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Below I've provided a brief overview of three brilliant code editors useful for all round editing of PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and more. Even though it is a worthwhile skill to be able to code in Notepad, these tools make the life of a programmer / web developer just that little bit easier!

Aptana IDE

Aptana is a robust, JavaScript-focused IDE for building dynamic web applications. Some features are outlined below:

• Code Assist on JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, including your own JavaScript functions
• Outliner that gives a snapshot view of your JavaScript, HTML, and CSS code structure
• Support for Aptana UI customization and extensions
• Error and warning notification for your code

Aptana is available for Windows, Macinstosh and Linux.

Crimson Editor

Crimson Editor is a professional Windows based source code editor. This program is quick to load and small in size. A brilliant replacement for Notepad, offering many powerful features for programming languages such as HTML, C/C++, Perl and Java.

PHP Designer

PHP Designer boasts a wealth of functionality needed to edit PHP scripts along with HTML and CSS code. The current version is 2006 beta. A little bit of information from the site itself goes as follows:

PHP DESIGNER is a powerful freeware IDE for coding PHP for both professional and novice alike.

Designed to help accelerating and enhance the process of edit, debug, analyze and publish PHP scripts all wrapped into a sophisticated streamlined interface!