Site by Nite takes care of all the heavy lifting so you can focus on getting a professional looking website up in no time. With Site by Nite, you can spend time deciding what you want your website to do and developing the content for it, rather than pouring through books and websites on how to write HTML, XHTML, CSS, etc.
Are there things to learn? Sure, but Site by Nite provides you with some video tutorials that you can watch to learn how things work. A lot of what you will be doing will either come naturally or be easy to learn. What you will be learning is how the Site by Nite website builder functions, not crytpic web coding or rules. If you've worked with things like Microsoft Word or PowerPoint, you will find much of what you will be doing to be very similar. Site by Nite's online website builder is a drag-and-drop environment and help is always just a click away.
We recommend you start out with the free trial. This gives you time to watch the tutorials and try Site by Nite with no risk or obligation. Then when you join Site by Nite, you can transfer over your trial site, so you will have actually had time to learn and start building your site at no cost.