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This article deals with the variety of tools now available for setting up websites.
I will start with the most common basic tools and then move on to more advanced stuff.

The browser
The most important and most basic tool is your web browser. You will want to set this up especially for your site. For example, in firefox and clones you could create a new profile. The browser can store passwords to your services, a set of bookmarks that you will use to build your site. and hosts many tools that are useful in the development process. You will also need to test your pages in other browsers that site visitors may be using.

Plugins for firefox: webDeveloper, DOMexplorer, firebug
List of browsers: firefox, opera, safari, konqueror, flock, internet explorer, epiphany, links, dillo, w3m, amaya.

My personal choice is flock. This is a fork of firefox with many extras for web2.0 including account managers for many services (del.icio.us, facebook,…), a blog poster, rss feed manager (opera also has a nice feed manager), a web clipboard, and others.

Page editor
If you are creating content in html you will need some kind of page editor.
Here is a list of some common free ones:
NVU nvu.com Based on firefox/mozilla. Recent forks include Kompozer …
Amaya The w3c browser/editor. This does not include many features and will not work on a lot of sites, but it produces clean maintainable code and is the best tool for simple pages.
The eclipse workbench wtp (web tools platform) includes html editing tools.

Other desktop software
If you are creating server side code you will need an sdk for your platform.

Online tools
Google
GMail,blogger,GoogleReader,notebook,api`s

WordPress

del.icio.us

Server platforms
web
apache, zeus
cgi: perl
php
mambo, joomla, elgg
java
jetty, tomcat, jboss,

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