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Essential Web Tools Collection
What tools do you recommend to help other Website Developers?
This is a particular tough question. My background is in UNIX administration, and all my web and development work is performed using Firefox and Vi1.
However I have come to rely on a few tools in particular, and found some others very usefull on occasion. All of these tools are browser based (and therefore cross-platform) and more importantly freely available. Please contact me if any are broken, shouldn’t be here or you have suggestions.
Standards Compliance
- HTML/XHTML Validator
http://validator.w3.org/check - CSS Validator
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator
Site Layout
- Browsershots - Auto Screenshots from multiple browsers
http://browsershots.org
Search Engine Optimization
- SERP Checker and other Free SEO Tools from SEO Company
http://www.seocompany.ca/tool/serp-checker.php
Spelling, Links etc.
- Site Check Spell Checker
http://www.siteowner.com/sitecheck.cfm - Link Validity Checker
http://www.siteowner.com/system/linkcheck.asp
Footnotes
- vi is a traditional UNIX text editor [↩]