Dreamweaver (web), Flash Catalyst, Flash Professional (animation), Flash Builder, Photoshop Extended (photos+paint), Illustrator, Acrobat Pro (pdf), Fireworks (animated GIFs, SWFs), Contribute (CMS), Bridge, Device Central (cell phones).

Photoshop Extended (photos+paint), Illustrator (vector graphics), InDesign, Acrobat Pro (PDF), Flash Catalyst, Flash Professional (animation), Flash Builder, Dreamweaver (web), Fireworks (animated GIFs, SWFs), Contribute (CMS), Adobe Premiere Pro (video), After Effects (video), Soundbooth (audio, audio in video), Adobe OnLocation, Encore, Bridge, Device Central (cell phones), Dynamic Link. Best all-around solution. Soundbooth can edit sound in video files.

made only for doing ASP.Net. Expression Blend + SketchFlow (Silverlight and .net), Expression Web, Expression Design (artwork), Expression Encoder + IIS Smooth Streaming (video). This is the "best" solution for .Net

you can go for one of the all-out suites like Adobe Web Premium, or you can go get a collection of smaller free pieces and try to work with those.

if you don't have a good CSS editor like dreamweaver or microsoft expression web, this is the way to go. have a CSS book handy to tell you what the CSS items are so you can choose which browser or CSS standard you are targeting. there is also a 'safe mode' set.

flagship of HTML editors. works with PHP, ASP, ColdFusion, WML, XML, XHTML, Flash, Applets, CSS, blah blah. WYSIWYG editing capability including w/layers, though you WYSIWYG is extremely limited. color syntax highlighting, templates. doed regular expressions (regex) well and dreamweaver can search/replace your entire site if you want. also has a very precious "live view" wherein you can explore and debug and fix your JS and AJAX code and CSS without having to go into a browser.

This is the best package at doing CSS that you can get, integrates really well. have tried FrontPage. FrontPage used to mangle the HTML & strip out tags & javascript it didn't think belonged there (which meant all of it). This is an entirely new product, more like dreamweaver now, now that it's twice as pricey. this is part of the Microsoft Expression Studio ($600) package.

fancy IDE for editing and debugging web apps. includes javascript debugger (firefox, IE), works with rails, html5, php, built-in FTP/SFTP/FTPS, live preview for popular browsers, DOM outline view, has JS libraries. editor is fully extensible by YOU using rails snippets. multiplatform. license claims the stable release is beta software and is not for commercial use (this also goes against GPL). how it can be under the GPL license where it says distribute freely and make source code available, and also under the aptana license where it says not distribute seems to be a GPL license breach. you can't have it both ways.

sort of like Dreamweaver, but a lot less features, and free. better than nvu and based on NVU code. includes FTP client.

sort of like Dreamweaver, but a lot less features, and free. Not incredibly great, but it works fine if you don't have money.

supposed to be configurable, but I am not sure to what degree. you can configure it to save the state of your edit windows. has HTML Tidy and an HTML Validator. color syntax highlighting. 1000 plugins available (ugh) for handling more languages such as JavaScript, C#, etc. and other features.

programmer's editors can handle huge files. they aren't always good at color syntax highlighting like dreamweaver. but they are usually free and they do regular expressions (regex) well, and so does dreamweaver, and dreamweaver can search/replace your entire site if you want.

tse is a 32-bit command-shell (2.8 older version) or windows editor for Win9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista. I've been using version 2.8 and now 4.4 and it's been great! it includes a hex/binary editor, regexp search and replace, a command-line grep utility and loads of features. it emulates several editors (you choose). the command-line version even handles windows cut and paste. configurable syntax highlighting. macro recording & playback. has scripting lanugage (not the easiest to learn, but has complete documentation). brace matching, auto-matching-brace insertion. handles very large files and up to 2048-character lines. advanced column-block editing, great for editing text databases!

many advanced features, similar to, but I would consider a subset of TSE. has macros.

