Free Website Tools
Free Website Tools

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.

Web safe colors might be history but standard colors aren’t. If you need to design your sites with standard colors, ComputerHope’s list of HTML color codes together with their names is of great help.

If certain parts of your site aren’t spiderable, search engines can’t reach your pages. If you want to check if your pages are accessible to search engines, use a tool like
WebConfs’ spider simulator. Flash based content, content generated through javascript, content displayed as images etc may not be visible to search engines. This tool simulates a search engine by displaying the contents of a webpage exactly how a search engine would see it. It also displays the hyperlinks that will be followed (crawled) by a Search Engine when it visits the particular webpage.

Posting your articles on the most popular article marketing sites may be good idea, but they do not pay you in any way other than directing some traffic to your site and’or giving you a byline. There are a few sites you can use for article marketing, that also promise to pay you for articles, share their revenue with you, or pay you per 1000 views of your articles. You won’t get rich off of these sites either, but if you’re a prolific writer, it may pay to submit your articles to Bukisa, HubPages, Helium, Suite101, eHow, demandstudios, AssociatedContent, Xomba, or Squidoo. But then again, if you’re a prolific writer, why not start your own blog and keep all the advertising revenue for yourself?

If your hosting provider isn’t on the fast lane as far as DNS changes are concerned and you don’t have the time to wait for them, you can always resort to a free DNS hosting service like XName. You can host your primary and secondary name servers with XName for free.

A webmaster is always on the hunt for good images to use for free. At Morgue File you can find thousands of images of almost anything you can think of. The quality of the images varies but generally their editors don’t accept photographic disasters, so you won’t be wasting your time with low res and/or poorly lit images. Currently pix can be used freely for personal and commercial use.

NVU is an open source WYSIWYG HTML editor. This web authoring system is not as powerful as Dreamweaver, but it does a pretty good job. NVU also keeps your code neatly organized, unlike some other free web authoring programs.

Nobody denies that Adobe Photoshop is a great program but it’s pretty expensive. There are other graphics editing programs and one of them, the open source GIMP is sometimes called “Photoshop killer” because it is a real alternative to Photoshop.

Test a page multiple times to get an idea if it loads easily or lets the viewer wait. WebWait is a website timer. Use WebWait to benchmark your website or test the speed of your web connection. It takes into account Ajax/Javascript processing and image loading.

Google AdWords tool shows keyword suggestions based on keywords you add, or based on a website’s content. You also get info on keyword competition and search volume. Use this info for SEO, or PPC advertising on AdWords.