started out with good ol' Notepad, and that's where i'll always come back to, when things don't seem to be going right - it's actually saved the day for me more than once. i think internalizing the basics, and actually getting your hands dirty (like the D-I-Ys of old) helped me a lot even after i started using WYSIWYG editors like Dreamweaver.

it's not unlike the several new DTP programs in the world of print. the menu-driven 'point-click-sick' features have spawned a host of johnny-come-lately "grrr..aphic designers" [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif[/img] who cannot/will not appreciate the finer points of the good old truly 'cut-and-paste' (not Ctrl-C; Ctrl-V) [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img]