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Originally posted by absorbation
Don't use an editor, they just make it harder, you learn less and less.
Not necessarily. I agree that a WYSIWYG designer / editor is not a substitute to learning HTML, but it can be a great complement.
Most such tools allow editing HTML directly, not just drag and drop. When you do that, you will probably get features like syntax higlighting and autocompletion, indentation, local link checking, and more.
The main reason why I'd use one over a plain text editor, though, is templates. Most sites have more than one page based on the same layout -- you can design the empty layout first, then copy it and fill in the content areas, but if you later discover you need to change the layout code, you will have to change many files manually, if you are not using an HTML editor with some sort of template support. That gets annoying very fast.
This, of course, might be a moot point if you are using server-side programming to manage your content and templates, but for plain HTML design, template support in your editor can be indispensible.
