Lots of great advice here. Especially the advice about learning HTML and avoiding a WYSIWYG "builder" tool. As many here have implied, Web site construction is a skill all its own and very few people are really good at it. I've known otherwise brilliant, highly skilled software developers and engineers whose Web efforts were so bad as to be laughable. I've also known talented graphic desiners whose designs were very beautiful but didn't translate into a Web site that anyone would willingly visit.

The vi editor is good, especially if you are conversent with regular expressions. If you are already an experienced software developer, you'll get more functionality from GNU Emacs. If regular expressions and programming are unfamiliar or confusing, try one the specialized editors like EditPlus mentioned by Robin (Foolestroupe) above or a good free one I like called Arachnophilia which has lots of specialized tools for Web development including an FTP client for moviing your files up to the Web server. Another very nice free editor and development environment is jEdit.

You'll find links to a lot of good resources and tips at Webmonkey: The Web Developer's Resource and always remember “Friends don't let friends use frames.”

      - Mark