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XHeader-create professional webpage headers

http://www.xheader.com/

XHeader  lets you create amazing header graphics in minutes. And the really great thing is that  you don’t need any previous knowledge of graphic design. The package holds your hand every step of the way so that you end up with header graphics that you can be really proud of – something that stands out from the crowd and makes your site look every bit as good as the best sites on the Internet.

CSSVista- edit your CSS code live in IE and FireFox

http://litmusapp.com/labs

CSSVista is a free Windows application for web developers that lets you edit your CSS code live in both Internet Explorer and Firefox simultaneously

Microsoft Web Application Installer

http://www.microsoft.com/web/channel/products/WebApplicationInstaller.aspx

The Web Application Installer Beta is designed to help get you up and running with the most widely used Web Applications freely available for your Windows Server. Web AI provides support for popular ASP.Net and PHP Web applications including Graffiti, DotNetNuke, WordPress, Drupal, OSCommerce and more. With just a few simple clicks, Web AI will check your machine for the necessary pre-requisites, download these applications from their source location in the community, walk you through basic configuration items and then install them on your computer. 

HAProxy-TCP HTTP Load Balancer

http://haproxy.1wt.eu

HAProxy is a free, very fast and reliable solution offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications. It is particularly suited for web sites crawling under very high loads while needing persistence or Layer7 processing. Supporting tens of thousands of connections is clearly realistic with todays hardware. Its mode of operation makes its integration into existing architectures very easy and riskless, while still offering the possibility not to expose fragile web servers to the Net, such as below :

openWYSIWYG- free cross-browser WYSIWYG editor

http://www.openwebware.com/

Finally, a free cross-browser WYSIWYG editor that's packed with every rich-text editing feature you need to make your content management system that much better.

Setting up openWYSIWYG is so easy, you can quickly turn any <textarea> into a powerful WYSIWYG editor with just a few simple lines of code.

Packed with every rich text editing feature you need, openWYSIWYG gives you total control over formatting your text. The ultimate <textarea> replacement for your content management system.

TemplateShaker-WYSIWYG xhtml-css template generator

http://wonderwebware.com/  

Using this tool is pretty simple: just click and customize the look and feel of the template on the fly, in complete WYSIWYG environment. Save the template and it is done – just open the template generated with your favorite html editor and use it for your sites. It is free of charge – both for non-commercial and commercial use. You are free to use the templates on all your sites and all your client’s sites. 
This product is designed to give web designer quick and easy way to modify the look of predefined template layouts. You can change the images, backgrounds, text colors, page background etc. This initial release comes with 3 templates predefined but you can produce hundreds of templates by playing with the different customization settings. The templates which this tool generates are free to use if you keep the credits link at the bottom. (However – in case you want to remove the credits, there is commercial version available)

dhtmlxToolbar-vertical or horizontal DHTML toolbar

http://dhtmlx.com/docs/products/dhtmlxToolbar/  

This free cross-browser JavaScript component enables you to create an attractive vertical or horizontal DHTML toolbar within minutes. dhtmlxToolbar is flexible, powerful, lightweight and easy to use.

You can freely define its visual appearance and complexity by simply changing its parameters (color, font, borders, padding, position, background images and more). Dynamical loading from XML gives an opportunity to change this JavaScript toolbar completely without reloading. 

CSS Horizontal-Vertical Menu Generator

http://wonderwebware.com/products.html  

CSS Vertical Menu Generator is a free tool for WYSIWYG menu generation. Just add menu items, define color and font settings and get an instant preview inside the program window itself. You may then get the CSS and XHTML menu code and paste it in your webpage, or – if you prefer — you may get ready-to-use new (template) page with the css menu generated… 

Infinite Menusultimate professional grade web drop down menu

http://www.fisher.co.uk/menu05/DHTML%20Menu%20Bundle/Infinite%20Menus/readme.html  

Infinite Menus uniquely combines pure CSS, a tiny 6K bit of JavaScript, and HTML lists to create the ultimate professional grade drop down menu.

The menus simple, yet flexible design, allows it to easily integrate with even the most complex dynamically generated sites.  Extremely low code overhead delivers the fastest load time and reaction speeds possible in a menu.  These capabilities are matched on every common browser for both PC and Mac (IE, Netscape, FireFox, Safari, Opera).

This download includes the fully customizable menu which may be used for a thorough evaluation on your site.

