Free Web Master Tools

 

Free and commercial software recommendations for FTP, image editing, and website development, as well as links to online tools to help with designing and promoting your website.

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Software - Free

Link AceFTP Free - Free FTP program.
Link FTP Surfer - Another free FTP program.
Link Google Toolbar - Integrates a Google search box into your browser, along with other useful features like a pop-up blocker and a PageRank estimator.
Link PhotoPlus - Free image editing software. Great for resizing photos and creating graphics.
Link The GIMP - Free image editing program. Powerful but a bit of a learning curve.
Link Xenu's Link Sleuth - Great little free program to check for broken links on your entire site.

Online Tools - Design

Link Color Scheme Generator - Find triads, tetrads, and analogic color schemes. Produces normal or web-safe colors.
Link ColorMatch - Create color themes based on a single starting color.
Link EasyRGB - Tool to find color harmonies.
Link FavIcon from Pics - Make a quick favicon.ico file from an image. Put this file in your root directory so when people bookmark your site they see your logo.
Link Lorem Ipsum Generator - Create realistic dummy text to help you lay out a page.
Link Lynx Viewer - See your site as it looks to search engines with this text-only browser emulator.
Link WhatTheFont - Identifies a font based on a sample image, provided it is large enough and of good quality.

Online Tools - Misc

Link Check Domain - A simple and straightforward whois.
Link Copyscape - Find sites that are copying your content.
Link DNS Stuff - A compilation of many DNS lookup tools.
Link Quick Character Counter - Calculates how many characters are in a block of text. Neat condensing function.
Link Remote Website Tester - Useful if your site is down - see if it's just you or if another location cannot connect either. Displays the HTML of your site if it can connect.
Link Wayback Machine - See how a domain looked in the past, if it was archived.

Online Tools - Promotion

Link Link Popularity Checker - Check your link popularity on several major search engines and compare your results with other websites.
Link Overture Keyword Suggestion Tool - Find the popularity of keyword phrases. An invaluable tool for SEO.
Link Submit page to Google - Add your webpage for inclusion.
Link Submit page to Yahoo - Add your site to Yahoo's search engine.

Scripts and Programming

Link Hot Scripts - A huge repository of free and commercial scripts written in many languages, including CGI/Perl and PHP.
Link Master.com - A suite of free remotely hosted tools - a site search engine, a downtime checker, and more.

Stock Photos

Link iStockphoto - Very inexpensive stock photos. You can also become a contributor and get free downloads.
Link Stock.xchng - Free stock photos, many of very high quality.
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