After using a text editor for while, you find that you know html quite well. This situation is not new, of course. It took a while to develop the smooth word-processors we know and love today. They grew out of the desktop publishing revolution in the 1980's. Now that the paperless publishing revolution is upon us, the desktop publishing tools we are used to are not up to the job.
Text editors are simple, direct and quick.
Most Mac users eventually find that Bare Bones Software's BB-Edit is indispensable. It can open very large files, find and replace in multiple files and folders and, best of all for Web page makers, it has a drop down HTML menu with buttons corresponding to the most common HTML tags. BB-Edit is extremely fast, powerful, and at the same time, unobtrusive. Windows users find that Allaire's Home Site does the trick. It does not have the same interface as BB-Edit, but it does all the basic HTML tags just as easily and efficiently.