15 free and open source tools for web designers / developers

Their are very vast amount of free and open source tools for designers.Here are the 15 best open source and professional tools of the web savvy designer:

1. Agave – Agave is one of the best solution for designers to feel the color scheme, contradicts colors, soft colors & all with a fabulous outlook.
   
2. NVU -  The open source replacement for Dreamweaver.You can Design, develop, and maintain professional websites and applications and yes its absolutely free.
   
   

Top 50 Free Open Source Content Management System

WordPress – WordPress is a high-tech content management platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. Many might know WordPress as just blogging platform but it has soon capturted the CMS industry with its customized and powerful plugins.

Joomla – Joomla is a well-known award-winning content management system (CMS) that let you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. With  Joomla CMS you are  free to add many extra interesting modules and components that would improve the value of your blog/website and can also enhance your visitors’ experience.

Drupal – Drupal is CMS package that allows users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Many have used this as a back-end system for different kinds of websites such as small personal blogs to large corporate sites.

Mambo – Mambo is a full-featured, content management system that can be used for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. It is already been used all over the world to power government portals, corporate intranets and extranets, ecommerce sites, community sites and more.