Comments on: Web Development Pack

By: Emil Stenström

Emil Stenström — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:11:21 +0000

@Michael: I’ve never used Nvu, so I can’t tell you any opinions about it. I tend to use something simple when I can choose myself. There’s a opensource project called notepad++ that I currently like, it’s simple and has color-coding for most languages.

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:57:14 +0000

Very useful site for a newbie to CSS. Thanks for your work!

I want to learn to use one good, solid web authoring system initially and have found Nvu, an Open Source application.

Do you have any opinions on it as a starting point (I’m not able to buy Dreamweaver just yet!)

By: pat

pat — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 20:18:31 +0000

Camino is a great Mac browser. It uses the Gecko rendering engine, and I think it’s much faster and easier to use than the Mac version of Firefox.

http://www.caminobrowser.org/

By: whiskey

whiskey — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 09:37:03 +0000

I would just change dreamweaver for nvu + crimson editor (to correct and have your syntax colored) fireworks for inkscape and flashfxp for filezilla (notice a pattern here? this are all free). I would also toss either xampp or easyphp or uniserver just to avoid having to install apache, php and mysql (they all include them and on the plus side, uniserver is portable, you do not install anything)…

By: arathael

arathael — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 01:59:04 +0000

Yeap… webdeveloper toolbar and IETab are great when designing cross-browser (or cross-platform) and i’ve heard that dreamweaver 8 actually renders and generates css content more accurately.

Greets from México..

By: martin

martin — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 16:23:20 +0000

What about IETAB, this lets you veiw a page in IE right in Firefox [ https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1419/ ].

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 31 May 2006 17:42:57 +0000

I’d heartily recomment HTML-Kit for a code editor. It works well for HTML, CSS, JS, PHP, ASP & others, and is free for personal use.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 25 May 2006 21:44:04 +0000

Useful list, especially the Firefox extensions. I can heartily recommend PSPad for HTML and general text/code editing.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 10 May 2006 10:27:22 +0000

a link checker! xenu link is free and pretty good

I like Textpad if I’m stuck without a html editor it as its color coded html.

infraview for searching and sorting graphics

By: Sora

Sora — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 02:42:45 +0000

HapEdit is very good for writing directly in code and if you’ve got an local testserver up and running, which you should, it won’t be too big of a hazzle to see what it looks like.
It’s especially good for writing PHP or ASP as it allows you to compile and check the code “on the fly”.

By: Velaluka

Velaluka — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 13:31:11 +0000

smartFTP

By: Velaluka

Velaluka — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 13:28:20 +0000

firebug extension?

By: Mathias

Mathias — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 11:19:34 +0000

Having had the same problem I got myself a 1Gb USB memory stick where I installed portable versions of quite a few bits and bobs. This means I don’t have to go and find all my Firefox extensions etc, my Thunderbird will have all settings for my mail regardless of computer, and my Filezilla (which now has replaced my FlashFXP) has all my server settings. I also have the IE standalone versions on it, as well as a full portable install of Eclipse development environment. Just synching it up with whatever computer I’m on (so I run it from the hd, not the stick) and I’m ready to go. :)

By: Sergey Rozhnov

Sergey Rozhnov — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 10:23:01 +0000

Apache Server (http://httpd.apache.org/) - if you want test your php (for example) code on local computer.

By: Balakumar Muthu

Balakumar Muthu — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 08:26:10 +0000

Good List of tools but most of opensource tools like GIMP are missing :)

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Balakumar Muthu
http://i5bala.blogspot.com