I forget what I started out using on my own website (http://jeremiah.ca), but switched to Mozilla Composer at one point. The calendar page files were around 300K - a far improvement from Microsoft Front Page with its overly complex and extraneous code. Then a friend passed on a slightly older version of Dreamweaver. In very short order, those 300K pages were less than 100K in size. (I'm very sensitive to 'loadtimes', being on a fairly slow dialup connection myself.)