redirection service [as discussed above] and submit/publish the domain name on major search engines/directories in order for Net surfers to find your website.
Good luck!