hi all,
I use dreamweaver at the moment, and was hoping that there would be a less clunky program
the main criteria are:D
- ftp
- codeing hints
- WYSIWYG (optional)
- some sort of browser testing facility (similar to adobe lab in cs4/5)
any ideas?
Netbeans might be an option worth looking at.
Eclipse is an open source IDE used for Java, JS, PHP, XHTML, CSS, and MySQL. It runs on Java Virtual Machine so it is supported on Windows, Linux, and Mac. You can learn more about it here: http://www.eclipse.org/ it has a great plugin manager where you can select what type of HTML and CSS handler you wish to use - these control text highlighting and formatting and default templating (if you want to have the frame of a document created for you each time it is new). It uses a Mozilla browser for its’ browser testing. One of the plugins that is just great is Remote System Explorer that allows you to manage via SSH, FTP, Linux pipes, Windows NTFS, or Unix your remote sites just like your local ones.
Maybe it will work for you and it is free.
Do a search in the forums… this has been discussed quite a few times and it is no wonder why there’s little response… the same question asked too often.
I use notepad++ and vim 
Most – not all – of the frequenters of these forums prefer hand-coding to using WYSIWYG programs such as Dreamweaver. So you’re not going to get a lot of different recommendations to try this or that program. As I understand it, DW is still the cream of the crop, and if you’re looking for something better, you probably won’t find it. I have freebie programs for everything you cite except browser testing, and I get around to a limited extent that by having half a dozen different browsers on my machine. I’m not a full-time pro designer or I’d have lots more goodies (and might be more sympathetic to the desire to code in DW or design in PS or whatever); what I have suits my needs pretty well for the moment.
I use eclipse and hand code (I guess as there is not a drag and drop or add visual object this or that).