Useful Web Design Tools

[degsy]

Feel freed to add a useful web design tool/utility/software.

Please give a few details and also if it is free/demo/pay etc.

[degsy]

http://www.paessler.com/products/psi/ (30 day trial)

What is it?

Paessler Site Inspector is a comprehensive set of website and webpage analysis tools.

What can Site Inspector do for me?

Whenever you access a webpage using Internet Explorer you will find a wealth of analysis functions in Site Inspector's toolbars and menus, for example:

• Show all images, forms, stylesheets, and scripts
• Show frameset's HTML and a list of frames
• Show the HTTP header
• Show a structured view of the HTML source
• Highlight all tables, table cells and DIV tags
• Copy page URL, page title, or page source
• Copy a list of all URLs of a webpage to the clipboard
• Resize the browser to various standard screen sizes
• Zoom into the webpage
• Various online tools like "ping the server", "traceroute the server", "show domain owner", "W3C markup validation" and many more

[lufbra]

Alleycode

Alleycode is a fast, sleek and highly productive award winning HTML editor with unique features. If you are new to HTML, Alleycode's great tutorial will walk you through your first coding steps... If you are an established coder you will find a refreshing, non-bloated infrastructure with fast and accurate delivery. Beyond HTML, Alleycode's wizardry focuses on PHP and CSS interaction for professional and easy management of your projects. Best of all, Alleycode is FREE! (we do accept donations if you find it useful)

Features:

Synchro View...
Synchro View allows you to see your progress in real time, you can also display two way synchronized code/design. Valuable time saver when dealing with large files and looking for a particular piece of information.


Quick Edit...
Right click enabled HTML tags for fast wizard supported updates. Covers all essential tags!


Assignments...
Quick access to works in progress. Enter a name and project path + Add + OK. Your assignment is now available via a dropdown menu at the top of your 'Directory window".


CSS Wizard...
Intuitive Style Sheet Wizard allows you to create/update either internal or external style sheets (CSS1 - CSS2).


Turf View...
A somewhat unusual real estate view of your project. Convenient if you a have a small screen. Turf gives you complete "right click"control over Alleycode.


Optimizer...
Alleycode includes a very useful "Optimizer" wizard which will help you keep your meta content accurate and search engine friendly.

HTML Kit

HTML-Kit is a full-featured editor designed to help HTML, XHTML and XML authors to edit, format, lookup help, validate, preview and publish web pages. Despite its name and the light download size, HTML-Kit is a multi-purpose tool that has support for several scripting and programming languages.

HTML Gate

The most efficient and powerful web-editor, whether you're an experienced web professional or just a novice starting with your first web site, it is the complete set of features and tools you need to design, build and publish web sites in less time and with great results!

Advanced coding features with syntax support enables you to quickly and instantly create, edit and publish HTML 4, XHTML 2, JavaScript 1.2, VBScript, DHTML, CSS 2.0, PHP 5, ASP, XML, JSP, SSI, WML 1.1, HDML 3.0, SMIL, PERL, SQL and WebTV pages.

The FastEdit (WYSIWYG) takes you one further step into better design and the W3's HTML Tidy helps you to easily check and reformat your web-documents after the W3 standard.

The TaskPanel includes 7 different code libraries, tag inspector, project manager, 2 file browser, HTML parser and other useful task tools.

Nothing less than 100 script samples including DHTML, JavaScript and VBScripts.

Other features includes FTP, ToDo Manager, HTML compressor, image effects, image converters, GIF animator, GIF SizeOptimizer and many other exciting features and tools.

TSW Webcoder

WebCoder 5 is the complete solution for anyone who is working with websites. No matter if you're a rookie who wants to learn how to make websites, or a professional looking for a decent working environment, WebCoder is a great choice. WebCoder 5 is built with the primary goal of helping you as much as possible, whenever you need it and just the way you want it! With a long list of settings and a fully customizable interface, you'll find the editing environment you're looking for. WebCoder's timesaving functions will improve your efficiency, because WebCoder 5 always offers what you need, exactly when and where you need it.

We have worked hard to give you the best possible working environment in WebCoder 5, but don't take our word for it. WebCoder 5 is 100% free for personal use, and can be downloaded and evaluated by everyone.

First Page 2000

From Australia to California to Germany, professional web builders are exploring 1st Page 2000, the world's free web builder to create and manage world-class Web sites. Its power and flexibility lets anyone create the web site they want. Ask any professional web builder and they'll tell you the sad stories behind using standard WYSIWYG editors. Professional web builders know that WYSIWYG editors never create clean html code which means they'll end up wasting more time fixing, cleaning and correcting code later on. With this common problem in mind, you'll be glad to hear that 1st Page never ruins HTML code, infact it doesn't even add unwanted html codes to your important projects.


Evrsoft 1st Page 2000 helps you write, edit and improve your HTML, its powerful tools let you author websites faster, easier and better! Most new builders don't realize the time they're losing by relying on traditional based text editors like WindowsTM Notepad to author their sites. Whether you're a beginner or an HTML guru you'll find 1st Page 2000 great to use!

[lufbra]

Oops, sorry to point out that all of the above are freebies.

