There is a lot of software available for Windows, Windows95 and Macintosh that will automatically convert word processing files to HTML or allow you to enter text and have HTML code applied automatically. Once you learn one editor, you can easily learn another. It's like learning any new software. Many of them use icon buttons similar to those in Microsoft Word, so learning them is somewhat intuitive. However, none of the editors currently available allow every HTML option.
Some people use a combination of one or two software packages.
You will have to explore different software to see which you like the best. The Page of Resource Links includes links to several software packages. For this session, we are going to work from the Mac environment to the project's Mac server. If you normally use Windows, file transfer will be very similar but perhaps not exactly like we will use today. The main principles of file transfer is the same no matter which environment you use or which software.