I started html with Windows Notepad hehehe but my vote is on Dreamweaver too, it is very user friendly and you can manage your site effectively. I must say I haven't tried "Go live" but the very first wyswyg editor I used was a demo of something called splash (don't ask, I don't know. I use fireworks to slice the images up aswell, you can save the entire image sliced and preformatted for importing into Dreamweaver if you want. A nice big book on html is good too, 'cause even in Dreamweaver I still have to go through the code to see why something isn't sitting or doing what I want. I used to have a site with multiple layers and multiple timelines made with Dreamweaver where certain slices were on different layers moving on different timelines and still matched up perfectly in IE and Netscape. What I ended up with was a very dynamic interface. I don't have that site up anymore but it was certainly made possible using Dreamweaver.