Dreamweaver is a good html editor. But alot of dihard coders here use notepad........Unfortunately I am not one of them and have to use dreamweaver's WYSIWYG editor.
I just cant deal with the WYS editor dreamweaver has. It doesnt work well for me, I don't know why. I use dreamweaver for major stuff, but most stuff I do for forum design is in notepad.
I enjoy using Dreamweaver because I can automatically upload my files via FTP after editing them straight through the interface. InType is really nice too!
Ah, but that is but an opinion. The best software is the software that gets the job done with a minimum of fuss. That, and WISIWYG editors have a bad reputation for producing bloated, nonsensical code that should never even be allowed to sit on a production server anyway.
If it meets your needs and does what you need it to do, go for it. I'm just saying it may not be the best for everyone (since everyone's needs and budget are different).
Dm8 for the table/cell layout and a note-pad like editor for changing the code directly if you are familar with html tags. Seem many professionals are creating webpages in this way as i know.
use visual studio for producing sites - normally it is .Net but even if doing static html the auto format layout, predictive text type thing, xHTML validation is useful even when doing static pages.
I still use HTML Kit - http://www.chami.com/html-kit/ Its free - has plenty of free plugins, recognizes php, has tags reminder, wizards, preview etc. etc. etc. I've never needed anything else.
Dreamweaver is imo the best choice if youre new to coding. It has an easy to use WYSIWYG editor. However, the code it produces is not really perfect... Hand coding (using notepad) takes longer (to learn and to do) but the code is much better.
I use Dreamweaver cause i speeds up my work, and to spot syntax errors. But I only code by hand in Dreamweaver, I never let Dreamweaver do the code for me.
Do any of you use pagebreeze? I am an absolute rookie looking for a good, hopefully free or inexpensive editor to build my first website. any direction is helpful aaron