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Website Link Checker for Linux
As there were no recommendations, I've ended up using LinkChecker. While most of the cons I've listed with my question remained, using the newest version from the author's site went better than ...
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Chrome extension for changing color based on URL
Is URLColors perhaps the extension you're looking for?
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/urlcolors/jjccpcminoppplpmcfghflolejbdkekm
This is no longer working as it turned out it had malware
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Alternative to Font Awesome
Friconix is my favorite Font Awesome alternative
All the icons are free
it uses CDN
Easy to customize (explanations on the home page and Quick Started Guide are clear)
I already requested an icon, ...
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Cross-browser compatibility software
Test Browsers In Virtual Machines
You can fire up a virtual machine with a specific browser installed and test against that.
There are various possible sources of the VM images:
IE Versions and ...
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Windows HTML/CSS editor that has live preview?
Brackets is a free, open source editor based on web technologies with a primary focus on web development. It is cross-platform and is backed by Adobe.
Using Live Preview, Brackets pushes code edits ...
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Remote storage software for my web development projects
There are many options that would work:
Git may be a good option even if (currently) it is only you working in the project (personally, I would go with this one)
SVN (but, why? git is better even if ...
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Alternative to Firefox and Chrome with an element inspector?
The problem with "trustworthy" is that trust isn't something one can be recommended to...it's something that you gotta have. (I didn't watch the video but I'm sure you can technically do a rant about ...
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Web API to query word frequency data
To return the relative frequency in 1 million words of the word "smartass", query:
https://api.datamuse.com/words?sp=smartass&md=f&max=1
It outputs:
[{"word":"...
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IDE specifically for layout and design of regular web applications?
The new WYSIWYG editors
Good for mockuping and initial design. Bad for working on an existing app.
Macaw, Sketch, Pinegrow or even Photoshop + Brackets
✔ Provide higher abstractions in regards to ...
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IDE's (Integrated Development Environments) geared towards Web Development, for OS X
You should take a look at the Eric IDE:
From your list:
Mac - Yes & Windows & Linux
Ruby on Rails and/or Python PHP (least important) - Written for Ruby & Python
Debugging (in the browser,...
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Free GUI website builder for Windows 10
So far I have been using an application called Pingendo. It's a great program for creating simple webpages but I would like something a little more powerful like Pinegrow. It meets all my requirements....
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Web development code editor for Mac
You can try WebStorm. Based on your requirements it has:
Instant autocomplete/autosuggest for HTML, CSS, and JS. I am not sure about PHP, but you try PHPStorm for that.
Highlight blocks (either like ...
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IDE with preview of HTML, CSS and JavaScript websites
Adobe Brackets provides live previews of your pages and has a lot of convenient features for web developers. From their site:
Also, there are plugins like W3C Validation to check for errors, but I ...
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Programming language to extract and analyse text and stats from online forums. MS Windows 7 -
Python plus one or more of Scrapy, Requests, Mechanize, etc.
Free Gratis & Open Source
Functional, Procedural or OO your choice Python does them all
Cross Platform From a RaspberryPi to a super ...
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Software for Website Mockups (Win/Linux)
Maybe you could have a try of the Mockplus. Actually, it may not meet all you requirements, while, I still suggest to try it out.
Here is its characteristics to your requirements:
Windows or Linux ...
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HTML editor / IDE for beginners
Tweakstyle is a relatively new entry in the HTML code editor. It is currently in beta but has a good amount of features.
Uses chrome web tools in the preview pane so you can inspect an element and ...
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Windows HTML/CSS editor that has live preview?
I'll recommend Visual Studio Code, it could exists something better than a lightweight code editor from the team that developed the most powerfull and complete IDE environment for programmers (...
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eCommerce free platform
Have you checked out Tryton? It is a whole ERP, but, because it is modular, you can use just what you want. AFAIK, it has a REST API if you want to access it just like a service.
It has GPL-3 license....
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Web crawler for detecting 404s on a local machine
You could always try scrapy - it runs under python and is cross platform and free or for something already put together there is also the python based LinkChecker - also gratis & opensource.
Link ...
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Web framework for a personal website
I recommend Joomla.
It's pretty easy to learn, very flexible and has a ton of really powerful features. There are plenty of free themes out there, and alot of other great themes you can pick up for ...
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IDE for HTML5 that flags previous versions of HTML
Notepad++ with the plugin TextFX is a free solution. The issue is that TextFX has not been maintained since 2008 and has many known bugs. It does still work and is widely used, people simply put up ...
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Need a Browser Based SSH Terminal Client -- WordPress Plugin?
You can try https://github.com/billchurch/WebSSH2 It is not a WordPress plugin. It uses socket.io xterm.js and express so you will have to install some applications on the server-side.
Another ...
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On-premises Question & Answers website engine (Open source/commercial)
A SaaS solution, which is the closest to what you're looking for:
StackOverflow for Teams or Enterprise
It's StackOverflow, the closest you'll get to StackOverflow 😉
On premise
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agile virtual whiteboard software
Use Microsoft Whiteboard
https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/microsoft-365/microsoft-whiteboard/digital-whiteboard-app
It's also present inbuild inside the Microsoft Teams.
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Modern front end web development framework
My recommendation is just learn Angular or React, as you mentioned in comments. Both of them are mature and popular, so you can easily find the documentations.
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Websites manager or organizer
I'd recommend a tree-structured information manager, e.g.:
TreeDBNotes - has big disadvantages as loading slowly and numerous bugs, but has no competition among other tree-structured PIMs in terms of ...
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Software for Website Mockups (Win/Linux)
There is a Wireframe.cc which will work on all operating system, since it's a web services. Going to that site starts wire-framing experience in a second. It has tree templates: a browser window, a ...
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Software for Website Mockups (Win/Linux)
I would highly recommend using RealDraw Pro (free, fully-functioning trial version).
It's extremely simple to use
Supports Layers
Exports to many different formats (including PSD)
Can create HTML ...
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Alternative to Layoutit.com for Bootstrap that I can embed in my own app's backoffice
This fits the requirements:
https://github.com/savokiss/layoutit
Open source license (MIT, seems to contain some GPLv3 though).
Live demo: http://savokiss.me/layoutit/en/
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