upgrades may cost you money. Appears to have no installer. encryption DLL is also a pain to get and install. its programming language is called Clip. Unfortunately, they chose the name Clipbook to call their contributed user library of functions, which is the microsoft name for something to do with a collection of clipboard content or something.

free. syntax highlighting and syntax folding. macro recording & playback. drag-n-drop. multi-document. print source code in color. lots of languages supported. brace and indent highlighting. regexp search/replace. column-block editing.

there are many plugins to this editor for editing various lanugages (PHP, C++, HTML, XML, COBOL, Java, Perl, etc) and it has a CASE (Computer Aided Software Engineering) tool like UML. Even has a Requirements Engineering plugin. has UML (CASE tool) plugins for diagramming your software architecture. Eclipse is used for Enterprise development, Embedded+device development, Rich Client platform, Application frameworks, and as a language IDE (Integrated Development Environment). This is a web designer's tool and a programmer's editor and debugging environment. you are probably better off installing classic and installing the plugins you need.

I like the Everything Book, I got the laminated versions. they are quick reference guides.

Mac, Windows. uses adobe extendscript scripting language, which is I think a much later version of Javascript than what is used in browsers. the $1000 flagship of photo editors and the standard file format used for photo exchange used in newspapers, business, web, pretty much everywhere. Often used with Illustrator, which is the vector graphics package, for another $700, but for the price of those two you can get a Premium Suite with many more packages. a mask is applied to each layer or something like that (I don't have my book, and I don't own this package because I never could afford it). maybe someday I can upgrade. takes Photoshop filter Plugins - wow you can do some amazing stuff with those! features in addition to regular photoshop: 3d painting and compositing, 3d object and property editing, content-aware scaling, masks panel, adjustments panel, smoother panning and zooming, 360-degree panoramas, auto-blending of images, fluid canvas rotation, single-key shortcuts, 3d object animation, better raw image processing, file display options, extended depth of field, broad file format support, enhanced color correction, quantitative data extraction, improved count tool, scale markers, MATLAB support, Quick selection tool, high quality output, 32-bit high dynamic range (HDR) support, DICOM volume rendering, DICOM image support, more powerful printing options, richer painting and drawing toolset, higher performance on very large images, integration with other adobe software such as lightroom & illustrator & pdf & indesign, rotating motion blur and other motion blur simulation, edit tracking, 3d object animation, and you can measure dimensions of a room given the picture of it.

Mac, Windows. uses adobe extendscript scripting language, which is I think a much later version of Javascript than what is used in browsers. the $700 flagship of photo editors and the standard file format used for photo exchange used in newspapers, business, web, pretty much everywhere. but it's expensive. Often used with Illustrator, which is the vector graphics package, for another $700, but for the price of those two you can get a Premium Suite with many more packages. a mask is applied to each layer or something like that (I don't have my book, and I don't own this package because I never could afford it). maybe someday I can upgrade. takes Photoshop filter Plugins - wow you can do some amazing stuff with those! Sorry, I do not have experience with photoshop, but I am told it has pretty much everything except a good set of vector tools - they left that up to illustrator.

Mac, Windows. uses adobe extendscript scripting language *I think*, which is I think a much later version of Javascript than what is used in browsers. a scaled down version of the the $700 flagship of photo editors and the standard file format used for photo exchange used in newspapers, business, web, pretty much everywhere. a mask is applied to each layer or something like that (I don't have my book, and I don't own this package because I nevewr could afford it). takes Photoshop filter Plugins - wow you can do some amazing stuff with those!

