Maybe the wrong tool?

I am currently using GoDaddy web-builder to build my website (have been for the past year). Renewal is expensive. I'm looking for a tool that allows me to build a decent looking web-site (or individual pages). I thought Adbobe Express would help me do that. I can somewhat make some pages, but it seems limited. I can't put whatever I want, wherever I want. There are small plus signs that I can add components, but, for example, I can't seem to add a horizontal list of buttons on the page, or put text/links wherever I want (I want to put navigation links at the top). Even so, let's assume it's because I don't know what I'm doing (which is quite possible), I don't even see a way to export/save the webpage as html and use it myself (I'll host my own web-site on my machine). Is this the wrong tool for this job? I thought this tool would generate an html page that I could simply download/use for my website.