From Adobe
- Dreamweaver CS4 – awesome package
- InContext CMS – great way to upgrade static sites to allow for basics client CMS
- Spry Datasets – fast way to create a mini-database. tragically, not readable by search engines
- Flash FLV player – quickly stream most media
From others
- WordPress – fast, simple, powerful tool
- Web Developers Toolbar for Firefox – great way to see how other sites are built
- Lightbox & Shadowbox – fast, simple, beautiful script for linking to and displaying images/media from thumbnails
- Google Analytics – nearly perfect web stats application. (still needs some improvements on heatmaps and click counts.)
- Browsershots.org – Great tool for generating screenshots for an array of opperating systems and internet browsers
