Whenever you are marketing, your first impression may be made through your social media networks or with your website. So just like being dressed in a suit is much more impressive than being in tattered clothes, having a great web design is better than having something that looks like it was designed when websites were first born. And if you are not looking to build a blog using platforms such as WordPress, or you do not want to use website templates, what do you to develop your website content?
Shareware, freeware, open source software, proprietary programs. There are literally hundreds of thousands of computer programs in existence today. Web development professionals have their favorites which they download and place in their toolboxes. Even if you’re not a working pro, web development software downloads are probably a part of your life to some extent.
Some of the more popular titles are listed and discussed below. Just because you’re satisfied with the tools you currently use doesn’t mean there isn’t something better out there for you. Check out the list to determine if you might find a program that will do a task better, faster or have more Swiss Army functions that could help you reduce the number of tools cluttering your box.
7 Web Development Software Applications and Tools
- FrontPage 2003 – One of the earliest WYSIWYG web development programs, this software download is now used mostly by amateurs who are hoping to quickly, easily and without code knowledge, develop web pages and entire web sites.
- XAMPP – For slightly advanced web developers, XAMPP allows you to set up all the web server software needed on your local computer. Now you don’t even need an active Internet connection to code and develop web sites.
- WebLog Expert Lite – The longer you develop web based applications and sites, the more your clients will want to know their success (or failure). This download provides useful graphical renditions of the data collected by your web server’s logs.
- PHP Designer 2007 – Though a few years old, this program is still quite popular with developers wishing to improve analyzing, editing, publishing, and debugging processes coded into their applications.
- AdSense Earnings Tool – If you have webpages receiving appreciable amounts of visitor traffic you probably are attempting to monetize them with Google’s AdSense program. This tool will help you gain more control and understanding over your campaigns.
- WebLog DB – Power developers are constantly looking to refine their web applications. This program provides easy log data insertion into databases for advanced statistical analysis.
- WebShot – Designers and GUI developers often need to grab screen shots of the web pages they are working on. WebShot is a newer program that seems to be quite popular based upon how much it’s being download.
While the above are only 7 programs out of hundreds of thousands, the real take away is there are always new and improved versions of the tools you currently use in your web development. If you’re not constantly evaluating and downloading new applications, you might be missing out on time savings, bandwidth reductions, and other methods to improve your work process and end product.
Your Web Development Toolbox
With hundreds of thousands of software titles, and many programs performing similar functions, which web development software do you download and use most?
This is a guest post by Vern Marker, a freelance writer and web designer who tends to download program after program for various needs.
