I'm surprised nobody has mentioned 1st page 2006 from evrsoft. It's basically a free, scaled down version of dreamweaver. It's got a good number of features, but it's still fast, faster than dreamweaver in my case.

http://www.evrsoft.com/1stpage3-features.shtml

As far as text editors go, I've been using Editpad Lite for about 2 years on Windows. It's freeware, and a completely portable application.

I never use a software seperately for html, I use the html editor which is available along with cpanel's latest version. I think you dont need a seperate html editor for editting.
The most simple html editor you can have is notepad and IE opened simultaneously.
But my advise is to go for dreamweaver, in which you can not only edit html files but also many type of files.

+1 for Dreamweaver

I would recommend Dreamweaver, have been using it for a long time and have never been let down.

Still using text editors... (BBEdit on the Mac).

I use Dreamweaver for most things. I have also been known to use Expression Web Designer for some websites (In some cases i think its better than Dreamweaver - its like FP and DW combined)

everything you need: Dreamweaver

I had been using NVU up until very recently, but then I discovered this independent variation of NVU that went under a different name, and I can't remember what it was for the life of me!

Anyway, NVU has always done most everything that I have needed.

While Dreamweaver is very nice, it is also very pricey.

I love topstyle, granted its a windows based program. It's got an almost adobe photoshop'esque setup to it, where you can view multiple windows. For instance, you can write your code in the top box, and view the outcome of it in the bottom box.

I actually have never heard of Topstyle before!

Can you by any chance tell me some more about it, and provide a link to their website?

Also is this a purchased commercial program, or is it shareware or Freeware?

I am always looking for new HTML editors to check out, and Topstyle sounds very interesting to me.

Thank you in advance!

Kompozer is great to use.

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I haven't used it in a bit, but, it lets you edit many different types. Last time I used it, it was for XHTML, and it worked like a charm. It took me a while to really find a good non-mac based program that did this. It comes with a free two week trial I believe? You can also purchse the commercial license.
http://www.bradsoft.com/

I normally handcode then run it through Dreamweaver for validation issues. I was lucky enough to get a good deal on it through upgrading, but its well worth it if you really use a HTML editor instead of handcoding.

Yeah, that's the build of NVU that I was talking about actually!

In addition to that, I believe NVU's creators were working on a direct successor to NVU, but nothing has been heard from them in a year or so now.

kylebionhosting: Thank you very much for answering my question, and i'll be sure to give topstyle a shot!

Microsoft Frontpage was the first editor I used because it came with the computer I had at the time. Before that, I coded everything by hand which was just ridiculously time-consuming and frustrating at times. Frontpage was like heaven for me and it's probably still good, but I've moved onto Crimson Editor and love it even more.