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Author Topic: Webmasters, share your favorite tools of the trade!  (Read 3534 times)
Rutster
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« on: March 06, 2007, 03:04:34 PM »

Ok, i think this could be a fun thread, and very informative to some.

What are your favorite tools of the trade?

I'll start.

Computer side:
Frontpage
" It's the first program i used to create a webpage, so I've stuck with it over the years "
Photoshop CS2
" Like frontpage, it's the first and only photo editor that i ever used. "
My Digital cameras
" of course i can't live without the cameras"

Web side:
Coppermine Photo Gallery (http://coppermine-gallery.net/index.php)
"currently the gallery program i like best"
snippitmaster (http://www.snippetmaster.com/index.php)
"this is a cool program for client's websites, that allows them to edit their own content on static pages"


Everybody else's turn. Happy Happy Joy Joy

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« Reply #1 on: March 06, 2007, 03:43:23 PM »

xhtml/css/php coding: vim and Dreamweaver 8 (which comes free with Adobe Creative Suite 2.3 Premium)

Graphics: Illustrator CS2, Photoshop CS3 (I know its beta, but its really fast!) and Fireworks.

Color Schemer Pro
WsFTP Pro
Putty (telnet/ssh client)
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« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2007, 11:27:57 AM »

I've gotta have my Dreamweaver!
I completely prefer Photoshop and Illustrator over Fireworks and Freehand.

And now that I switched to InDesign from Quark 4, I completely prefer InDesign for page-layout.

Site stats: I prefer Google Analytics over webalyzer or analog.

Pay-per-click: I prefer Google Adwords over Yahoo Search Marketing, but now that Yahoo upgraded to a format similar to Google Adwords, they seem to be at par.

I like Javascripts for their abundance on the web, but I would prefer to code more in PHP for server-side code, instead of browser-side code.

And for managing Email, I still prefer Eudora over anything else. (but only tried Outlook and Thunderbird as alternatives) You can search through as many mail boxes/accounts as you need at one time, and the search is fast.
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« Reply #3 on: April 19, 2007, 11:31:52 AM »

Oh I use bunches of stuff, but if you want the two main ones it would have to be NotePad Pro (for HTML/CSS/code editing and writing articles/posts) and Firefox. Smile 
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« Reply #4 on: April 19, 2007, 12:55:18 PM »

Coding html/php/css/etc. - SciTE
Graphics - Photoshop
PenguiNet for ssh and scp
CuteFTP if I must FTP

activeCollab to keep track of it all
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« Reply #5 on: April 19, 2007, 02:14:56 PM »

Dreamweaver MX for coding and FTP
Digital Imaging Pro for photo editing
Ubuntu for testing server

My applications are like me, getting old!
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« Reply #6 on: April 19, 2007, 04:18:16 PM »

Hmm, let's see...

Dreamweaver MX/Nvu for HTML & code work (Depends on whether I'm running the Linux side or the Windows side. Wink

Photoshop/Fireworks MX/GIMP for image editing

Firefox/IE7 for testing sites

Thunderbird for email

Trillian/Gaim for instant message apps

Filezilla/gFTP for File Transfer duties

There are others but this should be a fair assessment of my "toolbox". Smile
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« Reply #7 on: April 19, 2007, 05:55:00 PM »

Quanta +. part of KDEWebdev.
A great, great web development application.
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« Reply #8 on: April 19, 2007, 06:15:32 PM »

Dreamweaver MX - ok I dont like the newer versions, for editing files and ftp.
Paint Shop Pro 7 - Why buy a new one when the old does all I need.
Animation shop 3 - Read above
Wordpad - for editing database files mainly (ya the hard way but I like it)
IE and Firefox - As a web developer, should allways test in two browsers at least

Windows Vista - Dont ask, I wont tell.
Windows xp - Ubuntu - Mac OS 10 - all for testing on different systems.

Of course, I use a lot of other programs, but these are mainly for testing others stuff when its not working.



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« Reply #9 on: April 20, 2007, 12:09:19 PM »

Dreamweaver 8.
Photoshop Elements 4.
CoffeeCup Image Gallery.
Cyberduck (ftp)
whos.amung.us for real time site hits.
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« Reply #10 on: April 24, 2007, 09:22:49 AM »

For Mac OSX, Panic Software introduced 'Coda'. Looks to be a direct competitor to Dreamweaver, plus it has a terminal window to ssh into your server (I find myself doing daily).

Has anyone tried this out? If so, what do you think?

I'm going to install this later today on my Mac and see how it performs.
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« Reply #11 on: April 27, 2007, 07:05:39 AM »

Oh I forgot one.

Firefox with the web developer extension. Great for tweaking css.
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« Reply #12 on: April 27, 2007, 05:32:55 PM »

Hmm.. well me im an odd one.
Any one ever use Transmit? Love that thing.
For all coding I either use Transmits built in text editor, TextEdit or open it in BBEdit (for when I have huge php files with lots of functions for quick navigating through them.
I use Adobe photoshop 7 (Old skool here) for images.
I do have studio 8 but rarely do I use it. I leave it on my other computers though for use there for the rest of my family.

ReTodd,
I don't have 10.4 and 10.5 comes out in October (hopefully) so I will try it then when I have it.
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« Reply #13 on: May 03, 2007, 01:15:35 PM »

For site usability I go to the alertbox

My editor is CSE HTML Validator lite - pretty neat for a free tool
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« Reply #14 on: May 03, 2007, 06:54:53 PM »

I was originally using PHP Designer for all my coding but am now using Coda which I like A LOT!!
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