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Web Development / Frameworks

Posted by admin On April - 24 - 2010 1 COMMENT

Bitweaver

Cross-platform

Bitweaver is a free and open source web application framework and content management system. (LGPL)

CakePHP

Cross-platform

CakePHP is a rapid development framework for PHP that provides an extensible architecture for developing, maintaining, and deploying applications. (MIT)

Cappuccino

Cross-platform

Cappuccino is an open source framework that makes it easy to build desktop-caliber applications that run in a web browser. (LGPL)

CodeIgniter

Cross-platform

CodeIgniter is an open source Web Application Framework that helps you write kick-ass PHP programs. (Apache)

Django

Cross-platform

Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design. (BSD)

Dojo

Cross-platform

The Dojo Toolkit is a modular open source JavaScript toolkit, designed to ease the rapid development of cross platform, JavaScript/Ajax based applications and web sites. (BSD)

DotNetNuke

Windows

DotNetNuke is an open source web application framework written in VB.NET for the ASP.NET framework. (BSD)

Ext Core

Cross-platform

Ext Core is a lightweight, high-performance cross-browser JavaScript library for building dynamic web pages. (MIT)

Google Web Toolkit

Linux, Windows, MAC OS X

Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is an open source set of tools that allows web developers to create and maintain complex JavaScript front-end applications in Java. (Apache)

Grails

Cross-platform

Grails is an open-source web application framework that leverages the Groovy language and complements Java Web development. (Apache)

Horde

Cross-platform

Horde is a PHP-based Web application framework. (LGPL)

ICEfaces

Java

ICEfaces is an integrated Ajax application framework that enables Java EE application developers to easily create and deploy thin-client rich Internet applications (RIA) in pure Java. (MPL)

JavaScriptMVC

Cross-platform

JavaScriptMVC is a framework that brings methods to the madness of JavaScript development. (MIT)

Jaws

Cross-platform

Jaws is a Framework and Content Management System for building dynamic web sites. (GPL)

jQuery

Cross-platform

jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. (MIT)

Madeam

Cross-platform

Madeam is a rapid application development PHP MVC Framework. It allows quick prototyping and deployment of web applications. (MIT)

MMBase

Cross-platform

MMBase is a relational object mapping tool to create state of the art web applications. (MPL)

MooTools

Cross-platform

MooTools is a compact, modular, Object-Oriented JavaScript framework designed for the intermediate to advanced JavaScript developer. (MIT)

OpenLaszlo

Cross-platform

OpenLaszlo is an open source platform for creating zero-install web applications with the user interface capabilities of desktop client software. (CPL)

pulse

Java

pulse is a framework on top of the Servlet API providing easy to use and easy to extend patterns for creating browser based applications and websites. (GPL)

Qcodo

Cross-platform

The Qcodo Development Framework is an open-source PHP 5 framework that focuses on freeing developers from unnecessary tedious, mundane coding. (MIT)

Ruby on Rails

Cross-platform

Ruby on Rails is a full-stack MVC framework for database-backed web applications that’s optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity. (MIT)

Symfony

Cross-platform

Symfony is a web application framework for PHP projects. (MIT)

WAJAF

Cross-platform

WAJAF is a Javascript framework working on the client browser side, and let you build complete applications without programming a single HTML or Javascript line. (GPL)

Zend

Cross-platform

Zend Framework is an open source, object-oriented web application framework implemented in PHP 5 and licensed under the New BSD License. (BSD)

ZK

Cross-platform

ZK is the most proven Ajax + Mobile framework designed to maximize enterprises operation efficiency and minimize the development cost. (GPL)

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Web Development Tools and Applications

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Code Editors

1. Aptana

The Aptana IDE is a free, open-source, cross-platform, JavaScript-focused development environment for building Ajax applications. It features code assist on JavaScript, HTML, and CSS languages, FTP/SFTP support and a JavaScript debugger to troubleshoot your code.
Read more on Aptana

2. Eclipse

Eclipse is an open-source software framework written primarily in Java. In its default form it is a Java IDE, consisting of the Java Development Tools (JDT) and compiler (ECJ). Users can extend its capabilities by installing plug-ins written for the Eclipse software framework, such as development toolkits for other programming languages, and can write and contribute their own plug-in modules. Language packs are available for over a dozen languages. (Source Wikipedia)

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3. jEdit

jEdit is a mature programmer’s text editor with hundreds (counting the time developing plugins) of person-years of development behind it. Being a Java based solution it runs across multiple operating systems including; Mac OS X, OS/2, Unix, VMS and Windows.

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4. NVU

A Web Authoring System for Linux desktop users as well as Microsoft Windows and Macintosh users to rival programs like FrontPage and Dreamweaver. Nvu (which stands for “new view”) makes managing a web site a snap. Now anyone can create web pages and manage a website with no technical expertise or knowledge of HTML.

Read more on NVU

5. Quanta Plus

Quanta Plus is a highly stable and feature rich web development environment. The vision with Quanta has always been to start with the best architectural foundations, design for efficient and natural use and enable maximal user extensibility.

Read more on Quanta Plus

6. Amaya

Amaya is a Web editor to create and update documents directly on the Web. Browsing features are seamlessly integrated with the editing and remote access features in a uniform environment. This follows the original vision of the Web as a space for collaboration and not just a one-way publishing medium. Amaya started as an HTML + CSS style sheets editor. Since that time it was extended to support XML and an increasing number of XML applications such as the XHTML family, MathML, and SVG. It allows all those vocabularies to be edited simultaneously in compound documents.

Read more on Amaya

Modelling Tools

7. Dia

Dia is inspired by the commercial Windows program ‘Visio’, though more geared towards informal diagrams for casual use. It can be used to draw many different kinds of diagrams. It currently has special objects to help draw entity relationship diagrams, UML diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, and many other diagrams. It is also possible to add support for new shapes by writing simple XML files, using a subset of SVG to draw the shape.

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8. ArgoUML

ArgoUML is the leading open source UML modeling tool and includes support for all standard UML 1.4 diagrams. It runs on any Java platform and is available in ten languages.

Read more on ArgoUML

9. StarUML

StarUML is an open source project to develop fast, flexible, extensible, feature rich, and freely-available UML/MDA platform running on Win32 platform. The goal of the StarUML project is to build a software modeling tool and also platform that is a compelling replacement of commercial UML tools such as Rational Rose.

Read more on StarUML

10. MagicDraw

MagicDraw is a visual UML modeling and CASE tool with teamwork support. Designed for Business Analysts, Software Analysts, Programmers, QA Engineers, and Documentation Writers, this dynamic and versatile development tool facilitates analysis and design of Object Oriented (OO) systems and databases. It provides the industry’s best code engineering mechanism (with full round-trip support for J2EE, C#, C++, CORBA IDL programming languages, .NET, XML Schema, WSDL), as well as database schema modeling, DDL generation and reverse engineering facilities.

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11. OpenOffice Draw

DRAW – from a quick sketch to a complex plan, DRAW gives you the tools to communicate with graphics and diagrams.

Read more on OpenOffice Draw

12. Kivio

Kivio is an easy to use diagramming and flowcharting application with tight integration to the other KOffice applications. It enables you to create network diagrams, organisation charts, flowcharts and more.

Read more on Kivio

File Transfer Clients

13. FileZilla

FileZilla is a free FTP client and a server solution. FileZilla is open source software distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

Read more on Filezilla

14. WinSCP

WinSCP is an open source SFTP client and FTP client for Windows. Its main function is the secure file transfer between a local and a remote computer. Beyond this, WinSCP offers basic file manager functionality. It uses Secure Shell (SSH) and supports, in addition to Secure FTP, also legacy SCP protocol.

Read more on WinSCP

15. CyberDuck

Cyberduck is an open source FTP and SFTP (SSH Secure File Transfer) browser licenced under the GPL with an easy to use interface, integration with external editors and support for many Mac OS X system technologies such as Spotlight, Bonjour, the Keychain and AppleScript.

Read more on CyberDuck

16. FireFTP

FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers.

Read more on FireFTP

Code Documentors

17. JSDoc

JSDoc is a tool that parses inline documentation in JavaScript source files, and produces an documentation of the JavaScript code. This is typically in the form of HTML, but XML and XMI (UML) export are also supported. JSDoc is based on the (very successful) javadoc tool that was created for the same purpose for the Java programming language.

Read more on JSDoc

18. Javadoc

Javadoc is a tool for generating API documentation in HTML format from doc comments in source code. It can be downloaded only as part of the Java 2 SDK.

Read more on Javadoc

19. PHPDoc

PHPDoc is an adoption of Javadoc to the PHP world. PHPDoc is written in PHP. It offers you a way to generate an API documentation of objectoriented and procedural code with certain markup in your source. PHPDoc is an Open Source Project and gets distributed under the PHP Licence. That means you can use it in commercials projects.

