5 Basic Softwares You Need For Web Design
Do you remember Rambo? :) He could slice a team like an onion even with his knife. But how could he beat big armies without heavy weapons?
Web designers, like Rambo, are like a one man army. You also have to possess the best weapons, sorry, the best softwares. Now I will try to explain the basic softwares you need to use for coding, graphic design, typography, usability and search engine optimization.
The First Hot Contact
Websites are composed of codes and graphics, other visual components. So you have to be good in writing codes and prepare good visuals. Of course, there are hundreds of softwares to do that. I’m designing websites since 1999, I’ve tried lots of softwares. I assure you that many of them don’t work. I actually use just a few of them. Me and many designers love them. If you want to learn this job and get professionnal, you too should love them. Good softwares let you create more precious jobs of better quality. It spares you time and then money.
Editplus
Editplus is a text editor who lets you write codes easily thanks to its simple interface. It has been my favorite for years. You just have to wait a few seconds to open it. It works really fast. This feature helped me gain a lot of time for jobs who needed urgent corrections. You finish your work easily thanks to its simple interface. It can be customized for all programming languages, you can also adapt it to your own habits of usage. Of course, there are lots of similar softwares. But writing codes is your priority job. The software you are going to use for this is very important for you. You absolutely have to read this article before using a different software.
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop is a graphic arrangement software with many features, strong and it is the leader of the sector. You can design and edit allt the visual component you are going to use in your website. Thanks to his user friendly interface and its strong features, what you can do is limited with your knowledge and creativity. Even if there are free alternatives, none of them can replace it. There are many sources who offer useful information about its usage because it is the most popular graphic arrangement editor. Besides, you can get to thousands of free templates which will support you in your learning process and which you can use for your jobs.
For Browser Conformity
There are many softwares for surfing on the internet. Unfortunately, each one of them might show your website differently. The code that works in one of them might not work on the other. Neither you, neither the user can’t profit by a website that doesn’t work properly. So your website should be conform to the popular browsers.
Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Firefox is an internet browser with open source, trustworthy, fast and customizable. açık kaynak kodlu, güvenilir, hızlı ve özelleştirilebilir bir İnternet tarayıcısı. That’s why almost half of the users use Mozilla Firefox as their internet browser according to the latest statistics. So it is very important for you to get your website conform with it.
I suggest you also should be a Mozilla Firefox user. Quit immediately whatever you are using for surfinf on the internet. Mozilla Firefox is the best, fastest and trustworthy internet browser. It’s trustworthy because its codes are open source. In other words, its codes are open to everyone. So everybody including the aliens can examine and modify them. There are thousands of people to notice a potential error and to offer some new ideas. Mozilla Developpers can produce the safiest internet browser for us because they are very strong and dynamic.
IETester
Internet Explorer is the most popular internet browser because Windows is the most popular operating system. But the problem is that all of the versions interpret the codes on your website differently. That causes your website to appear differently in every version of the Internet Explorer. Unfortunately, the utilisation rates of the 6,7 and 8. versions are very close to each other according to the latest statistics. That’s why your website should at least be conform to two of them. The evil news are that you can’t load two different versions of Internet Explorer on your computer. That’s where IETester helps us. Thanks to its simple interface, it shows us how our website will appear on all of the versions of Internet Explorer.
To Send Files
FTP is the short term for file transfer protocol. It is a network protocol that is developed in order to realise a file transfer between two computers that are connected to the internet. First of all, an interactive connection is set up between two computers. With the help of a serie of commands, the file sending and receiving operations are realised. Thanks to some developped softwares we can work out our work, without writing those commands, with a few clicks on the graphic interface.
Filezilla
When you wish to publish your website, you have to upload your files to a main computer which is called a server. We realise this work over a protocol we call FTP. According to the size of our job, we might habe to upload hundreds, even thousands of files. The file exchange process might take minutes, or sometimes hours depending on the size of your files. You might have to do this job every day for updates or corrections. So you need a software that works fast and without trouble, that realises a secure file transfer. Filezilla is one of the best FTP clients with its simple interface, its multilingual support, its feature of keeping the connection open, with its automatic Asci/Binary transfer support and with many developped helpers.
Share your experiences
Are you using these softwares? Or do you have different favorites? Naturally, I also have a margin of error. Share your thoughts and experiences with me. Let’s talk :).
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