Free Web Developer Resources
What is Free?
- HTML, CSS & PHP Learning Tutorials
- HTML Dog - HTML Dog, the web designer's resource for everything HTML and CSS, the most common technologies used in making web pages.
- Opera Web Standards Curriculum - covers the basics of web standards-based design in HTML and CSS.
- Google Code University - basics of web development with video tutorials presented by Google's expert web developers.
- Sitepoint - HTML, CSS, JavaScript references.
- Mozilla's Developers Network - HTML, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX references.
- W3Schools - Because time is valuable, we deliver quick and easy learning. At W3Schools, you can study everything you need to learn, in an accessib le and handy format.
- Davesite HTML - An Interactive Tutoria l for Beginners - Dave's HTML Code Guide - Learn to code HTML with our free HTML help guide!
- Davesite CSS - An Interactive Tutorial for Beginners. With the help of this hands-on CSS tutorial, you can learn virtually every aspect of CSS1, by example, according to the official W3C specifications.
- HTML Code Tutorial - Our goal is to provide th e most helpful and complete guide to creating web ages anywhere.
- CSS Basics - Everything you ever wanted to know abo ut the basics of CSS.
- HTML Goodies - Free html tutorials and help, images, color codes and more for the web developer. Featuring tutorials on HTML tags, programming, basics, JavaScript, frames, ...>
- Web Dev Handbook - Web Developer's Handbook is a list of essential web-sites, which make the life of web developers easier.
- Web Monkey Cheat Sheets - Quick reference: HTML, CSS, &Special Characters.
- PHP Academy (Video Tutorials) - phpacademy offers free PHP video tutorials, a PHP help forum, and much more! For high quality free PHP tutorials, you're in the right place.
- Code 2 Design (Video Tutorials) - 25 free videos, PHP, HTML & others. Our goal is to teach you the skills and theories behind award winning designs so that you can create amazing sites! This is more than a tutorial site though - We will lead you though every step of the online world, from start to finish. So join our community and get ready to rock your web!
- Free HTML Editors (WYSIWYG)
- What is WYSIWYG?
- Evrsoft First Page 2006 Full Professional web builder, similiar to Dreamweaver, and free. Does run slow and has no support.
- Trellian - Trellian WebPage is our easy to use, FREE website creation software. Trellian WebPage allows you to create your own web pages without having to learn complex scripting languages. WebPAGE's WYSIWYG interface makes editing pages as easy as using your favorite word processor.
- Kompozer - 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.>
- Amaya - W3org Amaya is a complete web browsing and authoring environment and comes equipped with a WYSIWYG style of interface.
- 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 emphasizes simplicity and ease-of-use. You'll find that you'll be creating great looking websites almost instantly--with virtually no learning curve!
- Selida - Selida Your search for a truly useful HTML editor is over! Selida is one of the most advanced HTML editors on the planet. Selida features a very effective WYSIWYG editor, Code Completion and a complete HTML 4 reference.
- Note: Not all of these programs can open CSS files. Only Evrsoft, Trellian and Amaya can edit CSS coding.
- Free HTML & CSS Text Editors (knowledge of HTML & CSS requried)
- CodeLobster PHP Edition - A multifunctional portable IDE FREE absolutely with all standard features:PHP/HTML/CSS/JavaScript highlighting, advanced PHP/HTML/CSS/JavaScript autocomplete, Powerful PHP debugger, SQL autocomplete, Context and Dynamic Help.
- HTML Kit - HTML Kit is a free, full-featured, customizable, multi-purpose editor designed to help HTML, XHTML and XML authors to create and publish web pages.
- Aptana Studio 2 - Aptana Studio 2 is a complete web development environment that combines powerful authoring tools for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, along with thousands of additional plugins created by the community.
- Netbeans 7 IDE - The NetBeans IDE is an award-winning integrated development environment available for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Solaris. The NetBeans project consists of an open-source IDE and an application platform that enable developers to rapidly create web, enterprise, desktop, and mobile applications using the Java platform, as well as JavaFX, PHP, JavaScript and Ajax, Ruby and Ruby on Rails, Groovy and Grails, and C/C++.
- Alleycode - is a fast, sleek and highly productive award winning HTML editor with unique features. If you are new to HTML, Alleycode's great tutorial will walk you through your first coding steps... If you are an established coder you will find a refreshing, non-bloated infrastructure with fast and accurate delivery.
- Komodo Edit - is a multi-language editor that makes writing quality code extremely easy.
- NotePad ++ - is a free (as in "free speech" and also as in "free beer") source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License.