Read more on PHPDoc

20. phpDocumentor

phpDocumentor, sometimes referred to as phpdoc or phpdocu, is the current standard auto-documentation tool for the php language. Similar to Javadoc, and written in php, phpDocumentor can be used from the command line or a web interface to create professional documentation from php source code. phpDocumentor has support for linking between documentation, incorporating user level documents like tutorials and creation of highlighted source code with cross referencing to php general documentation. A complete list of features is available.

Read more on phpDocumentor

Browser Plugins

21. ColorZilla

Advanced Eyedropper, ColorPicker, Page Zoomer and other colorful goodies.

Read more on ColorZilla

22. LiveHTTPHeaders

LiveHTTPHeaders displays http headers in real time (while pages are being downloaded from the Internet) letting you edit request headers and replay a URL.

Read more on LiveHTTPHeaders

23. DebugBar

The DebugBar V4.1.1 is an Internet Explorer plug-in that brings you new powerful features such as a DOM Inspector, HTTP Inspector, JavaScript Inspector, JavaScript Console and HTML Validator.

Read more on DebugBar

24. Firebug

Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of web development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.

Read more on Firebug

25. Firebug Lite

Well this one isn’t a browser plugin as such, however I think it goes nicely under Firebug.

Firebug Lite is a JavaScript file you can insert into your pages to simulate the Firebug console in browsers that are not named “Firefox”.

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26. FireBug Lite ++ (IE7Pro)

An amelioration of the FireBug Lite Script used as userscript for observing from all web sites. F12 to open the console
FireBug Lite ++ can :
- Observe errors
- Evaluate expression (console)
- Browse JavaScript Object (not in FireBug lite, added by this script !)

Read more on FireBug Lite ++ (IE7Pro)

27. Internet Explorer Toolbar

The Microsoft Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar provides a variety of tools for quickly creating, understanding, and troubleshooting Web pages. This version is a preview release and behavior may change in the final release.

Read more on Internet Explorer Toolbar

28. Firefox web developer toolbar

The Web Developer extension adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with various web developer tools. It is designed for Firefox, Flock, Mozilla and Seamonkey, and will run on any platform that these browsers support including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

Read more on Firefox we developer toolbar

29. IE7Pro

IE7Pro is a must have add-on for Internet Explorer, which includes a lot of features and tweaks to make your IE friendlier, more useful, secure and customizable. IE7Pro includes Tabbed Browsing Management, Spell Check, Inline Search, Super Drag Drop, Crash Recovery, Proxy Switcher, Mouse Gesture, Tab History Browser, Web Accelerator, User Agent Switcher, Webpage Capturer, AD Blocker, Flash Block, Greasemonkey like User Scripts platform, User Plug-ins and many more power packed features. You can customize not just Internet Explorer, but even your favorite website according to your need and taste using IE7Pro.

Read more on IE7Pro

30. Opera Web Developer Toolbar & Menu

The web developer toolbar is a menu and toolbar setup for Opera which brings together functions related to web development, validation services and links to standards and other documentation. It integrates parts of Toby’s W3-dev Menu, MooseCSS’s menu, and countless BookMarklets taken from various places (Jesse, Aleto, SlayerOffice, Tarquin and others).

Read more on Opera Web Developer Toolbar & Menu

31. Pearl Cresent

Pearl Crescent Page Saver is an extension for Mozilla Firefox that lets you capture images of web pages. These images can be saved in PNG or JPEG format. Using Page Saver, you can capture an entire page or just the visible portion. Options let you control whether images are captured at full size (which is the default) or scaled down to a smaller size.

Read more on Perl Cresent

32. Feng GUI FireFox Add-On extension

A plugin allowing you to easily find out how people View your website or image and which areas are getting most of the attention.
The ViewFinder Heatmap service, is an artificial intelligence service which simulates human visual attention and creates an attention heatmap.
Read more on Feng GUI FireFox Add-On extension

33. Lorem Ipsum Content Generator 0.4

The Lorem Ipsum Content Generator creates placeholder content using latin pasages. This allows you to see what a page is going to look like with content before the copy is actually available.

Read more on Lorem Ipsum Content Generator 0.4

34. FlashBlock

Flashblock is an extension for the Mozilla, Firefox, and Netscape browsers that takes a pessimistic approach to dealing with Macromedia Flash content on a webpage and blocks ALL Flash content from loading. It then leaves placeholders on the webpage that allow you to click to download and then view the Flash content.

Read more on FlashBlock

Unit Testing

35. PHPUnit

I understand this is a framework, however, I think it’s a good tool to use in PHP development.
To make code testing viable, good tool support is needed. This is where PHPUnit comes into play. It is a member of the xUnit family of testing frameworks and provides both a framework that makes the writing of tests easy as well as the functionality to easily run the tests and analyse their results.

Read more on PHPUnit

36. JUnit

JUnit is a simple framework to write repeatable tests. It is an instance of the xUnit architecture for unit testing frameworks.

Read more on JUnit

37. JsUnit

JsUnit is a Unit Testing framework for client-side (in-browser) JavaScript. It is essentially a port of JUnit to JavaScript. Also included is a platform for automating the execution of tests on multiple browsers and mutiple machines running different OSs.
Read more on JsUnit here
38. NUnit

NUnit is a unit-testing framework for all .Net languages. Initially ported from JUnit, the current production release, version 2.4, is the fifth major release of this xUnit based unit testing tool for Microsoft .NET. It is written entirely in C# and has been completely redesigned to take advantage of many .NET language features, for example custom attributes and other reflection related capabilities. NUnit brings xUnit to all .NET languages.

Read more on NUnit

Load/Stress Testing

39. OpenSTA

OpenSTA is a distributed software testing architecture designed around CORBA, it was originally developed to be commercial software by CYRANO. The current toolset has the capability of performing scripted HTTP and HTTPS heavy load tests with performance measurements from Win32 platforms.

Read more on OpenSTA

40. curl-loader

A powerful C-written HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS load generator, performance and stress testing tool. It uses real HTTP and TLS/SSL stacks, generating thousands of users each with own IP-address. Emphases is given to user authentication, login and statistics.

Read more on curl-loader

Usability/Accessibility and General Testing

41. Xenu

Xenu’s Link Sleuth (TM) checks Web sites for broken links. Link verification is done on “normal” links, images, frames, plug-ins, backgrounds, local image maps, style sheets, scripts and java applets. It displays a continously updated list of URLs which you can sort by different criteria. A report can be produced at any time.

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42. Vischeck

Vischeck is a way of showing you what things look like to someone who is color blind. You can try Vischeck online- either run Vischeck on your own image files or run Vischeck on a web page. You can also download programs to let you run it on your own computer.

Read more on Vischeck

43. browsershots.org

Browsershots.org is a free open-source online service providing screenshots of your web site in a multitude of different browsers. It is not as advanced as BrowserCam but a fantastic tool none the less.

Read more on browsershots.org

44. BrowsrCamp

If you need to test your websites on MacOSX browsers then this service is the perfect place for you. BrowsrCamp offers two services: a Safari screenshots generator (free) and a testing system based on VNC (paid).

Read more on BrowsrCamp

45. Feng GUI

Find out how people View your website or image and which areas are getting most of the attention.
The ViewFinder Heatmap service, is an artificial intelligence service which simulates human visual attention and creates an attention heatmap.

Read more on Feng GUI

46. Watchfire WebXACT

WebXACT is a free online service that lets you test single pages of web content for quality, accessibility, and privacy issues. It is very similar to Bobby and usefull to anyone wishing to check the accessibilty level of their templates/site.

Read more on Watchfire WebXACT

47. DBMonster

DBMonster is a tool which generates random test data and puts it into SQL database. It helps to test how an application can deal with large database.

Read more on DBMonster

Regular Expressions

48. Expresso 2.1

Expresso is useful tool for learning how to use regular expressions and for developing and debugging regular expressions prior to incorporating them into your code. It provides a very cut down version of RegexBuddy but most importantly it is simple to use and free.

Read more on Expresso 2.1

49. Regex Coach

The Regex Coach is a graphical application for Windows which can be used to experiment with (Perl-compatible) regular expressions interactively.

Read more on Regex Coach

Image Editing

50. GIMP

The GNU Image Manipulation Program is a Photoshop replacement that doesn’t have “quite” as much functionality but it’s excellent for free. It comes installed by default on many Linux distros and is also available in Windows. Worth a look.

Read more on GIMP

51. Inkscape

Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.

Read more on Inkscape

52. Paint.net

A really good, lightweight alternative to Photoshop. It offers layers, unlimited undo, special effects and a wide variety of useful tools. The download is around 2mb too so absolutely worth a look – I use this when Photoshop is playing up.

