Free Website Tools
Free Website Tools

For a smooth drag and drop script for your website, try the DG Drop on DHTMLGoodies.com. The script allows expected features like move the crop area and resize it by dragging the handles, but it also allows you to preserve its aspect ratio by pressing the shift key while resizing.

If you want to add table sorting capability to your website, Frequency Decoder has a free table sort script you might be interested in:

- The script can sort dates (dd-mm-yyyy, mm-dd-yyyy or yyyy-mm-dd formats accepted), currency values (£, $, €, ¥ and ¤), numbers/floats and plain-text (sorted in a case-insensitive manner). The character used as the date divider (i.e. the character that separates the date parts) can be “/”, “-”, “.” or “ “ (space);
- multiple columns can be sorted at once;
- alternate rows and full columns can be highlighted on a table by table basis and much more…

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.

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.

A service from seomoz.org, OpenSiteExplorer is a free link popularity checker and a backlinks analysis tool. You can get data on up to 1,000 links and unlimited use for free. You can choose to show only followed, non-followed or 301 redirects, links from internal or external pages only, and also filter by links to root domain or a sub-domain.

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.

To get statistic on all kinds of facts from around the world, check out the CIA’s World Fact Book. The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 266 world entities. The continuously updated site also includes pictures, flags, maps and time zones.

Check for example statistics of the US: you get info on age, ethnicity, education, mobile cellular use, internet domains, transportation, comparisons to other countries, income, public debt, imports and exports, HIV/AIDS, natural resources and hazards and more.

If you’re targeting visitors from other countries, this site is a great resource to get started collecting basic world market information.

The Spamhaus Project tracks the internet’s spam senders and spam services and makes available blocklists (free for low usage) to filter your e-mail. Before you set your e-mail servers to use Spamhouse’s blocklists, be sure to check their usage terms to see if you qualify for free use. If you think your IP might actually be on their blocked list, you can check your IP and get info on how to be removed. For a list of the 10 worst ISPs that knowingly cater to spammers, or do nothing to prevent spam, click here.

Another great set of free social media icons! Pink Moustache offers this free social icons vector set, which consists of 16 popular icons, available in both vector and PNG (64×64 pixels) format.