15 must have web developer tools for beginners
Apr
22
Here are 15 handy web developer tools. Some are very well known others not so, however, one thing they all share is they are very useful when developing websites.
1. Adobe Photoshop
The Adobe Photoshop family of products is the ultimate playground for bringing out the best in your digital images and transforming them into anything you can imagine.
2. GIMP
Very much a Photoshop esc application but free. GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.
3. Adobe Dreamweaver
Quickly and easily design, develop, and maintain websites and web applications – from start to finish – with Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 software. Built for both designers and developers, Dreamweaver CS3 offers the choice of working in an intuitive visual layout interface or a streamlined coding environment.
4. Color Cop
A very handy tool for capturing colours anywhere on your screen. Color Cop makes it quick and easy in those situations where you need to know what colour is being used.
5. Firefox web developer toolbar
The Web Developer extension adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with various web developer tools. It is designed for Firefox, Flock, Mozilla and Seamonkey, and will run on any platform that these browsers support including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
More about Firefox we developer toolbar…
6. Internet Explorer Toolbar
The Microsoft Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar provides a variety of tools for quickly creating, understanding, and troubleshooting Web pages. This version is a preview release and behavior may change in the final release.
More about Internet Explorer Toolbar…
7. Firebug
Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of web development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.
8. Watchfire Bobby
Watchfire Bobby is a web accessibility desktop testing tool designed to help expose barriers to accessibility and encourage compliance with existing accessibility guidelines, including Section 508 of the US Rehabilitation Act and the W3C’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
9. JsUnit
JsUnit is a Unit Testing framework for client-side (in-browser) JavaScript. It is essentially a port of JUnit to JavaScript. Also included is a platform for automating the execution of tests on multiple browsers and mutiple machines running different OSs.
10. Xenu
Xenu’s Link Sleuth (TM) checks Web sites for broken links. Link verification is done on "normal" links, images, frames, plug-ins, backgrounds, local image maps, style sheets, scripts and java applets. It displays a continously updated list of URLs which you can sort by different criteria. A report can be produced at any time.
11. Vischeck
Vischeck is a way of showing you what things look like to someone who is color blind. You can try Vischeck online- either run Vischeck on your own image files or run Vischeck on a web page. You can also download programs to let you run it on your own computer.
12. Feng GUI
Find out how people View your website or image and which areas are getting most of the attention.
The ViewFinder Heatmap service, is an artificial intelligence service which simulates human visual attention and creates an attention heatmap.
13. Fiddler
Fiddler is a HTTP Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP traffic between your computer and the Internet. Fiddler allows you to inspect all HTTP Traffic, set breakpoints, and "fiddle" with incoming or outgoing data. Fiddler includes a powerful event-based scripting subsystem, and can be extended using any .NET language.
14. BrowserCam
Browsercam provides “Cross-Browser Screen Captures and Instant Remote Access”, meaning developers can fully test a websites appearance and functionality across multiple web browsers (I.e. Internet Explorer 7, Firefox etc) and operating systems (I.e. Windows XP, Windows Vista etc) ensuring the quality of our sites are as high as possible.
This solution offers three main services:
• Screen Capture Service
• Remote Access Service
• DeviceCam
15. RegexBuddy
RegexBuddy is your perfect companion for working with regular expressions. Easily create regular expressions that match exactly what you want. Clearly understand complex regexes written by others. Quickly test any regex on sample strings and files, preventing mistakes on actual data. Debug without guesswork by stepping through the actual matching process.
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These are just a few handy web developer tools. If you have any handy tools that you want to share post them at the bottom of this article.
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I really wouldn’t consider any of these things a necessity. I learned web development coding HTML in Notepad… All the bells and whistles are nice and all, but really, you don’t need them — especially not beginners.
Also, I really don’t recommend Dreamweaver to novices. The code generated by the WYSIWYG features is painful to look at, especially since it has zero support for CSS-based layouts (and tables are far more than outdated). It’s also very easy to become overwhelmed with unnecessary options.
No, for a beginner, try Notepad++ (I think Windows only, but runs flawlessly in WINE for me on Linux… And I honestly don’t care about what runs and doesn’t run on Mac) or one of the million others out there (e.g., Scite, Notepad2, EditPlus).
It wasn’t until I started coding in C that I realized just how much of a waste of time web development software is.
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“Must have”?
Hardly. I’ve not needed to use most of those in my time as a developer never mind as a beginner. Even looking at the first two why would a beginner need Photoshop AND GIMP even if they “must have” one of them?
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Pretty sure if you have #1 you dont need #2
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