Evrsoft First Page 2006 – HTML editing software

http://www.evrsoft.com/1stpage3.shtml   

Evrsoft First Page 2006Five years and 3,000,000+ downloads since the first release, Evrsoft brings you First Page 2006, the highly anticipated HTML editing software. Evrsoft First Page 2006 gives you unsurpassed freedom to create and edit web documents with absolute code control.

The latest version includes hundreds of new features and bug fixes. First Page 2006 now includes full support for HTML, XHTML, PHP, ASP, Cold Fusion, Javascript, CSS, SSI and Perl.

FirstPage 2006 is designed for professional web development. Create, Edit and deploy websites with absolute ease and precision. The integrated tools empower web developers to develop standards-based web documents, quickly and easily.

KompoZer-complete web authoring system 

http://kompozer.net/  

KompoZer is a complete web authoring system that combines web file management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG web page editing.KompoZer is designed to be extremely easy to use, making it ideal for non-technical computer users who want to create an attractive, professional-looking web site without needing to know HTML or web coding. 

SourceView – display sourcecode on webpage

http://www.razor.be/sourceview.aspx?lang=en#features  

he SourceView control from Razor Technologies allows you to quickly and easily display different kinds of SourceCode in your ASP.NET enabled pages. Display sourcecode in seconds by dragging and dropping the SourceView control onto a web form inside Visual Studio .NET 2003™. Add the source code you want to display using the designer and there it is, your source code without worring about formatting, escaping characters, etc. SourceView supports color coding for the following languages: VB.NET, C#, ASP.NET (HTML) and Javascript but more languages will follow. Free for NON-commercial use.

Astyle CSS Editor – visual css editor

http://www.athlab.com/Astyle/index.html 

Astyle is a software application that lets you edit and design style sheet (CSS) code from a visual interface without the need for any code typing.

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) allows to separate the representation definitions of such structured documents as HTML, XHTML, XML from their content, which is an effective principle in the design of web sites.

Astyle CSS Editor comes with a preview that shows you how each element will be displayed in the browser. The style sheet values and properties can be selected from a grouped list, using simple checkboxes. The program displays the style sheet in an easy to read property tree with icons for each property, and options to add comments or mark specific properties.

Features:

    * Visual easy-to-use interface
    * Graphic tree-type view of attachment files and the CSS structure
    * Grouped view of properties and selectors
    * Automatic selection and grouping of CSS selectors from a markup language document
    * Source CSS, HTML, XML highlight code editor
    * Active preview current selectors and documents with IE and Mozilla support
    * Clean up HTML document via CSS
    * Icon associate dictionary
    * Copy, Paste and Cut operations
    * Drag and Drop operations
    * And more…

Supports: CSS, HTML, XML, XHTML.

CSS-BuMa – create CSS navigation buttons

http://home.hccnet.nl/s.j.francke/software/software.htm

CSS-BuMa enables you to create CSS web navigation buttons without the need to write any CSS code. The program offers a WYSIWYG interface to configure the appearance of the buttons, including font, size, color, background images, border and more. It comes with several example templates and background images that can be used to create navigation buttons quickly and easily, or you can also create custom designs from scratch. CSS-BuMa can create vertical and horizontal button designs. The program offers an internal preview and generates the complete CSS and HTML code for you, ready to be copied and pasted into your web page.

JS-Kit helps you to instantly add dynamic javascript components to your website or blog.

http://js-kit.com/ 

Whether you want to add product rankings to your store, or facilitate discussions of your blog entries or photo albums, JS-Kit brings a hassle-free and elegant solution to your needs.

Magical Mouse-over Button Generator 4.0

http://www.bradtrupp.com/sw/mmbg.html

The Magical Mouse-over Button Generator is a web design wizard that automatically creates PNG and JPG image files for captioned buttons, along with sample HTML, and optional javascript code to pop up different images as your mouse passes over or clicks each button. All without ever using a paint program!

Strong HBar horizontal navigation bar

http://www.stronghtml.com/tools/hbar/index.html

Use this tool if you want to add a horizontal navigation bar consisting of many tabs to your site. Such a menu has a very user-friendly interface and makes it considerably easier to navigate through the website. It is usually used to navigate through the main sections of the site. Menus created with it are completely based on CSS and do not use scripts that is why they are most attractive for search engines. These menus perfectly work in all modern browsers.

