This article is specially written for those web developers who own a Mac. Obviously, everyone I aware that working on Mac is always a pleasure but when it comes to web development and designing, things get a little bit dizzying. This article has many web development tools that will make your web development work much easier. The reason is that these tools are very simple to use and they also have great functionality. These tools have been specially designed for Mac and they will enable you to do your work more efficiently and in a planned and systematic manner.
I also need to mention that some of these will cost you a little bit of money but you don’t need to worry about it because these tools will be so immensely helpful that you will feel yourself that you did a right thing paying that small amount for that tool. These tools could be particularly helpful when editing text, manipulating text, coding, image editing, database management, file copying and file sharing and collaboration. These are just a small sample of the tasks that can be got done using these amazing tools.
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Joomla for Mac -
oomla! is a powerful Open Source Content Management System for building professional web sites easily. It is often the system of choice for small business or home users who want a professional looking site that’s simple to deploy and use.
Adobe Dreamweaver trial for Mac -
Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 software empowers designers and developers to build standards-based websites with confidence. Design visually or directly in code, develop pages with content management systems, and accurately test browser compatibility thanks to integration with Adobe BrowserLab, a new Adobe CS Live online service.
Adobe Fireworks trial -
Adobe Fireworks CS5 software enables you to create expressive, highly optimized graphics for the web or virtually any device — from smartphones to kiosks to embedded displays. Produce websites, user interfaces, and rich prototypes that are editable in both vector and bitmap modes.
HTML-Optimizer Plus –
HTML-Optimizer Plus speeds up your site by optimizing both HTML and script code of your web pages and optimizing your JPEG and PNG images. It helps you keep organized by creating a duplicate site folder for the optimized files.
Goodies Mail Stationery for Mac –
Mail Stationery comes handy, when plain words are just not enough. Like when you’re trying to “wow” a potential client, wish your colleague a happy birthday, or make your friend’s day with the funniest e-mail of them all. That’s when emotions overcome reason, and that’s when your e-mail message just begs for richness.
SEIntelligence for Mac –
We know search engines like good content, we know they like other websites linking to ours, but what about the specifics? What kind of content should we have on our website, which websites do we need to link back to us and how do we find them?
Adobe Creative Suite Web Premium trial for Mac -
Adobe Creative Suite 5 Web Premium software is the comprehensive solution for producing standards-based websites and immersive digital experiences.
eMagStudio -
eMagStudio allows you to create and publish unlimited online publications. Load your PDF into the software, and add your Rich Media. The software supports a wide variety of multimedia and plug-ins that will make eMagStudio a need to have power tool for any marketing department or publisher.
Simple CSS for Mac -
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a way to specify the styles of fonts and other page elements on your sites. It makes it easier for you to update styles too, because when done right, you only need to make a single change to update the styles on multiple pages and elements.
Pochade for Mac -
Pochade easily allows you to select any color from your screen, save your collection of colors, and get the color value the way you want.
Sitemap Automator -
RAGE Sitemap Automator helps get your website listed in all major search engines by automatically telling search engines about all the pages on your website.
Galleried -
Mac App Store is the simplest way to find and download apps for your Mac.
LittleIpsum -
The best Latin text generator for OS X. Incredibly quick and lightweight. And it’s completely free!
ShutterBug -
ShutterBug is a WYSIWYG website creation tool for publishing photo albums, journals, or full-featured websites. Fully WYSIWYG, you don’t even have to know how to spell H-T-M-L to be able to create your own custom look. With the built-in themes & templates.
HTMchen -
I am lazy – very lazy. Thats why I’ve written HTMchen – a simple tool for updating my application descriptions for VersionTracker. And HTMchen makes it simple. I really mean simple. But maybe it is useful for others, too.
Interarchy -
Using Interarchy comprehensive collection of tools you can easily upload, download, edit, mirror and manage your websites with increased efficiency and effectiveness. Interarchy delivers compelling new features, including a revolutionary interface that allows you to stream-line your workflow more than ever before.
Smaller -
Smaller is a powerful HTML, PHP, CSS and JavaScript compressor on Mac OS X which also has the ability to combine several files into one. CSS and JavaScript compression is powered by YUI Compressor while for HTML and PHP compression it uses htmlcompressor.
iWeb Clipart -
iWeb Clipart can be used to emphasize the specification of your website or just to make a website more attractive and more memorable. This great collection of the objects has several groups of pictures.
PuzzleMaki -
PuzzleMaki makes puzzles for web pages with up to 81 pieces out of any GIF or JPEG image. It is the first version exclusively for Intel Macs. At the users option a “Solve it for me” button can be included.
BitNami Joomla! Stack -
Joomla! is an open source Content Management System with a growing and active community of more than 400,000 users. Joomla! creates multiple format sites from simple websites to complex corporate applications and allows users to manage each aspect of their website through a simple, browser-based interface. Once Joomla! is up and running, users with basic word processing skills can add or edit content, update images, and to manage the critical data.
Monkey Swarm -
So your benchmarks show that the front page of your website loads in a fraction of a second, and you can handle a hundred people mashing F5 on the same page over and over. That’s great and all, but how long does it take for a user to log in and post a new story?
Gimp -
This is the official GIMP web site. It contains information about downloading, installing, using, and enhancing it. This site also serves as a distribution point for the latest releases.
Scribus -
Scribus is an Open Source program that brings professional page layout to Linux/UNIX, Mac OS X, OS/2 Warp 4/eComStation and Windows desktops with a combination of press-ready output and new approaches to page design.
