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You still can go the route of not knowing a ton of tech to get a site up and running while still having full agency over the HTML/etc. Just pick up a service like bluehost shared. Hell, at work we even have one for odd tasks and easily-accessible FTP needs and one-off sites or documentation pages.

I do remember getting to play with Dreamweaver back then, though. It felt so high tech compared to Notepad and FrontPage Express and all that. All the "cool" sites had image maps and as a kid it was tough to understand how they worked. I did something similar to you, but usually copy and pasted from a web site then changed the image out and kept tweaking by trial-and-error until I got the result I wanted.

Nostalgia is a strong drug haha