Web developer tools

• Firefox add-ons

  Web Developer Extension

  A must for developers.

  Firebug

  View the dom tree of a page and edit the HTML, CSS and javascript.

  ColorZilla

  Find the hex value of any colour on the page or the browser.

  JSView

  Quickly and easily view external CSS and javascript files.

  IE Tab

  Useful for quickly seeing how the page looks in IE without leaving Firefox.

  IE View

  Opens the current page in IE.

  X-Ray

  See the tags on a page without viewing the source code.

  FireFTP

  An FTP client in your browser. Fantastic.

• Internet Explorer add-on

  Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar

  View the dom tree of a page, change the style and more.

• Text editors

  Notepad++

  An excellent text editor for Windows.

  EditPlus

  A pretty good text editor with built in ftp functions for Windows.

  EmEditor

  Save files with many different kinds of encoding. (Also for Windows)

  Bluefish

  A great text editor for Linux.

• Server

  XAMPP

  Install an apache server to test your PHP/MySql site locally.

• Image editor

  The Gimp

  Great open-source multi-platform image editor.

• FTP client

  FileZilla

  A great open-source FTP client for Windows.