I worked with Dreamweaver for a short while but could not get used to it. FrontPage, which is now defunct, was okay. But far superior to FP is Expression Web 4, which Microsoft now provides free of charge.
Download here:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36179Expression Web has the what you see is what you get mode - which is "selectable". You can do the whole thing in WYSIWYG, or split it with code view, or do it strictly in code view.
You can preview your page in Chrome, FireFox, IE or whatever browser you select. And also run the pages on your localhost via Xampp.
I do everything in PHP now and steer away from using the built-in Microsoft development server - thus use Xampp as a localhost server.
The learning curve, as you might expect with any new software such as this, is steep.