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This Web site has evolved over the years and has been coded exclusively "in the raw", with no tools other than a good strong text editor. A neat little program for the PC called Dana is my text-editing weapon of choice. It's really quite a straightforward yet powerful little editor, with excellent search-and-replace capabilities and bundles of intelligent customisation options.
As far as the graphics go, well that's another story. This is where I bring in the big guns, settling for nothing less than the tried and trusted Adobe Photoshop, enhanced with as many cool filter plug-ins as I can lay my grubby little graphic-designing hands on. Kai's PowerTools goes without saying. I use a lot of digital photography media in graphic art design, so I use a cool little program called ThumbsPlus to manage the vast volumes of PhotoCD archives and normal hard drive graphic archives that I have. This program allows you to browse for graphic media using a thumbnail view, combined with a keyword database that lets you describe each file so as to facilitate keyword-based searches.
When it comes to uploading changes to the site, I use an FTP program called CuteFTP. I know that a lot of Windows-based Web designers use WS FTP as their FTP client and that this program is considered somewhat of a de facto standard, but my own comparison of the two tools has convinced me that CuteFTP has the upper hand.
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