Excel to HTML Conversion

I basically developed the way a website looks, as well as the content, in an
Excel workbook. I realize that this is likely not a good way to develop a
website but I am very familiar with Excel and it was easiest to at least
develop the "look" using Excel.

Included in this Excel "website" file are different sheets for the different
pages, pictures, lots of background coloring, different fonts, text boxes
with special coloring effects, etc. I have also included hyperlinks in the
cells to jump to the appropriate page (i.e., worksheet).

I basically know nothing about creating websites or html programming but I
did discover the "save-as" option that will convert the workbook to an html
file. Everything looks pretty good in Internet Explorer when I open the
html file (even the hyperlinks in the Excel file were converted to
hyperlinks in html) and everything works as planned. I was surprised to see
that the "Worksheet Tabs" were preserved in the conversion as well so it
still sort of maintains the look of a multiple sheet workbook.

So here are my questions: (1) Can the converted html file (and associated
directory with all of the pictures, graphics etc) simply be uploaded and
used as the basis for a web site? (2) Or, do some adjustments to the code
need to be made? (3) Or, is this type of html file not even usable as a
starting point for an actual web site. (4) If it can be used, what happens
to the "Worksheet Tabs" in the html file - is it possible to have this sort
of thing on a web page (I have never seen it)?

I did read some of David McRitchie's information on his site that seems to
indicate that all sorts of extra code specific to Excel is generated in the
conversion; however, even with all of this extra code, the file(s) are
relatively small. I also see that Mr. McRitchie also has some VBA code to
convert an Excel file without all of the "junk" but I would need to preserve
all of the formatting, colors, pictures etc.

If I need to, the converted html file can be given to a web site
designer/programmer and they can use it as the basis for developing some
decent/efficient code, but I am wondering if I can somehow skip this step
altogether and maybe use what I have as a starting point while I am learning
html programming.

Any advice, suggestions, comments would be appreciated.

Using Excel 2002.

Thanks in advance, Keith