If you’re looking for a quick and relatively easy to use HTML editor then look no further than Front Page 2006.

The tool-set is impressive for a free editor. It has everything you would expect to see in a professional editor like Dreamweaver, including quick browser preview, rollover images, special character list, spell-check and thesaurus lookup, visual colour picker, and a style sheet link-up wizard. FP also has a built-in library of JavaScript modules that’s pretty extensive (450+ scripts); and its “Tidy HTML” tool actually does a decent job cleaning up HTML and converting it to XHTML.

Where FP shows its freeness is in overall site management tools, lack of auto-complete coding feature, and a mediocre FTP client. Don’t expect to build complex templates like you can in Dreamweaver or fly through your code writing with the tab key. Also, the PHP issue is a little perplexing. Other than that, I have no complaints. In my opinion, First Page is the best editor on this list. Source: Matthew Griffin – Mirificam Press.

There’s an option for a full unlock license key, which removes the “nag screen”, “activates to Fully Functional software”, “provides 24/7 priority email support” and “free product upgrades”, however to be quite honest Evrsoft’s support reputation is appalling and unless you want to send them a few bucks (actually quite a few bucks – $59.95 to be precise) to support future developments I wouldn’t bother.