Read more on Paint.net

53. XnView

XnView is software to view and convert graphic files, apparently really simple to use and supports more than 400 graphics formats.

Read more on XnView

54. ImageMagick

A lesser known application but it offers the ability to “create, edit, and compose bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in a variety of formats (about 100)”. Use it to “translate, flip, mirror, rotate, scale, shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and B?zier curves.”

Read more on ImageMagick

55. Blender

A 3D Studio Max alternative, very comprehensive and full-featured.

Read more on Blender

56. Pencil

Pencil is an animation/drawing software for Mac OS X and Windows. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics. Pencil is free and open source.

Read more on Pencil

57. Artweaver

Artweaver is a simple Freeware program for creative painting, i.e. Artweaver offers you all artistic effects which you need for your work. You can create sketches from photos and experiment with a wide range of brushes. The brush simulation is thereby so realistic as possible.

Read more on Artweaver

Colour Matching and Sampling

58. ColorJack

ColorJack is an amazing online application providing users with the ability to match colours that work well together. Perfect for those developers who struggle to get a good colour scheme together.

Read more on ColorJack

59. Kuler

Kuler is a very nice application allowing you match colours that will “work well” together. Also allows you to see other people colour pallets. A good starting place and very cool.

Read more on Kuler

60. Color Cop

A very handy tool for capturing colours anywhere on your screen. Color Cop makes it quick and easy in those situations where you need to know what colour is being used.

Read more on Color Cop

Database Design

61. DBDesigner 4

DBDesigner 4 is a visual database design system that integrates database design, modeling, creation and maintenance into a single, seamless environment.

It combines professional features and a clear and simple user interface to offer the most efficient way to handle your databases.

Read more on DBDesigner 4

62. Clay

Clay is a database design tool that runs as a plug-in in the Eclipse development environment. Clay has an intuitive user interface for graphically designing database models. Clay can also create a database model by reverse engineering an existing database. Furthermore, Clay generates the SQL (DDL) code appropriate for your database.

Read more on Clay

Source Control

63. Subversion

The goal of the Subversion project is to build a version control system that is a compelling replacement for CVS in the open source community. The software is released under an Apache/BSD-style open source license.

Read more on Subversion

64. CVS

CVS is a version control system, an important component of Source Configuration Management (SCM). Using it, you can record the history of sources files, and documents. It fills a similar role to the free software RCS, PRCS, and Aegis packages.

Read more on CVS

65. CVSNT

The CVSNT Versioning System implements a version control system: it keeps track of all changes in a set of files, typically the implementation of a software project, and allows several (potentially geographically separated) developers to collaborate. It is compatible with and originally based on Concurrent Versions System (CVS), which has become popular in the open-source world and is released under the GNU General Public License. (Source Wikipedia)

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66. RapidSVN

RapidSVN is a cross-platform GUI front-end for the Subversion revision system written in C++ using the wxWidgets framework. This project also includes a Subversion client C++ API.

Read more on RapidSVN

67. TortoiseSVN

A Subversion client, implemented as a windows shell extension. TortoiseSVN is a really easy to use Revision control / version control / source control software for Windows.

Since it’s not an integration for a specific IDE you can use it with whatever development tools you like. TortoiseSVN is free to use. You don’t need to get a loan or pay a full years salary to use it.

Read more on TortoiseSVN

68. TortoiseCVS

TortoiseCVS lets you work with files under CVS version control directly from Windows Explorer. It’s freely available under the GPL.
With TortoiseCVS you can directly check out modules, update, commit and see differences by right clicking on files and folders within Explorer. You can see the state of a file with overlays on top of the normal icons within Explorer. It even works from within the file open dialog.

Read more on TortoiseCVS

69. SmartCVS

SmartCVS is an innovative multi-platform CVS client. It has powerful features, like built-in File Compare/Merge, Transaction display or List Repository Files, and still is easy and intuitive to use. SmartCVS focuses on your day-to-day tasks and usability and is not limited to the available CVS command set.

SmartCVS is available in two versions, a free Foundation version and the powerful Professional version.

Read more on SmartCVS

70. Subclipse

Subclipse is an Eclipse Team Provider plug-in providing support for Subversion within the Eclipse IDE. The software is released under the Eclipse Public License (EPL) 1.0 open source license.

Read more on Subclipse

71. JCVS

JCVS is a CVS client package written entirely in Java. JCVS provides a complete CVS client/server protocol package that allows any Java program to implement the complete suite of CVS operations. JCVS also provides a Swing based client that provides a commercial quality GUI client for CVS. Finally, jCVS provides a Servlet that allows any Servlet enabled web server to present any CVS repository on the internet for browsing and download.

Read more on JCVS

72. WinCVS

WinCvs is a CVS client that runs on the Microsoft Windows platform. CVS, Concurrent Versions System, is a centralized Revision Control System (RCS). SourceForge.net provides CVS service to all hosted projects. In order to access our CVS service, you will need to install a CVS client. CVS allows developers to keep a historical record of changes made to their source code tree, and to allow multiple developers to work on a single set of files at the same time without accidentally overwriting changes made by other developers.

Read more on WinCVS

HTTP Debugging

73. Fiddler

Fiddler is a HTTP Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP traffic between your computer and the Internet. Fiddler allows you to inspect all HTTP Traffic, set breakpoints, and “fiddle” with incoming or outgoing data. Fiddler includes a powerful event-based scripting subsystem, and can be extended using any .NET language.

Read more on Fiddler

74. Fiddler 2

Fiddler is a Web Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP(S) traffic between your computer and the Internet. Fiddler allows you to inspect all HTTP(S) traffic, set breakpoints, and “fiddle” with incoming or outgoing data. Fiddler includes a powerful event-based scripting subsystem, and can be extended using any .NET language.

Fiddler is freeware and can debug traffic from virtually any application, including Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and thousands more.

Read more on Fiddler 2

Servers

75. Apache

The Apache HTTP Server is an open-source HTTP server for modern operating systems including UNIX and Windows NT. It provides a secure, efficient and extensible server that offers HTTP services in sync with the current HTTP standards.

Read more on Apache

76. Apache Tomcat

Apache Tomcat is the servlet container that is used in the official Reference Implementation for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies. The Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages specifications are developed by Sun under the Java Community Process.

Read more on Apache Tomcat

77. XAMPP

XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use – just download, extract and start.

Read more on XAMPP

Databases

78. MySQL

MySQL is the world’s most popular open source database software, with over 100 million copies of its software downloaded or distributed throughout its history. With superior speed, reliability, and ease of use, MySQL has become the preferred choice of corporate IT Managers because it eliminates the major problems associated with downtime, maintenance, administration and support.

Read more on MySQL

79. PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL, the highly scalable, SQL compliant, open source object-relational database management system, is now undergoing beta testing of the next version of our software: PostgreSQL 8.3.

Read more on PostgreSql

80. Apache Derby

Apache Derby is an open source relational database implemented entirely in Java and available under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Some key advantages include:

• Derby has a small footprint — about 2 megabytes for the base engine and embedded JDBC driver.
• Derby is based on the Java, JDBC, and SQL standards.
• Derby provides an embedded JDBC driver that lets you embed Derby in any Java-based solution.
• Derby also supports the more familiar client/server mode with the Derby Network Client JDBC driver and Derby Network Server.
• Derby is easy to install, deploy, and use.

Read more on Apache Derby

Database Administration

81. pgAdmin

pgAdmin III is the most popular and feature rich Open Source administration and development platform for PostgreSQL, the most advanced Open Source database in the world. The application may be used on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenSUSE, Solaris, Mac OSX and Windows platforms to manage PostgreSQL 7.3 and above running on any platform, as well as commercial versions of PostgreSQL such as EnterpriseDB and Mammoth PostgreSQL.

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82. MySQL GUI Tools Bundle for 5.0

MySQL GUI Tools Bundle for 5.0 is available under the MySQL AB “dual licensing” model. Under this model, users may choose to use MySQL products under the free software/opensource GNU General Public License (commonly known as the “GPL”) or under a commercial license.

This is the MySQL GUI Tools Bundle for 5.0. It includes the following products.

• MySQL Administrator 1.2 Generally Available (GA)
• MySQL Query Browser 1.2 Generally Available (GA)
• MySQL Migration Toolkit 1.1 Generally Available (GA)

Read more on MySQL GUI Tools Bundle for 5.0

83. phpMyAdmin

phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web. Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields.

Read more on phpMyAdmin

Site Statistics

84. AWStats

AWStats is a free powerful and featureful tool that generates advanced web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics, graphically. This log analyzer works as a CGI or from command line and shows you all possible information your log contains, in few graphical web pages. It uses a partial information file to be able to process large log files, often and quickly. It can analyze log files from all major server tools like Apache log files (NCSA combined/XLF/ELF log format or common/CLF log format), WebStar, IIS (W3C log format) and a lot of other web, proxy, wap, streaming servers, mail servers and some ftp servers.

