How to Use WordPress as Static CMS Without Blog Posts

I am very new to wordpress. I want to edit a wordpress theme and remove the blogpost area from it so it can be converted into a website. I also want to make some other changes.
How I am trying to do it is,

” I viewed the HTML code of my page and
pasted in Dreamweaver and edited it.
Now I am stuck with how to upload it.”

Please help me out. If there is a better way to do it please suggest. Thanks

Thats not really an ideal way to do it (and will bring all kinds of problems), what your real aim is, is to make wordpress into a CMS this way you can manage it as website from the wp-admin panel, add new pages etc, etc, the link i have added is just to give you an idea of whats involved, there are other WordPress to CMS tutorials out there that will also help you.