Free Website Tools
Free Website Tools

Get free sitemaps of your website with up to 500 pages. XML-Sitemaps lets you create sitemaps in XML, ROR, text or html format that can be submitted to Google, Yahoo and other search engines. XML sitemaps can be used to create simple lists of all pages on a website, which can be used for analytical purposes, or as a navigation feature. This service will also create a list of broken links.

Here’s an easy way to search for copies of your content anywhere on the web: take the URL of your content and plug it into Copyscape. It will display all the instances where a substantial amount of your content has been published. This is a very useful service for anyone who buys content or articles, or for anyone considering buying a website. Comprehensive services are available with their paid service.

If you have large documents on your site (incl. books), and you don’t want to make them available as a separate download, you could have them displayed in a browser instead. FlexPaper is an open source web based document viewer that uses Flash. It is delivered both as a stand alone flash application and as a Flex (SWC) library, so it can be integrated it into your application in different ways. Examples and use of FlexPaper.

If you’d like to be able to type fast and be more productive as a result, try TypingWeb, a free online typing tutor and keyboarding tutorial for typists of all skill levels. Learn to type or improve your typing skills with their free comprehensive keyboarding lessons. The site offers lots of tips to improve your typing skills and also has games to make the process more fun!

Tell this random text generator by Matt Round on malevole to generate the number of paragraphs you need and it’ll spit out lines from old TV shows, what looks like show tune lyrics and some rhymes. Will your clients like this alternative to Lorem Ipsum? Not sure. Is it more fun than Lorem Ipsum? Definitely!

If you’re looking for a random text generator that lets you choose the type of text, number of words or characters, font-family, style, size and also lets you preview the text in the size column you choose, you may love the Blind Text Generator. Being able to format and preview the text before you copy and paste can be incredibly useful, esp. when working on several pages simultaneously.

This free SEO guide published by Google is an exception from all the overhyped e-books and guides available on SEO. It provides all necessary information you need to get started with search engine optimization and is well written and illustrated. It provides lots of examples incl. how to use heading tags and optimize your images, but also tips for basic ‘good practices’ like having a useful 404 page and a sitemap. If you’re working on your first website, or you need a ‘to-do-list’ for an existing website, this guide will be of tremendous help.

‘Lorem Ipsum’ is dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry and with the random text generator Lipsum you can create some for your website in progress. You can define the text by number of paragraphs, words, bytes and lists. You can also create dummy banners with it. Even though lorem ipsum is referred to as dummy text, it has its roots in a piece of classical Latin literature written by Cicero in 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old.

Need plain text converted to HTML? You could manually add HTML tags to the text but the job is much easier, if you use
Website101′s text to HTML converter tool. You just paste the original text and the output is ready to use HTML code for your website. You can specify how the tool is supposed to handle paragraphs, ordered and unordered lists, headers and links.

Licensed with Creative Commons or not, FairShare lets you track your work / content and find out how it is spread across the internet by subscribing to your account via RSS. This is one of the best services out there for tracking your content.