HTML Editors?

Not sure exactly what you are after, but these lists should get you started. Smashing Magazine reviews source code editors and WYSIWYG editors -- both free and not-so-free.

My favorite FTP program is Filezilla, available for free and runs on most platforms.

I use NotePad++ and PSPad both alternatively and don't believe in WYSIWYG HTML editors probably because I have readymade templates (code and design) created by me for my websites.

For which platform?

I use EditPlus which is shareware/nagware but only nags you when you start it. You can preview your code with a choice browsers. Color coding for HTML PHP etc. Search in files tool. Customizable templates.

FileZilla is excellent for FTP - I also use SmartFTP which is shareware, has better file browsing abilities than Filezilla, and allows multiple connections at the same time in different panes, which you cannot do with FileZilla. However, when I need to transfer thousands of files, I use FileZilla for its speed and tracking of successful/unsuccessful transfers.

Kompozer would be worth checking into.

I prefer NotePad++ & PSPad as well when I'm in Windows, and Bluefish in Linux.

I use windows Megan.
I think il give Pspad a go since I had it before and it seemed alright. It was on my old computer thought and i never re-downloaded it.

In fact il give most of the suggestions here a go and see which i prefer.

Thanks for your opinions

I am using Dream weaver. It is very easy to use and it has many advanced features. It has a split screen and it usually doesn't change code around and add useless stuff. It has a nice Find/Replace features which will take care of everything in that page, or in a group of files or a whole directory even. I also like the DreamWeaver/FireWorks integration, and the use of templates. They are a bit tough to learn, but once you do learn them, you can create some nice-looking sites in no time.
In my opinion, filezilla is the best free FTP client. It is free and open source FTP client for windows. It offers a paned, side-by-side interface in which you can drag-and-drop files to and from a specified server. Timeout detection and SSL secured connections are advanced features of it.

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I would recomend nvu for a visual editor Found Here

And Crimson Editor for just basic coding Found Here

These are the ones that I use in Windows but on a Mac I use Smultron for a text editor Found here

I also use filezilla on Windows and CyberDuck on the Mac.

GVIM and vim are great editors, sure the learning curve is a little steep, but once you are off it works very well for any coding or just plain writing.

A bit of shell script will allow you to update the browser when the file you are working on changes, google does something called xrefresh as well. Better to view the page in the actual target than in some preview.

I have been using vi and now vim for years, but if I had my chance from the very start it would have been the editor I would have learnt, as opposed to anything else, had I but known about it Vi has been kicking around since 1976.

Not only is the editor very powerful, it is also lite weight, when you have to edit that file on a server it is useful to quickly ssh in and make that edit.

I like Notepad++ alot, but also find NoteTab quite handy in a number of situations (http://www.notetab.com). What I like about NoteTab is - it doesn't insert a bunch of code automatically like NVU ... has a preview option (loads in IE or FF)... and lots of little coding shortcuts.
But I only use it special situations where I need clean simple html and nothing but html (like, for example on one WordPress site with a broken wysiwyg editor but which is also very fussy about what code it will accept).

I like dreamweaver because it's very easy to use and supports a lot of other useful functions. I think the whole look and the design of dreamweaver is better than any other HTML editor.

I've been using deamviewer and visual studio.net for my projects. visual studio is the best of the best no question but we can use it only for ASP.NET that's the problem. So Deamviewer is the best tool for all.

visual studio is the best of the best no question

Eclipse is comparable, and can be used with a wider range of tool chains than Visual Studio.

.NET may support Microsoft versions of many supported languages, but Visual Studio only works with .NET.

Personally, I'd rather have a decent text editor, like Vim, which can be used with any language (including markup).

I prefer dreamweaver because it's more powerful HTML editor.You get alot of weird codes with Dreamwaever .

fam and dnotify are useful tools to check if a file has been updated, and then send a call to firefox etc

VIM and a command line is great, I use VIM with GNU Screen, and it works a treat.

GNU Screen should be getting vertical split as well soon (it is in dev version already - and there is a patch).

Add ctags and you are off

What is really nice is you can customise and script the vim editor, so anything is possible in it really, gvim is quite nice as well, but I do tend to stick with vim out of habit and convenience.

There is abbreviations, so for a given project you can quickly create your own shorthand, and share it amongst a team with ease, and it is often used to correct common typo mistakes, so type teh and once you hit space VIM replaces the typo so you get the.

Oh if you are doing web stuff, a template toolkit is also very very handy, mako or perl template toolkit is generally what I use.