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.
Linux
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

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