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Macintosh Web Software on a Budget

There are two extremely common myths about Macintosh Web development software:

That with the demise of many of the early Web tools (PageMill, SiteMill, FrontPage, VisualPage, HomePage, etc.), the only applications left are too expensive for anyone but already-successful developers and designers.
That in order to be a professional Web developer or designer, you need to use professional (i.e., expensive) tools.

These myths are wrong: there are low-cost Mac Web development and design applications. The goal of this site is to show that, not only do these products exist, but that lots of these products exist. While there's no doubt that some of them may not even be worth their small fee, this category is large enough that something here should scratch your itch.

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To be listed on this site, products must be:

Not a beta release
$50 or less
Released within the last two years (with the exception of online applications)

If you know of any errors or omissions on this page, let me know (but read the FAQ first, please).

WYSIWYG and semi-WYSIWYG Tools

Developer	Product Name	Price (US$)	Current Version	Last Updated
PineHill Products	CreativePage	$25	2.8	18 September 2001
AK Software	HTML Creator	$10	2.7	28 June 2001
quadratic	iSpider	Free	1.0.1	30 March 2001
Westciv	Layout Master	$50	1.0	12 June 2001
AOL	Netscape Composer (part of the browser)	Free	6.1	8 August 2001
Split Software	NetSmith	$22	1.5	23 July 2001
Attic	PageImp	$10	1.1.1	29 June 2001
Optima System	PageSpinner	$30	3.1.1	10 October 2001
Rage Software	WebDesign	$30	1.2.1	29 September 2001
Deus	Web Wizard	$10	1.0	5 January 2001
Mind Boggle Software	Web Writer	$20	1.5	22 February 2001

Text Editors

Developer	Product Name	Price (US$)	Current Version	Last Updated
Pete Keleher	Alpha	$30	7.4.2	19 April 2001
Bare Bones	BBEdit Lite	Free	6.1.2	2 October 2001
Stone Table Software	Cobweb	Free	1.0	19 February 2001
Marius Sauthier	CreaText	Free	1.4.1	26 September 2001
Andrew Choi	Emacs	Free	20.6	13 March 2000
Alexander Thomas Software	HTML TagWriter	$15	3.7	13 September 2001
Matsumoto	Jedit	$25	4.0.9	22 August 2001
Romain Guy	Jext	Free	2.11.0.2	3 May 2001
Axel Kielhorn	MacVim	Free	5.7.9	10 August 2000
Koingo Software	MacCoder	$12	2.0	9 September 2001
Kamiyama	MMKEdit	Free	2.0	9 July 2000
The Omni Group	OmniWeb (part of the browser)	$30	4.0.5	28 August 2001
Hekkelman Programmatuur b.v.	Pepper	$45	3.6.6	1 July 2001
Trans-Tex Software	Tex-Edit	$15	4.1.2	2 June 2001
P Jarvis	XEmacs	Free	19.14	18 April 2001

Graphics Applications

Developer	Product Name	Price (US$)	Current Version	Last Updated
RealMac Software	Button Builder	$10	2.5.1	28 September 2001
Micahsoft	ButtonMaker	Free	2.3.1	18 March 2001
Yves Piguet	GifBuilder	Free	1.0	30 August 2000
Lemke Software	GraphicConverter	$35	4.0.9	26 July 2001

Online Graphics Tools

Developer	Product Name	Price (US$)
Adobe	Create a Banner	Free
Adobe	Create a Graphic	Free
Acme	LabelMaker	Free
CoolText.com	Online Graphics Generator	Free
Adobe	Optimize an Image	Free
Adobe	Save For Web	Free

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