Web Site Building

I am interested in building a web site server for a non profit organization. I would like information on choosing a server, or building it from scratch. Also I would like to know what is the best software to place on the server, such as Apache etc. so that we can host our pages, and lastly I would like to know the best packages to create the web pages. If there is one book that answers these questions, then refer me to one or more. I don’t want to read 6 books to complete my task.

Thanks

Alan