Free Website Tools
Free Website Tools

If you need to find errors within your HTML or you simply want clean up your code, the online version of HTML Tidy can help. Simply add your URL, copy and paste your HTML code, or up load your file. Then define a few settings like your output and character encoding and this free web tool will do the rest.

Besides explanations about your messy code, HTML Tidy will clean up characters not allowed with your encoding, incomplete tags, redundant tags, unknown tags, invalid character codes and so on. The output is ready to be copied and pasted. One thing the tool is lacking is line numbering, which would make it easier to identify where your errors are.

If you’re working on a project that uses location names, you can use Geonames.org for your research and to download databases of location names from around the world free of charge. GeoNames integrates geographical data such as names of places in various languages, elevation, population and more from various sources.

This geographical database is available for download free of charge under a creative commons attribution license. It contains over 10 million geographical names and consists of 7.5 million unique features, 2.8 million populated places and 5.5 million alternate names. It also offers some population and area statistics. According to the site Geonames users include Ubuntu, Apple’s SnowLeopard, Bing Maps, The New York Times and more.

There are dozens of QR barcode creators available, but the one on QRStuff.com is one of the more versatile ones, letting you create the barcode in color and select from 14 different data types. After creating your QR barcode, you’ll be able to print it (PNG or raster PDF), get analytics (when you register), email it, or use it to create t-shirts and other products via the Zazzle print-on-demand website.

The site offers paid options to create the barcode in high resolution, batch processing, save your codes and more. Click here for more info on QR barcodes.

If you need a simple yet versatile FTP program, give Cyberducka try. This Open Source FTP program also handles FTP/TLS (FTP secured over SSL/TLS), SFTP (SSH Secure File Transfer), WebDAV (Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning), Amazon S3, Google Storage, Google Docs, Windows Azure and Rackspace Cloud Files. Works with open cloud software from Eucalyptus and OpenStack. You can basically upload, download and synchronize anything from any server.

You can edit any text or binary file on the server in your preferred application, configure CloudFront and Rackspace to distribute your files, browse your Amazon S3 account like your hard disk, convert uploads to Google Docs format and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for image uploads. It also has bookmarking capabilities, advanced SSH features and supports Growl and Mac’s Keychain.

Many mobile service providers from around the world offer free e-mail to SMS service (receiver may still be charged). For a list of companies that will allow you to send free SMS from your web applications visit Uptime Robot. It’s not always possible to get internet access to check e-mails, but you can receive an SMS anywhere you can make a call on a cell phone.

Google has it’s own URL shortener at goo.gl. According to Matt Cutt’s blog it was created so Google could use it for its own products, but then they decided to make it available to the public. If you log in to your Google account, you’ll get analytics and history features for the URLs you’ve shortened with number clicks, traffic sources and visitor profiles. Looks like it doesn’t have a feature yet to preview the full URL before clicking on it.

The web page performance test on WebPageTest.orggives you an overall speed test score with first view and repeat view data. The data is presented in numbers and as a graphic and also offers a full optimization checklist that includes info and tips on images, combining CSS and JS and cookies for example. This comprehensive test also offers the option to test multiple pages and compare them against each other.

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.