Useful Tools

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Contents 1 Useful Tools For Working With Zen Cart™ 2 PHP, HTML and Text Editors 2.1 Freeware 2.2 Commercial 3 CSS Debuggers 4 CSS Editors 4.1 Freeware 4.2 Commercial 5 Text-Search Tools 5.1 Freeware 5.2 Commercial 6 Graphics Editors 6.1 Freeware 6.2 Commercial 7 Screenshot Tools 7.1 Freeware 7.2 Commercial 8 Color Pickers 8.1 Freeware 8.2 Commercial 9 File Comparison Utility 9.1 Freeware 9.2 Commercial 10 FTP Tools 10.1 Freeware 10.2 Commercial 11 File Archiver/Zip Utility 11.1 Freeware 11.2 Commercial 12 Browser Addon's/Utilities 12.1 Freeware 13 Validators 13.1 Freeware 14 Database Manipulation Tools 14.1 Freeware 14.2 Commercial 15 Local Web Server for Development Environment 15.1 Freeware 16 Other things 16.1 Freeware 17 External Resources/Tutorials

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

• Crimson Editor
• HandyFile v1.2
• NotePadXP
• PSPad

Commercial

• BBEdit (Mac)
• Funduc
• HandyFile
• TextMate

Graphics Editors

Freeware

• GIMP
• IrfanView
• Photo Plus
• Photofiltre
• Photomeister
• Paint.NET

Commercial

• Corel Paint Shop Pro
• Illustrator
• Photoshop
• XAT.com

Screenshot Tools

Freeware

• IcoMaker
• IrfanView
• Pixen
• PrintScreen
• Screen grab! (Add-On for FireFox)
• Snapper (Add-On for FireFox)

Commercial

• Fireworks
• Flash
• Snapz Pro X

Color Pickers

Freeware

• ColorZilla (Add-On for FireFox)
• Vista

Commercial

• Color Schemer Studio

File Comparison Utility

Freeware

• WinMerge

Commercial

• BBEdit (Mac)
• Beyond Compare

FTP Tools

Freeware

• AceFTP
• FileZilla
• FireFTP (Add-On for FireFox)
• FlashFXP
• Transmit
• WS_FTP LE

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

• 7-Zip
• IZArc

Commercial

• WinRAR
• WinZip

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

• CSS Validation Service
• W3C Markup Validation Service

Database Manipulation Tools

Freeware

• phpMyAdmin
• SQLyog

Commercial

• SQLyog

Local Web Server for Development Environment

Freeware

• Apache2Triad
• EasyPHP1-8
• XAMPP

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