After trying two commercial html editing programs, two commercial WYSIWYG programs (neither of which I actually bought, just “demo” tried), then both an open source editor and an open source WYSIWYG, right now notepad simply works best.
Regardless of the truth or lack of it in the matter, I do feel like I’ve made it, arrived at somewhere good.
Edit: Jan 19th, 2011
Thanks to a very kind donation, one of the commercial WYSIWYG is now “free” so to speak. At the moment it works best to do a sidebyside mix. This program to quickly arrange visual elements and do things I don’t know the syntax for, then notepad to scrub and polish it. Someday maybe I’ll be cool enough to work fastest straight up notepad.
Hey David, have you tried Notepad++? It’s free and a hundred times better than the generic Notepad.
Thanks Bethany!
Using generic notepad to write html just feels kinda awesome, but you’re right, Notepad++ definitely wins in the usefulness category.