Ecotao's Tools and Links

WEB PAGE TOOLS, email and Hosting:

• See also  page for html, xml and javascript
  
• See also my software and tools page and my essential software page.          
•  Browser tips ; tipworld ; Netscape browser tips ; Unofficial Netscape FAQ ; IE browser info ; Personal Support Centre at Microsoft ;
• Favicon maker- Create a favicon from any image
  
  

• Check your web page links at Net Mechanic - an essential tool. You can also click on an image's size to reduce it with  GIFBot ! Other free services are Browser Compatibility, Spell Check, Load Time Check, HTML Check, Server Check.
  

• Who owns that URL that you want? Check  the availability of specific URLS.  Try http://www.whois.com/,  https://www.registersite.com/  or  http://www.registrydomains.com/
  
• You can also do this link checking from your computer with Astra Site Manager .
• Another link checking tool http://validator.w3.org/checklink
• Also http://www.dead-links.com/ for a free link check quickly done.
  
• Linkscan offers a link checking service.
• Linkalarm is a commercial link checking site with a free trial report option.
• See some other web maintenance tools at bCentral.com, including: Monitor Web traffic, Meta tags, Find bad links on your site, Spell Checker, Find out who is linking to your site.
• http://www.submitexpress.com/tools.html  webmster and search engine tools  - meta tag and keyword analyzer,  html page snooper, link popularity checker and compare metatag generator. The meta tag analyser is a great tool.
  
• A good tool for checking all your webpage links is also found in  Arachnophilia. : tools-analyze site . . .
• HitBox Doctor - Give your site a check up! w21.hitbox.com
• Another tool for checking links is at  LinkProver TaFWeb Software. See also http://net-promoter.com/linkutility/ , http://www.link-checker-pro.com/ and http://www.webpositiononline.com/linkdefender.htm for comercial software. More at http://www.totalshareware.com/asp/list_view.asp?catid=321
• Link checker and validator at http://www.relsoftware.com/
  
• FREE Perl Code: Utilities : Link Verification: http://www.freeperlcode.com/guide/Utilities/Link_Verification/
  
•   ABS- MetaTag Analyser will check and advise on your Meta Tag design. An essential tool. - does not suggest words.
  
• FREE META TAG GENERATOR  at active-ranking.COM. - does not suggest words, but does extract some of the existing metag data.
  
• Metatag analyzer online. - does not suggest words.
• Build metatags online at http://vancouver-webpages.com/META/mk-metas.html
  
• webpage submission tools at http://www.novicenews.com/subtools.html
  
• free online tool metatag generator - .
• meta tag generator - does not suggest words.
• neat metatag generator with character number for each category: Title, Author, Subject, Description, Keywords, Generator, Language, Expires, Distribution, Robots.
• Metatag generator.
  
• 123 WEBMASTER.com lists many metag sites - a good basic resource that directs you to useful resources such as : 
•   http://www.yook.de/webmaster/meta_gen/, a site that will process your URL to produce the keyword metatags!.
  
• Website tools 4 u: Online Tools, Gif Checker, HTML Validate, Link Checkers, Rank Your Site, Script Finder, Server Uptime Monitor, Shareware Finder, Website Checker, Metatag Generator, Find Your Link, Submission Links, Promotion Generator.
• Free Webpage Online Tools for Search Engine Optimization - Website Optimization Online Tools
• iWeb Webmasters toolkit, a collection of tools, links, and utilities.
  