BBEdit -
BBEdit is the leading professional HTML and text editor for the Macintosh. Specifically crafted in response to the needs of Web authors and software developers, this award-winning product provides an abundance of high-performance features for editing, searching, and manipulation of text.
CocoaMySQL -
The Sequel Pro website (http://www.sequelpro.com) is the new home for everything to do with the Sequel Pro project. The latest version of Sequel Pro can be downloaded from the Sequel Pro website.
Lineform -
Lineform is a completely new drawing program. Fast, lean and Universal, Lineform offers powerful features in an uncluttered interface that’s designed to help you get work done!
SubEthaEdit -
SubEthaEdit is a powerful and lean text editor. And it’s the only collaborative one that is a joy to use. By combining the ease of Bonjour with the world’s best text collaboration engine, it makes working together not only possible but even fun…
RAGE Domainer -
Manage your domains with Domainer. Domainer lets you keep track of the domains you own, and the domains you want to own letting you know when they expire and which ones provide the best bang for your buck.
EditRocket -
EditRocket is a source code editor, text editor, and software development tool with custom tools and support for the following programming languages:
iTerm -
iTerm is a full featured terminal emulation program written for OS X using Cocoa. We are aiming at providing users with best command line experience under OS X. The letter i represents a native apple look and feel of the program interface, and an emphasis on complete international support.
OnTheJob -
On The Job is an application designed to help you track your time and expenses, and bill your clients by easily and quickly creating professional invoices. On The Job is straightforward and easy to use letting you focus on what’s important.
Aquamacs Emacs -
An Editor for Text, HTML, LaTeX, C++, Java, Python, R, Perl, Ruby, PHP, and more… Based on GNU Emacs, Aquamacs integrates perfectly with OS X thanks to its specially adapted user interface.
Pixelmator -
Beautifully designed, easy-to-use, fast and powerful image editing app for Mac OS X.
xScope -
Created for designers by ARTIS Software & The Iconfactory, xScope is a powerful set of tools that are ideal for measuring, aligning and inspecting on-screen graphics and layouts. Quickly available via the Mac OS X menu bar, xScope’s flexible tools float above desktop windows and UI elements making measuring a breeze.
Seashore -
Seashore is still undergoing development and may contain bugs so please make sure only to work on copies of important images and report any bugs you find.
Fontcase
Although I use the plural everywhere when I talk about Bohemian Coding, there’s only one person in this company. Bohemian Coding was founded early 2008 in the Netherlands and is being run by Pieter Omvlee.
Versions -
Versions offers the best way to work with Subversion on the Mac. Thanks to its clear-cut approach, you’ll hit the ground running.
Komodo Edit -
Komodo Edit is a fast, smart, free and open-source code editor. Switching your trusty code editor is hard, but give Komodo Edit (or its big brother Komodo IDE) a try: it’ll be worth your while.
Flow -
Founded in 2001, GridIron Software Inc. has created an innovative hybrid-SaaS solution providing Enterprises automated and transparent Data DNA™ collection and management. Data DNA™ = Automated Business Intelligence, enabling enterprises to manage the supply chain for the documents and digital assets across all their workgroups.
TextMate -
TextMate brings Apple’s approach to operating systems into the world of text editors. By bridging UNIX underpinnings and GUI, TextMate cherry-picks the best of both worlds to the benefit of expert scripters and novice users alike.
TextExpander -
TextExpander saves you countless keystrokes with customized abbreviations for your frequently-used text strings and images.
Changes
Changes’ folder synchronization support makes keeping up-to-date a trivial exercise. Filter out the clutter! Ignore those those pesky .DS_Store files, .svn directories, and other stuff that builds up over the course of a project.
CSSEdit
You design and develop for the Web? Espresso turbo-charges your workflow with the perfect blend of features. Speed through day-to-day edits with extensive language support, contextual completions, powerful smart snippets, and Zen actions. Use the Navigator and code folding to prevail over the most complicated documents.
Coda -
So, we code web sites by hand. And one day, it hit us: our web workflow was wonky. We’d have our text editor open, with Transmit open to save files to the server. We’d be previewing in Safari, adjusting SQL in a Terminal, using a CSS editor and reading references on the web.
Transmit -
You need to transfer files. Maybe to an FTP or SFTP server, or the cloud via Amazon S3, or using WebDAV. You maintain a website, do backups, or upload photos. You need Transmit, the #1 Mac OS X FTP client.¹ Now, in Transmit 4, we took everything good about Transmit, and added a dollop of unbelievably great.
Cyberduck -
With an easy to use interface, connect to FTP (File Transfer Protocol), SFTP (SSH Secure File Transfer), WebDAV (Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning), Amazon S3, Google Storage, Windows Azure, Rackspace Cloud Files and even Google Docs.
Yummy FTP -
Yummy FTP is an FTP and SFTP client application for the Apple Macintosh, built as native Mac OS X software from the ground up, with the goal of providing a reliable, powerful, yet easy to use file transfer utility.
phpMyAdmin
phpMyAdmin is intended to handle the adminstration of MySQL over the web.
MAMP -
System Requirements of the latest MAMP & MAMP PRO: Mac OS X 10.6.6 incl. OS X 10.7 Lion.
VirtualHostX
VirtualHostX 3.0 is the easiest way to host and share multiple websites on your Mac. It’s the perfect solution for web designers working on more than one project at a time. (Aren’t we all?) No more nesting folders or asking the programmer across the cubicle for help.
