Originally Posted by Mocker

If I am writing mostly code and not 'designing' a site, then I will usually use a text based editor. I tend to use dreamweaver for most sites because I can switch to code view to make sure everything is exactly what I like.

Originally Posted by Mocker

The design view is also really helpful though, because even if the code gets a little uglier, it is much easier to visually design the appearance and then tweak it afterwards. Just because you CAN write all the <div> tags you need to format a page, it'll still take longer then draggin the layer tool across the page in Dreamweaver, and you can't eyeball it as well.