Hi Wookiee,
It's been a while since I've used a website editor. I suppose it all depends on what you want to do, as Jim is asking.
In the past I've only used simple WYSIWYG editors and then I've used something like Flash to embellish.
The last free editor I used was First Page, one of the many "open source" software tools. It was okay, as best as I can remember, for my simple needs at least.
I'd check out this list on Wikipedia :-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTML_editors cheers
andy