Read more on AWStats

85. phpMyVisits

phpMyVisites is a free and powerful open source (GNU/GPL) software for websites statistics and audience measurements.

Read more on phpMyVisits

86. Google Analytics

Google Analytics (GA) is a free service offered by Google that generates detailed statistics about the visitors to a website. Its main highlight is that a webmaster can optimize his/her AdWords advertisement and marketing campaigns through the use of GA’s analysis of where the visitors came from, how long they stayed on the website and their geographical position. (Source Wikipedia)

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Other

87. Beautify PHP

This program tries to reformat and beautify PHP source code files automatically. It is a pretty printer for your php source code. The program is Open Source and distributed under the terms of GNU GPL. It is written in PHP and has a web frontend.

Read more on Beautify PHP

88. PuTTY

PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator. It is written and maintained primarily by Simon Tatham.

Read more on PuTTY

89. WinMerge

WinMerge is an Open Source visual text file differencing and merging tool for Win32 platforms. It is highly useful for determing what has changed between project versions, and then merging changes between versions.

Read more on WinMerge

90. DBG

DBG is a full-featured php debugger. It works on a production and/or development WEB server and allows you debug your scripts locally or remotely, from an IDE or console.

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91. PHP Accelerator

The ionCube PHP Accelerator is an easily installed PHP Zend engine extension that provides a PHP cache, and is capable of delivering a substantial acceleration of PHP scripts without requiring any script changes, loss of dynamic content, or other application compromises.

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92. ajaxload.info

Ajax Load is an online application providing the ability to easily create and download “ajax loading“ images for your website or application. Very Web 2.0

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93. Stripemania

Ever wanted to create a cool background for your site? Well this site allows you to easily generate your perfect background to use as you wish.

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94. FavIcon Generator

Does exactly what is says on the tin. You upload your desired image and the generator does the rest.

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95. YAML Builder

Ever wanted a tool that could build a base HTML Template quickly by allowing you to define the basic layout? Well this is that tool and it works really well too. Definitely worth a look.

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96. CSS Rounded Box Generator

A simple tool allowing you to quickly and easily generate rounded corners for your website.

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97. CSS Optimiser

Online CSS Optimizer/Optimiser is a web tool for reducing the file size of cascading style sheets. In order to save more space optimized files would be messy even so you may output it as a file. Non-valid or hacked (for certain browsers) CSS files may result in error.

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98. CSS Validator

Validates your CSS stylesheets against W3C standards.

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99. Acrobot

To cut to the chase Acrobot is a tool that takes supplied content and adds in relevant abbreviation or acronym tags.

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100. Markup Validation Service

This validator checks the markup validity of Web documents in HTML, XHTML, SMIL, MathML, etc. If you wish to validate specific content such as RSS/Atom feeds or CSS stylesheets or to find broken links, there are other validators and tools available.

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Web Design Resources

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The Best Directories of Free Open Source Web Design Templates

There are tons of free design template directories on the net, but sorting through all of them can be a very tedious process. Instead, we suggest that you start with these four, which we consider to be the best free open source design template directories online.

  1. OSWD: Over 2,000 of the best freebie web design templates. Also allows for search capability by color, contrast, validation, and other categories.
  2. OpenWebDesign:A large and active community of individuals who share free web design templates. Includes regular design contests and a sub-category of most popular designs to speed up your search.
  3. Open Designs: Headed by a non-profit board, the open design community has almost 600 designs which have been vetted and moderated by the community’s volunteer board. Also includes a relatively active forum where designers can share tips and resources.
  4. CSS Tinderbox: CSS Tinderbox prevents you from having to “reinvent the wheel” by providing very basic, yet solid, CSS/XHTML design templates from which you can build off of.

Open Source Web Design Programs

Why pay for software if you can find it free? Usually, the answer is that the free stuff just plain isn’t any good. You won’t find that to be the case with the open source web design software programs in this section, however, which are all the best of the best.

  1. Nvu: An open-source web authoring system to rival FrontPage and Dreamweaver. (Linux, Windows, and Mac)
  2. Cssed: A CSS editor featuring auto completion, syntax highlighting and validation. (C, C++) (Linux)
  3. Quanta Plus: A top-notch HTML editor and web development for the K Desktop Environment.
  4. Bluefish: An HTML editor for programmers written using GTK, designed to save the experienced webmaster some keystrokes. (C) (GNU/Linux, Unix)
  5. GIMPShop: The open source replacement for Photoshop. (Mac, Linux, and Windows)
  6. Inkscape: The vector graphics application which may spell the end for Adobe Illustrator.

Complete Web Design Templates

If you want to get off the ground with your website quickly, then you may want a complete template that requires minimal tweaking. In this section we highlight some of the best complete template resources on the web. These templates include not only the CSS, but also the (X)HTML and in some cases the graphic files to get your site up as fast as possible.

  1. TemplateNavigator: The largest catalogue of free website and flash templates, along with quality preview shots.
  2. TemplateBox: Over 300 freebie website, logo, banner, and flash templates to complement their collection of paid offerings.
  3. Template Monster: A small but very high-quality set of web, flash, and blog templates.
  4. Art for the Web: 75 freebie templates. Pretty good place to look if you’re looking for something slightly out of the ordinary.
  5. Free CSS Templates: A 206 template strong resource which is frequently updated with new submissions.
  6. Effex-Media: Free website templates designed by designers, this massive list is categorized by website type and includes user reviews of many of the templates.
  7. DotcomWebDesign: Hundreds of free templates, some of which are really top-notch. However, the categorization is a little arbitrary so be ready to spend some time manually searching.
  8. Themebot Design Templates: This site has some design templates, but not very many. There is a good amount of free themes.
  9. Groovy Lizard: Personal page templates (commercial use must buy a license)
  10. Interspire: Freebie web, Frontpage and Dreamweaver templates
  11. Joyful Heart Designs: Personal page templates generally with floral designs.
  12. OpenSourceTemplates: Free CSS and xhtml open source website templates and Web 2.0 designs.
  13. Ricky’s Web Templates: 50+ freebie templates, graphics, and buttons.
  14. Free CSS Templates: A dozen full-featured fully functional CSS based templates.
  15. FreekTemplates.com: A collection of business, cars and bikes, and hosting templates.
  16. Template Perfection: 200+ freebie templates with quite a few non-english oriented templates.
  17. TemplateWorkz: 48 freebie web templates, along with some basic logo and newsletter templates.
  18. Zymic: 80 freebie templates (HTML Pages + CSS + Images + PSD Files + Blank Images Files).
  19. OpenSourceTemplates: A community-driven CSS and xhtml open source template design showcase.
  20. Freelayouts: HTML and Flash templates.
  21. FreeCSSTemplates.org: Over 100 freebie CSS templates.
  22. Free Layouts: Complete list of hundreds of HTML, flash, and CSS templates.
  23. Free Templates Online: Dozens of easily customizable templates categorized by theme.
  24. Free Website Templates: A large collection of templates that don’t require a reciprocal link.
  25. Six-Shooter Media: Free CSS and xhtml open source templates.
  26. Free Flash Template: Web templates and intros with tons of special features.
  27. Layouts4Free.com: Free web layouts with search capability.
  28. Solucija: Free XHTML / CSS website templates already setup and sorted by commercial use.
  29. MasterTemplates: Professionally designed free website layouts along with PowerPoint templates.
  30. TemplateWorld: Free, tableless, W3C-compliant web design layouts designed by Template World designers.
  31. Painted Pixels: Free web page templates, buttons, and background tiles for non-commercial use.
  32. CSSFill: A selection of CSS / XHTML based layouts and templates by Michael Strand.
  33. ThemesBase: Templates organized by popular content management, blogging and forum systems.
  34. Arcsin Design Templates: 22 Freebie XTML and CSS Templates
  35. Snakeye Web Templates: 20 templates with a focus on Dreamweaver and Fireworks.
  36. Steve’s Templates: Dozens of templates, free with link back.
  37. GordonMac.com: Free CSS templates along with some freebie PHP scripts.
  38. Web Design Helper: Full page templates including the graphics and code.
  39. Webmaster Resources: 25 free web templates.

CSS Layouts

If you’re looking for the freedom to create something entirely original but just want some of the basic layout taken care of, this section is for you. The templates below are pure CSS, leaving you a clean slate from which you can add the design, graphics, and text as you see fit.

