Well, the easiest I used was Paint Shop Pro 6/7. Read a few tutorials made a site. (Which no longer exists)
Front Page 2000/2 was the easiest HTML editor I found, can do any thing you want with it really.
NOW in my opinion the best Web Graphics program is
Adobe Photoshop 6 and for HTML Dream weaver.
PS6 is quite hard to use, mainly because of the interface. The best way to start is, reading tutorials; I will post links a bit later on if you want :)
So in short the best program for web graphics is Adobe Photoshop 6 :cool: