This editor is also useable on Linux systems.
Mac users should use the fink tool to
download and install bluefish and then run it through X11.
It has less built-in
HTML-generating buttons than HTML-Kit, but other features are
very nice, such as automatic end tag completion when start tag is typed.
The TextWrangler 2 editor. This is free and available at
Dreamweaver used in "code mode". Adobe's (Macromedia)
Dreamweaver is quite expensive, but it's a great software tool used
by professional developers.
You can create HTML either in WYSIWYG or code modes.
Graphical Image Editors
The editor of choice in terms of free and universal is The GIMP whose
home page is:
The downside for Photoshop users is that it requires a learning curve
to figure out the equivalences of the Photoshop tasks.
Secure Shell Clients
There are two types of secure shell clients needed:
A secure shell access client to the roadrunner server
is rarely needed for this course. This is served by PuTTy on Windows.
More importantly, a secure transfer client is needed for uploading
to the roadrunner server.
On UNIX-based clients (like Linux and presumably Mac) the ssh command-line
client serves for shell access.
As far as secure transfer, one possiblility is the
the gFTP client, which is available through the package system. Using gFTP
is fairly straightforward; you need only know to select SSH2 from the
protocol list in the top-right.
Here are some other possible alternatives for Mac users: