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
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AceFTP
Free - Free FTP program. |
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FTP
Surfer - Another free FTP program. |
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Google
Toolbar - Integrates a Google search box into
your browser, along with other useful features
like a pop-up blocker and a PageRank estimator.
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PhotoPlus
- Free image editing software. Great for resizing
photos and creating graphics. |
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The
GIMP - Free image editing program. Powerful
but a bit of a learning curve. |
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Xenu's
Link Sleuth - Great little free program to
check for broken links on your entire site. |
Online Tools - Design
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Color
Scheme Generator - Find triads, tetrads, and
analogic color schemes. Produces normal or web-safe
colors. |
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ColorMatch
- Create color themes based on a single starting
color. |
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EasyRGB
- Tool to find color harmonies. |
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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. |
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Lorem
Ipsum Generator - Create realistic dummy text
to help you lay out a page. |
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Lynx
Viewer - See your site as it looks to search
engines with this text-only browser emulator.
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WhatTheFont
- Identifies a font based on a sample image, provided
it is large enough and of good quality. |
Online Tools - Misc
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Check
Domain - A simple and straightforward whois.
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Copyscape
- Find sites that are copying your content. |
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DNS
Stuff - A compilation of many DNS lookup tools.
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Quick
Character Counter - Calculates how many characters
are in a block of text. Neat condensing function.
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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. |
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Wayback
Machine - See how a domain looked in the past,
if it was archived. |
Online Tools - Promotion
Scripts and Programming
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Hot
Scripts - A huge repository of free and commercial
scripts written in many languages, including CGI/Perl
and PHP. |
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Master.com
- A suite of free remotely hosted tools - a site
search engine, a downtime checker, and more. |
Stock Photos
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iStockphoto
- Very inexpensive stock photos. You can also
become a contributor and get free downloads. |
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Stock.xchng
- Free stock photos, many of very high quality.
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