what are your favorite webmaster tools?

[basschick]

what are your favorite webmaster tools, and would you recommend them to other webmasters?

mine are:

photoshop
irfanview (can read multiple types of raw files)
flash fx
notepad
sony vegas
boilsoft AVI MPEG RM WMV splitter
thumbs plus
sorenson squeeze
7-Zip (free unzipper that kicks winzip's ass!)
dragon naturally speaking - the latest to my arsenal, but it's been great for writing productivity!

[abostonboy]

notepad


Notepad? :confused:

[Chubbs]

Dreamweaver
CuteFTP
Statsremote
ICQ

Do ST and ATX count as a "tool"?

--Chubbs

[basschick]

hmmm... not sure.... but consider them mentioned ;)



Do ST and ATX count as a "tool"?

[dzinerbear]

Color Impact - it's a color picker that also helps you puts colours together
Frameshots - a screen grab program
Web Log Expert - a nice stats program
Filezilla - more stable than WS FTP
Flash Video MX - great for converting WMVs into Flash movies.

Michael

[Hammerhead]

My list would include:

Chameleon Submitter
Photoshop
TopStyle - for HTML and CSS
Canopus Procoder
Frameshots

[HunkMoneyLuke]

these have already been mentioned:
photoshop / imageready
vegas pro
flash video mx
sorenson squeeze
icq
filezilla

these have not:
renamer (a free bulk file renaming tool)
blogs organizer
site organizer
outlook
avast antivirus
homesite (a really old html editor)
iTunes
putty (ssh client)

and best off, a windows server to use as a remote desktop

[abostonboy]

Luke,

I LOVE homesite.

What is site organizer if I amy ask?

[HunkMoneyLuke]

Luke,

I LOVE homesite.

What is site organizer if I amy ask?

Its another script by the guys that make Blogs Organizer, here is the direct link (http://www.cheapestadultscripts.com/affiliates/click.php?ref=likemind&page=http://www.cheapestadultscripts.com/so/) and you can download a free copy of it which has a 5% skim. I know, his sales pages are totally cheezy 90s ebay style, but his scripts are really bloody good because they are simple and very powerful.

I just used S.O. to setup ~50 TGP sites, all on their own domains. It also makes free sites and other types of sites. These will be online as soon as ownership & DNS changes over this week so I will be back to list them. You can see my test sites in action at http://gayred.com and http://boy-web.com

[DonMike]

My favorite webmaster tool?






A computer. :p

[abostonboy]

My favorite webmaster tool?






A computer. :p

With Vista? :)

[RottenRay]

Well, y'all forgot every webmaster's best friend:


WinXP Pro (SP-1)
-- When it comes to web authoring, you can't beat this for stability and forgivingness when you goof!


Images / Video:
PhotoShop v. 6 (manipulation)
EzThumbs v. 2.8 (bulk scaling)
MWSnap v. 3.0 (screenshots)
Pinnacle Studio 9 Deluxe (editing)
PowerDVD (reviewing streams)


Text / HTML / CSS:
Arachnaphilia v. 4 (Old, stable and flexible!)
Cascade v. 2.0 (basic and easy)


Email / Virus / Utes
Outlook Express
Norton 360***


Sometimes, older tools are still the best. Everything above represents a "mature" product, and I can count the number of system errors I have in a year on one hand.


***
Late last year, Norton's security product got a much needed rebuild. 360 runs nicely indeed and doesn't "hog" your machine.



Ciao 4 Now,
Ray

[DonMike]

With Vista? :)

Ugh. I'm still having a nightmare of a time with Vista. I've been trying for over a month to install Acid Music Studio and it won't allow me unless I have a component of Visual C++ and Vista won't allow me to install that. You gotta love when a Microsoft OS won't let you install Microsoft software. Grrrr.

[abostonboy]

Ray,

I STILL think Norton is worse than a Virus!

[Gaystoryman]

WAMP for testing php programs and open source programs like Joomla, Drupal, or anything, as it simulates a server, which you can configure to match your own online server. Easy to play with themes for blogs, with code for CMS programs, and such.

[abostonboy]

Ugh. I'm still having a nightmare of a time with Vista. I've been trying for over a month to install Acid Music Studio and it won't allow me unless I have a component of Visual C++ and Vista won't allow me to install that. You gotta love when a Microsoft OS won't let you install Microsoft software. Grrrr.

Join the club. I could write a book about everything that Vista has messed up. I FINALLY got it to log my icq conversations with Trillian. That took a week.

Video encoding will drive you bananas.

[gaydemon]

Dreamweaver
Fireworks
Notepad
Statsremote (http://www.statsremote.com/)( I couldnt live without it now)
WS FTP
Excel
Outlook
Hypersnap
IE6
Firefox

Command & Conquer 3 (for a bit of relaxtion and anger relief)

[HunkMoneyLuke]

Command & Conquer 3 (for a bit of relaxtion and anger relief)

I really really miss my WII, its in storage right now till we get our immigration stuff sorted out, but I really wish I would have packed it in my suitcases. Relaxation is very important, esp in our biz!!!

[Relentless]

Unified Stats
WebmasterScore's Review Site Submitter (yeah, I'm biased heh)
Trillian

[gaydemon_jr]

Dreamweaver
Photoshop
Outlook
Notepad
Google Analytics
W3C XHTML / CSS Validation Service

[abostonboy]

W3C XHTML / CSS Validation Service

Now I know why you are called Gay Demon Jr!!!

[gaydemon_jr]

Hehe :)

It's what works best.