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.