I'm basically looking for a good editor to do HTML, CSS, Javascript and PHP with. On my old computer I used Macromedia Dreamweaver, but instead of going through the trouble of acquiring one this time around, I tried to go with Notepad++. Generally, I like it, but the lack of certain features is... annoying. For example, a color picker. So I can pick a color and it automatically generates the code for it (#AAFFCC). Editing manually takes a bit. Additionally, Dreamweaver had a handy auto-complete that made things faster. I've looked up certain plugins for Notepad++, but all color pickers seem outdated, and the autocompletion doesn't seem to work (or at least not to the extent I'm used to). The one thing that makes me want to stay with it or get an alternative rather than going back is speed; Dreamweaver's features that I don't use, such as a WYSIWYG editor, seemed to significantly slow down opening time, compared to Notepad++, which opens instantly.

So, if anyone has an alternative with the requested features or a verified method to stick those two features (or other goodies) into Notepad++, I'd be very grateful.

Just use Notepad + this and get used to no autocomplete

Falk, you're useless. What else is new.

I just read something about Microsoft Expression Web that seemed awesome, until I came to the part that it doesn't support PHP.

How disappointing.

I do everything you do (coding wise). I use notepad++ to get the job done. I also use Photoshop for choosing colors. A good coder shouldn't ever rely on high quality programs and plugins. It would be a lot harder to search through, but notepad (comes with your OS) alone would be sufficient.

Sorry if I wasn't much help but I did post what I do to get the job done.

Oh cmon, I found a pretty sick online color wheel, you can't deny that

I have coded websites with straight vanilla Notepad. All I can say is most/all WYSIWYG editors aren't very good, and hand coding is far better.

Same.
Also, with Web-Editors you don't even 100% really learn the comp-language itself (at some web-editors).

Wow, you guys are cool and right! What was I thinking, getting something to speed everything up - I should get down with my inner ninja and use notepad!

Really? No better suggestions that are better than Notepad++?

Lol, use CoffeeCup it's free!

I know this must come unnaturally to you, but if you're going to suggest something, please offer more than 'its free'. If you've had personal experience, that'd be nice, explain that. Otherwise, why you think its good. Believe it or not, there are several free editors that I know of.

if you deleted some of the plugins for dreamweaver, would it load faster?

No idea. And they're not exactly plugins, they're more like features... not sure they're really deletable.

You could try SciTE-Ru. It has autocomplete and abreviations. I'm sure theres a lua script out there for a color picker too there's a color picker in Tools. Be warned, however, that the properties files are only commented in Russian >_>

Good thing that Centreri IS Russian.

Although I see no reason why Notepad++ shouldn't serve you. It's clean and minimalistic. I think there are a few hotkey plugins though.

I've heard Apanta Studio is a good free program. I've never used it because I just use the web server to script everything out.

If I needed to, I'd use regular Notepad.. And choosing colors is easy:

#000000 can be broken down like this. The first two 00s are the Red, the middle 00's are the Green and the last two 00's are the Blue.

#FF0000 would be Red.

#00FF00 would be Green.

#0000FF would be Blue.

So just tinker around with the different values (0-F) and I'm sure you can get colors you'd like

Me likey! Thanks, this is much easier to work with than Notepad++. Don't know why is isn't more mainstream, it seems to have everything. Yay for Doodle's inexplicable knowledge of this stuff.
That's how it was doing it, I know how to basically approximate - 0123456789ABCDF. However, a color picker is still considerably faster. I'll try Apanta if Doodle's SciTE ends up failing, but it seems to cover all I ever wanted right now.

Russian

Yeah, I guessed that. It just seems its awesome enough to overcome that obstacle. And the main menus can be installed and everything is English. It's various installed plugins, like the color palette, that come in Russian only.