I've been creating websites, albet slowly and badly (?) for 11 years now, using a fantastic package called Notepad. It does exactly what I need, and it's only downfall was not having a find and replace function, or being able to open more than 1 document at a time. These things were fixed in a fantastic little shareware package I was introduced whilst developing the IEE's pilot Centres website to by the, at the time, IEE Webmaster, called Webpad, but I've never managed to find a decent modern windows version, the tool working in pseudo-DOS and really struggling with FAT-32.
Now, having launched into some serious web development at work, I've now got Dreamweaver. And wow 
Ok, I'm sure there's much, much better packages around that can do all the stuff this thing does, but you must appreaciate the move from my point of view. I'm editing entire sites, mass changing things. And realising, despite my claims of full XHTML and CSS compliance, there's quite a few bits which really won't work outside of IE 
Owh, and dynamic page creation with ASP, Javascript, SQL databases, and XML/XSL. I reckon I'm starting to understand how this place works too 
I'm like a pig in shit, I tell you
Oh, dear heavens. It's kinda weird, actually - there *must* be decent text editors for windows, surely? UltraEdit, maybe? Though I'll confess that I tend to use JEdit when I'm on Windows. It's... OK.
DreamWeaver is a wonderful thing in many respects (even though I've always preferred the GoLive interface, back since before it was 'GoLive'), but funnily enough everything I do at the moment I do in either a text editor, or - if I possibly can - a CSS editor. Websites are now something I pull off the shelf and tweak to suit. Heh. How times change.
Feel free to futz around here, though... just bear in mind that MT3.2 is due something like next week. :-)