Somehow I missed your post on the Forum until tonight. I am getting a plethora of information for which I am grateful. The friend who requested my help bought the book you recommended and is reading it now. She will lend it to me later.
In the meantime, I am passing along all of the information to her and letting her do the directing since it is her project. I am looking at an online tutorial about HTML coding while spinning my wheels. Seems like there is so much to learn all at once.
Each thing you mentioned will be very helpful -- TRK hosting (I am an old Fred Langa admirer); the online site to check for errors (http://validator.w3.org/) ; the free editor htmlkit. Thank you so much for your advice.
Thanks, too, Jan1, for your comments about OE html coding on the Source screen. That coding is starting to make more sense to me now.