Useful Programs

The opinions expressed below are the web authors own.

Note Tab

Professional $29.95
Standard $19.95
Lite $0
This is a good text editor enabling you to have multiple files open at the same time. The paid-for versions colour-code different parts of an html file. (Blue for tags, red for URL's and black for content). The tabs for each file can be color-coded.

Another difference is that in the paid-for versions you can do a text replacement in a group of files without even opening them.

CSE HTML Validator

Professional $129 Standard $69 Lite $0 The lite version is suitable for beginners. It does, however, tell you the number of warnings and errors that the paid-for versions would have found. It also validates CSS files as well as HTML files.

Site Publisher

(Home use) $24.95
Unlike most FTP programs, which involve 'dragging' files from one window to another, Site Publisher is a 'one-click' updater. It does, however, take some initial setting-up. It is advisable to make a copy of your set-up data in a back-up text file.

Paint.net

A free graphics program.
This program can be used to resize pictures. It also can be used to annotate graphics better than any other graphics program that I have tried for this purpose.

Blumentals

Rapid CSS Editor (business) €29.85
Rapid CSS Editor (Personal) €19.85
This program has an excellent 'CSS Guide' help file which is also available from the Web Design Group (see below). Their CSS help file is excellent.

Free CSS Toolbox €0

 

Western Civilisation

This site includes instruction in CSS.

Style Master CSS editor $59.99

Includes a downloadable 'Complete CSS guide' ($24.99 on its own).

The Web Design Group

The Web Design Group provide tutorials and tools. There is also a downloadable 'CSS Guide'.

1. go to http://www.htmlhelp.com
2. click on 'Offline versions'.
3. click on CSS Guide - Zipped HTML (221 kB).
4. Unzip this file.