Joe's short list of free HTML Editors
    Before spending your money on one of those big fancy promise you the world and hope you buy it before you figure out it's not all that html editors, try one of these. They're all very good and absolutely free*.

Oh, what the heck - try a couple. Play with the toys.

Notetab Lite
(My personal favorite)
First Page 2000
CodeEdit
Web-O-Rama
xSite
(Note - IE4 is required in
order to take advantage of certain
features.)
Arachnophilia
(Highly recommended)
Homesite v1.2
This link points to my copy
of an old freeware version. The new
and definitely improved shareware
version is here.
HTML Pad
This link points to my copy
of an old freeware version. A newer
shareware version is available here.

* At least they were absolutely free when I put together this list.