I'm brand new to web page editing and CoffeeCup. A friend suggested that, since I know nothing about editing or HTML, CoffeeCup would be the way to go. I got "volunteered" into the position of being the web master for my group's website.

Are there tutorials somewhere on CoffeeCup that will help me figure things out ? I downloaded the PDF book "My Website Is Better Than Yours" but haven't had a chance to look through it yet. There's only a handful of things I need to do for this website that's already set up, mostly just a few editing of text here and there, and setting up a picture gallery but even that has me breaking out in hives from nerves. I'm completely clueless about HTML and unfortunately don't have the time in my personal life to take any classes on it.

Does anyone have any quick and dirty advice and suggestions to get this ball moving for me ? I think once I can get a few things done, then I can start to get a grip on how to use CoffeeCup and web editing, but right now I'm drowning in inexperience.

Well, to start with, are you using trial software to see if which tools are right for you?
I would think that you need to start with the Visual Site designer to edit pages in a program what will write the code for you. You can 'drag and drop' things on the page and edit your text and even preview your web page before uploading, and it has a built-in program to upload to your web server.

For the photo gallery, I would suggest CoffeeCup photo gallery software. It can help you set everything up without knowing any coding, and it too can upload to your website.

If you are unsure of what software to get, download the trial software and have fun with it and see if it's what you really need.

Since you have an existing website, I would suggest the HTML Editor. You can download the existing pages, see how the site is put together, and edit anything that needs changing. If you run into any problems or just have questions, there are lots of helpful people here in the forums.

The CoffeeCup Photo Gallery is fairly simple to use, and creates its' own HTML page, and provides the code for you to build a page that matches the rest of your web site.

Like Cliff said, download the trial software and see how it works.

Based off a friend of mine that swears by CoffeeCup, I purchased the full 29 program package so that no matter what I wanted to do or learn, I'd have it at my finger tips.

I've managed to edit the text on my website and now I am attempting to create a button. There is already a link on the site, I just want to make it look like a button instead of just the boring standard blue underlined text. However, I'm not exactly sure which program on CoffeeCup will do this. I think it's the Visual Site designer but I'm probably way off base with that guess, lol.

I don't mind figuring things out for myself but this is a whole new ballgame for me so hope no one minds if I ask for a few fingers pointing me in the right direction. Thanks in advance !

Ask away.
There are several ways to put a button on a website. The Visual site designer will not 'import' an already made website, so that might not be the best approach.
If you already have some button images, you can use those images to place them in your html document using the CoffeeCup HTML editor. There is a 'wizard' to help you with that. Click the "insert" tab, then click "image" and it will open a box for you to navigate to your 'button' that you want. You can also add a link to that button, so clicking on it will link to the web page you want. Placing that button on your web page where you want it will be the trickiest part, but if you put the code it makes in the same place on the page where the old link was, it should do the trick.

There will be a learning curve to all this, and I would suggest looking up some tutorials and certainly the coffeecup website itself has help files for each program and some short video tutorials that are great for learning how each program works and what they can do. Spend a little time here and there watching the tutorials and you will be on your way to maintaining the site with confidence.

Alright, using the HTML Editor, I managed to get an icon on my website (a horizontal bar) and got some alternate text that shows up when you mouse over. Can someone show me how to put text on an icon ?

I hate being such a nuisance but I had no idea just how complicated something that looks so simple really is. I had a lot of respect for web guys before but wow have my eyes been opened on just how much they do

Can you post the code you are using to place the image on the page?

It's just the code that gets automatically inserted when you select the Horizontal Bar.

<img src="Horizontal Line.png" width="128" height="128" alt="" border="0">

Saxon,

Are you wanting to have text display during mouseover, or all the time?

For mouseover, you need to add a title="some text here" to work with standards compliant browsers, and add the same text between the quotes of the alt= so the IE will display on mouse over.

If you want the text to display constantly, you can add the text to the image using a graphics program. If that horizontal bar is just to be a color background, try using something like:
<p style="background-color:red;">some text here </p>

Can I use any graphics program, like Print Master or anything else like that ? Or is there specific graphics programs that are recommended, or anything in the CoffeeCup programs that is recommended ?

Once I create an image, I just find it wherever I saved it and import it into the web site ?