- PSPad Editor - is the universal freeware editor, is for you if you need to work with plain text - it has a wealth of formatting functions,including a spell checker, create web pages - as web authoring editor.
- Bluefish - Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdesigners, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages, and it focuses on editing dynamic and interactive websites.
- Free CSS Toolbox - Blumentals Free CSS Toolbox is a freeware productivity software for web developers who work with CSS code.
- Simple CSS Authoring Tool - Hostm Simple CSS, which runs on Mac OS X and Windows. Simple CSS allows you to easily create Cascading Style Sheets from scratch, and/or modify existing ones, using a familiar point-and-click interface.
- Firebug - integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of web development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.
- Crimson Editor - Crimson Editor is a professional source code editor for Windows. This program is not only fast in loading time, but also small in size (so small that it can be copied in one floppy disk).
- ConText Editor - ConTEXT is a small, fast and powerful freeware text editor, developed to serve as a secondary tool for software developers.
Free PHP IDEs & Editors (knowledge of PHP coding requried)- What is PHP?
- What is a IDE?
- Netbeans 7 IDE - The NetBeans IDE is an award-winning integrated development environment available for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Solaris. The NetBeans project consists of an open-source IDE and an application platform that enable developers to rapidly create web, enterprise, desktop, and mobile applications using the Java platform, as well as JavaFX, PHP, JavaScript and Ajax, Ruby and Ruby on Rails, Groovy and Grails, and C/C++.
- Eclipse - Eclipse is a multi-language software development environment, that has an extensible plug-in system. It is written in Java, and can develope applications in PHP, java, C, C++, COBOL, Perl, Python, Ruby on Rails, and much more.
- Aptana Studio 3 - The Aptana Studio IDE is based on Eclipse, but with a slant towards JavaScript development, which Aptana has long been known for. It is called the "professional, open source development tool for the open web", and is HTML 5 Compliable.
- NotePad ++ - Based on the powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size. By optimizing as many routines as possible without losing user friendliness, Notepad++ is trying to reduce the world carbon dioxide emissions. When using less CPU power, the PC can throttle down and reduce power consumption, resulting in a greener environment.
- CodeLobster PHP Edition - A multifunctional portable IDE FREE absolutely with all standard features:PHP/HTML/CSS/JavaScript highlighting, advanced PHP/HTML/CSS/JavaScript autocomplete, Powerful PHP debugger, SQL autocomplete, Context and Dynamic Help.
- Komodo Edit - Komodo Edit is a fast, smart, free and open-source code editor. Windows, Mac, Linux? Yes. PHP, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Perl, Tcl, XML, HTML 5, CSS 3? Yes, with (customizable) syntax coloring, folding, background syntax checking, and excellent auto-complete and calltips (we call it "code intelligence").
- jEdit - jEdit is a mature programmer's text editor with hundreds (counting the time developing plugins). It is written in Java, so it runs on Mac OS X, OS/2, Unix, VMS and Windows. It includes syntax highlighting that provides native support for over 130 file formats.
- PSPad - PSPad is the universal freeware editor, a good IDE for a compiler - PSPad catches and parses compiler output, integrates external help files, compares versions and much more. The editor supports many file types and languages, with syntax highlighting. There are macros, clip files and templates to automate repetative tasks.
- Geany - Geany is a text editor using the GTK2 toolkit with basic features of an integrated development environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages. It supports many filetypes and has some nice features.
- Free FTP (file transfer protocol)
- What is FTP?
- Filezilla - is designed as a small but powerful FTP client with many features. A fast FTP and SFTP client for windows.
- GoFTP - is the fastest FTP program on the planet! GoFTP is easy to use and has all of the basic features you need plus many advanced features that make this the best FTP client on the net.
- Coffeecup Free FTP - What do you want in an FTP client? If your answer is "just the basics," you've come to the right place. CoffeeCup Free FTP gives you all the great FTP features you'd expect from CoffeeCup Software without all that extra stuff.
- Free Photo/Image Editors
- Faststone Image Viewer - FastStone is a fast, stable, user-friendly image browser, converter and editor. It has a nice array of features that include image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping and color adjustments.
- IrfanView - IrfanView is a fast and simple image viewer and editor that supports all major graphic formats, including BMP, DIB, JPEG, GIF, animated GIF, PNG, PCX, multipage TIFF, TGA, and more. It's one of the best image viewer available.
