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Below are a sample of the software, some of it even free, that I've used in helping me to develop websites. Click on the title and you will be taken to the homepage of the developer or the download page.
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JCreatorLE
JCreator is a powerful IDE for Java. JCreator provides the user with a wide range of functionality such as : Project management, project templates, code-completion, debugger interface, editor with syntax highlighting, wizards and a fully customizable user interface.
With JCreator you can directly compile or run your Java program without activating the main document first. JCreator will automatically find the file with the main method or the html file holding the java applet, then it will start the appropriate tool.
JCreator is written entirely in C++, which makes it fast and efficient compared to the Java based editors/IDE's.
Professionally designed to meet windows interface guidelines, JCreator users can expect a familiar and intuitive user interface.
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OptiPerl
Optiperl is a Fully-Integrated Perl Developing Solution, which will help you create CGI & console scripts in Perl, offline in Windows. It is a fully integrated visual developing environment and editor for creating, testing, debugging and running perl scripts, directly or through associated html documents.
OptiPerl is a great learning tool. You can use it to learn Perl and CGI programming in the comfort of a visual editor, without loss of time and money because of loading from dos perl or being for hours on the internet. Professionals designing perl programs and cgi scripts use it. You can save much time by quickly creating, debugging and testing all the ideas you have increasing productivity.
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ProFotoSoftware
ProFotoSoftware provides digital photo software for Windows (98SE/ME or better. XP recommended).
Their solutions enable you to keep track of your digital photo collection, create web galleries of your images, batch process your digital photos and much more. I find PFS Manager great for turning digital images into web pages. Check it out.
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PHP
PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly.
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Dev-C++
Bloodshed Dev-C++ is a full-featured Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for the C/C++ programming language. It uses Mingw port of GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) as it's compiler. Dev-C++ can also be used in combination with Cygwin or any other GCC based compiler.
Features are: Support GCC-based compilers; Integrated debugging (using GDB); Project Manager; Customizable syntax highlighting editor; Class Browser; Code Completion; Function listing; Profiling support; Quickly create Windows, console, static libraries and DLLs;
Support of templates for creating your own project types; Makefile creation; Edit and compile Resource files; Tool Manager; Print support; Find and replace facilities; CVS support.
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Smart FTP
SmartFTP allows you to transfer files across the Internet. It features an Explorer-like, customizable interface and supports drag-and-drop functions. Multiple FTP connections can be opened at the same time, and you can copy files from one remote host to another (FXP). Remote-host directory information is cached for future viewing, and FTP URLs are supported.
Other features include a Favorites list; the ability to resume broken downloads; a global history; background transfers; proxy support; a passive transfer mode; and the ability to perform recursive downloads, uploads, and deletes.
This program is free for private, noncommercial use only.
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PERL
Perl is a script programming language that is similar in syntax to the C language and that includes a number of popular UNIX facilities such as sed, awk, and tr.
Perl is an interpreted language that can be compiled just before execution into either C code or cross-platform byte-code. When compiled, a Perl program is almost (but not quite) as fast as a fully precompiled C language program. Perl is regarded as a good choice for developing Common Gateway Interface (CGI) programs because it has good text manipulation facilities (although it also handles binary files).
ActiveState's quality-assured, ready-to-install distribution of Perl, available for AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris and Windows.
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Apache
The Apache HTTP Server Project is an effort to develop and maintain an open-source HTTP server for modern operating systems including UNIX and Windows NT. The goal of this project is to provide a secure, efficient and extensible server that provides HTTP services in sync with the current HTTP standards.
Apache has been the most popular web server on the Internet since April of 1996. The February 2005 Netcraft Web Server Survey found that more than 68% of the web sites on the Internet are using Apache, thus making it more widely used than all other web servers combined.
The Apache HTTP Server is a project of the Apache Software Foundation.
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DotColor 3.0
Perfect tool for web designers. It's small, it's fast, and it's very useful! With DotColor you can zoom any area of the screen, you can examine the color of the pixels under cursor, you can even copy part of the screen on the
clipboard. If you ever wanted to know how your HTML page looks on a different background, you can try this with color mixer and change certain pixels on your screen to a different color!
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Nokia WAP SDK's
I like the challenge of developing WAP sites and there are a lot of free development tools available (Google will find them for you normally - but if you can't find them use Contact Us and I'll send deails of some of the ones I've used). However, if
you want to create applications or content for mobile devices and are looking for tools and SDKs, then visit this site, whose main aim is to provide Nokia tools and SDKs for your needs regardless of the technology (Java, C++, media/content creation) or tools (integrated development environment [IDE]) you are currently using.
there are loads of free development tools on this site that will help you develop WAP sites or applications for your mobile devices.
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