Chapter 5. Gathering Your Tools

In This Chapter

• Finding the Right Tools for the Job

• Tool Sites and Reviews

• Downloading New Software

• Essential Tools

• Operating Systems

• Web Browsers

• Office Suites

• Future of Free Web Tools

No matter what you do, it’s always important to have the right tools for the job. In this chapter, I show you the best web-development tools you can get for free. By tools, I mean software utilities or programs that you can use to create your website.

Now, I’m sure you’re thinking that you can’t get something for nothing. Well, I’ll show you a bunch of programs, such as graphics editors, that are just as good as—or better than—commercial software, and they’re 100 percent free. This is community-developed software ...

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