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]]>Evrsoft First Page is a nice editor. It offers a lot of the features you expect from a professional Web editing package. It is advertised as completely free, but the free version has significant features (like WYSIWYG) disabled. To get them, you need to pay for the full license. The easiest way to purchase this product is to download Evrsoft First Page and then click on the buy now button.
SeaMonkey is the Mozilla project all-in-one Internet application suite. It includes a Web browser, email and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and composer – the Web page editor. One of the nice things about using SeaMonkey is that you have the browser built-in already so testing is a breeze. Plus it’s a free WYSIWYG editor with an embedded FTP to publish your Web pages.
The CoffeeCup Free HTML editor is a text editor with a lot of potential. A lot of the features it has in the menus are reliant on other CoffeeCup products to use – such as FTP, the photo gallery maker, CSS editing, and so on. This is still a powerful HTML editor, but I would recommend you purchase the full version of the editor to get the real juice from this product. One important thing to note: many sites list this editor as a free WYSIWYG editor, but when I tested, you had to buy the full version to get WYSIWYG support. The free version is a very nice text editor only.
PageBreeze Professional offers you all the features of PageBreeze Free HTML editor, but with a few extra features. You can purchase the software directly or get it free when you buy FormBreeze form processing for your Web pages. If you know you’ll have a lot of Web forms to maintain, this editor could be a very good deal.
The free version of Dynamic HTML Editor is a few revisions back from the paid version and it’s only free for non-profits and personal use. But if that is you, and you don’t want to learn more than file transfers for getting your Web pages to your host, then this program would work fine. It has some graphics editing and is easy to drag and drop the elements around on the page.
RapidWeaver is misleading. At first glance it appears to be a fairly basic WYSIWYG editing tool, but when you push beneath the surface, there is a lot there to surprise you. I created a site with a large photo gallery, a blog, and two stand-alone Web pages in about 15 minutes. These included images and fancy formatting. And it was fun to do. This is a great program for newcomers to Web design, as they can get started quickly and then advance to more complicated pages including PHP and other languages all with the same editor. I don’t like that it doesn’t validate HTML that you hand code and I couldn’t figure out how to add an external link in one of the WYSIWYG pages, but there are probably extensions or add-ons in the user community to do.
Freeway Express is a great basic Web page editor for the Macintosh. It includes basic graphics editing and creation so that you only need one software package to create simple Web sites. One drawback is that you can only save your files as HTML 4, there is no support for any other DTD.
Create is an extensive graphics manipulation program that also acts as a Web page editor. It provides WYSIWYG functionality to make it easy to place objects and elements. But it’s true strength is in the graphics manipulation features it has. You can create text and image objects and then manipulate them in many ways. It is quite fun to use. With version 14 it now offers CSS layout (rather than tables), but this is not turned on by default. This is a fine editor for kids and people who are new to Web design, but might get frustrating for designers who want more control over the content and less focus on the graphics.
Dreamweaver is one of the most popular professional Web development software packages available. It offers power and flexibility to create pages that meet your needs. I use it for everything from JSP, XHTML, PHP, and XML development. It is a good choice for professional Web designers and developers, but if you’re working as a solitary freelancer, you might want to look at one of the CS suites like Web or Design to get graphics editing capability as well.
Creative Suite Web Standard is the minimum a freelancing Web designer needs to build and maintain Web sites. It comes with Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, and Contribute. These give you graphics editing, HTML editing, and Flash as well as Contribute to provide your customers with support. It also comes with Bridge to manage your images and Device Central to work with mobile devices. If you don’t anticipate needing a lot of graphics manipulation, this is the perfect suite for a freelancer.? It also offers a lot of features that a member of a Web design team can appreciate like check-in check-out, templates, and integrated version control.
Expression Web 2 offers everything professional Web designers have come to expect from a world-class Web editing tool, including HTML validation, WYSIWYG and text editor support, support for CSS, and lots of templates. The biggest benefit to Expression Web over other top-quality Web editors is the price. It is missing just a couple of the features of other high-ranked editors, but it has a lot of built-in support for ASP.Net and ASP.Net Ajax. If you work on ASP.Net pages, this is the perfect editor.
Fusion is a very powerful HTML editor. It combines all the tasks you need to get your website up and running including development, design, and FTP. Plus you can add special features to your pages like captchas on forms and ecommerce support.
HTML-Kit Tools offers all the features of HTML-Kit with a few extras. It is the next version of HTML-Kit, but the developers have decided to charge a small fee for their superb program. HTML-Kit Tools add features like snippets, project management, validating all your files at once, even creating videos.
Komodo Edit is hands down the best free XML editor available. It also includes a lot of great features for HTML and CSS development. Plus, if that isn’t enough, you can get extensions for it to add on languages or other helpful features (like special characters). It’s not the best HTML editor, but it’s great for what you pay, especially if you build in XML.
KompoZer is a good WYSIWYG editor. It is based on the popular Nvu editor – only it is called an “unofficial bug-fix release.” KompoZer was conceived by some people who really liked Nvu, but were fed up with the slow release schedules and poor support. So they took it over and released a less buggy version of the software. Ironically, there hasn’t been a new release of KompoZer in over a year.
