If your going the Notepad route, then you can view the source code of any webpage your looking at, then try to build it from there.
What I would do is get some GUI based Editor, where you click and drag elements, then go in and tweak the HTML code from there. It has been so long since I have done any webpages, I don't know what the better programs are these days.
I myself prefer hand coding, and I only use HTML and CSS.
I use Bravenet for my website. It's really simple to use. It's mostly copy/paste and then you can use HTML to tweak it.
Thanks guys for the suggestions. What might be best to use (from what I've learned and seen so far) an editor that "knows" HTML. But I'll definitely try Dreamweaver & notepad-style version.