Free is everyone's favorite price, right? So here's a handful of free editors, some of which are even what-you-see-is-what-you-get html editors
http://www.coffeecup.com/html-editor/
http://www.mozilla.org/editor/
http://www.trellian.com/webpage/index.html
http://software.visicommedia.com/en/pro ... lfreeware/
http://net2.com/nvu/
http://www.w3.org/Amaya/
Hope that's helpful to someone looking to get started playing with HTML for themselves.