Here is my list of the best opensource software and its all 100% FREE!
Blogging – WordPress
Forum – PhpBB
Photo Gallery – Coppermine
Office (Word/Powerpoint) – Open Office
Browser – Firefox
Survey – Lime Survey
Social Networking – Buddy Press
Music Editor – Audacity
Photo Editor – Gimp
Course Management System (CMS) – Moodle
It appears that the recent Web 2.0 craze is really catching on and standard HTML pages are becoming a thing of the past. Many people are creating their web pages via blog software such as wordpress and/or utilizing CMS software such as Moodle/Joomla/Drupal, etc. These software packages are free and easy to set up. They only require programming experience if you want to change their interface or modify them. Otherwise, they are stand alone packages that any user can set up. Many sites are converting to these applications because they allow for more interaction, are easy to set up, and very easy to edit and maintain. So is HTML dead? Not right now but its use as a stand alone web language is declining dramatically.
Here is a great free ftp program for the mac that I have been using for a while now: Cyberduck (http://cyberduck.ch/). Check it out.
For those of you that do not know, FTP mean file transfer protocol. Its used as a bridge between your computer and the internet. So it allows you to takes html files from your computer and publish them onto the internet.
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