Tools mentioned at the Web Design Meetup

If you didn't attend the Raleigh Durham Web Design Meetup, well, that's pretty tough, because we had a good conversation tonight about our favorite tools. Steve Hong of Crosscomm, who is also an assistant organizer for the Meetup, moderated the meeting That was great, both because Steve is a real leader and because I've been somewhat distracted lately by work issues.

Just to tantalize you, here are some of the tools and services that came up during the discussion. If you feel like you would have liked to have a transcript, look on our meetup.com home for Steve's webcast of the meeting.

HTML EditorsTextmate
Coda Editor
Aptana


Services to Facilitate SEO
Ping.fm
Pixeltype
Tube.mobile
Bit.ly (better than hootsuite)
Google's url shortener
Feedburner


Theme Design and Slicing
Artisteer
PSD2HTML


Light CMS's
PageLime
Cushy CMS
Konductor

Forms Generator

Wufoo

Phil Taylor's Blue Forms

Browser Testing

Adobe Browser Labs

Firebug

Chrome (for its leading Webkit developer features)

Surreptitious monitoring for usability

Userfly

Crazyegg

Mouseflow

Clicktale

Usabilitytesting.com

Survey tools

Webmonkey 

Zoomerang

IContact

Constant contact

DropBox -- coolest thing ever, freemium model, for mirroring files between your servers and pcs 

QuickOffice

BeanStalk subversion client

CSSdrive.com

Smushit