Web Development Freeware

• Automation-Macro  SciTE4AutoIt3 USE WITH AUTOIT. The AutoIt team has created a custom version of SciTe that has the following features and tools included Syntax highlighting and code completion, Code prettified, Syntax checker and much more. Win 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Blog  Google Blogger been around longer than just about any other blogging software, so bloggers are very familiar with it. Bloggers are not limited in the amount of traffic or storage space their blogs generate and use, and bloggers can create as many blogs as they want. You are able to manipulate the templates available in order to create more unique blog theme. Integrated Google's Picasa service. Automatically integrates with Google AdSense. Blogger is the easiest blogging software to start a new blog and the easiest to use for beginner bloggers. All tools and features are free. Win XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Blog  WordPress Easy to use Blogging software and they will host a blog site free. Win XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Blog  Thingamablog All you need to setup, and manage a blog is FTP, SFTP, or network access to a web server. Win NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Color Manager  Color Cop is a multipurpose color picker for web designers and programmers. It features an eyedropper, magnifier, variable magnification levels, 3 by 3 and 5 by 5 average sampling, snap to web safe, color history, and a 42 color complementary palette. Color Cop will convert RGB decimal values to Hexadecimal color codes. It has color code support for HTML Hex, Delphi Hex, PowerBuilder, Visual Basic Hex, and Visual C++ Hex. Portable. Size: 134KB. Win All.
• CSS  CSS Toolbox A number of tools for fast tracking and enhancing the development of style sheet code. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• CSS Editor  cssed is a small developer editor and validator, that tries to ease the CSS editing. It features syntax highlighting, syntax validation, MDI notebook based interface, quick CSS properties and values insertion, auto-completion and dialog based insertion of CSS complex values. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Email Link Encoder  Email Link Encoder This anti-spam software utility enables you to encode your email links on your website so they can't be extracted by rogue internet spiders looking for email addresses to add to junk mailing lists. This will help prevent you from getting huge amounts of spam. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Encrypt Source Code  HTML Lock is a small portable utility by Nikhil Baligan that can encrypt HTML source codes in such a manner that results in completely a unreadable manner. However browsers will have absolutely no problem in decoding the code. Size: 221KB. Win All.
• Flash Animation  Vectorian Giotto is a flash animation and authoring tool. Giotto has full support for ActionScript 2, with built-in effect generators that will help you create outstanding effects without any scripting at all. Size: 8MB. Win 2000/XP/Vista/7. 32/64bit.
• Forum  phpBB has become the most widely used Open Source forum solution. Set up in minutes. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Handbook  Developers Handbook Comprehensive Web Developers Handbook. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• JavaScript  JavaScriptCollector Offline searchable snippet database stuffed with over 200 ready-to-use JavaScripts. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Link Checker  XenuLinkSleuth Checks Web sites for broken links. Outstanding program. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• MP3 Stream  VibStreamer Web browser MP3 streaming server that allows you to connect and stream your music. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP.
• Page Rank  Web Position Finder Very efficient and light (29 K) tool to provide finding your web site position on top popular search engines such as Google, Yahoo, MSN, AltaVista/2008/7. This is a last freeware, no longer being maintained, and a single file download from BearWare. Simply place the file in a folder and link to the executable file WebPositionFinder.jar to run the program. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Photo Album  Jalbum consists of free album software, free hosting and a creative community. With Jalbum it's easy to create your own photo album site. Just the way you want it. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• PHP  Dev PHP IDE is a PHP Editor. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• PHP Apache Distribution   XAMPP Easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. Win 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• PHP Test Server  QuickPHP PHP Development Web Server for Testing and Debugging your PHP Scripts. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• RSS Publisher  RSSBuilder Easily create RSS news feeds and podcasts for your web site. Win 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Screen Ruler  ScreenRuler Measure the distance between two points on your screen, get the exact location and size of an element on a web page, measure in pixels, centimeters or millimeters, both horizontally and vertically at the same time. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Scripts  Stadtaus.com Website scripts for comments, guestbook, news, email, appointment, Image gallery, polls, voting, counter and more. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Server  Purplenova Web Server Any PC with an internet connection can now be used to securely and easily web host content, with your own domain name pointing to it. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Server  VertrigoServ Web server installation software http://bearware.info/news.xml by Vertrigo. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Server  Abyss Compact web server available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD operating systems. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• SQL Database  SQLyog Powerful MySQL Manager and MySQL Admin tool. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Syntax Automation  Zen Coding is an editor plug-in for high speed HTML, XML, XSL (or any other structured code format) coding and editing. The core of this plug-in is a powerful abbreviation engine which allows you to expand expressions, similar to CSS selectors, into HTML code. Zen Coding expands abbreviations into complete HTML structures (divs, tables, cells, links, lists), and does it in the most freaking intelligent way. For those who do a lot of coding, it is lightyears beyond anything else. There are existing implementations for multiple editors (see host website for a list.) The syntax is easy to master, especially if you're familiar with CSS. Zen Coding currently supports CSS, HTML, XML/XSL and HAML languages via filters. Win 2000/XP/Vista/7.
