Frontpage used to be truly atrocious. In fact, I have a number of consulting contracts which originated as "we tried to use Frontpage and broke our site" or "we never needed outside help before, we managed with Frontpage until..." phone calls. There were innumerable hilarious stories shared with other web developers. Frontpage 2003, however, produces significantly less bloated, less non-standard code than its predecessors. For a hobby site, it should be fine.
Too bad the same cannot be said of the HTML export features of Office. Stay away from any temptation to "Save As" from Word or Excel.
Dreamweaver is also very widely used and has a very large user community that contributes plugins and templates. The MX 2004 edition is also a big improvement over the slow/buggy MX 2002 edition. It may be overkill for a site that consists of a half-dozen, mostly static pages, however.
Avoid Adobe GoLive.
Last edited by choster; Feb 9, 2006 at 6:01 pm