New and Cool Web Tools

New and Cool : Links to Selected Web Development Tools for Your Downloading Pleasure
source: Web Developers Journal

Photoshop 5.5 (our full review) - Latest version of the classic graphics program. It's a challenge for beginners, but once you've got your head around it you can do anything you like to an image.

Dreamweaver 3 (our full review) - Latest version of the most popular professional editor. Download a 30 day trial or go for some of Macromedia's recommended plug-ins.

1st Page 2000 - A free HTML editor including many JavaScript and Perl scripts. The interface is similar to HomeSite.

Adobe Golive - An excellent professional editor for Macs. There's a Windows version too.

Media Cleaner - If you want to mess about converting and compressing movies, you'll find it hard to beat Media Cleaner Pro. It accepts most formats and works on many platforms. It's probably the Web movie industry standard software. There are lots of other downloadable goodies on the Terran site too.

RealSystem G2 Beta Server - Streaming media from the experts. The RealSystem G2 Full Beta Server, which the company describes as open-standard, is available for evaluation.

Shoutcast server - Broadcast streaming MP3s from your server to Winamp users around the world. Runs on Windows, Unix, Linux and other platforms.

Flash 4 - If Macromedia gets its way, future developers won't even bother to learn HTML, because Web sites will be Flash from top to bottom. It's the Web animation standard. Here's your chance to get Flashed-up on a 30 day free trial.

Livestage - Makes the most of the QuickTime format. Other movie formats can be incorporated within a QuickTime video.

MovieWorks - Create QuickTime movies on a Mac. Trial software on 30 day approval.

Analog logfile analyser - Around 25% of the world's logfiles are analysed using Analog. It's not as sophisticated as some of the other logfile programs out there, but it compensates in one very special way - it's free.

Canoma - Take your regular photos of a building and glue them to a wireframe model. Hey Presto! A 3D graphic. The user interface is a joy.

FreeHand - Illustration program famed and revered for its WYSIWYG output. Now in version 8. The trial is 30 day and fully functional.

Image Optimizer - Excellent file size reduction system allows some parts of a graphic to be heavily compressed while other parts retain their detail.

Illustrator - Major-league illustration software from Adobe. Unfortunately the tryout version doesn’t allow saves, exports or printouts.

Topstyle - A popular CSS editor for simple creation of cross-browser style sheets.

Actinic Catalog - Well-known eCommerce software with over 1300 licensees - and that’s just in the UK!

WebSpeed Optimizer - A great little utility that throttles back the data transfer within your computer. Just set the controls for 56kbps and watch your site download from your hard drive to your screen at the same speed most of your visitors will receive it.

Drumbeat 2000 - Macromedia ASP software for sophisticated database management. The eCommerce edition goes all the way to the shopfront. A JSP (JavaServer Pages) edition is also available.

Homesite Homesite wins coveted Web Developer's Journal Product of the Year, 1998 award with a total of five propheads. Read the review or download the trial version. You can also get the 4.5 beta here.

Style Master 1.2 Style Master is just the thing for anyone unfamiliar with the syntax and rules of CSS and for anyone wanting to get CSS to really rock and roll.

WS_FTP Pro - New and Improved FTP Client. This is the one we've been waiting for!

Transit Central and HTML Transit - Template-based automated Web publishing.

CheckOut - Shopping cart with Java, enhanced CGI and simple browser modes, plus a variety of other eCommerce tools.

Spirit - "Spirit can build almost any kind of GUI and deal with interactions. You can build components, vector graphics, spinners, databases, etc."

Writing Proposals that Work - Combines instructions on Web proposal writing along with a template that the writer can use to develop the actual proposal.

Ozzino Studio - "Let your web pages come alive with exciting animated interactive java applets. Easy to use interface and no programming required.Tons of functionality:- instant animated 3D objects from static images; rotating applets in same location; add interactivity to animated objects and animated gifs; spectacular drop-down menu bars; and much more."

Texter - Create dazzling text animation Java applets in seconds with Ozzino's award winning Texter. Easy to use interface and no programming required.

Calendars for the Web - "The software creates HTML Table and/or Image Map calendars. I've downloaded many competing calendar programs and I think this software is much, much better."
Advanced Template Package - If you do CGI programming in Perl, then this is something you may have been waiting for -- using templates in Perl scripts.

Web Hotspots 4.0 - Imagemap editors for static and animated imagemaps.

Webber - A little known editor called Webber. It is simple to use, validates, and has an excellent help system. It is not a WYSISYG but you can type or import your text, mark and code that way.

ECware Pro Version 4.0 - Comprehensive eCommerce solution (registration required for download).

MODPlug Software - A different sort of program for background music and jukeboxes on Web pages.

Paint Shop Pro - Version 6.01 of this great value for money graphics program.

Hit List 4.0 - Features point and click DataLink for web mining.