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Software by Type

Web Authoring

• Macromedia Dreamweaver
• Adobe GoLive
• Macromedia Contribute

• Cooktop XML editor (Windows)
• Oxygen XML editor and XSLT debugger (Windows/Mac OSX/Linux)

• Firefox Developer Extensions:
  • Firefox Web Developer Toolbar
  • Firebug — A Firefox plugin that helps you debug javascript, CSS, HTML and Ajax.
  • HTML Validator — Validates pages on the fly and highlights errors when looking at source code.
• Internet Explorer Web Developer Toolbar
• Opera Web Developer Toolbar

Graphic Editing

• Adobe Photoshop
• Macromedia Fireworks

Information Architecture

• Omni Graffle (site maps/diagrams)
• Microsoft Visio (site maps/diagrams)
• Microsoft Excel (content inventories)

Multimedia

• Macromedia Flash
• Adobe Premiere — Video-editing software
• iMovie — Free video-editing package from Apple
• Final Cut Pro — Apple's top-of-the-line video-editing software
• Nero Ultra Edition — CD and DVD authoring suite
• QuickTime Player
• Real Player

Web Browsers

• Internet Explorer
• Firefox
• Mozilla
• Safari

File Transfer

• Secure FX
• Mac SFTP

Telnet/Secure Shell (SSH) Clients

• Secure CRT
• PuTTY

Utilities

• Adobe Acrobat
• XENU Link Sleuth (Link Checker)
• W3C Link Checker (Online Version)
• W3C Link Checker (Standalone Version)
• Web Page Analyzer

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