  1. Layout Gala: 40 CSS tri-color layouts to help you pick a format.
  2. AndreasVilkund.com: Free Templates by designer Andreas Viklund.
  3. CSS Template Directory: A collection of CSS formatted page templates, developed and distributed by different designers.
  4. BenMeadowcroft.com: Top-notch web design templates by Ben Meadowcroft, mixed in with a few spoof pages and experimentation.
  5. Mollio: A set of basic CSS templates that that also have some sample basic content to speed things along.
  6. Real World Style: CSS layouts organized by format type.
  7. Little Boxes: CSS template arrangements with quickly accessible code.
  8. The Layout Reservoir: Simple, straightforward, and manipulable 2 and 3 column layouts.
  9. Protagonist Web Resources: A list of 43 tableless layouts to go along with the other protagonist resources.
  10. Glish: CSS Layout Techniques by Eric Costello which have been stripped down to the bare essentials.
  11. FU2K: CSS layouts designed for Netscape 4 compatibility.
  12. Position is Everything: Tableless design resource with CSS bug workarounds.
  13. ThreeColumnLayouts: The ultimate 3 column layout resource list.
  14. ssi-developer: Two column CSS template samples with recommendations.
  15. MIS Web Design: Fancy Paragraphs with CSS.
  16. Ruthsarian Layouts: Freebie-CSS layouts ranging from basic to complex arrangements.
  17. A List Apart: CSS: Practical CSS Layout Tips, Tricks and Techniques
  18. Code-Sucks.com: Creating 1, 2, 3, and 4 column layouts.
  19. Particle Tree: Dynamic resolution dependent layouts.
  20. Project Seven: Fluid CSS Layouts
  21. MyCelly: A collection of 16 basic layout templates.
  22. Ideas: 12 free CSS templates.
  23. CSS Library: Dynamic drive’s tableless CSS layouts.
  24. IntensiveStation: A collection of all new basic CSS templates.
  25. IronMyers: A collection of layouts with full Grade-A browser support for IE6, IE7, Firefox, Opera, Safari, and more.
  26. The CSS Playground: Cutting edge CSS demos by Stu Nicholls’
  27. Wordpress Theme Viewer: Collection of searchable themes organized by columns, colors, rounded corners, and other categories.
  28. Fluid 2-Column Template: A fully usable “fluid” template, meaning that the design expands and contracts with the window size.
  29. Avinash 2.0: 12 Free CSS Templates

Automated CSS Tools and Generators

This set of resources isn’t for those that want to create something entirely unique. But if you aren’t a strong coder and just want to get the job done, these automated CSS code tools will let you create CSS at the push of a button.

  1. CSS Creator: Select the form colors, number of columns, html version, and press a button. Presto, a CSS template for your page.
  2. Inknoise: The layout-o-matic: fill out the form and out pops your CSS.
  3. Strange Banana: Simply refresh the template generator until you get the style you like, then save the page which has your CSS embedded in the header.
  4. Nidahas: A CSS-based form template.
  5. Maketemplate: A PHP – HTML – CSS template generator for two column layouts.
  6. IBDjohn: CSS template generator for three column layouts.
  7. TemplatR: Another easy CSS template generator.
  8. PsycHo: Your own psychogenesis, your own web design template.
  9. Firdamatic: Tableless 2 or 3 column layout generator.
  10. Wordpress Theme Generator: Online generator creates custom unique Wordpress themes.

Blog Themes and Templates

Designing blogs has become so popular as a subset of web design that we thought they deserved their own separate section. In this section, we highlight some of the best open source weblog template sources.

  1. SmashingMagazine: 83 Beautiful Wordpress Themes You (Probably) Haven’t Seen
  2. Kaushal Sheth: Elegant WordPress themes.
  3. ErraticWisdom: Textpattern templates
  4. Scribez: 10 Best Wordpress Templates.
  5. pinkdesign: Free diary / blog templates
  6. Textgarden.org: The official site for themes designed for Textpattern.
  7. Blogger Templates: A collection of Blogger templates on a wide variety of themes.
  8. Blogfashions: A collection of free Movable Type compatible blog templates.
  9. FinalSense: High-quality templates for Blogger.
  10. WP Themes: WordPress themes all designed by Sadish Bala.
  11. Drupal Theme Garden: Showcase of themes available for Drupal 4.7x and Drupal 5.x.
  12. Weblog Design: A small number of high-quality weblog templates.

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Tools for Art and Design students

Posted by admin On April - 24 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS

1. 2D vector. Adobe Illustrator might be nice but it’s also expensive.Inkscape offers many of the same features, plus a few extras. If you simply need something to draw diagrams with, consider the web-based Gliffy.

2. 2D raster. Photoshop and its cousins might rule the paid territory for graphics editors, though the free, Open Source  GIMP does quite well itself, thank you very much. While it might be a bit awkward in interface if you’re used to Photoshop, regular use will cure you of that. If you still miss the Photoshop interface, try the GIMPshopmodification.

3. 3D vector. Often overlooked in this category is POV-Ray, a “ray tracing” program that is capable of producing amazing photorealstic scenes. There are also a number of advanced 3D modelling plugins for POV-Ray, as well as some modified versions released by third parties under different application names.

Bryce (MS Windows), which is usually a paid option, is sometimes released for free online in older versions. If POV-Ray’s code-driven interface isn’t your thing, you’ll enjoy Bryce’s visual interface. Get Bryce 5.5 at Download.com.

4. Collaboration. Got a project that you have to collaborate on with one or more fellow students?Campfire (free and paid versions) lets you have online meetings. In addition to Instant Messaging, you can share images, code and other files in real-time and discuss them. Another option, using a different paradigm, is Scriblink, which is a “digital whiteboard.” It offers in-screen chat and VoIP conferencing in the web application itself, as well as file transfer.

5. Design brainstorming. Whether you collaborate with teammates or work on your own, brainstorming designs or sketch ideas gives produces options without stress. Mind mapping applications are ideal for brainstorming, and you can even attach image snaps to map nodes for comparison. Mind mapping apps come in two flavors, desktop and web-based, and come in free and paid versions. Top of the line in the free category are FreeMind,XMind and basic versions of bubbl.usMindomo, andMindmeister, amonst others. (The latter two have free and paid versions.)

6. Modeling and animation. Both POV-Ray and Bryce, listed above, have animation features, but Blender is simply designed for 3D animation. Alternatively, DAZ 3D, who offer the aforementioned Bryce, also offer the free DAZ Studio, which is more comparable to Blender. DAZ Studio integrates well with Poser, for producing animated human models.

7. CSS templates and blog themes. A number of the most popular blogging themes (particularly for WordPress) are inspired by free CSS templates available at Open Source Web DesignOpen Web Design, and Open Design Community, amongst others. Their license use allows you to tweak templates found there and share with others, so you can create blog themes out of the CSS templates as well.

8. Web page layout and design tools. There are far too many apps in this broad category, but here are a couple.

  • Web page grid framework libraries. It’s fine to use CSS templates, but sometimes you need a unique page design. Save yourself some design time using one of the several “grid framework” options, including Blueprint and it’s spawn 960.
  • NVU. NVU is a free, multi-OS web page layout/ design environment that’s comparable to FrontPage and Dreamweaver.

9. Web page scripting tools. Page design is great, but if you need a website that does more than look pretty, you’ll want to implement various types of user interactivity. One of the most powerful yet time-saving ways to do this is to use a JavaScript library such as jQueryPrototypeor Script.aculo.us. Also check the Javascript Libraries website for a list of other options.

10. Photo hosting/ sharing. There are probably dozens of photo/image hosting and sharing sites available. While Photobucket is probably one of the most popular, Flickrarguably has more of a community base and more social features. Both are free, though Flickr does offer a pro version.

11. Presentations. Do you have a project presentation in MS PowerPoint or similar form? If you want to share online, SlideShare is one of several options. It even allows for clickable hyperlinks from within the embedded player, so you can even turn your presentation content into lessons.

12. Video tools. If you get the desire to produce a screencast video demonstrating some of your art or design techniques, look to Camstudio, which is an entirely free, Open Source alternative to the powerful but relatively expensive TechSmith Camtasia Studio. Note that TechSmith does have the free JingProject, which combines a desktop app with online storage. For additional free (and paid) screencasting options, please see MashableJust SkinsDigital Inspiration,Wikipedia, and Coding Horror.

13. Video sharing sites. Once you’ve produced your screencasts or design reels, you’re going to need somewhere to host them. While YouTube does in a pinch and is a popular site,SplashCast offers an arguably superior interface and embeddable media player. If you do want to take advantage of multiple video sharing sites, try TubeMogul for simultaneous upload.

14. Web browser. Today’s design and art students probably can’t get through college without being online, even just for research. A good browser with extra features goes a long way. If you’re designing web logos or pages, you’ll also to have the option of adding whatever plugins will help you in your work. Mozilla Firefox. Not only is Firefox one of the most popular web browsers, it has hundreds of addons (plugins) – many of which are suitable for web design and development. Some Firefox addons of interest:

  • MeasureIt. For web page design, to measure distances/ areas in pixels.
  • Web Developer. A whole suite of tools for web page development, but also handy for page design.

