Web Design Handbook « Tools

HTML Tools

SeaMonkey Composer
The SeaMonkey composer is a free editor that comes with the SeaMonkey browser. It composes the pages into an xhtml format, it will close any tags left open when it saves the html source. Seamonkey operates very much like a word processor but allows switching display windows to access html directly. It also comes with a spell checker.

Graphic Tools

Solidworks
Solidworks is an engineering CAD program but it renders 3D using advanced ray tracing allowing multible lights to be show on a three dimensional object.
Coral Draw
Main stream full featured graphics program.
Paint.net
Graphics program written in an open code enviroment around PNG file format. Feature rich support of effects and layers, making it able to do everything needed to create the same graphics as you would create with Coraldraw.
Inkscape
Is a full featured GUI SVG graphics creator; Putting all features of the SVG graphic format into a GUI interface which creates a very powerful graphics program. Program features easy access to SVG features of clip path and pattern fill, combines capabilities of layers and SVG groups
SWFtools
Simple set of Flash tools to create simple flash movies

Scripting

activestate Perl
Perl is already installed and functional on the web host: ActiveState makes a windows installation for the home PC that is to be used to develope the perl scripts that would be added to the web site.