I used Frontpage, and Frontpage Extensions on the server side. I used HoTMetaL, Dreamweaver, and a few other WYSIWYG editors too. They were good, but nothing quite beat Notepad (or BBEdit if you were on a Mac). I remember Adobe Pagemill was really handy for doing the same changes across hundreds of files too.

As fun as it was then I don't want to go back.

I used Frontpage for a good while (I made a nice chunk of change off of that app), but switched to Dreamweaver as I started doing more and more PHP.

But either way, I always loved those programs (and was really irritated by the elitists who said you couldn't make decent sites unless you used only notepad; those training wheels helped me become good at something that all of my "notepad-only" friends have all given up on).

But I agree, as fun as it was, I really have no desire to go back to that world.

Same case here. I built my first webpage in FrontPage hosted GeoCities[0] when I was 12 years old.

I remember downloading "magic" scripts from Dynamic Drive[1] mainly I learned how to use tables in HTML and inline styles.

I also had this prompt that asked for your name and the website displayed a welcome message.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_GeoCities

[1] http://dynamicdrive.com/

MS Front page editor and Notepad were the only tools those days. But was really cool. I still remember my first website showing Dinosaurs family classification inspired by movie 'Jurassic Park'