• Text Editor  NotePad++ Source code editor and notepad replacement. Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding, WYSIWYG, User Defined Syntax Highlighting, Auto-completion, Multi-Document, Multi-View, Regular Expression Search/Replace supported, Full Drag and Drop supported, Dynamic position of Views, File Status Auto-detection, Zoom in and zoom out, Multi-Language environment supported, Bookmark, Brace and Indent guideline Highlighting, and Macro recording and playback. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Text Editor WYSIWYN  Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and web developers, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages. A What You See Is What You Need interface. Multiple document interface, easily opens 500+ documents. Very powerful search and replace. In-line spell checker which is programing language aware. Auto-recovery of changes in modified documents after a crash, kill or shutdown. Character map of all Unicode characters. HTML toolbar and tear-able menu's and much much more. Size: 34MB. Win XP/2003/Vista/2008/7. 32/64bit.
• Text Editor  PSPad is a programmers editor with support for multiple syntax highlighting profiles. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Validator  cseHTMLvalidator HTML editor and basic syntax checker. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Web Authoring  Blaze Composer Web designing program and HTML editor, with a WYSIWYG interface. HTML Stripper, Crash recovery wizard, context sensitive help, Spell check, FTP Client, Glint Visual form designing wizard, Box maker, Navigation menu bar creator, Style Sheet Creator, Layout manager, block unwanted visitors, plug-in tools colour viewer, Advanced startup wizard, all HTML tags and CSS properties in a bar in editor that's merged with Blaze Dialogs, HTML and CSS manuals etc. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Web Authoring  Fresh HTML is a WYSIWYG webpage authoring tool that makes editing HTML pages as easy as using your favorite word processor. Its built-in editor allows advanced users to fine-tune HTML codes to fit their needs. It requires a username and email to download, so if you don't want to test their promise not to spam, use a disposable email-see the BearWare email page. Size: 9MB. Windows Me/2000/XP/Vista/7.
• Web Authoring  Beginners HTML contains easy to use HTML inserts, Preview files, Open Source Code From the Web, Save Files. Tabbed driven coding inserts and about as easy as it gets. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• [Web Development] Web Authoring  BlueGriffon is a WYSIWYG content editor and an intuitive application that provides Web authors (beginners or more advanced) with a simple User Interface allowing to create attractive Web sites without requiring extensive technical knowledge about Web Standards. Portable version. Size: 11.4MB. Win XP/Vista/7. 32/64bit.
• Web Content Editor  NicEdit Javascript/AJAX inline content editor to allow easy editing of web site content on the fly in the browser. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Web Button Maker  DeKnop Web button maker with mouseover. Win 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Web Cam Broadcast  WebCamFirst (xp) Install a web cam on your website or local network using any windows video capture device. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Web Content Manager  Xoops An extensible, Object Oriented, dynamic web content management system written in PHP. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Web Server  Fortitude HTTP is an easy-to-use web server that offers all the features you would expect from a commercial web server (but for free) along with a wide range of security features. The server supports multiple sites, virtual roots, CGI, scripting engines, custom filters, HTTP compression and caching, HTTP 1.1 resume and much more. Fortitude HTTP comes with an easy-to-use front end to administer the server as well as a fully configurable XML backend. Size: 1607KB. Win 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7. 32/64bit.
• WebSite Chat  LiveZilla Chat with your website visitors and monitor your website traffic in real time. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Web Site Keywords  GoodKeywords Find the perfect set of keywords for your website. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Web Site Menus  QuickMenuBuilder Create custom, executable menus. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Wiki  PmWiki is a wiki based system for collaborative creation and maintenance of websites. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• XML Editor  XMLFox XML Editor and validation tool for creating valid, well formed XML documents and XSD Schema. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.

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