I found a reference to a free html editor and file manager, with ftp, in PC World magazine while sitting in a doctors office. When I got home I found it and downloaded it, and am now using it on several websites. It rivals frontpage. It doesn't have some of the features of frontpage, like themes and shared borders, and navigation bars, but otherwise is an excellent program for free.

For a website with multiple pages  I would highly recommend  frontpage. (Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 - Full version)  With Nvu,  if you add a page, you have to add the navigation to all of the other pages individually, a time consuming task. With frontpage  you can have a shared border with the navigation bar, and simply add the new page to navigation view and it will automatically be added to the navigation bar on all pages. As well as common headings and page titles!

Nvu works great as a file manager and ftp if you have existing web sites as well. You may also edit those sites with Nvu.

I recently found a free web host with unlimited bandwidth (that's traffic to your site). www.atspace.com  I just put up two websites there absolutely free. Instead of buying a domain name, it's like this: http://deanzworld.atspace.com ,
 ie:  http://yourname.atspace.com.  My other site is http://collectiblegifts.atspace.com  I have seen no banner ads or advertising of any kind yet on these sites. I used Nvu to create both sites.

After setting up your domain, to upload, for some reason, you have to publish to ftp://yourname.atspace.com/yourname.atspace.com/
They don't give you much in the way of support or instructions, so eventually, after pulling my hair out, I figured that out myself.

Since creating the sites I have reverted back to frontpage (Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 - Full version) because of the shared borders and navigation issues I explained above. I still edit the pages on occasion with Nvu.