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12PD Recommends

Color Wheel Pro is a unique software program that allows you to see color theory in action. With Color Wheel Pro, you can create harmonious color schemes and preview them on real-world examples.

Adobe Dreamweaver - this is more than a glorified text editor. Version 8 introduces some excellent new features like selective code-collapse, pixel-precision guides, and quick access to "snippets", and maintains the historic standbys that made it great: regular expression-based search and replace, outstanding site management, spell check and customized system integration (for things like WinMerge and Photoshop).

VMWare Player is a free virtualization tool that enables you to run additional operating systems "inside" your current operating system, through a windowed interface. The beauty here is that it lets you test your sites on alternative platforms and browsers as easily as opening your existing browser. VMWare isn't limited to web-browsing, either.

DQSD isn't "exactly" what one would call a web development tool or application, but the "floax" function enables you to code your own scripted actions which are as accessible to you as your mouse. I use it for things like converting the text on the clipboard to list items or paragraphs or quick-sorting it with a click of a button. And since it's all script, you can make your own do anything you can do in javascript or vbscript. As an added bonus, DQSD also includes the abilities, out of the box, to search nearly 400 search engines directly. Type, enter, you're there.