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Monday, October 13, 2014

Top 7 tools that help in website designing

Website designing is the process of creating and maintaining web pages. It includes designing of pages, graphics, user interface, coding etc. However, several programs were developed over years to help designers in their work. Whether it is a small city or a big city like New York, professionals of web designing use softwares like:

Adobe Dreamweaver – Adobe Dreamweaver is one of the oldest and successful softwares in web designing. It was created by Macromedia in 1997 and managed by Adobe Systems since 2005. This program works on OS X and Windows platforms. Dreamweaver also works with languages like JavaScript, PHP, ASP.NET VB, ASP.NET C# and ASP VBScript etc. In the latest version of Dreamweaver, features like live view and insert, visual editing tools, improved CSS, SFTP certificate-based authentication, and DOM visualization tool are included.

CoffeeCup – CoffeeCup is a HTML editor with features like instant visual, quick live preview and code completion etc. It comes with website themes that help in creating responsive web pages. One can download its free trial, however, it’s paid version is available in 69 dollars.

Notepad++ - Notepad++ is a code editor for Windows with features like auto completion, multi tab editing, syntax highlighting, customized GUI, file comparison and multi-language environment supported etc. It works with languages like C, C++, CSS, C#, JavaScript, Perl, Java, PHP, Visual Basic, Objective-C, Python, XML and SQL etc.

Aptana Studio 3 – In Aptana Studio, designer can design and develop web application. It works with PHP, JavaScript, CSS3, HTML5, Ruby, Python and Rails etc. It has features like integrated debugger, IDE customization, built-in terminal, JavaScript library support and git integration. It also supports FTP, FTPS, Capistrano and SFTP.

Bluefish – Bluefish is a text editor which runs on Linux, Windows, Solaris and Mac OS X. It supports C, C++, Java, JavaScript, HTML, XHTML, PHP, XML, Python, Ruby and CSS. It’s main features are code folding and navigation, syntax highlighting, Unicode character browser, code spell checker and multiple document and encoding support.

BlueGriffon – BlueGriffon is a content editor, in which designer can work in HTML5, XHTML, CSS etc. It is available for platforms like Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. BlueGriffon is also available in many languages other than English like French, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Dutch and many more.

Microsoft Visual Studio Express – This tool is used for designing and developing web applications with other softwares like Microsoft Expression Blend. In Visual Studio Express, you can work with HTML, CSS, ASP.NET, AJAX, VB and C# etc. WebMatrix is another free tool offered by Microsoft to create, publish, and maintain websites.

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