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There are tons of web page maker applications but there are few professionals ,this one looks good ,it`s free and open source ,the only disadvantage of it is that its java dependent ,I myself don`t like java apps ,but everyone can try it out ,I think it`s good for those who want to build dynamic web applications.

Here are it`s key features pasted from it`s website:

Code Assist on JavaScript, HTML, and CSS languages, including your own JavaScript functions
Outliner that gives a snapshot view of your JavaScript, HTML, and CSS code structure
Error and warning notification for your code
Support for Aptana UI customization and extensions
Cross-platform support
Free and open source licensed under the Eclipse Public License, v1.0. (Source available soon)

This it`s website : http://www.aptana.com/

Everyone is free to download and try it ,you can post youre experiences with it here.

I'm using this program for writing parts of my website because it has word completion that also alerts if that tag/style/function is valid for firefox/ie or both.

This program has some interesting tools but I think that it should support xhtml and php sintax to be better. I'm using xhtml code on my website and I need to use W3C to check, maybe in a future release the program support xhtml check.

Anyway, this program is great and completely free.

The developers want to integrate PHP support, and Doctype based autocompletion (there's the XHTML ). Milestone 4 should be out in a very short period of time (matter of days), and I'm interested in Milestone 5 that will have (S)FTP support in a Site Manager (just like DW... ).
Here's the roadmap: http://aptana.com/docs/index.php/Aptana_Roadmap
There are a huge number of users who request PHP regularly, it's really a must have
Currently I use it for HTML and CSS, and when I need to edit PHP, I open the page in Kate (added to the applications list for PHP in Aptana menu...).
Everyone can join the Aptana community, and help in building the best web developement IDE there is (I hope it will match Dreamweaver )

Well I recomend aptana to all who can use it to some purpose ,as for me .I`ll stick to kate ,I like the text editor style better than everything else ,but who knows ,maybe someday ,I`ll need the help of aptana ,for things like java scripting.