• Hotscripts.com: web development portal with javascripts etc.
• Find that file at http://www.filemirrors.com/
  
• Slice up large images for quicker download using a free program called the  Shoestring Dicer .
• Find those lost .dll files that are so essential to your computer software at:
• Web Internet Tool Provider: Web Attack .
• DLL, The Place for missing DLL's
• For the on-line creation of Style sheets, where you can instantly view your stylesheets Style-o-Matic .  This site laso has links to good css resources. 
• Style sheets allow better presentation, management and control of larger web sites. A style sheet is made up of style rules telling a browser how to present a document, allowing professional site management. Each rule is made up of a selector--usually an HTML element such as BODY, P, or EM--and the style to be applied to the selector. Numerous properties may be defined for an element, each property taking a value which, together with the property, describes how the selector should be presented. CSS support in Amaya Cascading Style Sheets, level 1 ;  Quick Reference to Cascading Style Sheets, level 1 ;  CSS Pointers ;
• Style Sheet software: Top Style Pro . User friendly, logical software.
•   Create forms for your web page. Freedback.com will also generate the HTML for you, so there's nothing complicated to do or learn. Here you can create radio buttons, menus, checkboxes, hidden text (passwords), multi-line text, reset buttons etc. Forms are used to get feedback from your visitors.
• Oversite -- A small website announcement page.
• MedioCom is a global Internet and print content provider offering content that will attract a constant flow of traffic to your Web site. MedioCom provides up-to-the-minute articles, photography, images, and specific current events to keep visitors coming back.
  
• Create frames online at  FrameShop .
• Information for website developers at http://www.sitepoint.com/  for Domain Names, Hosting, Site Planning, Design and Layout, Client Side Coding, HTML and XHTML, CSS, JavaScript and DHTML,Server Side Coding, Promotion etc.
  
• Webmonkey for help on Java, JavaScript, Stylesheets, Perl, Graphics & Fonts, Browsers & much more. A newer url for webmonkey .
• How many java plug-ins do you still need to download? See the browser tune and test site to find more java applets and Active X for your browser.
• More on javascripts at knowledge on application development ;
• Go to the web presence, ICC Worldwide , and ask the Spider to check your homepage META tags for you. "If OUR little spider cannot retrieve this information from your web presence, it's unlikely that MOST of the major search engines like AltaVista, Jayde, HotBot, and others, can correctly index your website. Search Engine Tutorial Meta Medic (setsimjr), is a combination webspider and syntax checker. Simply give this application your url, and it will generate a report on your meta tags.
• Webwasher - from Siemens. Filters out advertising images, windows, scripts, layers, frams and forms as you browse. Another is AtGuard .
• Check who links to you at Link Popularity . You can also go to your preferred search engine and type in link:http://www.ecotao.com/        This will reveal links to your web page.
• See web-design advice at WebTools . This site has articles and tutorials.
• HUMANIZE YOUR WEB SITE! Talk for free to the visitors on your Web site. Monitor in real-time the traffic on your Web site. Perfect for interactive sales and customer service. Easy and quick to set up. HumanClick is 100% FREE.
• Digitalrelief.com : This site is full of useful resources for the development and management of your web site.
• SignPoster from Interlyn: intelligent metag management
  
