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Utility Software for Web Developers
By Scott Clark
WebDeveloper.com looks at a few utilities that can make your job easier!
When you divide your time between designing, planning, creating and maintaining Web sites, you appreciate all the help you can get. That goes especially for utility tools that simplify our tasks, and as developers our "tool chests" are usually stocked with many such items. We're going to mention of few of the best ones we've found in this overview.
Don't miss our Online Web Utilities page!
Graphics Tools
- Ulead GIF Animator An easy to use, powerful app for creating animated GIFs with special effects
- Ulead SmartSaver A GIF/JPEG image optimizer specifically designed for webmasters
- EditPage Edit your Web site directly from this page
- Ulead Web Utilities includes WebExtensions for Photoshop; PhotoImpact Album; MPEG Converter; PhotoImpact GIF Animator; PhotoImpact Screen Capture; and PhotoImpact GIF/JPEG SmartSaver.
- Macromedia Fireworks Everything you need to create, optimize, and animate cool web graphics. See our review.
- Microsoft Image Composer A superb web graphics tool featuring amazing new 'sprites' technology
- Reptile Reptile is a cool application that lets you create funky backgrounds
- Asymetrix Web 3D Easy way on Win to create 3D images for web
- NetStudio even non-artists can create professional Web graphics; features Microsoft FrontPage integration
- Microsoft Liquid Motion Create and publish animations on the web with full sound and interactivity
- Microsoft GIF Animator An easy to use app that will help you create animated GIFs
- Adobe ImageReady The perfect companion to Photoshop for creating & optimizing web graphics. See our review.
- Adobe ImageStyler The tool for those who need the ability to create professional-looking graphics relatively quickly. Check out the WebDeveloper.com Preview Review for details about this one.
- GIF Construction Set The first tool which was available to add animation effects to your GIF images
- WebImage GraphX Viewer on steroids - a graphics app extraordinaire for webmasters
- Map This! An excellent web image map editor -- and it's free!
Management Tools
- ComponentSoftware RCS (CS-RCS) Use it to monitor changes made in files that are accessed by standalone or networked workstations
- Log Analysis Tool Suite Free utilities for analyzing common and combined format access_logs, xferlogs, agent_logs and referer_logs
- WebTrends Log Analyzer Offers configurable reports on user activity including most popular files and origin of users
- MKStats Perl-based logfile analysis program. Price ranges from free for personal Web pages up to $300 for Service Providers
- IP Sentry IPSentry is a Windows NT / 95 application that will continuously monitor all your internet and intranet TCP/IP services 24 hours a day, ensuring your email servers, web sites, ftp servers, news servers, and any other TCP/IP based services are active and responding
- EyeScope Real time tracking of your IIS server activity, optimized for Internet Explorer
- Pluto Web robot, written in Perl, that is easily configured to monitor the accessibility of any Web server on a randomly periodic basis
Editing Tools
- TextPad A superb Windows text editor that doubles as an ultra-efficient web editor
- HTML NotePad Fast loading shareware HTML editor; much like a souped up Notepad
- NoteTab Pro My editor of choice, simple, fast loading, with tons of effecient shortcuts. See our review.
Instant Scripts, Applets, Forms, etc.
- The Java Boutique The Java Boutique is the Ultimate Java Applet Resource...with over 250 applets to choose from, along with over 16 Java IDEs that you can download and use to create your own applets!
- The JavaScript Source If you're looking for a ready made script, including shopping carts, counters, form verification, and more, you need to visit this site!
- ScriptSearch Looking for a script, any script? ScriptSearch.com is a clearinghouse for scripts of all kinds, including Perl, JavaScript, Tcl, and more
- The CGI Resource Index With over 1392 CGI related resources listed, you'll find scripts to suit all your needs here
- FormPal the visual development tool for web forms; creates scripts for both Unix and Windows based Web servers
- WebForms This is a slick tool that enables you to create forms for your site, along with the backend you need to process them
- The Snaglet Pack includes 10 utilities, including Egor 3 Java animator, Image Wiz Plus, Swami Background Builder, and more
- Jamba The professional design tool for creating dynamic Java applets, without coding.
- AppletEase This tool takes the pain out of adding Java applets to your site. See our review.
Special thanks to CWS Apps and ServerWatch.com for some of the descriptions used above. Be sure to visit them for additional information on the above applications.
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