I never use anything other than Notepad. Although, I hear Dreamweaver is good, and expensive. I've also noticed that Visual Studio comes with a visual web page designer. I've never used it though, so I don't know how good it is, but you can download it for free. (It's part of a big download though). Google for Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition if you want to try it out.
I still prefer the Notepad way though. You can always check out some tutorial sites if you have the time for it:
w3schools - A little basic at times, and has a fair bit of adds on it, but still ok
Tizag - probably better and with fewer ads (at least for now)
The sections on HTML (or XHTML), and CSS are the most relevant if you're just trying to layout static pages.