Microsoft FrontPage provides an easy introduction to WYSIWYG HTML design which is popular with new developers, while maintaining a rich combination of features ensuring it never loses it's place on many experienced designers systems. ITC support FrontPage Server Extensions (FPSEs), which can be enabled upon any of our Windows hosting plans.

Macromedia Dreamweaver is ITC's WYSIWYG HTML design program of choice, and has been since version 1.2 was released back in 1999. Famous for their Flash plug-in, Macromedia continue to be one of the driving forces in the way the Internet looks and feels from the user's point of view.

.Edit is an extremely powerful syntax highlighting editor for Internet technologies, aimed at developers who like to get right into their coding! ITC have been involved with the beta testing of this product, which is developed by one of our clients. Once you've got used to it, you'll never go back to a text editor again!

Textpad is the ultimate text editor! It handles files with thousands of lines, is incredibly easy to use, and has never crashed once in all the time ITC have been using it! If you are currently using notepad, take a quick look at this and you won't regret it! This program has saved literally hours of time purely with it's multi-file search and replace utility, let alone the rest of it's impressive list of features.

When you've designed your website, you'll need to upload it to our server. Unless you are using FrontPage for publishing, that means you'll need an FTP client. CuteFTP has been around for a long time, and despite constant competition in this highly visible market, CuteFTP still provides one of the highest value for money pieces of software, combined with an array of powerful FTP options. While there are freeware ftp alternatives, ITC still use CuteFTP for our site management requirements!

For quick and easy image viewing, ACDSee is an ideal tool. If you want to create and edit images, you'll need one of the full blown graphics packages listed below, however for simple viewing of images in a directory, you can't beat ACDSee!

The Bat! is an incredibly powerful email client, which supports multiple accounts, POP3/IMAP/SMTP, all sorts of security and authentication options, highly configurable filtering, and anti-virus plug-ins. ITC switched from using Microsoft Outlook / Outlook Express several years ago, and recent virus attacks specifically targeting the Microsoft email clients have largely unaffected our systems due to the use of this client. Once you get used to the interface, you'll grow to love it!

More than 90% of Internet browsing is done via either the Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator clients. If you're looking for an alternative, ITC strongly advise you to check out Opera. Originally it was designed as a cut down browser, but while the latest version maintains it's streamline looks, it is extremely well designed and a serious contender in the role of default browser! Available on numerous platforms, ITC wish the Opera developers the best of luck!

Finally a small plug for WinAmp, which has been playing on this system for the entire duration of this site design. Still neat and tidy in an industry where the more obnoxious the interface, the better, as far as the developers seem to be concerned, WinAmp will always have a place on the ITC systems for our MP3 and other audio requirements.