Open Source Web Design

[GraFx Pro]

I am looking for a good and easy to learn web design program. I have been toying around with Dreamweaver but it has a steep learning to it. I am kinda looking for somthing that I can build off of a template or drag and drop. I am a nubee at it and I ma looking for something that is easy to learn. After I learn the basic's of web design then I want to move up to a better program

Any ideas?

Thanks

GraFx Pro

[Urban Earth]

I would suggest that you learn HTML first. This is not as hard as it sounds! A book that I would reccomend is "Creative HTML Design.2", by Lynda and William Weinman. It walks you through the basics as you design a site. All you need is a text editor (if you are running Windows, Notepad works very well).
Once you have a solid background, then look at the authoring programs. The reason for this is that all of the authoring programs insert all kinds of crud into the code. If you don't know basic HTML, it is very difficult to troubleshoot your code.
Homesite and Dreamweaver are both good programs.

Hope this helps.

AJ