Ready or not, I'm moving on to CSS/Ch. 6

Now I'm really frustrated.  I just tried to follow the directions to create the style sheet.  I went back and found my notepad document that I created earlier.  My computer will not maintain the html format.  I just went in to see if there was a setting or a property I could change and couldn't figure out what to do.  Nvu doesn't create CCS, so if I can't figure this out, I'm going to have to use Dreamweaver.  This is SO FRUSTRATING.  I'm trying to follow the simple directions and my laptop is not helping!  I'm ready to throw it out the window.  Well, anyway, I tried.  Now I can't access the orginal html resume doc, so I don't know what to do, since I can't insert the style sheet into it.  I hate to blame it on Vista, but I will.

Just spent about the last 2 hours on Dreamweaver.  What a way to spend Valentine's Day.  I've looked at the first 4 tutorials and then I wanted to practice.  I'm having luck with some things but not others.  I still can't view my practice index page but I'm not sure why.  It just seems so complex.  I can't understand all the functions.  I really like Nvu better, but I don't know what to do about the CSS?  Is it possible to design the web pages I want without doing that, or just doing it manually.  I feel really stupid.  Guess I should stop for now.