Common web design / development tools

hooligan5 · 3 months

Sublime Text isn't free, its $59

Sublime Text 2 is in a free beta but will cost $59 when released

Its well worth the cost, and the license is per person not per machine

ceol_ · 3 months

No love for non-PHP frameworks?

Python

Ruby

Perl

Java

Akathos · 3 months

I would like to add TextMate (Mac only text editor) and Symfony2 (open source PHP framework).

flo850 · 3 months

webstorm for js/html/css only (47 euro) phpstorm/pycharm for js/HTML/CSS + a server language ( 100euros)

dwoodwoo · 3 months

 Cyberduck is a free Mac FTP client. [edit: and apparently works with windows too.]

01101101011001010110 · 3 months

FuelPHP because its awesome.

neuroprancer · 3 months

No love for the almighty vim?

degulasse · 3 months

fireworks is so underrated.

malagrond · 3 months

Textpad is a free code editor with the ability to create your own syntax highlighting, utilize macros and custom document classes. (Plus a bunch of other features.)

Online Tools:
Kuler - Color palette tool
Online Tidy - It's Tidy..?

chiaki · 3 months

Foundation by ZURB is an awesome CSS framework. As is Skeleton.

battleRabbit · 3 months

Skeleton (free) - great responsive boilerplate.

Concrete5 (free) - good CMS alternative to Wordpress, etc.

ninja-duck · 3 months

Hi, I have always wandered why Aptana Studio is never on any of these lists. Have they been known not be be good because I love using it.

EDIT: Just missed it on the list. Would recommend it though!

BooyahSquad · 3 months

Sublime Text 2 is actually available on Mac too!

While I don't personally use it, Pixelmator is an Mac image editor.

wafflesburger · 3 months

winscp e-texteditor vmware

cport1 · 3 months

Open SSH , Win SCP

appointment_at_1_am · 3 months

jetbrains phpstorm ($125, free for open source project!) eclipse (free)

tardyace · 3 months

Netbeans (free) - IDE

Sequal Pro (free) - mac mySQL manager

Web developer toolbar (free) - browser addon

omgilovethissong · 3 months

Other useful tools: server; ubuntu server in virtual box

duopixel · 3 months

Great list! "Transit" should read "Transmit" and I would add Inkscape (free) to the Artwork/Design category. Even though I find Inkscape frustrating, the legal (i.e. paid) barrier to entry in design apps is quite high.

skeddles · 3 months

I support Photoshop, Notepad++, jquery, filezilla (only for big transfers, notepad++ has an ftp plugin) and firebug.

For fonts I use dafont.com, which doesn't seem to be on there ( I even have a few fonts on there!)

DigitalisFX · 3 months

BBEdit ($49.99) - http://www.barebones.com/store/

jaryl · 3 months

How about CSS stuff?

If you want to create static sites using Sass/Compass + Haml and are familiar with ruby/rails, you may also want to try out serve.

colindean · 3 months

I'll toss in PaintShop Pro because a friend swears by it. I'm a GIMP and Inkscape guy, myself.

honestbleeps · 3 months

Oh sorry, one more suggestion: Smart Git is a really nice Git client (free) for Mac/Win/Linux

madpedro · 3 months

Here's a little contribution to the list.

grid

editors

geany

x-skeww · 3 months

Komodo Edit is free. Komodo IDE (the one you're linking to) isn't. It's $245.

mikedoesweb · 3 months

No love for the 2nd most popular server and language in the world?

All Free from Microsoft:

felixthehat · 3 months

Sometimes I think I'm the only person in the world who uses skedit (mac only) for writing markup. Great little app.

givemebackmynose · 3 months

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andehpandeh · 3 months

How is MAMP not on this list? It is my number one tool.

elucubra · 3 months

I always find Xara Web Designer a very friendly and easy way to throw together simple but good looking sites.

For those coming off a graphics design background, its a no brainer.

otown_in_the_hotown · 3 months

Despite what people think, Flash is far from dead. It still makes up 99% of my business. Flash Builder and Flash are invaluable to me.

kaethre · 3 months

CodeIgniter and FuelPHP but no kohana?

gnagel · 3 months

Microsoft Sharepoint Designer (free)

I use this for teachers since there server is webdav setup and they can download to home machines without the dreamweaver price

Dreamweaver can have webdav support but some have issues. They don't auto patch it so if your version of dreamweaver is having webdav issues download patch http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/402/kb402079.html

art weaver free version works well

Paintnet Free

Blender

Bryce is free but cannot access the link from where im at

KineticShampoo · 3 months

MVC3 is the tits.

