Web Design and Development Tools by Pegasus
Today in the 21st century where internet has become the part and parcel of
every individual's life, quality web development is increasing its magnitude
day by day. The quality of Web Development depends on the tools used for
designing and development. This article describes in brief the tools used for
designing and developing a website.
Linux Linux the most used Web server platform is now becoming a threat for
Microsoft, with its increasing number of users in the operating system market.
Linux has been gaining importance because of its easy availability,
functionality, flexibility and stability. It is being adopted worldwide as a
server platform primarily. It can act as your primary Web server, staging
platform, and test area for new sites, applications, and scripts. All securely
contained on your own desktop PC. Its use especially by developers as a desktop
operating system is on the mount. Apache Apache is an open source web server
that runs on most commonly used platforms. Apache has a modular design that
provides a variety of services such as server-side scripting. It is commonly
used web server to run websites on the internet. It supports the PERL and PHP
languages. It is usually run on UNIX operating system versions like Linux or
BSD, but it can also be run on Windows
PHP PHP is an open source server side programming language that allows web
developers to create dynamic content that interacts with databases. PHP-enabled
web pages are treated just like regular HTML pages and you can create and edit
them the same way you normally create regular HTML pages. PHP can be written as
scripts that reside on the server and may produce HTML output that downloads to
the web browser. Often used with MySQL, PHP can perform the same tasks as a CGI
program can do and is compatible with many different kinds of databases
Perl Practical Extraction and Reporting Language (Perl) is an open source
server side programming language extensively used for web scripts and to
process data passed via the Common Gateway Interface from HTML forms etc. Perl
is a UNIX-based scripting language that is often used on the World Wide Web and
is easily connectable to MySql database. It is an interpretive language, which
makes it easy to build and test simple programs. It is widely used to write Web
server programs for such tasks as automatically updating user accounts and
newsgroup postings, processing removal requests, synchronizing databases and
generating reports.
MySQL MySQL is a relational database management system, which means it stores
data in separate tables rather than putting all the data in one big area. This
adds flexibility, as well as speed. The SQL part of MySQL stands for
"Structured Query Language," which is the most common language used to access
databases. The MySQL database server is the most popular open source database
in the world. MySQL runs on more than 20 platforms including Linux, Windows,
OS/X, HP-UX, AIX, and Netware. MySQL is usually used for dynamic web
applications and for embedded web applications, and has become a popular due to
its speed and reliability and ease of use.
CVS The Concurrent Versions System (CVS), also known as the Concurrent
Versioning System, implements a version control system: it keeps track of all
work and all changes in a set of files, typically the implementation of a
software project, and allows several (potentially widely separated) developers
to collaborate. CVS uses client-server architecture: a server stores the
current version(s) of the project and its history, and clients connect to the
server in order to check-out a complete copy of the project, work on this copy
and then later check-in their changes.
Abode Photoshop A sophisticated software program widely used for image-editing
and graphics, it is quite powerful and a bit complex but can be learnt by
reading the manual and then just trying different options. There are lots of
shortcuts and different ways to do things, allowing you to work very fast once
you learn the program thoroughly. With practice and a bit of imagination,
there's no limit to the imagery you can create with Photoshop
Dream weaver A Web authoring tool developed by Macromedia that allows Web
developers with a graphical interface for the creation of web pages, it is
commonly referred to as an "HTML editor" because its work is to generate HTML
files based on the commands executed in the page layout interface available to
the user. Dream weaver 8 the latest version of dream weaver offers Enhanced
design tools, stronger application development tools, tighter integration with
other core Macromedia tools, improved functionality that simply allows you to
get more done than its older versions.
Flash Flash is software used to create vector graphics-based animation programs
with full-screen navigation interfaces, graphic illustrations, and simple
interactivity in an antialiased, resizable file format that is small enough to
stream across a normal modem connection. Flash animations are quick to
download, are of high quality, and are browser independent (they look the same
on different browsers). Flash animations also scale to fit the browser window
These are some of the web design and development tools commonly preferred and
use by the web development companies worldwide
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