From the article: Which Software is the Best Non-Editor Software for Web Designers?
We're looking for your opinion. Nominate the best software for Web designers that isn't a Web page editor.
How to Nominate: Best Non-Editor Software for Web Designers
Between January 1 and January 24, 2010 nominate your favorite design in this category. For the subject, give the name of the Web page you wish to nominate. Then include the URL and a short description of why this site best represents the category. 50 character minimum. Do not hesitate to nominate pages that have already been nominated by others. Multiple nominations increase the chances that your choice will make it into the finalists for voting.
Fling FTP Software
- Wonderfully simply FTP uploading from the right click menu, or scheduled uploads to your website(s) http://www.nchsoftware.com/fling/index.html
- —Guest Jennifer
Multi-Browser Viewer
- http://www.multibrowserviewer.com/ Simply the best all-in-one cross browser testing software available. Launch all major browsers each in their own Sandbox on your local PC for functionality testing, including IE6, 7 and 8. Alternatively do a old school visual design test by loading a web page in all major browsers on Windows, Mac or Linux. Multi-Browser Viewer also has built in HTML validation and auto-correction to help you isolate potential problems. Other cross-browser testing software either only has screenshot testing, or utilizes VNC or Remote desktop connections that are slow and a hassle to use. This is the only software that allows you to run the actual browsers, keeping their individual rendering engines in tact in an isolated environment, all on one machine, to properly test your CSS, javascript, Ajax functionality and your site look and feel.
- —strys123
Adobe Photoshop
- Photoshop by far is the most useful non-web-editor software for web development/design.
- —Guest Ben
Puretext
- As a web editor i find puretext my best tool: it saves me a lot of time avoiding having to paste texts in notepad before pasting it into my CMS http://www.stevemiller.net/puretext/
- —Guest Martin
Traffic Travis
- Not just web design help but probably also one of the webmaster's must have tools. It is software that helps you monitor your site's keyword performance on search engines as well as helps you select the correct keywords for your web pages to make sure it is SEO optimized. There are lots of different SEO software available, but this is a simple, easy to use, focusing on the basics software tool - perfect for a web designer who just wants to make sure they have done the basic keywords correctly for their site. http://www.traffictravis.com/
- —strys123
Multi-Browser Viewer
- Love the fact i can run 16 browsers with no registry or dlls. Makes multi browser testing simple and fast. http://www.multibrowserviewer.com/
- —Guest James Melvin
Vote for Multi-Browser Viewer
- best cross browser software - http://www.multibrowserviewer.com
- —Guest designguy
Browsera
- Browsera http://www.browsera.com tests cross-browser and highlights bugs.
- —Guest katedel
Browsershots
- Free, although paid accounts are available, and easy to use. Wait time can be long during heavy traffic hours for free accounts. Recommend using during non-peak hours. Can be used with our without registering an account but an account allows for the storage of past page views. http://browsershots.org/
- —Guest fieldline
Felix Figuereo
- Nominate this wordpress plugin: http://nicasiodesign.com/blog/wordpress/plugins-wordpress-2/dynamic-headers-plugin-clears-20000-downloads/
- —Guest Felix Figuereo
CoffeeCup - Form Builder
- Well, ANYTHING CoffeeCup really deserves to be here, but since this was a request for one title - Form Builder it is. Easy to use, easy to implement the finished form into a website. CoffeeCup has top notch people providing one-on-one product support for all of their titles. Great value for life on any purchase you make with them. And where else will you see VP's on a forum in the middle of the night answering questions?
- —Guest Phil
CoffeeCup Website Color Schemer
- This great little tool is one of the most useful programs I find I use. It's great for finding color combos for sites,graphics and just about anything you would need a color for. It provides color numbers in HTML format and RGB format. The dropper can get a color from anywhere on your computer, be it your desktop, a website page, the browser itself or even your taskbar. If there's a color to be found, the dropper can get to it. One of the great little tools I love is when you have a color number, and you don't know what that color is, you can input the number and the color wheel will bring it right up to the top for you to see it fully. The color wheel is large so you don't get a small little square to judge if it's the right color or not, and it even gives you the complementary colors that go with it. You can save your schemes with too so you don't have to try to remember the color groups you need. And as always, FREE upgrades for life and terrific support from CoffeeCup.com.
- —Guest Jo Ann Rice
Aperture
- Easy to use for cleaning up images, and a great image organizer. http://www.apple.com/aperture/
- —Guest Mac Dev
