I chose Nvu for three main reasons:

1. Ease of creation:  I don't write in HTML yet, and decided during a a four week class was a bad time to try to learn.  Nvu allows almost total creation of a web page without any knowledge of writing html code.

  
Nvu allows me to use different colored text, different fonts and fonts of different sizes, insert pictures and create tables!!

2. Cost effectiveness:  Free!!  Free is always a good option if the product is effective.  Nvu fills my wep page creation needs so far, so for the price of "FREE", I will continue to use it until I need something with more options.

Nvu is free... Nvu is Free.... Nvu is Free...... Nvu is Free.... Nvu is Free....

3. Nvu provides great options:  While I can treat my webpage much the same way I would a word document, I also have the choice to create using HTML. As I learn to use more HTML scripts, I can use Nvu. Nvu also has a great help page that answers most the questions I have had while creating a web page.

Nvu is easy.... Nvu is easy.... Nvu is easy....  

During my research, I also looked at and experimented with a free trial of Dreamweaver.  the cost of dreamweaver is $99.00 for students, or $399.00 for non students.  (Not cost effective for me yet!!)  I didn't think Dreamweaver was as easy to use as nvu.

I also looked at Contribute from Adobe. Contribute was easy to use and offered a Word- like environment for creating a web page.  The cost at $79.00 is reasonable, but not a s good as FREE!!

Links:  Visit the pages of my classmates to see their web creations and assessments of HTML editors

Erin Collins	Jessica Delaney	Jeff Jakobs	Jack Adwell	Young Seo
John Tubbs	Jodi Herrmann	Brian Bucciarelli	Brad Frey	Becca Berbaum
Karen Mizera	Erin Kilroy	Dave Giboo	Christopher Liang	Amy Neighbors
Mark Emmons	Lee Wilkinson	Laura Gowler	Katie Shifflet
Renee Urban	Robb Beane	Sarah Hendrix	Steven Svendsen