TextPad is a great text editor with syntax highlighting and pre-made tags. My choice. but you do have to know HTML to use it.

Or, if you're really masochistic, Notepad, which doesn't have syntax highlighting nor pre-made tags.

1st Page 2000 by Evrsoft is a free WYSIWYG editor. Can't go wrong there. :-)

People I trust have been recommending Serif's WebPlus 6, but Serif now has version 7, which is a part of Web Page Maker. It still costs only $49.99.

I say only, because Dreamweaver costs several hundred dollars. I'd recommend that only if you mean to do web authoring more intensively. It has all the bells and whistles, but you have to learn it.

Finally, check alt.html FAQ. The FAQ and the newsgroup are a great repository of knowledge about web authoring.

-- erlik