What tools are people using to customize Zen?

I'm wondering if there are any tools (e.g. web page builders, css editors) which people are using? I'm especially interested in Mac software and anything that can help.
Thanks!

I mostly just use Notepad++, though I do believe a lot can be done with Dreamweaver. Remember, you're not dealing with HTML here - but (for the most part) PHP .

One's KNOWLEDGE if the programming syntax is therefore quite important, and wysiwyg systems are often not appropriate here.

I use Notepad and/or Crimson Editor. As fairestcape pointed out, WYSIWYG editors have limited usefulness for ZC.

I presume Firefox and its Web Developer extension can be used on Mac. If so, the Web Developer's CSS > Edit CSS button is invaluable for on-the-fly CSS trial editing.

The Firebug extension for Firefox is awesome as it also allows for in place CSS tweaks rather than having to go down the whole edit/upload/refresh route, which can get a little tedious.

BTW, in answer to your question, I use Dreamweaver, Notepad++ and what I mentioned above, although when I use Dreamweaver I'm in code view.

Cheers!

(Oh, and hi from one Glenn to another!)

If you do code modules etc for zen, I suggest using something that can:

1. Suggest functions
2. Search in many files at once

Im using Zend IDE, but Aptana or Eclipse is also good.

Hi, Glenn! (Spelled the right way too ;)

Notepad, Notepad++, Web Developer for Firefox and for IE7, and every browser I can install, including Firefox 2 and 3 (different machines), IE6, 7 and 8 (ditto), Opera, and Safari (for Windows).

(Although the way things have been going lately, I'm considering just developing for FF3, and then pulling the covers over my head and pretending that nobody uses anything else.)

Wow, I didn't know how in the mainstream I was:

First of all, the most important tool I've ever used for Zen Cart is the amazing zen-cart.com forums and all the members within them! You guys rock!

Logistically, I use:

Notepad++ and/or Ultraedit32
Web Developer Toolbar addon for Firefox
ColorExplorer.com for my palettes
Photoshop CS3
Excel (hey, EP is mega useful!)
Dreamweaver (not me, but the boss does) (I upgraded him to CS3 because Macromedia's DM4 didn't support styles in wysiwyg mode)
oh, and that gray lump of matter in my cranium

-Tim

I also use lots of coffee, and the occasional glass of red wine.

fairestcape:

I also use lots of coffee, and the occasional glass of red wine.

Probably the best advice I've heard so far... :D

If we're counting things like that, I'd say Delta-9-Tetrahydrocanabinol would be my most-used 'tool' for web design. :D

-Tim

Which tools are best depends rather on what task you are performing rather than the application upon which you are performing it. Personally though, I'b be a whole lot slower without Eclipse/Aptana (on my Mac) and Zend Studio on my PC.