I agree with dangergeek and somanweb, you should look into a CMS, instead of building pages from scratch - it would save you a lot of time both in terms of production and maintenance.

Joomla is an excellent software, but maybe a bit difficult to start with for newbies - CMS madesimple is in my opinion more appropriate.

You can see a list of 2007 CMS award here. They are all excellent CMS, and worth playing a bit with before making a definitive choice.

Emmanuel