• Eventually it becomes essential to search your site for specific information. You can get a free search tool from  FreeFind . With Free Find, visitors can search your site for specific text, navigate around your site using a handy map of your site, and also find out what's new since last time they were there.
• Place an  Atomz.com search form on your web site. Results are delivered with a sentence or two of the relivant source. More: Create your own search engine to search your web page at whatUseek.com and Jayde.com ; sitesearch.hitbox.com ;
• Another free site search tool from Intrasearch ;
• Naturally, you need to upload your webpage to a remote server by FTP . See, SentToFTP and WS_FTP ; Others are at the web tools site .
• You have to download files if you are on the internet, so make this easy an reliable with GetRight .  it will resume broken downloads and has more settings options than you will ever need! Another is Go!Zilla
• HTML Shrinker 1.03  Free HTML Shrinker is a tool for reducing the size of html files. As a consequence your web site will load faster .
• Browse anonomously with anonymizer.com . This site has a free and a signup option for the more serious paranoid.
• After you have registered your own domain name for your company as cheaply as possible, you may wish to also find the cheapest server to host your site. Freeservers offers free domain registration and parking and free server space in exchange for banner adverts on your site.
• You will need some keywords.  GoTo.com location-based directory and information applications and services . You can als see the top 100 search terms at  http://www.searchterms.com . More search terms at  SearchSpy .
• Keyword density analyser to optimise your title, description and introduction to your site. Also  a powerful multi-use tool that will spider all of your pages and submit each of them to all known spider engines (it has about 20 other functions as well - all of them key).
• Be very careful how you use your keywords on your site. Do NOT repeat them over and over. Use a tool  at GRSoftware inexpensive fast professional Windows keyword density analyzer software.
• Another way that may boost your keyword density is to make most of the text on your home page an image, allowing only select text kewords to be found by search engines.
•  RateMe will find out how your web site rates at the selected search engine. At present RateMe will search the first 50 or so listings returned. 
• Keyword Count Analyze the keyword frequencies of the top words on a URL.
• Find out if your meta tags are robot friendly. This is a free service from Scrub The Web . 
• Generate meta tages for your web pages. HTML Meta-Tags Generator. This is an advanced meta tag generator from Zoran.net but it does have instructions. 
• Get some information on an URL at Sam Spade .
• For more links for webpage tools, see Superior Software Solutions & "use the following free tools we have found that will get your web site in ship-shape condition for all users, browsers and search engines!! "
• Download a search tool: SurfMap - "a Web Design tool to suit every Web masters need. The only complete suite of integrated visual search and navigation tools for Web site designers. Web masters can integrate Surfmap's technology into a site to create stronger search and navigation features, increasing the efficiency and accuracy of internet navigation for Web-site visitors."
• Internet answering machine - have incoming calls answered while you are online by Callwave ;
•   Evrsoft 1st Page 2000 helps you write, edit and improve your HTML, its powerful tools let you make webpages faster than ever before. Its got plenty content & its free!
• Check that your html is correct at  W3C HTML Validation Service . This is essential. See also Bobby Online Service.
• In html, you can represent any character by a numeric character reference based on its "code position" in  Unicode . For example, one could use © for the copyright symbol or ا for the Arabic letter ALEF.
• W3C World Wide Web Consortium, for correct HTML usage.
• Liquid FX is a web page designer tool that has a built-in frame designer that makes building frames easy.
• For Webmasters and Web designers ;
• SELL YOURSELF ONLINE! Design and sell YOUR OWN T-shirts, mouse-pads, mugs and more! Just upload images, set prices and in minutes have a fully working FREE Web store for your Web site.Join CafePress.com now.
• Recommend-It is the leading webpage referral service on the Net that also allows webmasters to earn while promoting. Recommend-It has helped its 50,000+ member sites generate high-quality "word of mouth" traffic through its easy-to-use service. Once you have installed this free service on your site, visitors have the ability to quickly and easily tell their friends or colleagues about your website's content.
• Trace each server link to the site you are viewing using NeoTrace . 
• Store and access your bookmarks at Backflip .
• For free web site templates, see Free Web Templates ;
• Free redirect url for your website ;
• Stay connected to your ISP. Stay online. Stop disconnecting. Remain connected. keep connected. If your internet service privider disconnects you when you do not use the keyboard for a few minutes then use Connection Keeper . Its free and definitely works. I have tried many
• Search Online Metasearch a useful search tool.
• Free pop email ; See also sitefreenet . You always need another email address.
• Site Poll - Put an interactive poll on your site! at  Put a free HitBox Site Poll on your site! ;
• I nteractive online community at Bravenet :  get all the interactive Web Site tools you could possibly need
• Forward a visitor to a new site or page .
• Notify visitors of changes to your site: add ChangeDetection to your website and (1.) Build high quality traffic to your web site. (2.) Change casual surfers into repeat visitors and keep loyal visitors coming back! (3.) You can get it right now, for FREE! 
  
• Web Site Promotion ;
• Favicon creation: http://www.favicon.co.uk/ to make a favicon online; Free favicon creation program http://www.softpile.com/Desktop/Icons/Review_02804_index.html. See also http://www.royaltyfreeart.com/favicons.html.
  
