Webmaster Tools

• Website SEO Health Check Tool - NEW (Nov 07) - Aaron Wall has released a new tool named the Website Health Check Tool. The tool reviews a site's title tags, descriptions, URLs, and page status codes. It then returns problems the site may have with missing title tags and descriptions, any duplicate title tags or descriptions, www versus non-www issues, index page health, and error handling issues. Aaron plans on adding more features to the tool.

• Fagan Finder's URL Info - Superb tool for handling web pages: finding information about it, translating it, finding related pages, links, whois, etc. Allows multiple windows so you don't have to type in url for different data.

• CodeFlux - Internet Tools - Some really neat tools here - finger, nslookup, whois, ssl, traceroute, ping, dig, validate www pages, w3c and ietf standards, tidy www pages, encoder, etc.

• Duplicate Content Checker - Really neat tool from Webconfs, that checks two given pages and reports the similarity percentage of the two pages. Ideal for checking if your pages are going to be marked as duplicate content.

• SEOmoz Page Strength Tool - Excellent tool giving you; The Relative Importance and Visibility of a Web page - The Potential Strength and Ability of a Page to Rank in the Search Engines and Data on Popularity, Links & Mentions of the Page Across the Web.

• ITools - Internet Tools - Networking, Web and HTML tools.

• TrafficEstimator.com - Use the Traffic Estimate tool to find out approximately how much traffic a website gets.

• Domain Dossier - Investigate domains and IP addresses.

• WebConfs: URL Rewriting Tool - .htaccess code generator for re-directing dynamic web pages into static web pages. Another version here :- mod rewrite generator .

• Redirect Checker - This tool provides a simple and precise answer to a question, often asked by SEO's, directory owners and webmasters. It immediately identifies the three main types of redirections : 301 redirect, 302 redirect or HTML redirect (meta refresh). It also detects frames (FRAME tag) within the page pointed to by the tested link. The tool only analyses HTML links. It should not be used with JavaScript links.

• DynamicDrive - Free, Original DHTML & Javascripts to enhance your web site.

• Email Riddler - Email Riddler is an online tool that encrypts and transform your email address into a series of numbers when displaying it, making it virtually impossible for spam harvesters to crawl and add your email to their list.

• Simple Email Encoder - This form will allow you to encode your e-mail address through the use of Character Entities, transforming your ascii email address into its equivalent decimal entity.

• WatchThatPage - Free web service allowing you to monitor any web pages for changes, either on your site or a competitors.

• IPS Tag Checker - Useful tool for those wanting to move .co.uk domains from one IPS tag to another. After the tag change has been requested, enter the domain name in question, the IPS tag of the provider you are moving the domain to, and your email address. The tool will check on the status of the IPS tag every hour, and will email you if it finds the tag has moved.

• Xenu's Link Sleuth - Free Download - Great tool for checking your site for broken links. Displays a continuously updated list of URLs which you can sort by different criteria. Customized reporting can be produced at any time (broken links by page, broken links by link, site map, etc.) - Networking, Web and HTML tools.

• Extreme Tracking - One of the best website counters out there with tons of visitor information. (hint - don't want to show the extreme counter image on your site - img=1x1)

• StatCounter - A free yet reliable invisible web tracker, highly configurable hit counter and real-time detailed web stats.

• Keyword Crawler 1.1 (program) (424 KB) is a keyword tool that can analyze your website and provide web page reports for the top keywords used, word density, Google pagerank, internal and external backlinks and broken links. In addition, the program can also generate a sitemap file in XML format. For Windows 98/ME/NT4/2Kx/XP.

• Free Website Templates - Really good selection of free website templates.

• Free PDF Converter - Convert commonly used files (Microsoft Office, Open Office, graphic images, vector graphic and other formats) to PDF. It can also convert back PDF to DOC - Here's Another Free PDF Converter

• Dynamic MySpace Flash Images - Over 75 fun Flash ecards that you can customize the text message right into the Flash image! You will be given the HTML source code to add to your site so the created image will show up (we host it, hot linking allowed), great MySpace.com (forums/blogs) image add-ons. Also See Make Your Own Sign Generators - Import your images so you can place custom text on them.

• File Difference Tool - Free tool - Enter two files to see their differences. The tool is intended to compare nearly identical ascii files (such as cgi scripts, html or txt), or comparing html pages the have changed search engine rank to a previous version of the document.

• iWeb - HTML Colour Chart - Gives Hexadecimal values for all colours. Also has CSS style sheet generator .

• 1000's of Free Online Fonts - Enormous collection of free downloadable online fonts - presented in categories - best I've seen on the net so far.

• Online Font Tester - View how fonts look with certain parameters - nice tool.

• Malevole's Text Generator - Tired of using Lorem Ipsum for dummy text in your latest masterpiece? This text generator has been developed based on years of careful research and is guaranteed to improve even the most lacklustre of designs.

• 5,000 Online Resources - Huge list of really useful online tools - a must see for any webmaster.

• StockXhnge - Browse through the categories of their huge gallery containing over 250.000 quality stock photos by more than 25.000 photographers! Need a wallpaper for your desktop? Need a pic for your commercial website design? Looking for inspiration? Have a look around.

• Online CSS Optimiser - Excellent tool for optimising your site css files.

• CSS Creator - CSS Layout Generator - The generator requires a DOM capable browser with JavaScript enabled.

• CSS Rounded/Beveled Box Generator - Great tool for getting that professional looking table.

• Pixenate - Online Image Editor - great if your not on your own pc or for those with no image editing s/w.

• Image Size Optimizer - Lets you easily optimize your gifs, animated gifs, jpgs, and pngs, so they load as fast as possible on your site. Furthermore, you can easily convert from one image type to another.

• List-o-Matic - Online CSS Navigation Menu creator - inspired by Listamatic, a collection of examples of CSS styled list items used for navigation.

• List-u-Like CSS Generator - Create cross-browser list-based navigation bars with ease.

• Color Scheme Generator - Website colour scheme generator.

• Web 2.0 Website Generator - This site will automatically generate the XHTML/CSS layout for your new Web 2.0 site. Just set your preferences and click Generate and you are ready to begin your new life as a Web 2.0 Gazillionaire!. <grin> - Seriously though, it is a rther cool - has nearly everything: Rounded corners, gradients, XHTML and CSS, a color scheme to make your eyes vomit, a trendy 'badge', Google Ads, whitespace galore and a big-ass dorky font. Pop in some AJAX and watch squillions of dollars roll in.

• Contact Form Designer - Enables you to create form-to-email scripts for your ASP, PHP or Perl web site with no programming skills needed. Use this nifty little online form designer to finish it off.

• Encyclopedia of Free Software Downloads - Superb site for free software downloads - for Mac, Linux and Windows.

• ZARA 3D - Headline Maker (Free) - Nuff said ...