Aptana Studio is a powerful open source web development environment for HTML, CSS, PHP, Ajax and Javascript. It has thousands of plugins created by the community that make your work of developing ever easier.

Aptana is a cross-platform software meaning you can use it on Linux, Windows and Mac. It features advanced code completion and validation, code assist, Javascript debugging, Ajax libraries, snippets and many more. If you’re an advanced user with your own style of code writing you can use advanced settings for formatting your code. Indentation, braces, white space – it’s all customizable via the Preferences window.

Since it’s based on Eclipse you can get Aptana Studio as a standalone software or as a plug-in for Eclipse.

Replacement for Dreamweaver

When I was still using Windows my favorite editor for coding was definitely Dreamweaver and after I moved to Linux I was still using it under Wine. After some time I realized that this combination was pretty foolish – running Windows editor under Linux with a special program. Why not use a Linux editor instead?

After trying out different programs I found Aptana. Honestly it surprised me how much better it was than Dreamweaver thanks to its customizable code formatting, code assist and many more features. I can even use it for my SVN repositories.

In conclusion

To sum it up I think that Aptana is a worthy replacement for Dreamweaver and is currently the best web development environment for Linux.