Mac, Windows. make animated gifs, animated swf's, design wireframe web sites where pages (including forms) have some common content/look-and-feel before you go into dreamweaver to flesh it out. made for animated gifs and flash swf animations, specifically for the web, but it doesn't do flash as well as flash. uses adobe extendscript scripting language *I think*, which is I think a much later version of Javascript than what is used in browsers. a scaled down version of the the $700 flagship of photo editors and the standard file format used for photo exchange used in newspapers, business, web, pretty much everywhere. a mask is applied to each layer or something like that (I don't have my book, and I don't own photoshop because I never could afford it). Onionskinning, keyframes just like Flash. deals with objects and editor looks very similar to flash, same tools.

comes with a lite version of the famous Painter at this price, and KPT plugins! Windows PC with DVD drive. Does layers & masks. Some books (mostly older versions) available on amazon.com. PSP has *integrated* vector graphics and art media, something I have not found with the Adobe products. There are several layer types: Vector, Raster/RGB/Bitmap, Art Media, Mask. This makes the program VERY flexible and useful for web graphics. takes Photoshop filter Plugins - wow you can do some amazing stuff with those! vector graphics, photoshop plugins capability, shapes - more quantity is better, picture tubes/stamps, photo frames, HLS and RGB color, HTML hexadecimal color codes in the color palette, photo touchup (scatch remover!, clone tool, red eye removal, 1-step photo-fix), perspective correction, support for 250 camera raw formats, background remover, photo frames, photo edges, straighten, rotate, crop, resize, and layering cabaility, masks, screen mode on the layers.

register/pay for. Windows. does vectors and bitmap graphics. has a number of impressive features for vectors like liquid vector edit (like the push tool, only for vectors). natural paint styles, 3d objects properties and effects, airbrush, painted art, photo-realistic imagery, hand-drawn illustration, extrusions, special effects, sparkles & lens-flare (non-destructive),

Mac. has quite a number of features for a small editor, and layers.

Windows, Mac, Windows (XP and above). Does layers & I think masks. don't use the free version - it's unreliable and you can'tr use filters and there are other problems (crippleware). does not do animations. hard to make a transparent background. takes Photoshop Plugins. supports a few common file formats. page curls with holes for letters, frames, filter factory, frames.

low-end but free paint program. haven't successfully got it to save anything with text in it on win9x/ME - just gives a "missing font" error and never saves the file. 2.6.8 or later works fine on XP and above.

for transferring your web files to hosting server. multi-platform.

you can't have 2 mysql or postgresql database engines installed at the same time. Also I highly prefer XAMPP over this stack. XAMPP works out of the box.

Apache, FileZilla FTP Server, MySQL, SQLite, PHP + PEAR, Perl, mod_php, mod_perl, mod_ssl, OpenSSL, phpMyAdmin, Webalizer, Mercury Mail Transport System, WEB-DAV + mod_auth_mysql, Ming, JpGraph, mcrypt, eAccelerator. platforms: windows, solaris, mac os x, linux. read the Vista/7 problems FAQ before installing on Vista/7.

Linux Apache web server, MySQL database server, PHP server-side scripting.

Mac OSX Apache web server, MySQL database server, PHP server-side scripting.

Windows Apache web server, MySQL database server, PHP server-side scripting.

Linux Apache web server, PostgreSQL database server, PHP server-side scripting.

Mac OSX Apache web server, PostgreSQL database server, PHP server-side scripting.

Windows Apache web server, PostgreSQL database server, PHP server-side scripting.

Windows Apache web server, MySQL database server, Ruby on Rails scripting. you might be hard-pressed to find a hosting server that supports Ruby.

multi-platform. has issues working on newer versions of windows. has everything you could want in a web server - email server, filezilla ftp server, apache web server, php, mysql and a control panel to start and stop them.

ff,chrome

lower versions of ff

ff,seamonkey,tbird,ie,chrome

sites to test your on-server web page in many flavors and versions of browser.

includes IE9 beta, latest versions of browsers. high quality. onionskinning with choice-of-2-browsers fader, 4up or 2up view. browsers don't get too old (I think has IE5.5 but not anything less). you can set the delay in seconds of the snapshot for javascript to kick in or for slow servers. you get an unclickable browser image. has rulers.

browsers go back really far, but they don't get very recent. for instance, there is no IE9 beta, but there is IE8. there is no Opera 10.

very nice error checking! must browse to files only though.