Strong VMenu vertical navigation menus

http://www.stronghtml.com/tools/vmenu/index.html

It is a builder of vertical navigation menus. Use VMENU when you want to add a vertical navigation menu to your site. Due to the possibility to add captions/subcaptions to the menu, you can group items and create large navigation menus with really usable interfaces. Menus created with it are completely based on CSS and do not use scripts that is why they are most attractive for search engines. These menus perfectly work in all modern browsers.

Ajax Tabs Content script

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex17/ajaxtabscontent/

This tab content script uses Ajax to let you display a selection of external content on your page inside a DIV and via CSS tabs! We got our inspiration for this script from Yahoo's new homepage, which employs such a concept to show news in an organized fashion. Below lists the features of this script that together make it highly adaptable in the real world: * Fetch and display an external page (from the same domain) inside a container when a tab is clicked on. * Add a "default" content inside the container to either be shown while no tabs are selected, or to be associated with a specific tab. The default content is added directly to your page and not fetched via Ajax, for sake of server efficiency. * For each tab, you can not only fetch an external page to be shown, but also load external .css and .js files associated with that page if desired. * Supports multiple Ajax Tabs Contents on the same page. * Fully unobtrusive, search engine friendly script. The tabs are simply list based links. For search engines or browsers with JavaScript disabled, the contents will just load as actual pages (instead of inline via Ajax). As you can see, this Ajax Tabs Content script was designed to be much more than look pretty, but usable. FYI its CSS tabs interface is plucked directly from Shade Image Tabs Menu, which is easily swappable with another CSS menu of your choice. See how it all comes together like that?

Google Web Toolkit – Java Framework

www.google.com

What is Google Web Toolkit? Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a Java development framework that lets you escape the matrix of technologies that make writing AJAX applications so difficult and error prone. With GWT, you can develop and debug AJAX applications in the Java language using the Java development tools of your choice. When you deploy your application to production, the GWT compiler to translates your Java application to browser-compliant JavaScript and HTML. Here's the GWT development cycle: Use your favorite Java IDE to write and debug an application in the Java language, using as many (or as few) GWT libraries as you find useful. Use GWT's Java-to-JavaScript compiler to distill your application into a set of JavaScript and HTML files that you can serve with any web server. Confirm that your application works in each browser that you want to support, which usually takes no additional work. Why Translate Java Code to JavaScript? Java technologies offer a productive development plaform, and with GWT, they can instantly become the basis of your AJAX development platform as well. Here are some of the benefits of developing with GWT: You can use all of your favorite Java development tools (Eclipse, IntelliJ, JProfiler, JUnit) for AJAX development. Static type checking in the Java language boosts productivity while reducing errors. Common JavaScript errors (typos, type mismatches) are easily caught at compile time rather than by users at runtime. Code prompting/completion is widely available. Automated Java refactoring is pretty snazzy these days. Java-based OO designs are easier to communicate and understand, thus making your AJAX code base more comprehensible with less documentation. Here are some key features of "Google Web Toolkit": · Dynamic, reusable UI components · Create a Widget by compositing other Widgets. Lay out Widgets automatically in Panels. Send your Widget to other developers in a JAR file. · Really simple RPC · To communicate from your web application to your web server, you just need to define serializable Java classes for your request and response. In production, GWT automatically serializes the request and deserializes the response from the server. GWT's RPC mechanism can even handle polymorphic class hierarchies, and you can throw exceptions across the wire. · Browser history management · No, AJAX applications don't need to break the browser's back button. GWT lets you make your site more usable by easily adding state to the browser's back button history. · Real debugging · In production, your code is compiled to JavaScript, but at development time it runs in the Java virtual machine. That means when your code performs an action like handling a mouse event, you get full-featured Java debugging, with exceptions and the advanced debugging features of IDEs like Eclipse. · Browser compatible · Your GWT applications automatically support IE, Firefox, Mozilla, Safari, and Opera with no browser detection or special-casing within your code in most cases. · Interoperability and fine-grained control · If GWT's class library doesn't meet your needs, you can mix handwritten JavaScript in your Java source code using our JavaScript Native Interface (JSNI).

CSSVista – edit your CSS code live in both Internet Explorer and Firefox

http://www.sitevista.com/cssvista/

CSSVista is a free Windows application for web developers which lets you edit your CSS code live in both Internet Explorer and Firefox simultaneously. If you like this, you may be interested in our browser compatibility service, SiteVista. Yes, that's why this software is free! :-)