Windows Looking for HTML editor

Hey everyone,

I'm doing a course at college through work and one of the modules is web design. Due to the quality of teaching (or lack thereof) the class has been left to themselves and sipmly given a task of design a website.
Having no experience in wed design or development I started working through w3schools and codeacademy resources and playing with code in notepad++. However I am now looking for a proper IDE to do development in.
My background is in .net development and part of the course is using ASP.net using Microsoft web matrix so instinctively I checked Microsoft's product and came across Expression Web 4. It seems to be ok but support looks to end for it in the near future. Due to being new to this and wanting to keep on working with what I've learnt.

So can anyone recommend a decent IDE that

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  supports HTML, CSS and Javascript
  Has decent set of features that will make development easier (being new I still don't know what tools will be useful or even exist).

A few web results that I came across recommend Quanta Plus, Drupal and Aptana but don't seem to really lay out a decent reason to choose one over the other. Any advice and recommendations very welcome.

 

Visual Studio? There's an express version designed for web etc

 

Visual studio community. Its free, and supports nearly all languages through plugins, so if you want to try a new language, you won't require a different IDE.

 

Thanks guys ill check that out. Visual studio would be the best since I'm fairly familiar already with it. VSCommunity looks perfect for everything so ill play around with it this weekend

 

You have Microsoft WebMatrix. It is free.
It even support PHP and HTML5.
Include also HTML validation.

http://www.microsoft.com/web/webmatrix/

 

Looking deeper at web matrix support it seems to have confused me further. Who is it aimed at? It seems a really specific product and Visual Studio Community seems to make it redundant. MS products are a bit over the place.

 

Atom

 

http://brackets.io/ . Or http://www.sublimetext.com/3 + your own selection of plugins.

 

+1 for sublime text. Couldnt live without it now!

 

Freaking awesome. I use it for networking also... good packages available syntax highlighting, & so on.

Loved the ability to run snippets of PHP also with, what I think, is called anypreter. Helps with little modular snippets.

 

You can use visual studio with a oh plugin

 

+1 for Brackets! I found it very easy to use and looks sleek

 

+1 for Sublime Text. Really easy to handle!

 

I use Microsoft expression web4, which I believe is now free, but no longer supported by Microsoft

edit: ignore me speed reading I always miss things til I go back again

 

KompoZer seems ok

 

I use Sublime and Brackets - when you get further in, you might want something like Webstorm (so you can use Grunt, etc).

 

An answer to a problem that does not exist. src = professional web dev 5 yrs. just use a text editor.

 

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