Shadow14l · 3 months

PHPStorm

flynnski · 3 months

Don't forget VMWare to do local development. :)

andreasvnielsen · 3 months

The only thing i hate, is i'm a student, and i don't have any money, and i don't want to pirate copy software, and ther are very expensive, so i use free tools like paint.net and gimp (i know Photo shop is much better, but i don't have the money)

noshelter · 3 months

Zend Framework and Kohana for PHP should definitely be included in this list.

aedile · 3 months

Eclipse most definitely needs to be in the IDE sections. Great tool for multiple languages and it's free. Also, TOAD for MySQL is a great MySQL UI.

waxjar · 3 months

One of the most important things (imo) is missing: Git and its GUIs. I settled for GitX (Mac only) and occasionally use GitHub for Mac or just the command line.

Also useful is ColorSchemer Studio for color scheming and Base (Mac only) to manage SQLite databases.

*i'm still too dumb for markdown :(

tardyace · 3 months

I would add MODx to the list of CMS's. I'm not a big fan of it, but I believe it has a relatively large user base.

Also, does anyone have any recommendations for ecommerce software? That seems to be an area that's really lacking in good choices.

Ibuildwebstuff · 3 months

Unfortunately this says an awful lot. Not a single version control system? What about testing? Documenting? Continuous Integration and Build tools?

For fuck sake any decent developer can write code in any editor, but how can you do your job without VCS or Unittests!?

metawareness · 3 months

Who do we talk to about putting this in the sidebar?

ChiperSoft · 3 months

Acorn has become my image editor of choice on the Mac. Launches WAY faster than Photoshop or Fireworks, has PNG compression on par with Fireworks, and performs simple tasks much easier. It has this awesome effects builder that lets you stack multiple effects and tweak them all as a group before applying them to your image.

Also, everyone should check out Chocolat on the mac. Don't let the simple screenshots deceive you, this little code editor app is gonna go far.

yurigoul · 3 months

Artwork: 4, 7, 6 - I do use 5, but not for artwork- for certain plugins that photoshop does not have.

Coding: 11, bbedit

Frameworks: Silverstripe, 29

fonts: 34

tools: 37, 36 (cyberduck sometimes does not do the job for me, don't ask me why), 41, 38

jemka · 3 months

Filezilla should be replaced with one that doesn't store passwords in plain text. eg. winscp

rolmos · 3 months

I'd add  ImageAlpha

expert02 · 3 months

SugarSync. Like dropbox, but for any folder. I edit files and they're on my test or production server within a minute. It also keeps copies of all the files online with previous versions.

donkeybandit · 3 months

No love for http://foundation.zurb.com?

MajorVictory · 3 months

What about EditPlus 3 for editing anything?

lochrrr · 3 months

Inkscape ! vector graphics for free! inkscape.org

ProbablyNotWorking · 3 months

Fiddler (free) HTTP traffic logger

omniuni · 3 months

I use Kate and KDevelop as my preferred IDE, and I also use Dolpin (the default file management application) to browse the server. KDE has something called "KIO" which allows all of the KDE apps to work transparently over a network include FTP, SFTP, FISH, Samba, and others. Because of this, I rarely use FIleZilla or other dedicated FTP programs.

chmod777 · 3 months

for msft focused people: visual studio express - free.

also, legacy xp ie6/7/8 VMs: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=11575 - free

IE tester - fairly good, tho i've come across some weird xp bugs

9999px · 3 months

Tower : http://www.git-tower.com/
Git client for Mac

Balsamiq : http://www.balsamiq.com/
Mockups and wireframes (Adobe Air, so I think it's cross platform)

sysconfig · 3 months

anyone using pixelmator for doing web layouts?

blindmikey · 3 months

I'd like to add: Xara ($89), an amazing vector editor with bitmap support and editing sprinkled where appropriate. Puts Illustrator to shame.

And: EasyPHP (Free), a push button WAMP environment.

And (not sure where to put this): Zen Coding (Free) - an editor plugin for high-speed coding and editing.

otown_in_the_hotown · 3 months

Versions on Mac for subversion.

leashlaw · 3 months

Omeka is a great specialty CMS.

mogwi · 3 months

Was sad not to see CakePHP up on the list. CakePHP is a rapid development framework for PHP using the commonly known MVC design pattern. The framework is superbly documented and their community is fucking fantastic. It has been an absolute pleasure using CakePHP for many web application I have developed in the past 2-3 years.

i-make-robots · 3 months

bootstrap? jetengine for wordpress?

analreceiver · 3 months

Visual Studio?

mikeful · 3 months

For PHP backend development on Windows:

Sublime Text 2 - Text editor with bunch of handy features and plugins
Notepad++ - Nice alternative, used mostly for file encoding wrangling
PuttyTray - Putty + extra features
WinSCP - Best FTP(S)/SCP/SFTP client I've found yet
SQLYog Community Edition - MySQL management tool

Edits: Formatting + typos

whuff739 · 3 months

Bluefish editor for linux isn't too bad. Available for Windows and OSX as well.

personally · 3 months

Why the hell has nobody mentioned the most invaluable tool? WebMatrix

veegeek · 3 months

Lots of info here. Thanks!

beermad · 3 months

Total Validator Nice tool for checking your HTML, either in Firefox or using the standalone program. It's dug me out of many a pile of shit (of my own making).

