A good free (open source) graphics editor for web graphics is GIMP - you can get it here -
GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program - It's very good and reasonably easy to use. But it's still not Photoshop, that's for sure!
I found a free HTML editor, though I've never tried it called Bluefish -
Bluefish Editor : Home - I've never used it so I don't know how good it is.
Sir Toony, Joomla is a very good platform, but you have to put a lot of work into it before it's amazing. Not as much work as, say, Drupal though. If you want something easier than Joomla, there's always WordPress but it's really just a blogging platform that's not nearly as extensible.
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