Well this way to create a web-page involves HTML code. While a page composer such as Netscape's does everything for you, in one such as Microsoft Frontpage, you need to know a little bit of programming language. HTML code is the basic programming language used in web-page making. While simple pages can be created without knowing any HTML code, any other type of web-page involves HTML code. If you see something that looks relatively complex in some website, I guarantee that the designer of the page had to write a few lines of HTML code to get it there.
Simple sites use HTML code as well.
The only difference is that the designer probably did not need to enter any of the code himself. The page-maker did it for him. In conclusion, I suggest that you first decide what kind of site you would like to have. For example, in this site, I only needed to enter minimal amounts of HTML code. After you decide which type of website is best suited for your purposes, then get the page-maker designed for it.