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EasyHTML
A free HTML editing tool. EasyHTML
allows you to edit the raw HTML while showing you the output
in another window. It is capable of generating Imagemaps and
other complicated code through dialog boxes.
Installation:
Click
here and choose to open (or to run) the file/program.
This will start the installation program. If you get a security
warning at this stage, you will need to click the "Yes"
button to continue with the installation. Once the installation
begins, follow the installation instructions.
EditPad Lite
Everyone needs a good text editor and EditPad is one of my
personal favourites. As always with really good programs,
it is simple small and fast but it also has some really useful
features. There is a button to launch your web browser with
the current file and it doesn't put .txt at the end of everything
like some other text editors. You can think of it as a beefed
up notepad. Once you start using it, it will become indispensable.
Since I first downloaded this one I have never gone back to
notepad. I have tried other free editors, but I always came
back to EditPad. You can get all the details at the EditPad
Lite page.
EditPad
classic is also available. This is the version that got
me hooked, it is still available, but I have moved on to EditPad
Lite. If you have some problems with EditPad Lite, or you
just like to go retro, check this one out as well.
Installation: Click
here and choose to open (or to run) the file/program.
This will start the installation program. If you get a security
warning at this stage, you will need to click the "Yes"
button to continue with the installation. Once the installation
begins, follow the installation instructions.
The GIMP
Gnu Image Manipulation Program. Gimp is a fairly powerful
image editing tool, and while it may not have all of the
features of PhotoShop and the like, it is free, and capable
of most
general tasks. This program is a little more effort to install
as there are two files to run, rather than just one, however
it is well worth the effort as it is a great little program.
Installation: You must install two
separate things for this program to work. The first is GTK+.
Click
Here and select "Open" to install this. Then
Click
Here to install The Gimp for Windows. This program will not
work is GTK+ is not installed first. If you have troubles,
then see this
website for more installation
instructions. Please note that we have included the source
files as required by the distribution licence, however you
do not need them to run the program.
PHPDev
This package contains everything you need to set up a web
server on your computer. Rather than having to fiddle for
hours to configure everything, this package installs pre-configured
versions of Apache (the
web server), MySQL (a database
engine, allowing you to create a website which can store and
retrieve information 'on the fly'), PHP
and perl (scripting languages),
as well as an assortment of useful tools. Once you’ve
installed it, you can enable the whole thing by just running
a batch file. You can get updated versions here.
Installation:
Click
here and choose to open (or to run) the file/program.
This will start the installation program. If you get a security
warning at this stage, you will need to click the "Yes"
button to continue with the installation. Once the installation
begins, follow the installation instructions.
Xitami web server
Nothing on the internet happens without web servers. When
you connect to an internet site you are actually attaching
to a web server that will serve you the page you are looking
for. Normally we are logging into large servers running on
huge machines far far away, but with this program you can
make your computer into a web server. It just sits in the
background serving up pages whenever anyone asks for them.
Chances are, no one will because you don't have a www.whatever.com
address, rather your address is something like 137.111.240.203
and probably changes every time you log onto the internet.
BUT, there are some services on the web where you can be given
a static address AND having your own server is a very good
way to test sites before they go live. This particular web
server is fast and robust. It offers a cgi-bin as well as
the standard HTML serving. This is a good server for beginners.
For serious web serving, see PHPDev. You can find out more
about Xitami at the Xitami
home page.
Installation: Click
here and choose to open (or to run) the file/program.
This will start the installation program. If you get a security
warning at this stage, you will need to click the "Yes"
button to continue with the installation. Once the installation
begins, follow the installation instructions.
Vim
Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable
efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi
editor distributed with most UNIX systems. Vim isn't a word
processor. Although it can display text with various forms
of highlighting and formatting, it isn't there to provide
WYSIWYG editing of typeset documents. Vim is often called
a "programmer's editor," and so useful for programming
that many consider it an entire IDE. It's not just for programmers,
though. Vim is perfect for all kinds of text editing, from
composing email to editing configuration files. You can find
out more at the Vim home page.
Installation: Click
here and choose to open (or to run) the file/program.
This will start the installation program. If you get a security
warning at this stage, you will need to click the "Yes"
button to continue with the installation. Once the installation
begins, follow the installation instructions.
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