(X)HTML Hypertext Markup Language Apache The Apache webserver. Sorry, I don't have any experience with IIS or any of the others. Blogging Be a blogger. See the RSS section too. Color Color schemes Wellstyled Color scheme generator. Mono, Contrast, Triad, Pastel, Strong- lots of options. Gives you a 4-color scheme as output. Visibone 216 web-safe colors with contrasting colors Colorblender Match colors & design a palette CPick Little Windows program to easily pick any color from your screen (with magnifier), then manipulat & ouput as you want. Scroll down & you'll find it. Colorblender Input 2 colors and get up to 10 colors blending the two. [Thanks Patrick C.] Colortoy Input a base color and get a 9-color color scheme to choose from. Yafla's Color Tool Create color schemes and do RGB/HSV Conversion. Color Palette Generator Input a photo and this tool analyzes the colors and suggests a color scheme Content Management Systems Easily manage your content with these systems :) CSS Cascading style sheets, separation of church and state- oh I mean separation of content and presentation. Customer service / Support Providing support, customer service & help to your customers OTRS Open Ticket Request System- built to accommodate support, sales, pre-sales, billing, internal IT, helpdesk, functions RT Open source trouble ticket software from best practical. Popular. [Thanks Chris F.] Design, Style & Useability Create usable sites for a modern age :) Domains Domains, registration & transfers. ECommerce Selling / buying things OSCommerce Open-source eCommerce solution VirtueMart Open-source Zen Cart Open source shopping cart system CRE Loaded Open source ecommerce package. Havn't used it, but looks quite promising. [free and pay versions avail.] Cube Cart eCommerce package, looks pretty popular. Free & paid versions available. Not open source. [Thanks ScurvyD] Editors & IDEs Text editors, & integrated development environments for web development. Textpad I use this powerful text editor several hours of every day :) Has syntax hiliting & + [shareware] Emacs FAQ Editplus Text editer, Syntax hiliting, Commercial, Haven't tried it :) The Vim editor and its docs . Used by many. [vi improved] BBEdit Awesome text editor with all you need for web dev. [Mac] [commercial] Site Aid HTML Editor Matrix Y2K Free HTML editor Max's HTML Beauty Full-featured HTML editor [free] Notepad++ Full featured source code editor [free, Windows] [Thanks Ron E.] PSPad Freeware text editor for Windows [Thanks Ron E.] JSide JavaScript Editor/IDE. Written in Java. NetBeans Open source Java IDE from Sun. [Win/Linux/Mac/Solaris] NetBeans Javascript Editor Adds Javascript & CSS editors to the Netbeans IDE. Lots of features incl. code completion. Aptana Open source Javascript, CSS & HTML IDE. [Win/Linux/Mac] Notepad2 Another (free) text editor [Win]. I had seen this years ago, but thanks eSommer for remiding me. HTML-Kit Create, edit, validate, preview and publish web pages and scripts. Free & paid versions available. [Win] [Thanks DonL.] Crimson Editor Full featured, free programmer's editor tsWebEditor Free, open source editor for web programming languages. Quanta Open source editor, full of features [Linux] Firefox Extensions Firefox extensions that are helpful to webmastersForum Software Have a community Vanilla Open-source standards-compliant discussion forum (Php/MySQL)
vBulletin
Commercial, but one of the most popular forum packages (Php/MySQL) PhpBB Open-source. Reputation for being buggy/insecure (Php/MySQL) SMF Simple Machines Forum. Free, but not OS. (Php/MySQL) IPB Invision Power Board - Commercial, but pretty popular (Php/MySQL) Phorum Open-source, nice product (Php/MySQL) bbPress Forum software from the makers of Wordpress. [free] Freelancing Find freelance programmers, designers, translators etc. Or find work :) FTP / SSH / Telnet File transfer & server connections/control Sitecopy Keep the remote site sync'ed with the local site (Win, LInux, FreeBSD, & others) Smart FTP Easy Windows FTP client. [free for personal use] PuTTY a Free Telnet/SSH Client WinSCP free SFTP and SCP client [windows] Beyond Compare Folder/file comparison. Local & remote. Includes FTP abilities. [commercial] (but awesome) Filezilla Open source FTP client (and server too). [Thanks greguly] Poderosa Tabbed terminal emulator for Windows. Nice. [Thanks Dave P.] Google Google gets its own section :) Graphics Tools for creating/manipulating images & sources for images AjaxLoad Create an AJAX "loading" animated .gif Favicon Chami's online tool for creating favicons from other images PhotoMatt On how to create a favicon Dynamic Drive Favicon generator. They also have a button maker , a gradient image maker , and an image optimizer . Corbis Royalty-free & commercial images (req. registration) Image splitter Slice and dice your images Image Embellisher Add special effects to your images (online tool) Browsershots Test your webdesign in different browsers. Free screenshots/thumbnails of URLs. Thumbshots Free, (with attribution) hosted thumbnails of your website. Sites to get thumbnails for must be in Dmoz The GIMP GNU Image Manipulation Program. Like Photoshop/Fireworks only better & free. Imagemagick examples Examples, tutorials & basic how-to. Imagemagick Command-line software suite to create, edit, compose and convert images to and from many formats. iStockPhoto Good selection of reasonably priced graphics & stock photos. Commercial. [Thanks Mike C.] Trout's gif optimizer Pare down the size of all those gifs on your site. [freeware, Windows] Yafla's Pure jpeg A Command-line app to reduce jpg filesize by removing unnecessary information (EXIF, thumbnails, comments etc) [free, Win] Hosting Got to have someplace to host. Of course there are hundreds of other hosting companies, but these are the best (subjective of course).
