Publisher isn't one of the better programs, but it will work for generating a basic web site. The biggest problems with it are that it is definitely consumer level software and that it generates "messy" code. Programs like Dreamweaver (which is more of a professional level program) even have specific features to clean up Publisher code. That being said, it's a starting point that will allow you to get familiar with putting together a web site. HTML is a pretty simple language, so it would probably be worth it for you to put together a page and then play around with the code some to get more familiar with it and learn how to customize things. You will be pretty limited in what you can do with it though. For the type of site you are describing, you would have to do a lot of manual entry. Integrating a database at some point will likely save you a lot of time and frustration and would probably be worth paying someone for.
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