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| Monday, March 31, 2014: Designing a web application is quite a task, web designers go through a lot while designing even the smallest of websites/applications. Scalability and performance are important factors when you're designing a web application. Every web designer must take these two steps into consideration before building their application. There are a number of 'good' tools out there that you can use. |  |
1.CoffeeCup Free HTML Editor
The CoffeeCup HTML Editor is an HTML editor that supports both raw HTML and WYSIWYG editing, though the WYSIWYG editing is no longer available in the newer versions.
2.Notepad++
Notepad++ is a text editor and source code editor for Windows. It aims to be a lightweight and robust editor for a variety of programming and scripting languages. One advantage of Notepad++ over the built-in Windows text editor Notepad, is that Notepad++ supports tabbed editing, which allows working with multiple open files in a single window. Notepad++ opens large files significantly faster and can be used as a replacement for Windows Notepad.
3.PageBreeze
PageBreeze Free HTML Editor is an award-winning HTML Editor which has both visual (WYSIWYG) and HTML tag/source modes. PageBreeze Free HTML Editor's design emphasises simplicity and ease-of-use. Firebug's JavaScript panel can log errors, profile function calls, and enable the developer to run arbitrary JavaScript. Its net panel can monitor URLs that the browser requests, such as external CSS, JavaScript, and image files.
4.Firebug
Firebug is a web development tool that facilitates the debugging, editing, and monitoring of any website's CSS, HTML, DOM, XHR, and JavaScript; it also provides other web development tools.
5.Bluefish
Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdevelopers, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages. Bluefish is a multi-platform application that runs on most desktop operating systems including Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS-X, Windows, OpenBSD and Solaris.
6.Brackets
Adobe Brackets is an editor for Web development written in HTML, CSS and JavaScript, created by Adobe Systems. It is free software licensed under the MIT License, and is maintained on GitHub. A 1.0 version has not yet been announced, but new preview updates are released roughly twice a month. Brackets is available for download cross-platform, on Mac, Windows, and Linux.
7.KompoZer
KompoZer is a complete web authoring system that combines web file management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG web page editing. KompoZer is designed to be extremely easy to use, making it ideal for non-technical computer users who want to create an attractive, professional-looking web site without needing to know HTML or web coding.
8.OpenBEXI
OpenBEXI HTML Builder is a WYSIWYG website editor. It makes text, pictures, and all other widgets edited in your browser look like the Web page you are going to publish with the OpenBEXI publisher. OpenBEXI Creative integrates the CKE editor, a picture browser, a simile timeline, DOJO toolkit, calendars, charts, form input validations, and grids which allow Web developers to quickly develop intelligent Web-based applications.
9.GIMP
GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a raster graphics editor used for image retouching and editing, free-form drawing, resising, cropping, photo-montages, converting between different image formats, and more specialised tasks. GIMP is released under LGPLv3 and GPLv3+ licenses and is available for Linux, OS X, and Windows.
10.BlueGriffon
BlueGriffon is a WYSIWYG content editor for the World Wide Web. Powered by Gecko, the rendering engine of Firefox, it can edit Web pages in conformance to Web Standards. It runs on Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. BlueGriffon complies with the W3C's web standards. It can create and edit pages in accordance to HTML 4, XHTML 1.1, HTML 5 and XHTML 5. It supports CSS 2.1 and all parts of CSS 3 already implemented by Gecko.
Saurabh Singh, EFYTIMES News Network |
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