In this article, David Appleyard lists 60 applications for Mac OS X web designers.
We have done a number list over the past several years, but I think this is the first one focusing on web designers. He even categorizes it within the general topic.
For example:
Client & Project Management
* billings2 Tool for managing the details of clients, billing, and tracking payments and receipts.
* iCal – iCal offers a simple and inexpensive method to track projects and deadlines.
* OmniPlan – Adds Gantt charting and task management
* iTaskX – Integrates with Microsoft Project for advanced planning and project management tool. However, I don’t believe that MS Project is available for Mac.
* Daylite – Daylite is a more professional app for an entire design team!
* Merlin – An advanced project management tool, with a great looking interface.
Creating an Asset Library
* littlesnapper2 LittleSnapper – Captures and organizes screenshots, ensuring you’re never stuck for inspiration.
* TextExpander – Allows you to build up a library of code or text snippets, and quickly drop them into a document. (From SmileOnMyMac)
* Yojimbo – Used for building up a library of code snippets, images, icons, or client material.
* DevonThink – Similar to Yojimbo, but with advanced features such as OCR and scanner integration.
* FontExplorer – The font management tool for OS X, with automatic activation.
* Fontcase – A worthy competitor to FontExplorer.
Designing: All-in-one
* Coda and Espresso Coda – The original integrated web design environment for OS X with CSS tools, live previewing, and one-click publishing.
* Espresso – Several features from CSSEdit, Espresso is a Coda competitor with a built-in code snippet manager.
* iWeb – Bundled with iLife, iWeb is Apple’s take on a WYSIWYG editor. Simple, easy-to-use, and capable of creating wonderfully designed sites.
* RapidWeaver – The undisputed king of visual web design apps on OS X, RapidWeaver has an extensive community creating hundreds of excellent themes.
Designing: Images
* cs4 Adobe CS4 – CS4 includes Photoshop and Illustrator.
* Pixelmator – Photoshop competitor for “the rest of us”.
* GIMP – A completely free image editing tool.
* Keynote – Can create diagrams and charts, only a screenshot away from your website.
* Photoshop Elements – Photoshop’s little brother.
* Acorn – A bunch of excellent export-for-web options.
* Picturesque – Adds reflections, borders, shadows, curves and change the perspective of photographs.
Designing: CSS & HTML
* BBEdit BBEdit – Undoubtedly the leading OS X text editor.
* TextWrangler – The free alternative to BBEdit.
* SubEthaEdit – Another great text editing tool, with powerful features for collaboration.
* TextMate – A simple text editor for editing HTML, CSS, or another language.
* CSSEdit – For editing and previewing CSS with useful features.
* Slammer – Uses a grid to assist with laying out webpage elements.
* xScope – Measures and analyzes any element on your screen.
* Caliper – Focusing on one small subset of xScope, a free alternative.
Audio & Video
* garageband Handbrake – A video conversion application for converting videos into a web format. (completely free)
* ScreenFlow – For using a screencast on your website, records screen/webcam/audio simultaneously.
* Audacity – An open source app for editing and encoding audio.
* GarageBand – For editing a recording and exporting it to a podcast format.
Testing
* mamp_icon1 MAMP – MAMP ensures that PHP and MySQL are installed. A quick way to set up a local website testing server.
* Alkaline – Generates screenshots of how a website will work in various Windows browsers.
* ies4osx – A way to test your website locally in various versions of Internet Explorer.
* Parallels Desktop – To test websites in a Windows environment.
* VirtualBox – A free alternative to Parallels.
Publishing
* Transmit – Best known FTP client for the Mac.
* CyberDuck – A free rival to Transmit.
* YummyFTP – Another alternative
* Interarchy – Supports a range of SSH functionality, mirroring, Dashboard and Automator integration with downloading of entire websites.
* Forklift – An expensive alternative.
* Fetch -Support for a range of protocols with a few new Leopard features.
Version Control
* Versions – A wonderfully designed subversion app.
* Cornerstone – A worthy Versions competitor.
* svnX – A free, open source, subversion client with a decent range of features.
* GitX – Offering a history viewer and commit interface with OS X style.
Databases
* Querious – A throughly full-featured SQL database manager, which only works with MySQL5.
* Sequel Pro – A free alternative to Querious. Reliable, and easy-to-use.
Monitoring & Statistics
* fluid-mint1 Dashalytics – A simple Dashboard widget for monitoring Google Analytics statistics.
* WatchMouse – Monitors the uptime of your website or server via Dashboard.
* Junior Mint – A simple way to stay up-to-date through Dashboard.
Backup
* Time Machine – The OS X Leopard backup solution.
* Dropbox – I use Dropbox as a means of keeps an off-site backup of important website documents and files (also great at keeping multiple computers in sync!)
* SuperDuper – Makes a bootable backup of your Mac hard drive.
* Syncplicity – Similar to Dropbox, can easily maintains a fully versioned remote backup of any folder(s) on your hard drive.
Of course, he is also looking for commenters to add to his list.
He has details and links in his article here.