• TheWebsEye , a website which is a complete information source on how websites need to promote and market themselves.
• Downlad graphics, web templates etc. from elated.com .
• TriGeo Inc. : Where you will find Weather, Internet, Mapping and Environmental software for YOUR World.
• SiteX is a professionally built web site which you can download and customize to suit you or your organisation.
• SceneLib is a C-library for 2D and 3D graphics programming delivered as a DLL. It provides an easy to use window interface for console and standard Windows applications.
• Indexing of webpages for quick reference. Here are some tools to create a site index.
  netXtract delivers a breakthrough approach to document navigation;
• web site toolbox ; 
• Dr. Watson is a free service to analyze your web page on the Internet. 
• FREE WEBMASTER TOOLS - all aspects of webpage management; 
• Free resources from echoecho.com . They are a site with tutorials (CSS, html, JavaScript), online tools and references as well.
  
• Web Page Tools, Freeware, software - all types of tool. A large site ful of useful software. You must bookmark this site! Similar to this is Jumbo . 
• Access  Control: 
  Applet Password Wizard - website password generation tool that provides you with the ability to add security to specific webpages.;
  
• freshmeat Unix and cross-platform software
• Home Page Builders - Webmaster Resources, Tools & Help
  
• You may want to view or test your web page in different screen resolutions: anybrowser.com/ScreenSizeTest.html also,http://www.thepcmanwebsite.com/screen_resolution.shtml and redirect scripts based on the resolution. More links as to browser compatibility and data at masternewmedia.org.
  
• http://www.editize.com/ for multiple editors maintaining website or intranet data remotely
  

 

STORE AND ORGANISE WEB PAGES:

• Teleport Pro to download and collect whole web pages. This is a good tool for reference information or large web pages that you wish to browse offline at your leisure. When you find a page or site that you want to browse offline, this is a great tool. 
• There are other tools for capturing content on the run. These integrate with the browser, so that you do not need a separate environment to collect information. The type of content capturing methods one may need are whole site, full page, no graphics, highlighted section, selected graphics, selected frame, partial site, links from site and links.  
• Sam's Surfsaver, Strategic Information's Netonizer, Webforia Organizer & Reporter,  and Giage's WebSpace.  SurfSaver : Works with IE. This tool has some powerful features, including the ability to capture linked pages selectively and full-text indexing and searching that makes it an essential tool!  
• WebSpace : Associate web information with documents, contacts, tasks and notes. It captures whole site, full page, highlighted section, and linked pages.  
• WebWhacker 2000 : For capturing and tracking complete or partial Web sites for offline viewing (like Teleport Pro). 
• Adobe Acrobat 4.0 : Useful for converting web pages to Acrobat pdf format files.

HOSTING SITES & SERVICES:

• http://www.websitehostingauthority.com for web hosting with Unix and Windows hosting
  
• AHB reseller multiple domain hosting with all features in one package at a good price. Domain registratio at $8.75.
• Catalog.com hosting package - pay for dot com and get free hosting in this deal.
• Get a prefix to your free website such as "science/yourname.com/ at DomainDLX .  
• Geocities and Yahoo are now combined.
• Crosswinds : free unlimited web space, with email, with pop access.
  
