Free Website Tools
Free Website Tools

Find beautifully done realistic paper and cover textures at DesiznTech. These textures are scanned from real papers, then edited in Photoshop for color balance and effect. You get old paper texture, notebook cover texture, grunge paper texture and even textures with an old gummy price sticker on it. The torn spiral bound papers, wrinkled and three hole punched ones are also very realistic and fun to work with.

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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.

Sometimes you need to look up a file type by category to find out its extension and File-Extensions.org is the perfect site for that. The site will list the most popular file types within a category to save you some time when browsing through it. Some categories contain hundreds of extensions which are listed alphabetically.

This optimizer is a useful free tool for cleaning up your CSS stylesheets. It automatically combines and merges same selectors and properties and lets you customize the output’s font weight, colors and remove unnecessary backslashes. It also gives you the option to merge shorthand properties. CleanCSS does not correct errors however and it is recommended that you run your code through the W3C Validator first.

The list of file extensions at FileExt.com comes in handy when you’re working with any kind of data, but especially client files and you need to find out which program created them, or can at least read them. Simply enter the file extension in the search box (file extension only; no other words), or search alphabetically. FileExt.com currently has over 51,000 registered filetype records in their database. To make searches easier, you can add a FileExt search box to Firefox, or add a button to the Google toolbar. This site is a great resource for anyone working with websites, or any kind of data.

Choose from dozens of different ’styles’ (like alligator, acrobatic and bubble) of ASCII text you’d like generated at network-science.de. You can also choose the width of the final result, a mirror image and alignment. Here are some examples of what this ASCII generator can do:

Free online storage that you can access with your mobile phone is available at SnapDrive. You currently get 5GB to store your files and you don’t even have to log in to use this service. Free accounts have a limit of how long the files will be hosted for free. SnapDrive hosts most file extensions.

Have your press release distributed for free with FreePressRelease. You’ll be able to tag it with your keywords, bookmark it and even delete it if you like. It will also automatically be optimized for search engines. Editing the press release can only be done with a paid account; if you’d like to use this free service, make sure your release is perfectly spell-checked and edited when you submit it.

There are plenty of MP3 search engines out there that simply search the web for free MP3s and present them for downloading on their sites. The problem with these MP3 search engines is that much of the material is copyrighted and it may be illegal for you to download and use the files. For legal downloads, visit Rhapsody for example, the online digital music service. It offers free weekly MP3 downloads for new releases, old-time favorites, indie, hip-hop, classical and more.

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!