ForAwhileAlone · 3 months

Here are some generators and tools I bookmarked.

Also:

HTML/CSS/JS reference

http://dochub.io/#css/
http://reference.sitepoint.com
http://www.w3schools.com (yeah.. I know. But still handy.)

Browser compatibility

templates and patterns

JavaScript frameworks

A prevous thread

http://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/ozb45/favorite_webdev_tools/

Dixoo · 3 months

I think Silverstripe CMS/Framework is great!

nrbartman · 3 months

Don't forget FOUNT

Fount will tell you which web font in your font-stack you are actually seeing – not just what is supposed to be seen. It’ll also tell you the font size, weight, and style.

fpsrandy · 3 months

You need to add XXAMP as a free cross platform AMP stack.

There is a portable version that can live on a usb stick. I usually have XXAMP, PuTTy, WinSCP, Notepad++, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, 7zip, and GIMP on a usb stick. http://portableapps.com/apps

springboks · 3 months

I've been looking for a mobile browser emulator for a while, any recommendations?

Just_Dude · 3 months

Check out Emerald Editor, formerly Crimson Editor. This text editor formats code for you and has bracket selection so you can always know which pair of brackets or braces match up. It has a shit ton of awesome little features. I've been using it since day fucking one and I won't even consider another text editor. I fucking love this program.

callcolor · 3 months

2nd for Paint.net

sm_x · 3 months

it would be helpful if you can add which platform the app works on (windows,mac, or linux).

_Kelsie_ · 3 months

VS.PHP

stoplight · 3 months

No love for cURL? It's available for many platforms too (several Unix variants, Solaris, and even DOS!)

StuffedDoughboy · 3 months

Let me add that there's a great version of Vim for Macs that's free and has a few nifty features like OSX key bindings.

aimbonics · 3 months

ySlow !

honestbleeps · 3 months

In one of these threads, I recently discovered Nerdi which is a fantastic resource of ... well... great online resources!

All sorts of web based tools for web designers and developers, neatly organized in one place.

yunolisten · 3 months

Wow really pushing the open source and free products.

How about a few more .NET alternatives for us corporate whores, maybe anything from this list.

http://webmasterformat.com/blog/top-asp-net-cmss

[deleted] · 3 months

Omnigraffle? Common UX design/wireframing tool.

otakuman · 3 months

Code::Blocks is oriented for C++ development, but I've found it great for PHP projects.

azmerod · 3 months

I think I love you...and this thread.

consindo · 3 months

Gradiator is a app to create CSS3 gradients (that we made). It's free for Linux & 99c for Mac.

PepEye · 3 months

Opencart CMS for e-commerce websites, plus its completely free and open source

Wolfy87 · 3 months

You didn't mention MooTools. There are alternatives to jQuery you know.

spiraldroid · 3 months

Any chance of DOM manipulation tools? Like ones that can save our inspected element edits on Chrome/FF etc.

FozzTexx · 3 months

You should also add MagicEdit to your list of CMSs. It allows you to build a custom CMS into a website by simply using regular HTML, and you have the same freedom as designing static HTML sites. There is also no need to learn a new language, you don't need to do any programming, scripting, or PHP. It is $15/mo but there is also a free option.

Routron · 3 months

Forgot to add Mou to the list.

http://mouapp.com/

RecycledAir · 3 months

JavaScript

Node.js - A popular new server-side JavaScript implementation
Express.js - A Sinatra-like web framework built for Node.js
Backbone.js - A client-side JavaScript MVC framework.
Ember.js - A client-side Javascript MVC framework with more "batteries included".
Socket.io - A library to enable simple web socket communication.
Three.js - An easy to learn WebGL framework.

tgeorge06 · 3 months

Notepad++ if you're on a windows machine.

gedit if you are a linux machine, you can add a lot of plugins to make gedit a completely awesome tool in your arsenal, google 'pimp my gedit'.

hajamieli · 3 months

I wrote my own Ruby + JS web-gui-data framework: RSence (GPL)

thelim3y · 3 months

I didn't see any javascript 'app' frameworks. In no particular order:

TehOfficer · 3 months

Thank you, so much, for this list - think I actually prefer Espresso over TextMate, even though I've been using it a lot.
I love these quality posts!

danielmatthews · 3 months

Any reason why Indexhibit isn't on the list?

lemannequin · 2 months

A few free, open source CMSs to add to the list:

Textpattern CMS.

EscherCMS

ProcessWire

derpderp3200 · 2 months

You know, it's not very useful if it doesn't say why these tools are (or aren't) good...

ultrafez · 23 days

It truly amazes me that Eclipse isn't on the list of IDEs. Combined with PDT, it's great for coding in PHP. If you use XDebug as well, the line-by-line debugging is excellent.