chap - I agree. Dreamweaver has it\'s place in the world I\'m sure, but there is NOTHING comparable to a solid text editor with syntax highlighting and a sound knowledge of what the heck you\'re doing.
I wrestled with DMX for weeks and went back to the text editor.
I generally recommend HTML-Kit (http://www.htmlkit.com) - free and feature-rich. The extensions add a great deal of power to it.
I had found DMX handy for doing PHP/mySQL connections at first, but annoying in the end. It\'s better to learn SQL yourself and write your own queries.