Well, being a newbie website builder myself, I've tried a lot of different things. This site has a ton of options for free editors. I am assuming you have Windows because of your question about Wamp servers (which I have no idea about). Kompozer is probably the most popular one because it's comparable to Dreamweaver. If you want to do it by hand, like someone mentioned before, Notepad++ is great. Personally, I use Linux. My favorite editor is Quanta+ . It works for me There is also Amaya which was, personally, harder to learn to use. As for the templates, there are a ton of different sites with free web templates, all you have to do is search. Hope that helps a little.