Oh, now I understand, sorry for the confusion. I thought it might mess it all up if you used frontpage since microsoft code jams there templates/editior. I could never use Notepad personally since I'm no coder sadly.
Yeah, some people are really good at stuff like that and can code from scratch...to me it just takes a lot of time....so I'll use the PHPCOW editor, or my version of Cute Editor and clean up the code when i am done.....it probably all works out the same as far as time spent and frustration once you think about it.
It all depends on what one is comfortable working with. Due to weirdness associated with editors and so many browsers around (including IE7 crap which is least CSS compliant of all) we always found it easy typing out every bit directly in PHPCow editor (Source Mode).
^I wish I had the knowledge to code. I'm always jealous of those that can type it out, I stumble my way though more complex stuff...and my version of complex would be laughable to you because I don't know much!