There are a lot of programs out there like dreamweaver that let you basically point and click to build a website without a whole lot of knowledge of HTML (or any other language). It is still a good idea to learn the code tho. Those guides will be helpful. I used to be a web designer (still have a couple old clients), and I never used anything like dreamweaver. I taught myself and hand codes everything in notepad. This obviously isn't the most efficient way lol (I started doing this in like 1997, so yeah...).
If you are really new and want some hands on experience with coding, what I did when I first started should still be pretty helpful. Find a basic looking web page with a couple pictures and links on it. Save all the pics to a folder on ur PC. View the source for the page too and save that file as well. Open up the source file (should be a .html or .php file) with your favorite text editor and look at the code. Find what part of the code puts pictures in, try changing it to show a different pic. Change some links, tweak the background color or image, align things differently and so on. Now like I said this isn't really a good way to do things now but it's still an incredibly easy way to learn some very basic code.
Your best bet is to read the guides linked above, check out dreamweaver, and get familiar with Wordpress.