Fair enough, and to be honest it'd be hard to transition from an existing site anyway. You'd probably find, though, that if you start out doing it by hand you'll have a much easier time visualising it.
And I wouldn't recommend Notepad, it's awful for code editing. I liked
ConTEXT quite a lot before I managed to get over
Vim's learning wall (now I have a hard time using anything
but Vim - everything else feels awkward and slow). I wouldn't recommend Vim if this is a one-off thing, mind - it's only worth learning if you're gonna be coding full-time.