My Favorite Web Development Tools on Windows

Raw Text Editor

  • Sublime Text 2
    • HTML Tidy Plugin
    • HTML Encode Plugin
  • NotePad++

WYSIWYG Editor

  • Dreamweaver (good for updated large tables)

SSH Client

  • mRemoteNG with Putty (for UTF-8 support, select UTF-8 in the Translation setting in Putty)

Terminal / Shell / Console

SOAP Web Service Testing Tool

  • soapUI

Diffing Tool

  • WinMerge
  • BeyondCompare (includes image differ)
  • Araxis (includes image differ)

Bulk File Renamer

  • Rename Expert

File / Directory Listing

(S)FTP / Synching Tool

  • WinSCP

 SVN Client

  • SmartSVN

HTTP Monitor

  • Fiddler
  • HTTPDebugger

Web Inspector

  • Google Chrome Inspector

Raster Graphic Editor

  • Photoshop

Vector Graphic Editor

  • Inkscape

 Screen Capture

  • DuckCapture
  • SnagIt

 Virtual Machine

  • Oracle VirtualBox (for testing different versions of IE)

 Video Encoding

  • Quicktime Pro
  • Miro Video Converter

Amazon S3 Manager

  • CyberDuck

Chrome Extensions

  • JSONView
  • PageRank Status
  • Show Title Tag
  • Web Developer
  • jQuerify
  • AdBlock
  • Pendule
  • Awesome Color Picker
  • Tape
  • CSS Diff

Font for coding

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