Nvu is a good WYSIWYG editor. I prefer text editors to WYSIWYG editors, but if you don’t, then Nvu is a great choice, especially considering that it’s free. I love that it has a site manager to allow you to review the sites that you’re building. It’s surprising that this software is free. Feature highlights: XML support, advanced CSS support, full site management, built-in validator, and international support as well as WYSIWYG and color coded XHTML editing.
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Shutterstock is the largest subscription-based stock photo agency in the world. Every day we add thousands of photographs, illustrations, and vectors to our outstanding collection of premium, royalty-free images. You can choose a 25-A-Day Subscription for the greatest savings (get 25 downloads every day — that’s 750 each month) or select an On Demand Subscription for the greatest flexibility (use downloads whenever you need them for up to a year).
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Fotosearch Stock Photography and Stock Footage helps you find the perfect photo or footage, fast! Our search engine features 3,100,000 royalty free photos, 60,000 stock footage clips, digital videos, vector clip art images, clipart pictures, background graphics, medical illustrations, and maps.
Search and download high quality low cost stock photos and images. Use these royalty free stock photo images for templates, web sites, print, ads, products and more.
We are a search engine for free photos. These come from many sources and are license-specific. You can view a photo’s license by clicking on the license icon, below and left of photos. Membership is free and allows you to rate, tag, collect and comment on photos.
Smart choice for creative professionals who need instant access to premium quality photos, illustrations, Flash, audio and more, including over a million images from Jupiterimages’ Stockxpert collection.
Stock photography community providing high quality stock photos and stock images. Free photos added weekly.
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Buy fonts for Mac and Windows. Download TrueType, PostScript and OpenType fonts from Adobe, Linotype, Monotype, ITC and more.
Archive of freely downloadable fonts. Browse by alphabetical listing, by style, by author or by popularity.
1001 free fonts offers a huge selection of freeware and shareware TrueType fonts . Download free fonts for Windows and Macintosh. Handwriting fonts.
Download free fonts for Windows, Mac, Linux, etc. All fonts on this site are either freeware or shareware and in the TrueType or OpenType format.
Download free fonts and free dingbats. PC fonts, Mac fonts, truetype fonts.
More will be added over time to help you find the right fonts for your toolbox.
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Template Monster offers professional web templates, flash templates and other web design products available for immediate download.
The best free website templates on the internet and you don’t need to link back. We add new free website templates frequently.
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Absolutely top quality, unique and creative web site templates designed by certified web professionals. The #1 web template membership on Internet.
5 Shades website templates are complete ready-made web designs of the highest quality. Each design normally comes with 5-9 pre-built pages.
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Professional website design solutions for web developers and webmasters such as top quality web templates, Photoshop web page layouts, flash templates, logo templates plus many other high quality web graphics to help you create state of the art websites.
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Templates dot com has everything you might possibly need for web design in one place. Website Templates, Flash Templates, 3D Models, Illustrations, 3D Clip Art, Icons, Wallpapers of different styles are the products made with love and offered with pride by Templates.com.
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]]>If you use Firefox on more than one computer, you’ll want Foxmarks. Install Foxmarks on each computer, and it works silently in the background to keep your bookmarks and (optionally) passwords synchronized. Foxmarks also keeps your data backed up and safe from computer failures. If you’re away from your computer, Foxmarks allows you to access your bookmarks online by logging into my.foxmarks.com.
StumbleUpon discovers web sites based on your interests, learns what you like and brings you more.
Ever wanted to know what was behind the link before you clicked? Interclue tells you everything you need to know before you open yet another tab.
The easy way to download and convert Web videos from hundreds of YouTube-like sites. This works also for audio and picture galleries.
Download all the links, movies and audio clips of a page at the maximum speed with a single click, using the most popular, lightweight and reliable external download managers.
Ever been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to download than everything else on the page? Install Adblock Plus now and get rid of them.
WOT, Web of Trust, warns you about risky websites that try to scam visitors, deliver malware or send spam. Protect your computer against online threats by using WOT as your front-line layer of protection when browsing or searching in unfamiliar territory. WOT’s color-coded icons show you ratings for 20 million websites – green to go, yellow for caution and red to stop – helping you avoid the dangerous sites. Surf safer and add WOT to your Firefox now.
Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page… Firebug 1.2 requires Firefox 2 or 3.
Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.
FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers.
includes a popup blocker, a search engine entry box, related links and information about the Alexa ranking of the current website; Alexa uses it to measure website statistics.
aims to aid in design and debugging of web pages. It allows validating of CSS and HTML. It allows the viewing of the page’s source as well as of the DOM source and the CSS selectors that were applied to an element.
aids defending from phishing.
These tools are a good start for those who use these 2 browsers. Other browser extensions, plugins, and more can be found by searching google for them.
I used the Mozilla website to find the Firefox extensions and Wikepedia to find the Internet Explorer extensions.
I will continue to grow this list over time to help you with your web surfing.
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