Tools for Web Site Design on Windows

Some people make fun of me around here, and it’s not just because of my hair, my hygiene or the myriads of action figures I have on my desk. You see, I’m the only one in the shop with a PC back home. I know, I know; I constantly hang my head in shame. But have no fear, my fiancee and I also have an Ubuntu Linux box and a MacBook, but I do most of my freelance web work on a two year-old XP laptop. So when Jon wrote his article last month on the tools we use to maintain BIG Images’ web site, naturally it was all Mac software, and I thought I’d do a little representing and show the Windows world some love.

As with the previous month's article, I've tried to find solutions within the shareware and the free and open-source community.

Web Development Applications:

• Stylizer
  
• $69.95
• Live preview of sites, view changes to the page as you make them
• Amazingly attractive UI
• CSSVista
• Free
• Extract and edit the CSS from any page on the internet
• See your changes applied live in both IE and Firefox at the same time
• Doesn't save files from within the program, you have to copy and paste it into your editor
• Aptana Studio Community Edition
  
• Free
• Although initially meant to be a Javascript coding program, it has great support for HTML, CSS and PHP
• Syntax hilighting
• Relatively attractive interface
• Their code assist feature shows helpful hints about code as you type it
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