• Website Hosting - Offers email hosting, virtual web hosting, and ecommerce hosting with WebsiteOS that allows users to make a web site with free templates.
• Add credit card sales to your site and use www.safepage.com   for transactions. 
• For "business hosting" www.hypermart.net is a good choice. It is free (paid by banner ads on each page of your site) and offers plenty of memory. 
• Start a free newsletter: start a free e-mail newsletter or discussion group - free mailing list services at Listbot.com ,  Yahoo groups ,  Yahoo groups , Topica.com ; e-mail-based discussion groups . Also add a chat room . 
• For a business site, you may wish to put confidential information on line and accessible by those who know the password. Your service provider may provide this service free - check first. Many fee site providers forbid the use of passwords. Another option is to have an directory that can be entered using javascript. This prevents the casual visitor from looking at the data in the folder that follows from the script:
  <FORM
  onSubmit="window.location.href='http://www.myserver.com/' + this.elements[0].value + '/index.htm';return false">
  <INPUT TYPE=PASSWORD>
  <INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT VALUE="Log In to Amatikulu>
  </FORM>
  You can set this up for a password and then by using different folders can have a login to different users.
  For another password method, see builder.com ; 
• E M A T I C   At Ematic.com everything is FREE! UNLIMITED SPACE Free email, web page, auto-responders, music, picture, products catalogues. Upload images and files, Web page templates, bulletin boards, and guest books. 
• Visit www.50.com to get your free domain name. 
• An ftp site to browse for software of use. 
• At Ematic.com everything is FREE! UNLIMITED SPACE Free email, web page, auto-responders, music, picture, products catalogues. Upload images and files, Web page templates, bulletin boards, and guest books.VISIT NOW: http://www.ematic.com
• Store your files online Easily upload and store documents, spreadsheets, presentations, music, video and pictures on the Internet. Access data anywhere at Freedrive.com . 
• Free, remotely hosted CGI scripts - such as message boards, password protection, guestbooks, mailing lists,  form mailer, FFAL pages, random links, recommend, jump boxes.  
• Add a message board . or join or create your own webring of related sites. 
• Anaconda.net GI scripts for webmasters are the “secret weapons” for thousands of small websites around the world. For example, you can bring the Amazon.com search results into your webpage structure and format. For an example, see  scubaduba.com . 
• Store your photo album online: HP Cartogra photo website ; digital pictures at Zing ; your new website at MyFamily.com ; 
• Domain registration fee of $35 US for 2 years, half of what everybody else seems to charge  at TotalNIC . 
• Digital Zones - Domain Registration - Sign up for any hosting plan, and get a new .com/.net/.org domain registered for only $19.95/year! 
• Get your own .COM, .NET or .ORG for less! With BudgetRegister.com you can register or renew a domain name for just $14.99. 
• http://www.000domains.com/ for $13.50 per year (July 2001)
  
• http://uk2.net/ cheap 10 year offer
  
• HostYard The Web Hosting Specialists- only $30 a year! - first get your domain name registered!
  
• More web hosting. To host your website, try one of the following:
  
• http://hostsave.com/ ; includes Server Side Includes (SSI), Personal CGI Directory (CGI bin), Password Protect Directories, Detailed Graphical Web Site Statistics. International domain names (e.g. ecottao.co.za). Currently for US$7.95 per month (2003).
  
• Pair.com for world class web hosting.
  
• registersite.com for URL registration and hosting. Includes Domain Name Forwarding/Cloaking so you can refer to a free hosting site. Basic domain registration for US$10 per annum in 2003. Also has cheap ssl certification for secure pages. NitSSL Certificates are among the most trusted and secure SSL certificates available! Every certificate uses 128-bit encryption, the strongest available!
  
• A+ Hosting offers world class web hosting for as little as $6.95/month (this excludes cgi bin).  You get your own domain for 99 cents, FrontPage extensions, control panel, website statistics, email accounts, disk space and bandwidth galore, and so much more!
  
• Catalog.com celebrates accreditation as ICANN Authorized Registrar by offering free hosting for life.   
• http://www.linuxwebhost.com/ a highly rated hosting site.
  
• Gallery of best web design .

Firewalls and hacking: 

Who is trying to connect to me or hack me? The following sites provide tools to help identify IP addresses:

• Install Zone Alarm  firewall to stop hacking.
• http://www.ripe.net/perl/whois
• http://www.apnic.net/apnic-bin/whois2.pl
• http://www.arin.net/whois/index.html
• For additional sites, see
• http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/Directory_Services/Whois/

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