Google Chrome is being touted as an alternative to Mozilla Firefox, though it has a ways to go have all the power of the latter.

15. Web publishing. Do you need to publish your portfolio online, or want to show off your content with others? There are at least a half-dozen website/ blog publishing options, if not more. Here are two of the most popular, for self-hosted blogs and websites.

  • WordPress. WordPress isn’t just for blogs. It can be used as a low-end CMS (Content Management System), and with a few plugins or some custom tweaking, it can make for a great online gallery or portfolio for your visual work.
  • Drupal. Drupal is in many ways more powerful than WordPress, but installing and configuring it might require a bit more technical expertise than for WordPress. If it’s worth it to you, it has “online community” features out of the box, whereas WP requires using additional software and plugins, particularly WordPress Multi-User and BuddyPress, combined, or one of the various onlineforumapps (e.g., BBPress or Vanilla).

Article taken  From :http://www.onlinecollege.org/2009/01/28/15-free-tools-for-art-design-students/

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Free WYSIWYG Editors

Posted by admin On April - 24 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS

TinyEditor is a lightweight (8kb) JavaScript WYSIWYG editor that is free to use in both personal & commercial projects.

It is a standalone script (does not require any JS frameworks) & converts any given textarea to an editor

The can be easily customized by updating the parameters (like removing some of the controls). And it is possible to style it via CSS:

TinyEditor can be resized, a starting content can be defined, set to generate HTML or XHTML code & more..

Slick MooTools WYSIWYG Editor: MooEditable

MooEditable is a MooTools plugin that instantly converts a textarea field into a WYSIWYG editor.

It has a slick interface & comes with only the frequently used items like text formatting, lists, inserting images/links & undo/redo.

The plugin can also switch between design & HTML modes.

If you’d like to improve it further or customize to your needs,  It has a very detailed documentation.

Lightweight And Free HTML Editor: WMD

WMD is a lightweight HTML editor which is ideal for blog comments, forum posts & basic content management.

It can be implemented into any textarea with one line of code & with an extra line, live preview functionality can be implemented.

This is not a WYSIWYG editor. Rather, it is a WYSIWYM Markdown editor (what you see Is what you mean).

WMD produces clean semantic HTML, leaving presentation details like fonts and colors up to style sheets.

Markdown: a simple markup language that’s as easy to read and write as plain-text email.

New FCKeditor With More Features: CKEditor

FCKeditor, one of the most popular free WYSIWYG editors around now has a new version with more features & a lighter name: CKEditor.

WYSIWYG editors generally load slow due to the highly-used JavaScript. One of the best things CKEditor offers is the seriously improved perfomance to eliminate this problem.

Also, it is now an accessible script in compliance with the W3C WCAG & the US Section 508.

CKEditor offers a rich & powerful integration and interaction API. The editor is also totally plugin based & can be extended/modified in all senses to fit every need.

With a new user interface based on a fresh skin which is colorful like a chameleon, you can change its color to match your needs.

Open Source Online HTML Editor: Xinha

Xinha is a powerful & open source HTML (WYSIWYG) editor.

It is a community-built script presenting various options for max. customization.

It has lots of plugins that can be activated like:

  • Character counter
  • Find & replace
  • Image manager
  • HtmlTidy
  • Spell checker & more.

It is possible to configure which features/menus to be displayed, whether coding inside will be permitted or not & almost anything that may be needed.

Free XHTML Editor: WYMeditor

WYMeditor is a free XHTML editor script that generates perfectly structured XHTML strict code.

It doesn’t provide shortcuts for styling the fonts, colors, etc. For this reason, it calls itself WYSIWYM (what you see is what you “mean”).

This is a very nice feature to prevent novice users from breaking the styles of webpages (which happens most of the time).

WYMeditor is 100% JavaScript, has a skin support via CSS for customizing it and multilingual.

Its makes integrations easier with the API/plugin support provided.

A Markup And BBCode Editor By Corpocrat

r is presenting 2 simple & handy editors:

They both convert a textarea into an editor & they are lightweight (<5kb).

Links & images are inserted with an alert window rather than a HTML popup.

And, they are free to be used in both personal & commercial projects.

Powerful Markup Editor: SmartMarkUP

SmartMarkUP is a flexible & lightweight JavaScript library that turns any textarea into a markup editor.

It can be configured to edit HTML, CSS, XML, Wiki syntax & BBCode.

The library is unobtrusive & degrades gracefully if JavaScript is disabled.

SmartMarkUP has a simple and powerful API. Styles can be changed, new markups can be implemented, extra buttons and submenus can be created & more.

It also supports keyboard shortcuts for easier usage & has add-on support like color picker, search-replace, special character picker (and new ones can be created).

Free JavaScript WYSIWYG – Rich Text Editor

Free Rich Text Editor is a feature-rich JavaScript WYSIWYG editor.

It can be implemented to any web application easily & no programming experience required.

It outputs XHTML compliant code & works in all major browsers.

Editor lets you to switch between the design, HTML code & preview modes just like a desktop WYSIWYG application.

jWYSIWYG: jQuery Inline Content Editor Plugin

jWYSIWYG is a jQuery plugin for creating inline content editors easily.

It turns a textarea into an editor via a simple function below:

It has very simple features that makes it suitable to be used in contact or comment forms & similar.

jWYSIWYG is lightweight (7kb packed) & provides the ability to add custom controls, like adding a “line break” function.

Flash Rich Text Editor: obedit

obedit is a Flash rich text editor that uses PHP for saving, loading and other server related features.

It has most of the text editing features like:

  • bold, italic,underline
  • justification, block indents,
  • text color,
  • font and size selection,
  • links, bullets,
  • background color,
  • and spell checking.

Cross-Browser WYSIWYG Editor: openWYSIWYG

openWYSIWYG is a free cross-browser WYSIWYG editor that’s shipped with most of the rich-text editing features you need.

This editor works as a textarea replacement with a single line of code. It can be used with any programming language as it is coded entirely in JavaScript.

Some features of this free HTML editor:

  • Loads very fast
  • HTML source code editing
  • Create lists, italic, bold or similar HTML properties
  • Insert images
  • Enhanced table creation
  • Dropdowns with formatting preview

Convert TextAreas Into Markup Editors With markItUp!

markItUp! is a lightweight and customizable jQuery plugin which turns anytextarea into a markup editor.

It has ready-to-use tag sets for HTML, textile, wiki syntax, markdown and BBcode inputs. Also, you can easily create your own.

Some powerful features of this markup editor are:

  • Fast and unobtrusive integration
  • Support for keyboard shortcuts
  • Fully customizable and scriptable
  • Ajax dynamic preview
  • Customizable skins

High Quality Controls & Widgets for Prototype.js

Control Suite is a set of 6 high quality widgets and controls built with thePrototype JavaScript framework.

Each script is well tested, highly extensible and unobstrusive.

Suite has these widgets and controls:

  • Tab
  • Modal
  • TextArea
  • Select Multiple
  • Rating
  • Progress Bar

Different approach to star rating:

Suite is very well documented. You can easily reach the details of the APIs and this makes the product much more usable.

FCKeditor: Powerful HTML Text (WYSIWYG) Editor For Web Applications

FCKeditor is a full featured, well-documented & simple to use WYSIWYG HTML text editor. It is lightweight, easy to implement.

With an integrated powerful ajax file manager, CKFinder, you can control both the media & content of your web applications.

Features:

  • Multi browser compatibility
  • Outputs XHTML 1.0
  • CSS support for better integration with your web site
  • Font formatting: type, size, color, style, bold, italic, etc
  • Text formatting: alignment, indentation, bullets list, etc
  • Cut, Paste, and Paste as Plain Text, Undo and Redo
  • Paste from Word cleanup with auto detection
  • Link and anchors support
  • Image insertion, with upload and server browsing support
  • Table creation and editing (add, delete rows, etc) – one of the best systems on the market.
  • Table cells editing (size, colors, etc)
  • Form fields
  • Right click context menus support
  • Complete toolbar customization
  • Skins support
  • Plugins support
  • Spell checker
  • Multi-language support with automatic user language detection. Including Right to Left scripting.
  • Complete page editing (from <HTML> to </HTML>) or just contents.
  • Lightweight and fast
  • Automatic browser detection and customization
  • Integration with ASP, ASP.NET, Java, ColdFusion, Perl, PHP, JavaScript and more.
  • Image and file links upload and server repository browser.
  • For web developers it is easy to install and customize
  • For web users it’s simple and easy to use!

Tiny Html (WYSIWYG) Editor: NicEdit

NicEdit is a Javascript/AJAX inline content editor that allows easy editing of web ssd/div editable or convert standard textareas to rich text editing.

