As I frequently tell my students, there is no web development tool that will do the job it claims to. I have tried most of them and all have serious shortcomings. This is not to say that they should not be used. Editors Having said that, my primary tool is Netscape Composer . Stay with version 4.76, it plugs the security holes that were in earlier versions, there are a lot of new holes in version 6.
Composer is quick and easy to use.
Composer s shortcomings include that it cannot handle frames or forms, it will simply display an icon indicating that something more is there and cannot create these elements. When moving or copying a list from one document to another, the last item will frequently be outside the list. Even Notepad has its shortcomings, though. When I built my genealogy site I had to break up the index into 35 different files to get a manageable file size. That required updating several thousand links.