Sepho gets my highly bias vote.
Having said that, unless you're going to be making some massive site, I don't see the big deal about making it w3c compliant, or anything remotely like it. It all comes down to what you're making a page for. For example, if I was making a page rather than a website, and it was only going to be linked to once and was in no way going to be pushed into anything further (ie, a website)... then I'd just go with simple tags. It's like making a post on EoFF. I just use simple coding unless it's dealing with a large scale serious-type website like EoFF.