[renegade600]

library of free and pay cgi scripts

library of free and pay php scripts

Library of free Dhtml scripts

Library of free javascripts

free online logo generator

help finding a free/pay webhost
http://www.webhostsonline.com/
http://100best-free-web-space.com/Top10_banner.htm

[degsy]

http://sourceforge.net/projects/foxserv/

FoxServ is an Apache / mySQL / PHP installer package for Windows and Linux. Unlike NuShpere or PHPTriad, FoxServ features the latest version of all included pacakges, user defined configuration during installation, PHP as a module, PEAR, and the Zend Opt

- Apache 1.3.26
- PHP 4.2.2
- Perl 5.6.1.632
- MySQL 3.23.51
- phpMyAdmin 2.2.6
- Zend Optimiser 2.0.2
- MySQL Front 2.40
- Plus a few EasyServ specific tools


I've just installed this. It was so easy. Just needed a few config file changes and you have a webserver with PHP & mySQL

[degsy]

No-IP
http://www.no-ip.com/

No-IP.com is a leading dynamic DNS service provider. We offer a wide range of services pertaining to your internet presence, from that pesky dynamic IP problem to getting around ISPs who block port 25. All of our services take advantage of our global network of redundant DNS and mail servers peered with tier-1 data centers.



DynDNS
http://www.dyndns.org/

Dynamic Network Services, Inc. is a leading provider of Domain Name Services (DNS). We provide full managed DNS hosting, Dynamic DNS, Static DNS, web redirection, e-mail, and domain registration services



IP Updater
http://www.ipupdater.com/

Are you in need of a "host" for your domain name? Have you been wanting to set up a server on your cable/dsl modem but haven't been able to overcome the problems with your ip address changing every few days (DHCP provided IP)?

Dynamic DNS allows you to point a host or domain name to your computer/server and keep it updated no matter how many times your ISP changes your ip address. You use this service to enable you to run a web server, ftp server, game server, or other services right from your own broadband (Cable/DSL) connection.

[degsy]

Home Webserver
Web server that works on standard Windows computers. You can publish your own pages with this from your home, or may be you would like to have home pages for your company really located on some of your offices computers (servers). These types of pages you can easily update your self, just saving new files into published folder on your local computer.

Home FTP Server
Home ftp server is a very easy to use Windows FTP server application with all the nice ftp features included. If you are interested of having your own Ftp server to share files with your friends, I think this freeware is just something that you should have.

Home File Server
File server is server tool that you can use to download files with special client with from your computer.

http://downstairs.dnsalias.net/homeserver_download.html



BadBlue
Serving, publishing, sharing
http://www.badblue.com/

Turn a PC into a web server and share photos, movies, videos and music/MP3 files securely, free. BadBlue supports slide-shows, photo albums, file/music search, folder explorer, uploads and downloads, free domain-name support - and much more.

[lufbra]

Quick HTML Edit Tool Bar For IE

Quick Edit Bar

HTML Quick Edit Bar - is a freeware toolbar for Microsoft Internet Explorer that allows you to edit the current HTML page within the browser itself (change the font color, size and face, text alignment, etc.). Once edited, HTML Quick Edit Bar allows you to upload the modified page to your web site via FTP. Another feature allows you to examine and manipulate the HTML tree (which will appear in the left pane of the browser) of the current document. Using this tree, you can change and remove HTML tags and their attributes. Dragging a special cursor over the page's HTML elements, enables you to observe the place of these elements in the tree. HTML Quick Edit Bar can be useful for anyone who uses Microsoft Internet Explorer, as it allows you to modify and examine HTML documents "on the fly" when browsing.

[demon19]

I think some ftp server you should have - Golden FTP Server - is free and easy to use FTP server for Windows. http://www.goldenftpserver.com

[bAdWaYz]

MailEnable is a fast, easy to install and setup email server. The Standard Edition is free and can create as many post offices and mailboxes as you want. Will server pop3 and smtp, but IMAP, and webmail don't come with the standard ver. So if you just want to setup a nice email server with pop3 and smtp this would be great for you. Find more info at http://www.mailenable.com

[da_moma]

Just a reply to say thank you for these links and posts I have a lot to read and learn now!

Blessings
Da_moma

[horizon]

http://wellstyled.com/tools/

COLOR SCHEME GENERATOR

Generator of color schemes and palettes to create good-looking and well balanced and harmonic web pages.

Pseudo-Czech Dummy Text Generator

Generator of filling nonsense text, i.e. for a web page design dummy text, simulating the look and feel of czech language. Each reload of the page generates new random paragraph of text.

[Midget]

Perhaps someone has allready mentioned this, but I'll do it anyways

If you use Firefox/Mozilla then WebDeveloperToolbar is a nice tool for quickly debugging your (and other) page(s)

http://www.chrispederick.com/work/firefox/webdeveloper/

[thelamberts]

Pixie is only 62k and free

You can get it at

http://www.nattyware.com/pixie.html

Pixie is a colour picker that includes a mouse tracker. Run it, simply point to a colour and it will tell you the hex, RGB, HTML, CMYK and HSV values of that colour. It has Hotkeys for copy and paste, colour mixer and magnifier.

It is a wicked little tool that I use all the time