Links to free programs 

Free Web Page Tools

Mozilla, the web browser, comes with a WYSIWYG web editor that allows you to quickly code web pages using a wordprocessor-like interface. For more information, read the review of Mozilla Composer and the tutorials at thesitewizard.

Nvu is a WYSIWYG editor that is designed to make the creation of web sites as easy for novices as it is using commercial web editors. It is based on the Mozilla Composer web editor and includes new features that will eventually make its way back into Mozilla Composer. This open source editor is available for Linux and Windows.

Trellian WebPAGE is a WYSIWYG web editor with a drag and drop interface, a preview screen that allows you to see your page under three common screen widths (640, 800 and 1024), built-in FTP uploader, table creation wizard, form creation tool, etc. It also has a syntax highlighting HTML editor for people who may want to switch to the HTML mode for some fine tuning.

Amaya is an open source browser and WYSIWYG web authoring environment that purports to allow its users to develop web pages without knowing anything about HTML or CSS. You can create your pages, view them, and upload them to your website using this software. It supports CSS (including CSS 2), HTML, XHTML, MathML 2.0 (which allows you to browse and write web pages containing mathematical symbols), etc. There are versions for Windows (a separate one for NT/2000/XP and 95/98/98SE/ME), and Linux.

HTML-Kit

HTML-Kit is a full-featured editor designed to help HTML, XHTML and XML authors to create, edit, format, validate, preview and publish web pages, scripts and over dozen other file types.

 

Free HTML, CSS and Link Validation tools

TheFreeCountry has put together an assortment of tools which will help you to check your webpages for errors and compatibility issues.

Free FTP Programs:

SmartFTP   is free for personal and educational use. It is highly configurable and useful for both downloading of files as well as maintaining your website.

FileZilla Open Source FTP / SFTP Client   is an open source FTP client for Windows distributed under the GNU General Public License. You can upload and download files, as well as resume uploads or downloads. It works with firewalls, supports SFTP (Secure FTP) and SSL secured connections, handles queues of files to be uploaded/downloaded, etc.

Core FTP Lite is a Windows FTP client that supports uploading, downloading and deletion of directories and files, browser integration, SFTP (or secure FTP), SSL/TLS, handling of file permissions, transfer bandwidth control, etc.

FTP Commander is a Windows program that can upload or download files, create and delete directories, rename files, activate multiple downloads, and keep a session log.