Are you considering digging into HTML, CSS, JavaScript and all the other web trickery languages that make the web work? Or are you just interested in a free editor to help you brain dump your web design skills onto your editor palette of choice?
Well, I’ve got a great a editor to do just that. It’s HTML-Kit and it’s FREE!!
Here’s the description from their website:
HTML Kit is a full-featured free editor for HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and other text files. Over 400 plugins are available for it, including HTML Tidy for creating standards -compliant web pages. HTML-Kit has been downloaded by millions of developers and has received 95% thumbs up out of 2900+ Download.com user reviews.
Some of the features I use and like in HTML-Kit is that first and foremost it’s free and you can’t beat that. It’s also a program that’s fast-loading. If you’ve tried a bunch of different software during the course of your software travels, you can tell the difference between what’s klunky and what’s quickly. HTML-Kit is quickly. Just some advanced english. 
In other words, it loads quickly when you start it and most, if not all of its features load quickly.
For newbies looking to learn HTML for the first time, HTML-Kit create a bare bones HTML document that is complete. In other words all you have to do is add some text and you can preview a simple web page right a way (see below).
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There’s also a feature called Active Preview. Active Preview allows you to edit your HTML in one window and see what it looks like in an active browser window that updates after a few seconds of typing. The screen below show some text I typed in on the left-hand editor window and while I paused at each sentence, the Active Preview window updated auto-magically. Pretty cool. Beats Notepad any day.
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Here’s a link to all the goodies that HTML-Kit offers. Check it out. There’s also a very strong community of folks who have written over 400 plugins to make sure everyone gets what they want out of HTML-Kit.
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