> I was pretty hardcore edit/notepad/wordpad/bare-fucking-bones years ago (1996
> lol) but since I've long since forgotten most of that crap, I found myself in
> need of an HTML editor and ended up settling on Nvu (which has been working
> pretty well for me).
>
> I'm just curious what ya'll have been using and what made you go with that
> application?
>
> Nvu attracted me because it was free, built from Mozilla Composer, and was
> pretty easy to use (for me, at least). While the site I'm building won't win any
> design awards (hell, I've never been good with making attractive layouts), it's
> falling together pretty well and from limited testing (latest Firefox and old
> ass IE6 lol), it seems to churn out ok code :) (well ok, it's just a bunch of
> tables I'm doing)

Didn't realise there was a derivative out there - will give Nvu a chance.

I used to use MS Frontpage to figure out what HTML tags/properties were available, then code it manually in Notepad to avoid the bloated crap that Frontpage creates.

There's a useful reference file that I found too...
http://www.htmlhelp.com/distribution/