This lightweight (compressed size is <10kb) html editor is integrated into any website in seconds. Inserting a JavaScript code is enough for all textareas to be converted into WYSIWYG HTML editors.

TinyMCE Online Html Editor (WYSIWYG)

If you are looking for a WYSIWYG editor, TinyMCE can be the right choice.

It is a lightweight, platform independent javascript content editor that is created by Moxiecode Systems. TinyMCE is easy to integrate into any system and compatible with the web browsers like Firefox, IE, Opera and Safari.

Referance:http://www.webresourcesdepot.com/

Popularity: 23% [?]

Free HTML Editors

Posted by admin On April - 24 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS

Notetab Light

This is the freeware sibling of the commercial Standard and Pro versions. It is a general text editor that has lots of features, including a useful “Clipbook” facility that has numerous HTML editing conveniences. Its commercial cousin Notepad Pro comes with syntax highlighting. (Note: to get the free version, go to the “Download” page and look for “Notetab Light”.)

CodeLobster PHP Edition

This is a free code editor with syntax highlighting support for PHP, JavaScript, HTML and CSS. It has support for autocompletion of HTML tags, attributes and closing tags; an HTML code inspector; a CSS autocomplete facility supporting style property names and values; JavaScript autocomplete that supports keywords, DOM elements and properties; PHP autocomplete that support standard PHP and user’s classes, variables, functions, constants, keywords, etc; a PHP debugger; SQL autocomplete; context sensitive help; class view; browser preview; project manager; and so on. This is a Windows program.

HAPedit (HTML ASP PHP Editor)

HAPedit is useful for people who develop both dynamic and static web pages. It provides syntax highlighting for HTML, ASP, PHP, JavaScript; provides a project manager; features code completion, an SQL console, FTP manager, PHP code “compilation”, integrated PHP help, brace matching, search and replace with regular expressions, statistics on your page (ie, rendered size, images, links, etc), and so on. This is a Windows program.

Arachnophilia

This editor comes with built-in FTP facility, making it possible for you to author your web page and publish it without leaving the editor. It has a spell-checker, an internal browser view mode that is able to show your HTML changes as you type, a global search and replace facility across all open documents, built-in tutorial on HTML, JavaScript, frames; etc. There are apparently two versions available – the older one runs on Windows systems, the newer one is written in Java and is apparently cross-platform.

PSPad

PSPad is a full featured text editor that you can use to edit HTML, PHP, Perl, JavaScript, C, etc. It even has built-in facilities allowing you to edit binary files. There is project support, the ability to directly edit files via FTP on your server, a macro recorder, search and replace in files, text comparison (differences between two files with the differences highlighted in colour), syntax highlighting, spell checking, internal HTML preview using IE and Mozilla, integrated HTML TIDY (for validating HTML code and fixing them), code explorer for Pascal, HTML, PHP, XML (etc), matched bracket highlighting, etc.

Notepad++

Notepad++ is a source code text editor with syntax highlighting (C, C++, Java, C#, HTML, PHP, JavaScript, ASP, SQL, Objective-C, etc), multiple document handling using tabs, auto-completion of keywords (customizable), regular expressions in the search and replace function, macro recording and playback, brace and indent highlighting, collapsing and expanding of sections of code (to zoom in and out of pieces of code such as to provide an outline overview of your text/code), etc.

Quanta Plus Web Development Tool

Quanta Plus is a Linux HTML editor for KDE. It contains an assortment of features such as syntax highlighting, easy configuration of toolbars, site uploading facility, the ability to update a site from CVS (with a plugin), document structure tree, etc.

Bluefish

From the announcement by one of their development team: “Bluefish is a programmer’s HTML editor, designed to save the experienced webmaster some keystrokes. It features a multiple file editor, multiple toolbars, custom menus, image and thumbnail dialogs, open from the web, CSS dialogs, PHP, SSI and RXML support, HTML validation and lots of wizards.” I’ve seen a lot of good things said about this editor by other webmasters. Bluefish runs on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Tru64/Alpha, NetBSD, OpenBSD, HP-UX and Mac OSX.

HTML-Kit

This HTML text editor is intended for use by web developers, and comes with support for writing HTML, XML and scripts. Among its features are internal preview of your web pages (requires IE 4.x and above to be installed), integration with HTML Tidy (a HTML and CSS validation program), auto-completion of keywords, etc. HTML-Kit can be extended using plugins, and runs on Windows 95, 98, NT and 2000.

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Free WYSIWYG Web Editors and Website Builders

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NetObjects Fusion Essentials

This WYSIWYG web editor and site builder (click the “Downloads” page on their site to get it) features drag and drop website layouts, site management tools, a built-in FTP facility topublish (upload) your web pages, a photo gallery, a form builder, rollover images, support for Flash and Quicktime, an e-commerce tool, etc. This program is a subset of their full commercial software, NetObjects Fusion 11. Note: for the free version, you will need to register online while installing to get a serial number.

KompoZer – Easy Web Authoring

KompoZer is a WYSIWYG web editor that allows you to build websites in an easy way, using a visual interface. It is essentially an updated version of Nvu with bug fixes. You can learn how to create a website using KompoZer with thesitewizard.com’s tutorial How to Design and Publish Your Website with KompoZer.

SeaMonkey Composer (Mozilla Composer)

Seamonkey, the web browser suite from Mozilla, comes with a WYSIWYG web editor that allows you to quickly code web pages using a wordprocessor-like interface. For more information, please read the detailed review of the Mozilla Composer on thesitewizard.com. You can also find a comprehensive tutorial on How to Design and Publish Your Website with Mozilla Composer there.

Amaya Web Browsing and Authoring

Amaya is an open source browser and WYSIWYG web authoring environment that purports to allow its users to develop web pages without knowing anything about HTML or CSS. You can create your pages and view them using this software. It supports CSS, HTML, XHTML, MathML 2.0 (which allows you to browse and write web pages containing mathematical symbols), etc. There are versions for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. A more detailed review of this editor can be found in the article: Review of Amaya: W3C’s Free WYSIWYG Web Authoring Environment.

Trellian WebPAGE

Trellian WebPAGE is a free WYSIWYG web editor with a drag and drop interface, a preview screen that allows you to see your page under three common screen widths (640, 800 and 1024), built-in FTP uploader, table creation wizard, form creation tool, etc. It also has a syntax highlighting HTML editor for people who may want to switch to the HTML mode for some fine tuning.

Nvu – Complete Web Authoring System

(Update: Nvu has been discontinued. Beware of scam sites pretending to be the Nvu website and asking for donations/support. The official site is gone, and there are no replacement sites. In the meantime, use KompoZer, which is just Nvu with some bug fixes and a new name.) Nvu is a WYSIWYG editor that is designed to make the creation of web sites as easy for novices as it is using commercial web editors like DreamWeaver. It is based on the Mozilla Composer web editor (see elsewhere on this page) and includes new features that will eventually make its way back into Mozilla Composer. This open source editor is available for Linux and Windows. You can find a tutorial on How to Design and Publish Your Website with Nvu on thesitewizard.com. There is also a longer review of Nvu available.

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SEO Tools

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Alexa

Backlink

  • Anchor Text Backlink Checker
    This tool is to check your backlinks and the anchor text used in those backlinks.
  • Backlink Analyzer
    Research and analyze websites for link quality. Checks for Indexed Pages, Links to Website, EDU & .GOV Links, Domain Age & Expiration, Google PageRank, Alexa Traffic Rank, DMOZ Listing
  • Backlink Anchor Text Analyzer
    This tools help you determine the backlinks of your website and link text used by your backlinks to Link to your website
  • Backlink Builder
    Building Quality backlinks is one of the most important factors in Search Engine Optimization…

Domain Popularity, Domain Stats Tools…

  • Domain Age Tool
    This tools displays the approximate age of a website on the Internet and allows you to view how the website looked when it first started
  • Domain Dossier
    Investigate domains and IP addresses
  • Domain Popularity
    This tool shows you all backlinks for the given domain, including up to 10 subpages per backlinking domain, host IP and Google PageRank
  • Domain Stats Tool
    This tool helps you get all kind of statistics of your competitor’s domains. The statistics include Alexa Taffic Rank, Age of the domains, Yahoo WebRank, Dmoz listings, count of backlinks and number of pages indexed in Search Engines like Google, Yahoo, Msn etc.
  • HTTP / HTTPS Header Check
    This tools allow you to inspect the HTTP headers that the web server returns when requesting a URL. Works with HTTP and HTTPS URLs
  • View HTTP Headers
    This little tool lets you view the HTTP headers for a HTTP request
  • View HTTP Path
    This little tool lets you view the path/redirects a request takes to get fulfilled

