I might just be a Mac fandude but I would seriously recommend you stear clear of any web design package from Microsoft....they can't even make IE right so I wouldnt trust them with a web site builder. I did start learning HTML on frontpage about 6 years ago....it was ok for "visual" development, but the code it generated was rubbish and did not go with web standards. I dont know what its like now...but knowing MS's track record......yep.
Dreamweaver is fantastic if you have the time to learn it. It is overwhelming at first but you can actually learn it very quickly. As for GoLive.....I think that was always more difficult than Dreamweaver, however it did integrate with Photoshop which made for easy image "sliced" pages. As far as I know though, I think Adobe are merging GoLive into Dreamweaver and just selling the one product in their next release, essentially ending GoLive.
Have you considered pre-built content management systems such as Drupal or Joomla? You may need to have someone a little webserver-savvy close by when installing them, but basically they are just an easy to use web based GUI that you can add/edit/delete menus, pages, news, products (e-commerce), blogs etc that appear on a pre-designed or custom template. They are both open source and FREE, so check them out >
http://drupal.org/ and
http://www.joomla.org/.
There is also a blog specific content management system called WordPress. I haven't tried it yet, but I'm downloading it right now to give it a spin. Its FREE also and is available at
http://wordpress.org/.
Those content systems require no to little xhtml/css/php etc. knowledge to setup and use but like I said, it would be best to have a knowlegable person handy to help you upload and install them on your server. Maybe even worth your while to hire a web designer to set one up and design a custom template for you.....probably be a whole lot more economical than hiring a designer to build a whole custom site.
Hope that rant helped in some small way.