A web designer uses a variety of authoring tools. Below are listed three categories that are available. You can do a lot with the free ones.

HTML Editors

HomeSite (Download 30-day free trial from Macromedia)

1stPage 2000 (Free from www.evrsoft.com/1stpage2.shtml )

 

Image Editors

IrfanView (Free from www.irfanview.com )

Photoshop (Available in Multimedia Lab)

ImageReady (Available in Multimedia Lab)

Digital Camera Enhancer (Free from www.mediachance.com/digicam/enhancer.htm )

 

Sound Editor

Audacity (A free, open-source program for recording and editing sounds from Sourceforge)
To export as mp3 files it requires the LAME mp3 encoder

 

Java Applet Development Tools

Anfy (Free from www.anfyteam.com )

 

Utilities

Screen Ruler (Free for private use from www.microfox.com )

Spell Checker for Edit Boxes (Free for private use www.quinion.com/mqa/ )

WinZip (Evaluation copy works www.winzip.com )

 

Web Site and UI Design

Web Accessibility Toolbar for IE (Free from www.nils.org.au/ais/web/resources/toolbar/ )

DENIM (Free from guir.berkeley.edu/projects/denim )

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