How hard is it to create a website?

I can’t believe how much time I’ve spent in trying to not spend any money. I’ve tried various software packages, from the user friendly iWeb to TextEdit. For a novice like myself, there is no good solution. I wasn’t hoping for much. On the one hand, I just want to be able to connect with anyone interested in A Guide to Organic Chemistry Mechanisms. On the other, I don’t want a really sluggish website. I know how it feels to wonder, does this site exists, will it load, will my browser crash?
 
The code generated by iWeb has been post-processed as one way to include content inaccessible to iWeb. I have done some of that. The code created by iWeb is somehow bizarre to import into Adobe GoLive. As I have been discovering, all WYSIWYG editors create something other than optimal code.
 
I’m not sure I am up to writing this website in php which would be useful for some aspects of what I’d like. However, I find organic chemistry easy in comparison to learning these programming languages.
 
I’m going to try to fix one or two more pages in iWeb and then stand pat until someone again forces me to improve it.