My first non-geocities website was built entirely in Netscape Composer. Eventually I got frustrated with it's limitations and started editing the HTML myself.

My first non-geocities website was built entirely in Netscape Composer. Eventually I got frustrated with it's limitations and started editing the HTML myself. I later briefly switched to Microsoft Frontpage before eventually settling into basically always running HTML by hand. This is all documented in the news feed of the site that is still needlessly online.