DreamWeaver is very good and popular , if I need only to edit any of the files - css , html/php code i'm using notepad2 - OS windows
Ya me too a fan of Dreamweaver. But I also like jEdit. Its a powerful editor on Java Platform and provides many text processin enhancements. I have used it both on Linux and Windows, its tremendously helpfull for programming. Though it doesn't have the uitilities of Dreamweaver, like drag n drop, data binding, auto fill, etc but still jEdit is very powerful for text processings.
I prefer Aptana Studio - the free version, never failed me, perfect for advanced users who don't use WYSIWYG crap.
Dreamweaver if your not familiar with HTML, but you can use something like notepad if you know what your doing.
It has to be dreamweaver, if you don't know how to code as fluently as others, there are so many buttons to press and find out what they do!
I'm going to be controversial and say Frontpage I've been coding websites by hand since the days of Arachnophilia in the late 90's. I then tried Frontpage and Dreamweaver but just found FP to be so much easier to deal with - it did what I needed without making things complex. I found the code it generated to be just as good as anything in Dreamweaver. I'm really keen to try the new Expression Web editor as most sites I deal with now are 100% tableless - which to be fair, Frontpage never supported that well.
If you want good code that is not bloated and does not break, learn HTML and use a text editor of some kind. DW, FP, and the like generate lots of bad code and bloated pages full of useless code. The more code you have, the more likely it will break.
No, I can't. I quit using them years ago because of the problems I had with the output of WYSIWYG editors. Instead, I learned how to handcode and have never looked back. Today I do most of my HTML & Javascript coding using the FoxPro database to generate the code and the rest I handcode in the nearest text editor. Take some of your generated HTML code and run it through this validator: http://validator.w3.org/. Every time I run WYSIWYG code through it, I get sloughs of errors. Then try to fix the problems. Most likely you will get errors that cannot be fixed any other way than to handcode the fixes.
+1 for Adobe (ex-Macromedia) Dreamweaver from me, too! Using Notepad as a HTML editor can only make your work harder (it won't autocomplete nor highlight the code).
notepad is my best friend along with html kit and it's plugins! - Love the color coding!! - But mostly my ftp software - cuteftp has a great notepad built in with color coding and line number counts! Great for debugging!