Program / Web Site | Description |
HTML Dog, W3C | HTML Reference sites |
HTML Dog | CSS reference |
Firefox Html Validator | Adds html validation to the Firefox View Source window |
CSE HTML Validator Lite | Offline HTML validator and editor |
W3C | Online HTML validator |
W3C/Jigsaw | Online CSS validator |
Web Developer | Firefox extension of exceptional quality (the Edit CSS window is great for tweaking generated files, as the css can be pasted back into the source dirhtml script) |
Firebug | Very powerful Firefox extension that enables real time html/css editing, javascript debugging and other things |
Firefox | Mozilla web browser |
Opera | Another browser (alternately, the portable version which unfortunately self-extracts upon load) |
Chrome | The ‘Google’ browser, alternately Iron or the Portable Apps version of Iron |
Notepad++ | Very good source code editor (html, c++, javascript, text, etc.) or the portable version |
Color Cop | Grabs small sections of the screen or pixel colors (very handy) |
Irfanview | The definitive free Windows image viewer |
M3U Dropper | Creates portable playlists from dropped links, written by the author of dirhtml |
ScrapBook | Flat file text database, written by the author of dirhtml |
DM2 | Multipurpose gadget that minimizes applications to the system tray, provides multiple desktops, keeps windows on top, etc. |
CSS Table Gallery | Sample tables that use CSS formatting |
Color Blender | Generates intermediate colors between two colors (alternately Adobe Kuler or Color Schemes) |
Listamatic | Generic versions of CSS list styles and page layouts |
Portable KompoZer | WYSIWYG html editor, useful for getting correct html syntax |