[snaip]

Web design and Web development, like any trade consists of a number of tools that help you achieve goals. So what are those favorite tools that makes up your development toolbox?

Here's my list:

• Adobe Photoshop - For all my graphic related work
• Adobe Illustrator - Only when I have to deal with vector arts
• PHP Designer 2007 - My PHP IDE.
• Top Style - - CSS Editor
• AceFTP - A feeware FTP client
• XAMPP - LAMP installation kit for Windows
• NaviCat MySQL - A MySQL adminstration tool (Love its import/export features)
• Macromedia Flash - For Flash related animations
• Macromedia Dreamweaver - My default HTML/CSS editor
• Advanced Find and Replace - Batch search and replace for local files.
• SnagIt - Screen capture utility
• Tortoise CVS - CVS version control for Windows

[Nico]

I use:

• Dreamweaver CS3 for all PHP/XHTML/CSS
• FlashFXP FTP client
• XAMPP local web server
• The manual

I'm terrible at design, so that it pretty much. If I have to do something I usually use either Photoshop or Ulead Photo express.


Oh, and seems like Adobe bought Macromedia.

http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invr...acromedia.html

[King Coder]

• Notepad
• Photoshop
• XAMPP
• Tomcat w/taglib

I don't like web dev unless it's just backend stuff (and I hate dealing with all that w3 standard crap).

[Christian]

Here's what I use:

• Adobe/Macromedia Fireworks -- For anything related to graphics, even though I suck at them.
• PHP Designer 2007 -- My primary PHP editor. I will use it for HTML/CSS to if I'm being lazy..
• Adobe/Macromedia Dreamweaver -- My primary HTML/CSS/JS editor.
• FireZilla -- Only the best FTP client ever known to man.
• AppServ -- Local web server.
• MySQL Tools -- I love Workbench to death.
• TortoiseSVN -- If I'm working with any repositories, I prefer SVN over CVS. So, TortoiseSVN is my primary Subversion client.

Oooh, snaip, nice find with that Advanced Find and Replace. Thanks for sharing!

[NeverMind]

I barely code anymore these days, but given that my senior project is IT-orinted, I am ought to come back

• ConTEXT for PHP, HTML, CSS (basic editing)
• I install each LAMP component speratelly, this way I could upgrade the moment I see the new upgrade

umm.. that's about it.. writing everything from scratch was my habbit... but now that I learned more, I tend to avoid re-re-re-re-re-inventing the wheels over and over whenever possible. Oh, and I don't design.. I suck at it

Alas, PHP Designer went commercial!

[jfulton]

Web Development toolbox, eh...?

You guys forgot the most important one!
FireFox + plugins: Firebug, Web Developer's Toolbar, TamperData

Priceless!

And then...

• Eclipse + JadClipse plug-in(for Java development)
• TextPad/UltraEdit/TextWrangler for everything else (php, jsp, html, css)
• TortoiseSVN when necessary
• BeyondCompare for diffing files
• winscp/Cyberduck for FTP
• PuTTY for SSH
• Gimpshop at home, photoshop at work
• Oh, right and Virtual PC to test IE6 and IE7 on the same machine

I think that's about it.

(Too lazy to link to any of the apps, but google should work !)

[UnrealEd]

browsers:

• Firefox with Firebug and Web Developer's Toolbar
• Opera
• IE 7.0 (yes, you read it well, IE)

and to program:

• Eclipse (Java, php, sql, html, css, python) with the following plugins:
  • Quantum DB: a database manager
  • PHPEclipse: a php IDE for Eclipse (both parser and debugger)
  • PyDev: a Python development IDE
  • PyDev Extensions: the extension you definitly need to work with python in Eclipse
  • Black-sun: a HTML editor (kinda crapy)
• Dreamweaver 8: CSS, Javascript, php, html, ActionScript
• Flash 8 Professional: ActionScript
• WeaverSlave 4: php
• notepad++: anything
• Python IDLE: a python editor delivered with python itself
• Oracle SQL Developper: a SQL manager for different databases

My local Server:

• Apache 2.2.4
• PHP 5.2.1
• MySQL 5.0.16
• Apache TomCat 5.5.20
• PgSQL 8.2.1
• Oracle 10g
• python 2.4 with elementtree, cElementTree and MySQLDB
• SSH Secure File Transfer client as ftp client
• SmartFTP, a great ftp client

I almost never design graphicall interfaces, as i really, really suck at design . I do have Photoshop and of course MS Paint (the greatest editor ever )

thank's for the Tortoise links guys, i needed something like that

[jfulton]

Oh, and I forgot Synergy. It isn't really a "Web Dev" tool, but it is amazing if you use more than one computer simultaneously.

[TwoD]

Web (XML/HTML/XHTML/JavaScript/CSS/PHP/ASP/similar)

• IE 6,7 with WebDev extensions
• Firefox with WebDev extensions
• Opera with WebDev extensions
• Notepad/Notepad+/Wordpad - Hardcore
• tsWebEditor - Really nice editor despite a few bugs, simple easy to use design, and it's open-source.
• My own script for parsing/reformatting any JavaScript into a more readable form. - Love this one!

Servers

• EasyPHP - It really is easy...
  • Apache
  • PHP
  • mySQL
  • phpMyAdmin
• Samurize - Cool local and remote monitoring/desktop-widget app.

C/C++

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
  • AnkhSVN - Integrated TortoiseSVN into VS.
• Notepad/Notepad+/Wordpad
• TortoiseSVN - SVN client
• PIX - DirectX debugger, comes with MS DirectX SDK
• gDEBugger - Open GL debugger
• RenderMonkey - For writing shaders
• FX Composer - For writing shaders

Python

• Eclipse - A bit too much sometimes
  • PyDev - No Python in Eclipse without it
• Python IDLE - bundled with Python

2D/3D

• Alias/Autodesk Maya v6.0, v6.5, v7.0, v8.0, v8.5 (only in school)
• Adobe Photoshop CS2 (only in school)
• MS Paint

I'm sure I forgot something...

[InteractiveMill]

# Dreamweaver 8: CSS, Javascript, php, html, ActionScript
# Flash 8 Professional: ActionScript
# Adobe Photoshop - For all my graphic related work
# WeaverSlave 4: php
# notepad
# Apache 2.2.4
# PHP 5.2.1
# MySQL 5.0.16
# Apache TomCat 5.5.20
# Adobe Illustrator - Only when I have to deal with vector arts
# PHP Designer 2007 - My PHP IDE.