I heard HTML editors adds in extra code that isn't needed so that might be the cause of the large HTML files. Dreamweaver seems to be alot of peoples' favorite editor as you can do alot with it. It's also good to use raw HTML for things editors can't do as well. In that case I use UltraEdit.
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