You can download free versions of Homesite & Dreamweaver. With Homesite, you really need to know HTML. Actually even if you use MS Frontpage, you should know how to handcode HTML. There are several crash courses out there. One is
HTML Goodies. HTML is not really that hard to use. I think the best thing that you can learn is how to use tables. I will check your site out later. It probably is a bandwidth problem. Too many images on, too little modem.