- PhotoPos Photo Editor - is a free photo editor offers users a wide variety of possibilities in the fields of Image Enhancing and Image Editing and in the field of Computer Graphics Design. Using the editor you can perform various tasks, from simple basic tasks to complex tasks; you can edit existing images, create new works based on existing images, create new works from scratch and more.
- Photobie - With Photobie,you can do pretty much what Photoshop can do such as resizing, rotating, fliping, adjusting brightness/gamma/transparency, doing select/copy/cut/paste any shaped portion of image, erasing/moving/adjusting layers, drawing/filling colored shapes as well as text, converting the image format and quality, saving current editing workspace with many layers to ".pob" file for future retouching. Furthermore, with Photobie, you can capture any shaped area on the screen.
- Serif Free - Drawplus SE - Graphic design,image and vector drawing software.
- Free Audio Editors and Converters
- Free Audio Editor - Free Audio Editor is a sound editor program for Windows. This software lets you make and edit voice and other audio recordings. You can cut, copy and paste parts of recording and, if required, add effects like echo, amplification and noise reduction.
- Music Editor Free - Music Editor Free allows you edit your music files like editing text files! It allows you to: Display a waveform window of an music file and apply zooming; Record new audio file from a microphone, VCR, cassette player or another input device. Music Editor Free is a simple to use tool that allows you to easily handle and customize your own audio files.
- Switch Sound Converter - NCH Switch Sound File Converter will convert audio files from many different formats into mp3, wav or wma. For example convert wav to mp3, mp3 to wav, wma to mp3 or many other formats. Just add the files you want to convert, select the output format, and then click convert.
- MP3 WMA Converter - enables you to convert your MP3, WMA, OGG, AAC, M4a, MP4, Ape, Ac3, FLAC, WAVE files.
- Free Video Editors, Converters and Players
- Any Video Converter - Any Video Converter Freeware- is the most renowned free video converter for converting video files between various formats, with fast converting speed and excellent video quality. This powerful free video converter application makes video conversion quick and easy.
- Moyea FLV Edtior Lite - Moyea FLV Editor Lite is a free FLV editor especially designed for FLV files. With this editor, you can edit YouTube, MySpace, blogTV, etc. The editor does not recode the FLV files, so it perfectly keeps the original quality.
- Media Coder - MediaCoder is a free universal batch media transcoder, which nicely integrates most popular audio/video codecs and tools into an all-in-one solution. With a flexible and extendable architecture, new codecs and tools are added in constantly as well as supports for new devices. MediaCoder intends to be the swiss army knife for media transcoding in all time.
- Super Video Converter - If you need a simple, yet very efficient tool to convert (encode) or play any Multimedia file, without reading manuals or spending long hours training, then SUPER © is all you need. It is a Multimedia Encoder and a Multimedia Player, easy-to-use with 1 simple click.
- Avidemux - Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs.
- Free Web Tools
- Office Convert to PDF - Office Convert Document To Pdf Free is simple application which allows you to convert the documents you need to PDF files. It can support converting documents as Word (doc, docx, docm), Excel(xls, xlsm, xlsx) PowerPoint (ppt, pptx, pptm) rtf, txt with high good quality for business and individual to improve the work efficiency.
- Office Convert to JPEG - Office Convert All to Image Jpg Jpeg Free is an application which allows users to convert documents to images, using the original document formatting. It can create popular image formats as JPG, BMP, GIF, TIF, TGA, RLE, PNG, EMF, WMF from comprehensive documents as Word (doc, docx, docm) ,Excel (xls, xlsx, xlsm), PowerPoint (ppt, pptx, pptm), rtf , txt with retaining the original style. More professional and easier interface is affordable for everyone.
- Office Convert HTML to other Documents - Advanced Website to image jpg bmp Converter is an application which allows users to convert their HTML files into images ot certain types of documents. No other software like it can convert the webpage on the website directly. It is an impressive development.With the converter, you can input the website directly utilizing “Add URL” to convert to your required images with retaining the original website formatting as text, pictures etc.
- Instant Thumbnails - Is a Free Thumbnail Generator! Generate thumbnails FAST. Designate source and target directories. Add a prefix and/or suffix to the generated thumbnail filename. Maintain Thumbnail Aspect Ratio. Specify Height and Width of Thumbnails. Create Thumbnails for Multiple Image Types.
- S10 Web Albums - enables you to easily create elegant online photo albums and publish them to your own personal web space. An instant Web View feature eliminates the clumsy "wizards" and lengthy HTML generation found in other programs.
- Thumb Studio - is an easy to use image gallery, thumbnail, slideshow and web photo album creator for everyone. Its also an image converter, which allows you to create 3 different image sizes at once, convert them to a different format or add a watermark.
