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The best price to pay for quality software is always nothing. Enjoy this collection of links to free software which will enable you to make a great website without spending a dollar. All of this software is completwly free - no nag screens, no reminders, no payments whatsoever.

Free HTML Editors

AceHTML

A powerful, free HTML editor, AceHTML comes packed with outstanding features. Although this Web page software is completely free, it offers a solid collection of tools to help novices and professional webmasters build Web sites with speed, ease, and convenience.

Download it here


NVU

Nvu is based on Gecko , the layout engine inside Mozilla ; it's a super-fast, very reliable, standards conformant engine maintained on a daily basis by a wide community of developers. Its remarkable support of XML, CSS and JavaScript offers the best authoring platform on the market. Its architecture based on XUL makes it the most extensible editing tool ever.

Download it here


CoffeeCup Free HTML Editor

The CoffeeCup Free HTML Editor is a drag and drop HTML Editor with Built-in FTP uploading. It has wizards for tables, frames, forms and fonts and comes with all HTML 4.0 and XHTML tags. The Free version also includes wizards for images, links and a Quickstart so you can create web pages fast.

Download it here


Trellian WebPage

Trellian WebPage allows you to create your own web pages without having to learn complex scripting languages. WebPage's WYSIWYG interface makes editing pages as easy as using your favorite word processor. Web masters and other advanced users can hand code HTML using the built in Color Highlighted source editor, while HTML wizards are available to make web design faster & easier.

Download it here


Amaya

Using Amaya you can create Web pages and upload them onto a server. Authors can create a document from scratch, they can browse the web and find the information they need, copy and paste it to their pages, and create links to other Web sites. All this is done in a straightforward and simple manner, and actions are performed in a single consistent environment. Editing and browsing functions are integrated seamlessly in a single tool.

Perhaps the best thing about Amaya is that it's from the W3, the authority on web authoring.

Download it here


HTML-Kit

HTML-Kit is a full-featured, highly customizable and free development environment that can be used to create, edit, validate, preview and publish web pages and scripts.

Download it here


1st Page 2006

The latest version includes hundreds of new features and bug fixes. First Page 2006 now includes full support for HTML, XHTML, PHP, ASP, Cold Fusion, Javascript, CSS, SSI and Perl. FirstPage 2006 is designed for professional web development. Create, Edit and deploy websites with absolute ease and precision. The integrated tools empower web developers to develop standards-based web documents, quickly and easily.

Download it here


Free Color Pickers

Iconico Colorpic

Ever tried using a color picker on a high resolution monitor? It's impossible. That's why this color picker has a magnifier attached. Grab palettes of up to 16 colors at once and use four advanced color mixers to select a spectrum of possibilities.

Download it here


Pixie

Pixie is an easy-to-use, fast and tiny utility designed especially to fit the needs of Webmasters and Designers. Its a colour picker that includes a mouse tracker. Run it, simply point to a colour and it will tell you the hex, RGB, HTML, CMYK and HSV values of that colour. You can then use these values to reproduce the selected colour in your favorite programs. Pixie will also show the current x y position of your mouse pointer. Its the only tool you'll need for working with colours.

It is a stunningly tiny 62Kb! The low inpact this program carries is great.

Download it here


Color Schemer v2.0 Online

Mix and match potential color schemes with this online color schemer provided by www.colorschemer.com. Each time you click on a color it provides you with 15 other browser-safe colors that go with it.

Use it here


Free FTP Clients

FTP Commander

FTP Commander client is simple and easy to use. It's really the bare minimum with no extra frills or thrills. It offers a no-nonsense interface consisting of two side-by-side local computer and FTP server panels. The latter contains a list of about a dozen pre-set FTP servers. It's easy as pie to establish a connection. All you have to do is select the server you want on the list and push the Connect button. Pre-configuring a list of most frequently accessed servers will make your life even easier. An application also enables users to execute two-way file exchanges and activate multiple downloads. FTP Commander software also makes it possible to run programs located on local disks, or view documents. This ftp program occupies far less space on hard drives and RAM than other similar paid programs. It also allows you to delete, rename and and copy files, create and delete directories in the FTP server and work in command line mode. A session log file is also available. And what is more, the program is absolutely free and does not contain any annoying ad banners.

Download it here


Smart FTP

Smart FTP offers a host of features including secure connection, a modern GUI, support for languages, on-the-fly compression, drag-and-drop, auto-reconnect and resume of broken transfers, transfer queue and firewall support.

Download it here


CoffeeCup Free FTP

CoffeeCup Free FTP is a fast no frills FTP program that makes it easy to drag and drop files to and from your Website. It supports multiple server profiles, resumes broken uploads and downloads, and can transfer files in binary, ASCII, or auto-mode. Free FTP works with any server and is so easy to setup. Just enter your username and password and click "Connect". Free FTP remembers your server info so connecting to your site again is a snap.

Download it here


Free Web Browsers

Mozilla Firefox

It's free and it's cool.


Microsoft Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer provides a flexible and reliable browsing experience with enhanced Web privacy features for all Windows users. This version includes a full installation of the Web browser and the most recent version of Outlook Express, the e-mail client that is included with Internet Explorer.

Whether you are a home user browsing content or getting e-mail on the Web, an IT administrator deploying and maintaining a rich set of Windows Internet technologies, or a Web developer creating Web content, Internet Explorer 6 gives you the freedom to experience the best of the Internet.

Download it here


Opera

The most full-featured Internet power tool on the market, Opera includes pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, integrated searches, and advanced functions like Opera's groundbreaking E-mail program, RSS Newsfeeds and IRC chat. And because we know that our users have different needs, you can customize the look and content of your Opera browser with a few clicks of the mouse.


Free Site Search and Blogging Solutions

FusionBot

This site search package is great for personal and small business sites as a tool to understand the powerful functionality search can bring to your site.

You can have up to 250 pages indexed, which is ample for most sites.

Check it out here

Google Free Site Search

Google Free places a Google search box right on your site for you. You do not get paid per search and click. If you utilize Google AdSense (check out the link in the top of my left sidebar) you do get paid when people click on results after using your search box.

Use Google Free search the same way you use Google.com and you'll get exactly the same results. Please be sure you understand and agree to our Terms of Service or you may be asked to remove Google Free from your site.

Check it out here

WordPress

Wordpress is a free, high-quality blogging and publishing tool.

WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a mouthful. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time. More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it.

Check it out here

TextPattern

A free, flexible, elegant, easy-to-use content management system for all kinds of websites, even weblogs. This is a great C.M.S.

Check it out here

Drupal

Drupal is an open source content management platform (CMS). Equipped with a powerful blend of features, Drupal can support a variety of websites ranging from personal weblogs to large community-driven websites.

Check it out here

http://drupal.org/