I use an ancient version of Netscape composer for most things. For image maps I have an even older program called HTMLPro by Brooklyn North. Both produce standard simple HTML 3.0 code.

 

You can save as html from most office packages and I’ve also used FrontPage. I think the code is fat with over formatting. HTML keeps the same font and style definitions unless you switch to a table or paragraph command. Most modern page editors make the code about three times bigger that it needs to be to display the same page. I get tired of pages the take two minutes to load, start playing music, have flashing graphics, etc.