You can use Simple Text (Mac) or Notepad (PC)
•Open the application
•Create a new file
•saving your
file:
-choose save as in the text editor and save as: Text Only, Text Document,
or ASCII. Some programs like simpletext and notepad always save as text only.
-save with the .html extension or .htm
-if your using Microsoft Word, you can save as an html file. (Note that it will put in alot of Microsoft Word garbage tags. This can be cleaned up a bit with Dreamweaver under Commands>Clean Up Word html)
-call your first page: index.html (some servers use default.htm--but
most don't)
•viewing your
file:
-to see your file you will need to open it in a browser. IE or Netscape, etc.
Choose File>Open, Open File, or Open Page and navigate to your page in the
directory. Or drag and drop your file into an open browser. To see changes,
just refresh/reload the page.
-you don't need to put it on a server to see it, but you do to let the rest
of the world see it.