Free Website Tools
Free Website Tools

Unlike other services offering redirects, Jambai’s comes without ads. You can sign up for a free sub-domain name and use it to access your website, no matter where it is hosted. Visitors to your site won’t see your URL in the address space of the browser, only the chosen sub-domain. The site claims to not tolerate any spamming used in conjunction with using their service. They will also delete any account that has been inactive for a year or more.

phpGroupWare is a free/open source web based messaging, collaboration and enterprise management platform. Features included are contacts management, email, shared calendar, web content and document management and sharing, project management and issues tracking. phpGroupWare comes with over 50 applications that can be mixed and matched according to your needs.

phpGroupWare is flexible and scalable. It is suitable for small groups of people and large organizations. phpGroupWare supports over 20 languages.

If you need to generate forms for your website, try Form Style Generator. You can customize background color and gradient style, border, text, labels and mouse events. Once you’ve entered the required data, it generates a CSS style you can use right away. Additionally, you get an image in .PNG format.

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.

If you’re looking for a no cost option for a word processor, spreadsheet, presentations and collaboration tool, try Google Docs. You’ll avoid buying and updating expensive software and you can login from any computer with internet access. Another free online office suite is offered at Zozo.com. Basic services are free, with upgrade options available.

Convert your files without the need of a desktop application at Zamzar.com. You can convert image, doc, music, video and miscellaneous other files into dozens of different formats. There is also a browser button available for faster access and the option to store your files.

Create your own social news website with the free service at SlinkSet.com. Add feeds from your favorite blogs (or your own website) and allow people to add their own items as well. You get a custom URL and within your settings you can decide to make the site public or private, who gets to post and have admin privileges and more. You can also ustomize layout and colors to your liking, add a logo and off you go!

You can register up to 5 websites for free at AreMy SitesUp.com, which will send you an SMS alert to your cell phone if your site is down. You can add and delete sites with an iPhone app, but more frequent monitoring and more advanced features like RSS checks and Twitter integration required a paid plan.

If you’re simply trying to record a brainstorm session of yours, or you’re creating a presentation for your next project, you may want to give Mapul a try. The presets are intuitive and let you get right to work. You can also customize colors, font, size and more. Basic editing tools are available within the map or within the toolbar at the top. Requires installation of Silverlight (Mac or PC).

Seek out social comments and mentions from places such as Twitter, FriendFeed, Digg, and YouTube and display them in real time alongside your comments with Disqus. Users can sign in with Facebook Connect, OpenID, or Twitter Sign-in and can also manage and track all their comments through the system.