Which programs?

programs you cannot do without.

[stevenjm]

Hi new to the forum. starting out with a question.(don't worry I am an active poster on forums and will answer questions as well)
just trying to compile a list of programs that webdesigners, webadministrators and seo's feel are programs that they feel would be essentials(and helpful ones) in day to day working in this field. I am travelling to asia tomorrow and software there(genuine) is a lot more affordable for someone like me on a students income.I have a list of my own but would really appreciate anyones comments and please do not be shy with the list.(I already have macromedia and adobe suites but would love a list of your favourites to supplement these eg graphics,virus,server etc. :)

[BlobFisk]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, stevenjm!

Well, other than the Adobe and Macromedia stuff:

• Opera 7.11
  
• PVCS Tracker (Project Administration)
  
• SCiTE text editor (it's free anyway!)
  
• Reflections FTP
  
• MS Office (including Visio)
  

I suppose would be the most used by me...

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[edited by: BlobFisk at 9:29 am (utc) on June 23, 2003]

[peewhy]

FTP software would be worth looking at.

I'm not sure whether you can get Cute of the shelf?

[stevenjm]

great. thanks. and so fast I have been waiting hours on "another forum" for a reply and got 1 so I joined this one and I am impressed. any other progs?

[peewhy]

Maybe Norton and McAfee

... why not go into Tucows ...instead of picking our brains, do some work too :)

Database software is worth looking at too.

[stevenjm]

I have done work and have a list But without input from people I may miss something that will help in the future. re picking brains- I thought thats what forums were for. I am not just a question asker. I answer plenty of questions on other forums myself and will do so here as well.

[dcheney]

Total Commander (once called Windows Commander) - a workalike for the old DOS Norton Commander - great for dealing with files (and good builtin ftp)

Paradox (owned by Corel this week ;-)) for database stuff

[edited by: dcheney at 9:47 am (utc) on June 23, 2003]

[shaadi]

Google Toolbar [toolbar.google.com]

Lost without it! ;)

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[Mohamed_E]

Even more lost with it these days :( :(

[peewhy]

Well said Mohamed :)

[outrun]

CSE HTML Validator Proffessional Edition although its not perfect it helps out a lot, and speeds up time of Validation of your markup. Doubles up as a markup editior, I cant live without it.

regards,
Mark

[aus_dave]

IrfanView for image checking and viewing.

Fast and free :).

[incywincy]

mailwasher

just love to bounce the spam back :)

does kazaa(-lite) count too?

[limbo]

I Couldn't work without a decent image editor - Photoshop or Fireworks are the best (IMO).

also Texpad, Dreamweaver MX, Flash MX and Acrobat are other essentials within our team.

[TheWebographer]

Homesite Text Editor (handcode all the way)
SSH
Mozilla
PHP - MySQL - Apache

[korkus2000]

For me these are essential

Netscape 6
Opera 6
IE 5
Homesite or any text editing software
Photoshop or a good graphics package. I use fireworks if PS license is too much for an employer.
Freehand to create vector skeletons for web designs.
Flash
Microangelo for favicon and nav icons.
FTP software I use Dreamweaver.
Acrobat
Office at least 1 version back like 2000.
OS if windows has to be a professional version and not home.

[universalis]

I like Edit Plus, Photoshop and a good anti-virus/firewall package for the desktop.

However, most programs on the desktop are interchangeable with others. My most important programs are the ones on the server! For me, there is nothing in the same league as Apache for web serving - it is the only program I really couldn't do without.

If you're on a student's income, don't spend any of it on software - use free software wherever possible (like Linux, OpenOffice, the Gimp, Apache, PHP, etc.) and learn to code. The fancy tools might make it easier in the short-term, but you don't need them to make great web sites. When you're a student, money's for beer, not for software!

[georgeek]

Ones that haven't been mentioned so far..

HTML kit
and
A SpamCop email account

[cfx211]

You may want to pick up a web stats program like web trends.

Putty is another of the free essentials.

[incywincy]

i forgot to mention secure CRT for ssh'ing into linux boxes

[photon]

Since others have already mentioned HTMLKit and Irfanview, I'll add TopStyle Lite.

And it's worth mentioning Opera [webmasterworld.com] again.

[stevenjm]

Great. Thanks everybody. I have a lot of these but I sure have a nice little list of ones I do not have to take with me now. Feel free to keep posting though as I am sure everyone else would be interested(and I do not leave until tonight)personally ones I use and like would be:
macromedia studio mx plus.
adobe design collection.
photo impact 6.
corel photopaint.
topstyle lite.
ulead smartsaver pro.
Web album creator.
coffee cup html.
wsftp(but thats about to change).
apache.
linux red hat.
what would be the most popular choice for firewall and antivirus?

[drbrain]

Most of them I don't even notice. In no particular order

FreeBSD www.freebsd.org
vim www.vim.org (especially with folding)
ssh
procmail
mutt
mozilla (especially its DOM Inspector)
CVS
ruby www.ruby-lang.org

[killroy]

My daily bread (I'm afraid not to many arecommercial):

EditPad
Apache
MySQL
HTAG (my scripting language, ask for price ;)
Mozilla
TaskInfo (essential both on the dev machine and on the server)
Trillian (collaboration)
Photoshop 7
XAT.com Image Optimizer (nobody makes them smaller)
FlashFXP (forget cute if you are in foir serious ftping)
DNS2GO (for those unlimited test domains to run sites locally until prime time)
Visual Route (to follow up on log data)
Excel (for quick and dirty ad-hc log analysis)

Hmm that's pretty much it for my daylies...

Getting software down the high street is so pre-internet though ;)

SN

[SlowMove]

UltraEdit - a very good text editor.

[grahamstewart]

Paint Shop Pro (but only because I can't afford Adobe Photoshop)

TextPad (I do practically all my coding in this)

Apache (with PHP and MySQL installed)(plus phpMyAdmin)

IE6 / Opera 7 /Netscape 7 (for testing)

Local copies of W3C specs for HTML4.01 and CSS

Sam Spade (always handy for diagnostics)

ZoneAlarm (personal firewall)

Note: Apart from Paint Shop that is all free! :)

[mahlon]

incywincy,

thanks for the tip on mailwasher, it kicks but! I am suprised how fast it retreives mail from the server!

[MWpro]

-editplus (great for editing external css file and html document at same time; much better than notepad)
-photoshop 7
-leechftp

[stevenjm]

incywincy
"mailwasher
just love to bounce the spam back :)

does kazaa(-lite) count too? "

I was under the impression these 2 were both heavily infected with spyware? :)

[peewhy]

Stevenjm, for clarity could you show an update of your list so we can all see what has been suggested and what is still missing from this quite impressive shopping list :)