Dreamweaver?

I would suggest sticking with Sublime, EditPlus, Notepad++ or another free editor for quite a while and then deciding on an IDE that suits your way of working.

Honestly Sublime offers many of the advantages of IDEs especially when you incorporate the features gained from plugins. I would suggest trying the free trail (download it and install it and you have 30 days) and decide for yourself.

We don't know how much the money means to you or whether you will actually like dreamweaver. Personally I find it to bulky.

I use Dreamweaver and have since I started learning a month ago. The first course I purchased was an introduction to flash, photoshop and dreamweaver.

Spent 2 weeks learning flash to realise it's kinda pointless but having the other Adobe CS is essential. I'm constantly flicking between Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Fireworks and Illustrator.

I use Dreamweaver because it provides code hints which are more like autofill, great for saving time and the in program preview. Set up two hotkeys, mine are ctrl+q for code screen and ctrl+w for design screen, and you can flick between the code and design to see what you're actually doing, without the need for a second monitor or the pain in the a switching between browser and editor.

Be careful though because Dreamweaver is like an old browser. It doesn't support flexbox so you can't see what changes you're making when doing things like flexbox layouts. It is very handy as an element inspector regardless.

I had a look at sublime but prefer dreameaver. I don't like the black background of sublime. I'm sure it can be changed but Dreamweaver just works and I have it from having other necessary programs.

Wow...thanks for all the feedback folks. Decisions Decisions.

Personally, I prefer using EditPlus. It is faster than sublime for searches and highlighting. It allows easy control over the display, unlike the settings in Sublime and it is cheaper, faster and more efficient than DreamWeaver with respect to your time. It also has a browser preview option through ctrl+b and you can configure multiple browsers.

It doesn't have code hints, but it is more intuitive than sublime with respect to code indenting.

I tried many editors and IDEs, but I really can't stand the number of extra keystrokes sublime makes you take to correct layouts of your code, but it is nice if you're editing existing code. Notepad++ has a lot of plugins but also makes you take extra key strokes to fix syntax it auto-corrects wrongly.

EditPlus gets that balance right, DreamWeaver's code hints are like Sublime's and generally very good.

I think a lot of the factors you'd use to find an editor that works for you won't be clear until you've developed your style of working. That being the case, I'd suggest sticking with things that don't cost you any money and encourage you to remember your code early on. That way you won't use software as a crutch as you develop. Features in IDEs can then be used much more effectively once you've got your basics nailed. (my 2 pennies' worth)

Definitely try Sublime Text 2 with Emmet (formerly Zen Coding)

I do not recommend Dreamweaver to anyone that's not primarily a designer.

For websites, just still to "souped up" text editor, like Notepad ++. I was taught to build websites through dreamweaver at first, and now I realize what a big waste of time it was. I'm not knocking it, but as a casual developer/someone that is just learning - don't waste your money.

If you are going to spend your money on something, and you don't want to feel limited by using a suped up text editor, look into NetBeans (it's free) or the JetBrains suite of IDEs. I use sublime text 2 (which I gladly bought at a reasonable price) for some more simplistic stuff with HTML or CSS because it is faster to use, loads quickly, and has a ton of great packages to help me do things in those languages. However, my everyday editor is PHPStorm by JetBrains. It's cheaper than DreamWeaver and has a ton more features, including code completion database sidebars, file trees, built in Unit testing coordination, and built in versioning integration. PHPStorm is a PHP ready version of WebStorm, their popular HTML/CSS/JavaScript IDE. Although a few of the items on my previous litany of wonderful tools may be foreign to you now, as you grow as a developer/designer those things become more and more important and vital to your workflow.

Thank you all!

I have a subscription to the Creative Cloud. I was a student when I enrolled and they were having a special. I pay $20 a month for the entire suite. It is pretty awesome.