For web development, here the tools you’ll need for your trade.

Editor

Although you can use a normal text editor to create HTML pages, I recommend you use specialize text editor for web development.

There are many free and good editors available. Here are a few of them.

https://atom.io/

http://brackets.io/

Browser

You’ll need a browser to view your work. I recommend Chrome and Firefox.

FTP (File Transfer Program)

A web developer needs to publish their work for public to see. To publish the files, a web developer needs to transfer files from local computer to hosting server (remote). We need FTP to transfer files between local and web hosting servers and vice versa. Choose one tool from below.

https://cyberduck.io/?l=en (For setting up cyberduck, see https://trac.cyberduck.io/wiki/help/en)

https://filezilla-project.org/  (For setting up filezilla, see https://wiki.filezilla-project.org/FileZilla_Client_Tutorial_(en))

 

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