Finding the right tool to do web development is key to being successful. Technically, you can do the majority of the job by just using a simple text editor, but it seems silly to not take advantage of the great apps out there today.  Since there are many apps that aid in this category, I thought I might pick a few favorites and give some insight into why they are awesome web apps.

The all mighty web browser

Although I have enjoyed the some-what recent release of Google’s Chrome browser for Mac OS X, it isn’t the right browser for the web developer. Perhaps in the future it might have a chance, but until the plugins start running on Mac OS X, and some other minor glitches are worked out (like refreshing the cache when I tell you to Chrome), you have to use Firefox.

Even though Firefox isn’t the fastest browser out there, it does a very good job with web standards and it has web developer specific plugins:

  • Web Developer: this plugin has some great options for debugging and testing
  • Firebug: this plugin is great when you need to debug JavaScript and AJAX.
  • MeasureIt: this simple plugin lets you measure distance in pixels, More >