Links

Here are some useful site links:-

Open-Source Software

HTML Editors

We particularly recommend Kompozer. This is free and provides much of the functionality of Dreamweaver. It is easy to set up and use. You can just open your site pages and type in your content, then publish to the internet. It is great for any of our HTML sites.

Graphics Editors

There are a number of these available, ones that we particularly like are:-

• GIMP. GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. This is an open-source alternative to Photoshop, and does an excellant job for free software.
• Paint.Net. Originally intended as a free replacement for the Microsoft Paint software that comes with Windows, it has grown into a powerful yet simple image and photo editor tool.
• Inkscape. An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more.

Other Links

Scripts

For scripts got to

Another place for scripts is hotscripts.com

Content management systems

Joomla! (www.joomla.org). Home of the Joomla! content management system.

Xoops (www.xoops.org) Home of the Xoops content management system.

Shopping carts

Zen cart is a powerful open source shopping cart program.

CubeCart is not open source, but it is good, and you can download a free trial version, also the older version of the software is free.