Just my 2 pence.
I do agree that you do not need to write your HTML code by hand.
Nevertheless, a fair knowledge of basic tags is quite useful as you may sometimes need to adjust things that the HTML editor does not put the way you want, or if you want to make minor corrections, it is indeed much faster to change a few characters in the HTML source code with Notepad or Wordpad, than firing up Frontpage or whichever.
And no, I do not consider myself as a geek (even though I would no take that as an insult
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Another free HTML editor is the one that comes along with Netscape (Netscape Composer). It generates more standard (and less bloated) code than Frontpage (this is an easy one). Not many bells and whistles and no assistant, but who cares. I appreciate the possibility to switch between Edit/Preview/Source modes.