that sucks man
oh and a wise CS professor once said,“In this field, the only thing that is constant, is change.” the point is that programming concepts are all the same. If u can code in c++, you can code in Java, or any OOL. same with scripting languages. its not really hard to learn syntax, especially with sweet code editors like eclipse, or to stay on topic, dreamweaver, that compile on the fly and tell u what ur doing wrong
stick with it man. oh and you should always start with a basic html file that looks something like this
<html>
<head>
<body>
</body>
</head>
</html>
edit: i dont think thats completely right, but im sure someone will point out whats wrong
then put all ur code in the appropriate sections