Web Development Tools

There are many tools available on the web that can save time and be really really helpful for developers.

Here is a list of our favourites and most heavily used tools.

1 Development Tools

• Adobe Dreamweaver - http://www.adobe.com/ie/products/dreamweaver.html

• Notepad ++ - Notepad++

• Microsoft Visual Studio - http://www.visualstudio.com/

• NVIDIA CUDA Tools - https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-zone

• About.com The 10 Best Free Web Editors for Windows - http://webdesign.about.com/od/windowshtmleditors/tp/free-windows-editors.htm

• http://builtwith.com which is very useful when trying to work out the technology a site is built with

2 Database Tools

• MySQL Server - http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/

• MySQL Workbench - http://www.mysql.com/products/workbench/

• Percona - Slow Log Analyzer - http://www.percona.com/doc/percona-toolkit/2.2/pt-query-digest.html

3 Browsers

• Microsoft Internet Explorer - http://windows.microsoft.com/en-IE/internet-explorer/download-ie

• Mozilla Firefox - http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/

• Google Chrome - http://www.google.com/intl/en_ie/chrome/browser/

• Apple Safari - http://support.apple.com/kb/dl1531

• Opera Opera - http://www.opera.com/computer/windows

4 Browser plugins for developers

• Firebug - https://getfirebug.com/

• BrowserStack - http://www.browserstack.com/

5 HTML Formatting Tools

• Encode URLs - http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/

• HTML and XHTML Validation - http://validator.w3.org/

• CSS Validation - http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

• HTML Email construction notes - Writing_HTML_Emails

• ColorMatch 5K - http://www.colormatch5k.com/

6 eLearning Tools

• Adobe Captivate - http://www.adobe.com/ie/products/captivate.html

• DVDVideoSoft - Video format conversion - http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/ Exceptionally useful for converting MP4, MKV, AVI, DIVX and others to SWF format for cross browser compatability.

• To learn more about converting to Flash format Converting_MP4_to_SWF

• GIMP : http://www.gimp.org

• Sparkol: http://www.sparkol.com/

• iStock : http://www.istockphoto.com/

7 Video Codes and Players

• CCCP - http://www.cccp-project.net/

• DivX - http://www.divx.com/

• Quicktime - http://www.apple.com/ie/quicktime/download/

8 Maintenance and System Speed

• 7Zip - http://www.7-zip.org/

• WinRar - http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm

• AVG Free - http://free.avg.com/ie-en/homepage

• Spybot 1.6.2 - http://www.safer-networking.org/mirrors16/

• CCleaner - https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner

• Clonezilla - http://clonezilla.org/

• UBUNTU - http://www.ubuntu.com/

9 Security Testing

• Kali (Linux Debian Operating system) - http://www.kali.org/

• Vega (Windows based penetration Testing) - https://subgraph.com/vega/download/

10 File Viewers and Document Reading

• Adobe Acrobat Viewer - http://get.adobe.com/reader/

• Adobe Flash Viewer - http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

• Adobe Shockwave Viewer - http://get.adobe.com/shockwave/

• Microsoft Word Document Viewer - http://www.microsoft.com/en-ie/download/details.aspx?id=4

• Microsoft Excel Document Viewer - http://www.microsoft.com/en-ie/download/details.aspx?id=10

• Microsoft PowerPoint Document Viewer - http://www.microsoft.com/en-IE/download/details.aspx?id=6

• Microsoft Visio Document Viewer - http://www.microsoft.com/en-IE/download/details.aspx?id=21701

11 Support Tools

• TeamViewer - http://www.teamviewer.com/en/download/windows.aspx

• Skype - http://www.skype.com/en/download-skype/skype-for-computer/

• Filezilla - https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client

• GIMP - http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

• Flux - https://justgetflux.com/