Tools of the trade

Windows

• Notepad++ (Text Editor)
• WinSCP (SFTP)
• PUTTY (SSH/Telnet)
• WAMP (PHP on Windows)

Macintosh

• TextWrangler (Text Editor/SFTP Client)
• MAMP (PHP on your MAC)

Online services

• W3 Validator
• GIMP (free Photoshop-clone) tutorial