- Flexible Album Studio is a brain-dead simple, absolutely free and Formula-1 fast creator of professional-looking web galleries for digital photographers. No HTML coding or image processing experience necessary whatsoever.
- Rapid Shop Shopping Cart Free - Turn-key eCommerce powered by quick and simple, clean HTML + JavaScript shopping cart and product catalog generated for you by Excel 2000/2003-based desktop wizard. Use PayPal, GoogleCheckout and many other financial clearance plug-ins ready or tie to any gateway of your choice.
- Pure CSS Menu Maker - PURE CSS Menu Maker is a free and powerful graphical user interface for creating 100% pure CSS web menus. CSS menus do not require JavaScript or plug-ins in order to run. PURE CSS Menu Maker can create horizontal as well as vertical menus.
- XML Menu Builder Free - XML Menu Builder/Free - is a revolutionary new and better approach to web menu design. Instead of menu content being described by placing unordered list elements on every single page of your website, XML Menu uses a single XML file to describe menu content, and CSS to describe menu presentation, or in other words, look and feel.
- Comersus ASP Cart - Comersus ASP Cart - Popular e-commerce Shopping Cart Google friendly with taxes, PayPal, credit cards, shipping, stock, encryption, auctions, reviews, order tracking, multilevel categories, sell-digital. Optional Packs with UPS, USPS, DHL, SQL, mySQL, WAP catalog, RSS feed.
- Web Browser Compatibilty Tests
- You need to test your web site in different browsers.
- DeBugBar - Browser Compatibility Check for Internet Explorer Versions from 5.5 to 8.
- BrowserShots - Check Browser Compatibility, Cross Platform Browser Tester. Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers.
- NetRender - IE NetRenderer allows you to check how a website is rendered by Internet Explorer 7, 6 or 5.5, as seen from a high speed datacenter located in Germany. Just type in a URL in the field above and try it out - it's free!
- Testing in Different Screen Resolutions
- You need to test your web site in different browsers.
- A View Like Us - this is one of the best resolutions testers. It even can test in the iphone resolution.
- Screen Resolution.com - Another excellent tester. Only requirement is that you need to view in internet explorer.
- Test Size - A simple and easy resolution tester.
- Website Validation
- What is validation?
- W3C Markup Validation Service.
- W3Schools Webpage Validation.
- About.com - Website Validation: HTML, CSS, XHTML, RSS & Atom, and P3P Validators.
- Web Developer - FireFox Add On: The Web Developer extension adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.
- Dr Watson - Analyze HTML Syntax, verify links, spell check non-HTML, compute download speeds, check search engine compatibility, check site link popularity.
- More Free Tools To Help Build Your Website
- Dynamic Drive - the #1 place on the net to obtain free, original DHTML &Javascripts to enhance your web site!
- Simply the Best Scripts - We have an extensive selection of Perl scripts, PHP scripts, ASP scripts, ready-to-go JavaScripts, AJAX and DHTML scripts, but also handy code snippets. You will find experimental scripts to help you with the language of scripting, snippets to use in your own Web applications, and lots of ready-to-go scripts.
- Java Kit Script - Tutorials and over 400 free scripts. Also JavaScript objects, properties, and methods reference.
- Java File - Your one stop shop for FREE Java Scripts and Java Applets on the Net! Add something WILD to your Web Site... add some Java!
- Webmaster Resource Center - Here you'll find everything you need to develop an impressive website. These online tools and resources are all very easy to use, even for beginners, and make great time-savers for seasoned professionals.
- Online Flash Generator - Customized high-quality banners.
- Button Land - Free buttons: Round buttons, icons, rectangle buttons, custom buttons, holiday buttons, shiny buttons, oval buttons and more, all free for your website!
- GR Sites Web Design Tools - Background generator, logos, fonts, buttons, menus, sound effects, and more.
- Free Online Tools - a free webmaster resource site featuring a wide variety of web design, image editing, photo editing, site promotion, and digital photography online tools, including website templates, free stock photos, free online image editing, and free online web design tools.
- The Site Wizard - Free articles and tutorials on web design, promotion, PHP, CGI, JavaScript scripting and earning money from your website.
- 15 Extremely Useful CSS Layout Generators - Without these online generators, designers have to waste extra effort to do repeat jobs.
- CSS Fixed and Faux Column Layouts - 53 Fixed width CSS Layouts and 42 Faux Column CSS Layouts for download.
- Jot Form - Form generator, easy, fast, no adds, builds either simple or complex forms.
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