I have had bad experinces with the VS 2003 and FrontPage editors - they tend to be too helpful. I swear by Dreamweaver, since it does not muck up the html or inserts 'helpful' tags. The ONLy minor thing is that when you cut and paste a control/tag with an id attribute it changes it to avoid conflict, but this very minor compared with things that the FP and VS2003 (I have not played with VS2005, I hear there are some improvements in this area). The only other editor that I have used that respects your code is notepad ;)

Perhaps you know some one that could purchase Dreamweaver under an educational license for you.

-R!

>I love VS 2005 for almost everything... That said Dreamweaver is the best HTML editor in my humble yet totally accurate italian opinion. You can split between design and code view. When you highlight something in design view its highlighted in code and vice versa. You can even make .NET stuff but I fall back to VS for that. Another fabu tool it has is a "clean Word HTML" button!!!
>See for your self -> http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/dreamweaver/?promoid=CABE
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>>I am looking for a HTML editor which enables both raw code and WYSIWYG editing, but one feature I really need is the ability to switch back-and-forth between the two methods of editing without the WYSIWYG editor affecting hand-written code in any way. This is especially useful to me when arranging controls in tables and constantly have to experiment with resizing rows and columns.
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>>I also often have to design ASP-type pages, ie. script between %% tags, so the ability to highlight these chunks of code is important.
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>>Bloat-free code is also very important (ie. unlike that which FrontPage generates).
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>>I have tried a few try-before-you buy packages, but have not been comfortable with most of them. I like the look-and-feel (and price!) of CoffeeCup very much, but unless you have designed your pages from the start with the visual designer, most (or all) of your code is wiped-out when moving from the code-editor to visual editor.
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>>The best package I have tried so far is DreamWeaver. This was version 4, and it looks a bit dated, but it seemed to do the job, and in my experience didn't change the code. I guess it has moved on quite a lot as it is now on version 8, but the hefty price tag puts me off. Is it a case of you get what you pay for? Any downsides to DW that I should be aware of?
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>>Any opinions would be appreciated. What do other developers out there use and what would they recommend?
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>>Alan Harris-Reid