Online Tools
Not many people think of the Internet as a tool chest, but
in many ways it is. Bee-low are online tools that can help you
create, debug and test your Web pages. Perhaps the best aspect
of these Internet tools is... they're free!
Animation
Animated
Communications - Creates professional-looking animated banners
from templates.
Animation
Online - Creates animated buttons, banners, scrolling displays,
and navigation bars.
Graphics
Banner
Generator, The - Creates banners from templates and with
various fonts and effects.
Button
Maker, The - Create buttons from templates, in dozens of
fonts, sizes, and colors.
Coloring.com
- Choose a picture and color it. Great activity for kids.
GIFSplit
- Splits large GIF images into smaller parts for faster downloads.
HTML
Validators
Bobby
- Analyzes Web pages for accessibility to people with disabilities
as well as compatibility issues with Web browsers.
Dr. Watson
- Analyzes HTML syntax, checks links, spell checks, gives approximate
download speeds, search engine compatibilities, and reports link
popularity.
HTML
Check - Looks for bad HTML tags.
SiteInspector
- Checks for HTML, browser compatibilities, links (and popularity),
load times, search engine readiness, and spelling. Pass and win
their award! Also has META tag generator.
W3C HTML
Validator - Checks HTML documents for compliance with W3C
specifications. Supports most DTD's.
Web
Page Purifier - View Web pages as they comply with HTML 2.0,
HTML 2.0+Tables, HTML 3.2, and even WebTV.
Image
Size Reduction
GIFBot
- Reduces GIF and JPEG file sizes for faster downloads. Has mouse
over option.
GifOptimizer
- Reduces file size of GIF images, static or animated.
Java
Creations
7am News
Clock - Java applet clock that can be set for local time.
JavaMachine
- Java applet creator for customized Java banners. No Java programming
experience required.
Link
Checkers
Link
Alarm - Checks links on up to 200 Web pages. Results and
URL for report are e-mailed.
Link
Check - Checks entire site or one page. Results are e-mailed.
Load
Time & Server Connection
Load
Time - Checks and categories download times for various modem
speeds. Reports file size of pages' contents and offers HTML
tips.
Server
Check - Checks connection time to the Web server. Results
are e-mailed. Great tool when shopping around for an Internet
service provider.
META
Tag Generators
FluxMeta
- Free service that aims to help Web pages achieve better search
engine results and indexing. Provides free analysis as well.
META
Tag Builder - Use this form to generate META tags to copy
and paste bee-tween the <HEAD> tags. Helps search engines'
robots add you to their database.
WebPromote
META Tag Builder - Creates META tags based on input. META
tags are e-mailed.
NetPromote
META Tag Builder - Creates META tags based on input. META
tags are generated online.
Mouseover
Machines
- Mighty
Mouseover Machine - Changes the image source to display a
different one when the reader's screen cursor moves over it.
Generates the script for copying and pasting.
Text
CoolText
- The name pretty much says it all.
Logo
Generator - Creates text logos with image sizes up to 800
pixels wide and 500 pixels high. Font sizes go up to 150 pixels
in italic, underlined, bold, light, anti-aliased, blurred, and
dozens of fonts & colors.
ZyGraphics
- Creates 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional text. Pick the style,
font face, and colors. Requires a reciprocal link credit back
to their site.
And so on...
Combo
Link Box Whipper - Creates drop-down navigation boxes. Generates
the code for the URL's within a site, giving readers another
way to navigate.
FrameShop
- Creates frames (up to 9 per page) for Web sites. Complete the
worksheet, then copy the script output.
Mailing
Form Generator - Creates HTML for mail forms.
TableMaker
- Creates tables for Web pages. Offers an offline table generator.
Weather
Stickers - Shows real-time weather conditions. Several styles
showing various local weather information.
