Not much more to be added to the good advice already offered but i'll give another link to a site which helped me out a lot when i first started learning web development.
http://www.webmonkey.com
This site has a good "authoring" section which teaches you the basics of html in an interesting and informal way. They also have a html cheat sheet which i used to find very helpful as a reference in the beginning.
If you dont get along with any of the advice offered, by all means go with a WYSIWYG html editor but be aware that the outcome may cause you confusion along the way if you dont have at least a basic understanding of the languages the pages are written in. That said, enjoy the web development... i find it a very enjoyable creative outlet and i only ever use vim (basic, yet powerful text editor) these days.