I'm putting together a package of free tools for a friend to show him how to make and maintain his own site. I believe in writing your own HTML, but you can do much better than Notepad - I'm going to install PSPad which like many good editors has the most useful and unobtrusive HTML design aid built in - syntax colouring.
Nowt wrong wi'a Mac. SimpleText and Fetch, sorted. What's the problem?
Anahata (who does his web design with vim, Linux, sitecopy and a bit of PHP sometimes tied together with bits of shell script.