i use mostly adobe photoshop to make websites, like i do the design stuff in photoshop and then most of the other work can be done with ms frontpage and macromedia dreamwaver. there are tons of tutorials up in the internet, how to make very beautiful stuff with photoshop...just type 'photoshop tutorials' in the google search and u'll find hundreds of pages filled with useful information :) ...i know that photoshop at the begginning can be very hard and it propably will take a lot of time to understand how it works, but after a while you can do propably much better design than you ever though could be possible :) ...also there are macromedia flash and many many other handy stuff...you just have to try out different ways :)