Tools

The Web Standardistas’ Toolbox

These are some of the tools we are recommending, plain text editors, image editors and FTP cilents for Macintosh OS X, Windows and Linux. The list of tools will be expanded upon, please check back later.

Text Editors

Macintosh OS X

• Textwrangler - Free, light weight general purpose text editor from the makers of BBEdit.

• BBEdit The leading professional HTML and text editor for the Macintosh. It doesn’t suck.

Windows

• EditPad Lite - Free

• EditPad Pro - Low Cost - Free Evaluation Version (has the addition of Syntax Highlighting as well as other features)

• Text Pad - Low cost / Free Evaluation Version.

• HTML-Kit

Linux

• Bluefish

• Komodo Edit

Image Editors

We’ve listed a number of alternative image editors - for a variety of platforms and potential uses - below. As new software is released we’ll update this list.

Macintosh OS X and Windows

• Adobe Photoshop

Macintosh OS X

• Pixelmator

• Acorn

Windows

• Photoshop Elements

• GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program)

Linux

• Pixel

• GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program)

FTP Clients

Mac

• Cyberduck

• Transmit

Windows

• FileZilla

• Core FTP

Linux

• FileZilla

• gFTP

The Periodical

The most recent entries in the Periodical and Reviews sections:

• AIGA have long fought the good fight against crowdsourcing, clearly articulating the very real issues that plague the 'winner takes all' approach to sourcing design by subcontracting it to the masses…
• In 2009, Andy Baio - a writer and entrepreneur who helped build Kickstarter - ate his own dog food and launched a Kickstarter project called 'Kind of Bloop'. The idea was elegant, and one we immediately fell in love with…
• As the old saying goes, "You only get one chance to make a first impression." Launched amid much fanfare late last week, Color is, apparently, "a miraculous application," and one of the first of many, new life-changing applications for the 'Post-PC World' in which we now live. It's also guilty of a not insubstantial degree of hyperbole…

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In addition to their role as lecturers in interactive design at the University of Ulster at Belfast, where they have been active in promoting a web standards-based curriculum, Christopher Murphy and Nicklas Persson are practicing designers and digital artists. Their work has featured in a variety of design books and magazines alongside numerous internationally respected designers and they are regular speakers at design conferences and workshops worldwide.

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