About Web Design Tools
There are so many software choices for designing web sites. And, there also many hardware tools; a fast computer, dual monitors, or triple monitors increase your productivity, but are not necessary. A camera and scanner are necessary, depending on your web design.
I am going to focus on the most valuable ’software’ tools for web designers, from my personal arsenal. Each software carries different licenses; open source, shareware, commercial software, etc…
Instead of listing the most obvious software like, Gimp, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and Flash, I am listing other very important web design tools.
These web design tools can also be used for graphic design, web development, and many other tasks.
Font Manager
You need a font manager to manage and activate your fonts, without copying the fonts into your windows/ font directory.
Opcion Font Manager (Open Source)
http://opcion.sourceforge.net/
Virtual Ruler
You need a virtual ruler that can float around the screen to measure pixels.
JRuler (Free)
http://www.spadixbd.com/freetools/jruler.htm
Image Placer
With this tool you can open an image and drag it around the screen (without borders), and place the image on top of your web design. This is helpful in viewing the image on your design without having to write the html code for it.
JPEG Collager (Shareware)
http://www.slashbackassociates.com/jpgclgr.html
Post it Note Pad
This notepad is like a sticky pad post-it, but for your desktop; you can place notes on your desktop so you won’t forget.
EasyNotes (Free)
http://www.tk8.com/easynotes/
Color Picker
This color picker floats around your desktop and is used for picking out colors; it gives you the color code exactly as it is displayed on your monitor.
ColorPic (Free)
http://iconico.com/colorpic/
Find and Replace Tool
With this software you can ‘find’ exact phrases in an entire directory and ‘replace’ it with another phrase, also makes an automated back up of the original file. Also, contains many more features.
Actual Search and Replace (Shareware)
http://www.divlocsoft.com/
Directory and Text File Comparison
With this software you can compare files in the entire directory with files in another directory. Very helpful in finding differences in files and creating multiple back up copies. You can also compare and edit text files, side by side. This tool has an identical feature found in the free version of ExamDiff; see below. Also, contains many more features.
Beyond Compare (Commercial)
http://www.scootersoftware.com
Text Editor
This is an advance form of notepad.exe; very helpful when you want to open super large plain text files or need line numbers. Great to open those large Apache log files. Also, contains many more features.
EditPlus Text Editor (Commercial)
http://www.editplus.com/
Text Comparer
Open two plain text files and does a comparison between both files. This is great if you want to quickly compare two files, by dragging and dropping.
ExamDiff (Free)
http://www.prestosoft.com/edp_examdiff.asp
Disk Space
With this tool you can visualize the amount of space on your hard drive or a directory; i.e. samba/apache, inetpub directory. This tool focuses more on the size of files in a directory and gives you a hierarchal graphical view of your directory structure. The free version doesn’t have the graphical interface or other features.
TreeSize Professional (Commercial)
http://www.jam-software.com/treesize/
Help Links to AWStats and WAMP
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