I use 3 things to make websites. Well, technically four, but really 3. First I use nedit. It's a text editor, my text editor of choice. Any text editor will do. Second I use nvu. nvu is like Mozilla Composer, but it has been "Firefoxized". Third I use firefox itself, to view the pages. The technical fourth thing is a firefox extension that lest me edit css live to make sure its perfect. Any real self respecting geek writes the html and css in the raw. It's the only way.
Correction: "Any real self respecting geek with a loth of time on her/his/its hands managing the egosite or at most a few more sites writes the html and css in the raw."
If you wrote the HTML *properly*, you could generally use templates or something similar to generate the rest of the site. "But my giant site has an inconsistent layout that doesn't lend itself to templating." Well, that site probably creates a poor user experience, and probably could benefit from a redesign.
BTW, not only do I maintain some very large sites using only gvim, but I also happen to work for a web development company wherin all of the dedicated site coders work in text editors. Somehow, we manage to get by very well without wysiwg except possibly for the initial page designs - and those are graphics people, not HTML people.
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BTW, not only do I maintain some very large sites using only gvim, but I also happen to work for a web development company wherin all of the dedicated site coders work in text editors. Somehow, we manage to get by very well without wysiwg except possibly for the initial page designs - and those are graphics people, not HTML people.