Useful Tools
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Useful Tools For Working With Zen Cart™
Descriptions of these tools can be found at the individual web sites
PHP, HTML and Text Editors
Freeware
- Arachnophillia (allows GUI design of HTML)
- Crimson Editor
- Notepad++
- NotePadXP
- Nvu (allows GUI design of HTML)
- PHP Editor
- Win32Pad
- PSPad
Commercial
- BBEdit (Mac)
- Dreamweaver (allows GUI design of HTML)
- TextMate
- TextPad
- Namo WebEditor
CSS Debuggers
- Firefox with the Web Developer Extension
CSS Editors
Freeware
- CSS Tab Designer (only for building CSS tabs)
- TopStyle Lite (Ideal for editing CSS files in general)
Commercial
- BBEdit (Mac)
- TextPad
- TopStyle Pro
Text-Search Tools
Freeware
Commercial
Graphics Editors
Freeware
Commercial
Screenshot Tools
Freeware
- IcoMaker
- IrfanView
- Pixen
- PrintScreen
- Screen grab! (Add-On for FireFox)
- Snapper (Add-On for FireFox)
Commercial
Color Pickers
Freeware
- ColorZilla (Add-On for FireFox)
- Vista
Commercial
File Comparison Utility
Freeware
Commercial
- BBEdit (Mac)
- Beyond Compare
FTP Tools
Freeware
Commercial
- BBEdit (Mac)
- WS_FTP Pro
- Zend Studio
We often find folks reporting in the support forum that they have had problems with corrupted uploads or incomplete uploads due to timeouts which have occurred while using SmartFTP and CuteFTP. Thus, we recommend against using those products. Usually FileZilla and WS_FTP (Freeware and Commercial) are found to have no difficulties whatsoever.
File Archiver/Zip Utility
Freeware
Commercial
Browser Addon's/Utilities
Freeware
- Aardvark (Add-On for FireFox)
- BBCodeXtra (Add-On for FireFox)
- CoLT (Add-On for FireFox)
- CSSViewer (Add-On for FireFox)
- FireBug (Add-On for FireFox)
- FireFox (Browser)
- HTML Tidy (Add-On for FireFox)
- Internet Explorer (Browser) with dev tools
- Safari WebDevAdditions
- Selenium IDE (Add-On for FireFox)
- SourceEditor (Add-On for FireFox)
- View Source Chart (Add-On for FireFox)
- Web Developer (Add-On for FireFox)
- Xinha Here! (Add-on HTML editor for FireFox to edit text areas) Can be used to edit EZ-pages and define pages instead of using an editor that is part of the Zen-Cart installation.
Validators
Freeware
Database Manipulation Tools
Freeware
Commercial
Local Web Server for Development Environment
Freeware
Other things
Freeware
- JSView (Add-On for FireFox)
- Wink - a Tutorial and Presentation creation software for windows
External Resources/Tutorials
- MySQL
- php.net
- SitePoint.com
- Tizag.com
- W3 Schools
- Zen Cart Tutorials
- Clean CSS Online tool to optimize your stylesheet
- CSS Formatter and Optimiser Online tool to optimize your stylesheet
- See: CSS Resources
