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since the 80s (god I'm old) plain text editors
now notepad++, wamp & DevPHP
probably 2 times faster than I can be with a wysiwg editor, and the code is better, and allows for templating the whole site
Just added six new properties to my site(real estate leasing), ~400 pages in about 5 minutes.
templates and databases

Anything other than FrontPage,
it was barely tolerable when it was first released, and has gottten only further behind with every new version.
MS do have some good software the visual studio set mentioned by Godfear http://www.microsoft.com/express/download/
and there are hundreds of php IDEs at sourceforge.net if your host is not asp enabled

It's all personal prefrence. Try a few and see what you get on with the best.

Personally i recommend aptana and notepad++

Aptana featues loads of plug-ins that are really useful such as php, ruby, php and it's abilty to have svn intergrated is a time saver =)

I will advice you to do what I always call "hard coding". It is coding from scratch. This have these advantages:
1. You make exactly what you want
2. You know how things works
3. You can reuse some parts of code
4. Etc.

Having said so, here are some editors/IDE for mainly PHP but will do also HTML

1. Notepad++ (Editor)
2. Netbeans (IDE)
3. DevPHP (IDE)
4. CodeLobster(IDE)
5. PHP Designer Personal Edition(IDE)

All are free, though I prefer Netbeans!