Starting out, what hmtl editor?

I don't know anything about web design and am planning on teaching myself from off the enternet, like photoshop. But I need a html editor to start and I was hoping for some recomendations.
Thanks:D

Learn to write HTML first, before you use an editor. That way you will understand what's going on "behind the scenes".

www.webmonkey.com

www.htmlgoodies.com

or buy a book on HTML/CSS

One good tool is a color coded text editor that will help you organize your code and to a certain extent check for valid tags and code.

There are several on the market that are free, or a really great one that Macromedia bought and continues to produce:
Homesite (I think its only a $99, but I have used it for the last few months and really like it.)

but a free one (and it is really quite good.) :
http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/

there are others I have used, like Synedit, but I am not sure the state of them. Bluefish is the linux one, but I think it kind of stinks and never got past its beta stage.

PHPedit is nice for HTML too.
Otherwise notepad!

Cool, thanks for the help.

Oh and we forgot to mention what Not!!!! to use:
Frontpage and/or Word. evil.... dont use them.

dreamweaver?? or is it evil to? i really love dreamweaver and think its just the best there is just like photoshop is the best for razter images. and pavv whats going on with your sig were you get those bresteses??????????
lol

If you go to Yahoo and search for Dave's HTML site then you will get a link to a VERY good course for HTML. It's free and you can test the HTML you learn right on the website.

Dreamweaver is pretty good but you should still have knowledge of HTML before you use dreamweaver.

I use dreamweaver, but you should still know XHTML and CSS before using it, or it can be just as bad as any other Visual Editor.

i have been using arachnophilia for years. its free and wonderful!