Possibly. Some people actually prefer Notepad !
If you use tools like frontpage then be prepared to clear the mess, as it puts a lot of proprietary tags in your code etc. You have to know HTML a little bit to do the cleaning and if you know HTML then you don't need tools like this.
I would also advise to design using CSS and learn compliant HTML coding - HTML 4.01 or XTML 1.0 - see
www.w3.org and
http://validator.w3.org/