Which web authoring tool?

[cojak]

Must admit - I've given up on Nvu and Komposer.

I'me just going to use a TiddlyWiki for my site - you can't get more basic than that....

[adestor]

Good Lord ! The conversation has descended into editors. And nobody's mentioned xemacs ! I guess we're all very bored or very drunk.
I've mostly been using scintilla recently. And don't be put off by the amateurish website.
As for website gui editors, ms visual web developer express edition gets my vote - easier than dreamweaver to use and ... it's free !

[NickFitz]

...ms visual web developer express edition gets my vote - easier than dreamweaver to use and ... it's free !

Although I'd never use it to actually create something, MSVWD2008EE (and whatever other bits they've added to the name this week) is invaluable for debugging JavaScript on IE. It's also useful for working out some of the ways in which IE manages to make a complete bollocks of laying out a page - although, disconcertingly, it also allows one to determine that sometimes IE is convinced that something is in one place when it's clearly in a totally different place. I've even seen it highlight an element which is obviously being rendered at (0,0) whilst asserting that it's somewhere like (640, 373)

(Sometimes IE's left hand doesn't know what its right hand is doing. Actually, sometimes IE just doesn't know what it's doing, full stop.)

But still, MSVWD2008EE is one of the best tools out there for working out how to fix IE's brokenness. The IE Developer Toolbar is useful, but if you really want to get into the guts and carry out a proper diagnosis, MSVWD2008EE is FTW

Although you have to dig around a lot on the web to find out how to get it to work in the first place...

[Jaws]

Another good thing about the MS Visual Web Developer software is the intellisense in the editor which has to be useful to people who don't know HTML inside out.

[Sysman]

Must admit - I've given up on Nvu and Komposer.

I found that both of them crashed too often. Having said that, I did find them useful for giving me the right syntax when I was upgrading a load of ancient (and horrible) stuff to XHTML 1.0 Strict.