I use a text editor for all my programming work but I'd take bullets before I used Notepad for anything. Evil program that doesn't even follow conventions.
On Linux I use Kate for big projects and GVim for quick single file hacking (usually from the CLI). On Windows I use Notepad++ for projects and again GVim for CLI stuff and single files. When KDE4 goes live and has a Windows port I'll be moving to Kate there too (KDE4 coming to Windows is going to be the greatest thing ever. Finally Amarok and Kate on Windows).
I'd actually use a dedicated IDE if it was an actual IDE. No drag and drop nonsense but the ability to quickly see the output on a browser screen and to quickly verify the code would be nice. Also I'd like the normal stuff like templates, code snippets, refactoring tools, in line error highlighting, style critics (for the IE6 nonsense) etc. Without the browser though I probably wouldn't bother and don't really do enough web development to bother writing my dream IDE.
Anyway, I'd avoid drag and drop like the plague. Every area of programming I've seen it involved in it's more hindrance than help. Nice for knocking together prototypes maybe but the code is usually so polluted to be worth keeping.
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