Dotster
From about $5/month. Haven't used them.
Omnis
From $7/month. I haven't used them for hosting, but I've registered domains with Omnis.
Godaddy
As cheap as $3/month, not sure about quality.
1 and 1
Jump on the 1&1 bandwagon! From $3/month & free domain under some circumstances.
Netfirms
Web hosting $10/month and up.
Dreamhost
I've been happy with them for a year now. Outrageous bandwidth available. A Small Orange I haven't used them, but I've heard *lots* of good things. Javascript / AJAX Javascript is not Java, and the ubiquitous AJAX is Javascript. JS WYSIWYG Editors Javascript editors to place on your pages or in your web app. Mailing lists / Listserv Manage mailing lists & Listservs. The ones marked "Listserv" are for email discussions among many users, the others are for you to email to the list. Maintenance Keep your site in tip-top shape Mobile accessibility Stuff to help you make your site accessible to mobile (phone, pda etc) users Mobi Ready Report Evaluates your site on accessibility issues for mobile browsing devices Handheld media type test (CSS) Go to this in your browser and it will evaluate to "screen", go on your phone/pda and it will evaluate (or should) to "handheld" Phone emulator Test your site with a Nokia & Sony Ericsson phone emulator Pukupi mimic Emulate your site on Japanese/European iMode phones. Wapsilon Browse WAP pages with your regular browser. Opera Mini Emulator This is a live demo of Opera Mini that functions exactly like it would when installed on a handset. [Java Applet] Monetization How can you make money with your website? Perl Larry Wall's dynamic programming language. Php Php the web programming language Official Php site Search the php function list right from the main site, or better yet, download the complete docs. Php Classes.org Learn by using the example scripts they have (req. registration) Hot Scripts Php scripts Predefined variables See what's in the $_SERVER array etc CakePhp Like rails is to ruby. A rapid development framework for Php. PEAR A framework of reusable Php components. Smarty template engine A good template engine. I usually find them unnecessary, but Smarty has it's fans. ezSQL A database abstraction class for Php. Works with lots of DBs. Promotion Get the word out about your site. Python Google's favorite programming language. Reg Ex Regular Expressions Robots / Spiders / Search Handling robots or adding search to your site RSS/Atom feeds Learn about syndication. See also the blogging section. RSS => RDF Site Summary / Really Simple Syndication. Ruby / RoR Ruby is a programming language, Ruby on Rails is a simple open source web application framework written in Ruby. SEO / SEM Search Engine Optimization & Marketing & Online marketing / promotion in general Servers Servers and server administration stuff. See also the Apache section. Lighttpd A light-footprint, efficient HTTP server. XAMPP A nice package for development work. Install Apache, MySQL, Php, PhpMyAdmin & more all in one go. SQL All about SQL (mostly MySQL-specific stuff) Statistics Server stats can be really useful AWStats Open source stats generation Analog Stats / logfile analyzer Report magic Post processing for prettier output for Analog. Google Analytics Formerly Urchin. Nice free analysis opportunity Pollywog Java-based log analysis application [new] Tracewatch Real-time stats & log analysis [free] The Webalizer fast, free web server log file analysis program Visitors GPL'd web log analyzer. Source code is free, compiled Windows binaries aren't. You can compile the code yourself, if you want. [Thanks Bren] Glad my visitors don't come from outer space. Firestats Web statistics system. Integrates with different CMSs.
Tools There are lots of tools that didn't seem to fit in the other categories Tutorials, Examples, Code & Reference This is for sites that have lots of examples and tutorials, but don't fit into one category for JS, CSS, Php etc. Brainjar Tutorials for Javascript, DHTML, Asp, .NET, Java, & CSS W3C Schools Tutorials & Reference on: HTML, XHTML, CSS, Javascript, DOM, Php, WML & more. DevShed Sections for all major programming languages WDVL Web developer's virtual library Code Project's web scripting section. Dev Guru Quick references for most of the technologies in use for web development. Very useful. GoToAPI Search a bunch of programming reference sites at once. Validation, Cross-browser checking Make sure it validates and works in most browsers. See also the Mobile accessibility section for phone/pda-specific validators. HTML 2 Txt See what your website looks like to a text-only browser such as lynx and some search engine spiders W3C HTML validator Jigsaw W3C CSS Validator Backwards Compatibility Checker Delorie's tool to see what your page looks like with various browser features disabled (Frames, JS, CSS etc) Header Checker See what HTTP headers your site sends out, check for correct mime types, 301 redirection etc Walidator Validate CSS, HTML, RSS, RDF, XHTML, etc WebXCACT Test your site for quality, accessibility, and privacy issues Favicon validator Make sure your favicon file, link etc are all working cross browser. Selenium Test your web application across a wide range of web browsers. [free, open source] (Thx Ricky L.) Vischeck Simulate different types of color vision and colorblindness to see what your webpage looks like to people with these conditions. Color Filter See what a webpage looks like to the colorblind. WebDAV Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning (Thanks Dan M. for suggesting this) Webmaster Forums Talk about what you're doing