I prefer notepad over anything else. I do programming in JAVA, C++, and scriptting in PHP, and other things like HTML, CSS, javascript etc. All in notepad. I started using notepad+ once, but came back to notepad in no time. I have never used Dreamweaver, but every forum review I found on web in the last 10 years only talked crap about it.
i like notepad++ but when it comes to write html codes i like Dreamweaver as it has auto-complete,auto-suggestion makes it easier and faster.
For HTML, CSS Beginner Notepad ++ is best as well as a professional html/css developer as compare to notepad because of on need to set the section padding - margin it's auto structured and look good for future purpose, while in notepad you have to go for 'TAB'. I like Dreamweaver, its also good because of auto-complete, auto-suggestion. Notepad - No structure Alignment - Can write all programming language - RAM Processing Good. Notepad ++ - Good Alignment - Can write all programming language, with color combination- RAM Processing Good Dreamweaver -Good Alignment - Can write all programming language with color combination, auto-complete, auto-suggestion- RAM Processing Heavy It's your choice as per use and available system.
Based on experience Dream Weaver is definitely better. Notepad is so basic. Dream weaver allows you to preview your website and do bunch of other stuff. Look up DreamWeaver reviews on YouTube to see how good it is.
Dreamweaver is a fat blaoted idotic steaming pile of manure, and the ONLY thing you can learn from it is how NOT to build a website. It offers nothing of actual value and anyone who thinks it does fails to know enough HTML or CSS to flap their yap on the topic. As a dearly departed friend of mine used to say, "The only thing about Dreamweaver that can be considered professional grade tools are the people promoting it's use." There are dozens if not hundreds of perfectly good free flat text editors which are MORE than sufficicent. notepad++ being just one of the many. I prefer Flo's NotePad 2, but there's editPlus, Crimson Editor, Win32pad, if your stuck on Linsux gEdit is fine, on the Quackintosh you have Text Wrangler and it's kine... "preview pane"? Rubbish since it doesn't even usually work like the browser it's allegedly based on. "WYSIWYG" -- idiotic halfwit bull since what you see is NEVER what anyone else gets. The templating system? Fine if you don't mind code bloat comments that seem crafted to trip rendering bugs in IE and some versions of FF. That laughably some people hack around instead of removing the comments -- and yes, it's ****ed up when COMMENTS trip rendering bugs!... The FTP system seems designed to encourage live editing one of the DUMBEST things you can do in development... Even just shoving everything into one window is a massive step backwards in functionality if you're running a large display or like a good developer more than one display. Part of why I like Flo's notepad 2 -- no stupid tabbed editing so I can have separate editor windows side-by-side across multiple displays, and it lets me turn off all the bull that just gets in my damned way like autocomplete (which when enabled I spend more time correcting than it does help me do anything), the illegible acid trip known as colour syntax highlighting, and all the other supposed "enhancements" that just make it harder to do what I'm trying to do -- WRITE CODE. You want to see the result of your code test in the actual browserS -- yes, plural -- as in ALL OF THEM! AS YOU GO so you don't paint yourself into a corner with broken methodologies that result in time wasted at the end hacking away at the browsers you didn't test on. Which is why if you're on Linsux or OSuX, you should have Windlows in a VM, and if your on Winblows you should have Linsux and OSuX in a VM! ... because of course alt-tab F5 is SO hard to do every few minutes. I use Flo's for EVERY language I write these days, from HTML/CSS right down to x86, MIPS and ARM assembly language... but because I'm just using it as a flat text editor, I could make do with any tool on any platform -- something that Dreamweaver is NOT going to provide you. Now, SOMEONE is going to chime in with "If you just use the editor in DW it's fine" -- at which point why the **** waste money, time, disk space, and an absolutely dreadfully useless UI on writing CODE?!? Herpafreakingderp you mouth-breathing morons! In case you couldn't guess, I have ZERO respect for ANYONE who thinks Dreamweaver serves a legitimate purpose -- and really view it as one of the most successful scams in web development this side of off the shelf templates and PSD jockey halfwits who have the giant pair of donkey brass to call themselves "designers".
Definitely prefer notepad++. It's fast, clean and FREE. Dreamweaver, on the other hand, is slow and cumbersome. Too many features that you will never use. Things like Preview feature is quite useless if you're already developing on your local host or live server. So yes, Notepad++ is definitely the preferred choice!
try brackets its opensource as well as created by Adobe you will definitely like it. Has a lot of plugins and you can develop one for your self
i like notpad++ very much. For beginner, will be easy to use dreamweaver, but sometimes to memorize the html syntax not so easy.
When i began coding - i never used dreamweaver. I always used a text editor - currently I am using brackets for windows and Coda 2 for mac. Also - if you are developing locally i would suggest you read up on WAMP or MAMP (depending on pc or mac) that way you can actualy test your php based site on your machine an setup a local database using mysql or some other db you choose.
I use a program called Xara. Does a lot more than what dreamweaver does and also very simple to learn.