Google Page Rank Checker, Adwords Keyword Tools,Google Banned Tools…

  • Advanced Google searches
    Use this tool to search google in many special ways. A useful resource for search engine optimization (especially keyword research) among other things
  • Check Google Pagerank
    Now you can check the Google PageRank of any web page without installing the Google toolbar
  • Check PageRank by Google data center
    With this tool you can check the PageRank from different data centers
  • Free Google Adsense Keywords & YPN Keywords Search Tool
    With the ability to search a growing database of tens of thousands of high-dollar Adsense keywords, Iotaweb allows publishers to find the keywords and key phrases that will allow them to focus their content to monetize their site most effectively.
  • Google Adwords Keyword Tool
    Keyword tool from Google that provides Specific and Similar keywords.
  • Google Banned Tool
    This tool uses two methods to check to see if a URL you enter is in the Google database. Its a great way to check to see if you have been banned by Google for various reasons….
  • Google Keyword Ranking Tool
    Search with list of keywords from differnet Google search sites
  • Google Page Rank Checker
    Instantly check the PageRank of any website or web page
  • Google Page Rank Checker
    A simple tool that checks and your PageRank so you can display it on your website
  • Google Sets
    Automatically create sets of items from a few examples.
  • Google Synonyms
    Type in a keyword to get Google’s synonyms using the “~keyword -keyword” method.
  • PageRank Authenticity Check
    This tool shows you the PageRank of a given domain. Also the PageRank will be checked of authenticity
  • Page Rank Tool
    Our PageRank Tool will query and return the Google PageRank values for submitted URL from various Google datacenters…
  • Poodle Predictor
    See your site like Google does. Simulate search engines and predict your Google listings
  • Visual PageRank
    The Visual PageRank – Tool shows all links and there corresponding PageRanks

Keyword Analysis Tool, Keyword Density, Keyword Suggestion Tools…

  • McDar Keyword Analysis Tool
    Enter URL and keyword, it will display Pagerank and Back links pages for the Top 10 websites.
  • Keyword Density
    This tool shows you how often appears which word in content of given domain
  • Keyword Density
    The keyword density tool is useful for helping webmasters and SEOs achieve their optimum keyword density for a set of key terms.
  • Keyword Density Checker
    Keyword Density is the percentage of occurrence of your keywords to the text in the rest of your webpage. This tool will crawl the specified URL, extract text as a search engine would, remove common stop words and Analyze the density of the keywords.
  • Keyword Difficulty Tool
    The keyword difficulty tool is used to analyze the competitive landscape of a particular search term or phrase, this tool issues a percentage score and provides a detailed analysis of the top ranking sites at Google and Yahoo…
  • Keyword research service
    Type a keyword or phrase and get the top 10 Keyword Discovery listings
  • KwMap.net
    A Keyword Map For the Whole Internet
  • Keyword Suggestion Tool
    This keyword suggestion tool will help you with the choosing of the right keywords for your website. You can see which keyword combinations are more popular and also get ideas for more keyword combinations..
  • SEO Book Keyword Suggestion Tool
    Free Overture and Google Keyword suggestion tool
  • Website Keyword Suggestions
    This tools tries to determine the theme of your website and provides keyword suggestions along with keyword traffic estimates.
  • Ontology Finder
    Related Keywords Lookup Tool
  • Overture Keyword Tool
    This tool, based on the excellent Overture and Wordtracker keyword search tools, gives similar data, including search figures from the previous month. It also adds statistics for average searches per hour, day, week, projected figures for the next 12 months and then also a figure to see how searches may look in 3 years from now.

Link Popularity Check, Site Link Analyzer, Link Value…

  • Deep Link Ratio Tool
    This tool was created to analyze how the deep link ratio of a site affects its rank in search engines. We can use this tool to compare the DLRs for the best ranking sites for a search phrase.
  • Link Popularity Check
    Link popularity check is one of the best ways to quantifiably and independently measure your website’s online awareness and overall visibility…
  • Link Popularity Checker
    The Link Popularity Checker tells you how many websites are linking to yours…
  • LINK VALIDATION SPIDER
    Free Online Broken Link Checker
  • Link Price Calculator
    This tools will help you determine the approximate amount you should be paying (or charging) per month for a text link (ad) from each and every page of the specified website
  • Link Value
    This tool calculates the link value per month of a given website.
  • Reciprocal Link Check
    This tool helps you ensure that your link partners are linking back to your website. It also determines the anchor text used by your link partners to link to your website.
  • Site Link Analyzer
    This tool will analyze a given web page and return a table of data containing columns of outbound links and their associated anchor text…
  • The Link Reputation Measurement Tool
    Reveals backlinks pointing to your target url along with the following: Link Survey – Link Reputation Score – Text used in links pointing to you – Alexa traffic analysis for the site corresponding to each backlink
  • Outbound Links
    This tool shows every outgoing link from the given domain. Separated in external and internal links

Meta Tag Generators

  • Meta Tag Generator
    Our Meta Tag Generator will read the page you specify, remove common words from it, and pick the most used words on the page. It will then generate a Meta Keywords tag using the words it has found…
  • Meta Tag Generator
    Use this tool to generate a search engine friendly Head Tag for your web site
  • Title & Meta Tags Generator
    his code generator will build the title and meta tags for your site to help improve your website’s search engine ranking using our Meta Tag Generator

Miscellaneous Tools

  • 156 Seo Tools
    One of the most comprehensive lists with useful, essential SEO tools.
  • Directory Submission Manager
    Use this free tool to track your submissions to various web directories….
  • Copyscape
    Search for copies of your page on the Web
  • Crazy Egg
    Get a clear picture of where your visitors are clicking and enhance your site’s results
  • Site Analysis including Link Popularity
    This tool generates a complete site analysis e.g. amount of backlinks, indexed sites, Google PageRank and also if your domain is listed in DMOZ and Yahoo directory
  • Sitemap Generator
    Create your Google Sitemap Online
  • Browser Screen Resolution Checker
    The browser screen resolution checker shows what your web page looks like with the viewer’s monitor set to different screen resolutions
  • Similar Page Checker
    Search Engines are known to penalize websites that contain Duplicate / Similar content. Your content could be similar to other websites on the Internet, or pages from within your own website could be similar to each other. This tool allows you to determine the percentage of similarity between two pages
  • Speedtester
    This tool shows the duration of a given website. This value can be used for showing how long a website take to load and if it is better to optimize the website or change a (slow) ISP.
  • mod_rewrite RewriteRule Generator
    Our mod_rewrite RewriteRule generator will take a dynamic url given to it, and generate the correct syntax to place in a .htaccess file to allow the url to be rewritten in a spiderable format
  • URL Rewrite (mod_rewrite)
    With this tool you can generate dynamic urls to search engine friendly urls..
  • URL Rewriting Tool
    Create Search Engine Friendly URLs
  • User Agent Cloaking Detector
    This tool simulates the Googlebot (based on User-Agent) to detect cloaked content
  • What is Hosted on that IP
    This little tool lets you view the virtual hosts on a particular IP

Search Engine Position Checker, Spider Simulator, Ranking Report, SERP Tracker

  • Dogpile
    Search Comparison Tool
  • Google vs Yahoo Graph
    This tool looks at the results from Yahoo and Google, finds the similarities and then gives you a graphical display of what results are in both search engines
  • Search Engine Position Checker
    The Search Engine Position Checker tool will automatically query the search engines you specify and check if your URL appears in the first 50 results for your chosen keywords….
  • Search Engine Simulator
    This service allows web authors to see what their pages will look like (sort of) to a search engine. This service ignores the META tags that some search engines honor.
  • Search Engine Spider Simulator
    With this tool you see all informations a search engine spider receive from a website.
  • Marketleap Search Engine Verification Tool
    Our verification tool checks to see if your site is in the top three pages of a search engine result for a specific keyword
  • Number of pages indexed
    This tool will generate a report showing how many pages of your website has been indexed by the search engines so far. It supports all major search engines: Google, Yahoo, MSN, Alltheweb, Hotbot and AltaVista.
  • Search Engine Ranking Report
    Input key phrase list get Google rankings
  • Serps Position
    Use this tool to find out, on which position your domain is ranked for the given keyword and compare the first 100 results by Google, search.MSN and Yahoo.
  • SERP Tracker
    The SERP Tracker reports on search engine results and charts performance over time

SEO Analyzer, Scanner

  • Free SEO Tools
    SEOToolSet
  • Cool SEO Tool!
    This internet marketing tool checks the top 10 sites that rank in Google. After that, it checks to see how those 10 sites rank in Yahoo and in MSN….
  • SEO Analyzer
    The SEO Analyzer is a FREE tool that uses a sophisticated algorithm that detects how optimized your web design is for search engines
  • SEO Scanner
    An all-in-one advanced SEO analysis, tracking, and reporting tool

Robots.txt Tools

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