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Below are software applications that were selected for inclusion in Best Web Freebies. The programs are both shareware and freeware, and all were selected for their usefulness to webmasters in the management of their web sites.

I.E. Developer Toolbar 1.00 (624 KB) provides a number of features for exploring and understanding Web pages. Locate and select specific elements on a Web page, outline tables, table cells, images, or selected tags, validate HTML, CSS, WAI, and RSS web feed links, display image dimensions, file sizes, path information, and alt text, resize the browser window to a new resolution, etc. The toolbar can be pinned to the IE browser window or float separately. Freeware for Windows 2003/ XP/ Vista.

Planet Sitemap Creator Pro (1.2 MB) enables the creation of sitemaps in xml, html and text formats. Features auto updating, simultaneous sitemap creation, auto submit to Google, pause/ resume, keyword support in html sitemaps, etc. Freeware for Windows 98/ 2000/ XP/ 2003. Requires .Net Framework 2.0.

EclipseStyle 1.0.11 (48 KB) is a CSS editor with an intuitive tabbed interface, featuring a preview window, a code window to show you what your style looks like in CSS code, extraction function for pulling stylesheets from web pages, etc. Freeware for Windows 95 and above. Also, requires IE 5.0+

MoreMotion Web Express 3 (10.8 MB) is an html editor that features WYSIWYG design, powerful design tools, page templates, theme support, an image-map editor, a broken-links checker, a FTP client, etc. Freeware for Windows 98 SE/ NT/ 2000/ XP.

HTML Stripper (275 KB) is a simple utility that removes all java-script and html tags from a web page. Can also remove leading spaces, tabs and blank lines. Freeware. Should work with all Windows versions.

DRKSpider 2.19 (829 KB) will navigate a web site from a given URL, checking internal (and external) links, style sheets, images and other files. Broken links will be reported and the site map displayed in a tree control. Freeware. Should work with all Windows versions.

Advanced RSS2Web 2.3.28 (2.9 MB) allows you to publish aggregated news pages or articles on your website. Download newsfeeds in RSS and XML format; reformat them according to user-defined html templates; and upload the results to your website via shared folder or ftp. Freeware for Windows 95 and above.

BlockNote 1.8 (1.7 MB) is a compact, fast WYSIWYG html editor. As easy to use as a word processor. Import, edit and format web pages without having to learn any html. Freeware for Windows 98/ ME/ 2000/ XP.

VisualForm Mail (962 KB) allows you to create powerful CGI scripts to process forms on your Web site. Data entered by a user can be merged into both email messages and a confirmation page. Built-in security features prevent hijacking. Freeware for Windows 9x/ Me/ NT/ 2000/ XP.

DHTML Menu Builder (916 KB) allows you to create cool interactive sliding menus easily! Create professional looking menus for your Web site, without writing a single line of code. Freeware for Windows 98/ XP/ 2000.

Frutty Bar (629 KB) is an I.E. toolbar that offers a variety of tools for web developers that can help analyze the structure and layout of a web page. It can outline page elements, turn off style sheets, view form field values, measure area dimensions, resize the browser to other resolutions, validate code, etc. Freeware for Windows 98/ Me/ NT/ 2000/ XP.

Strong JS (380 KB)is a java-script shrinker/obfuscator. Reduce typical java-script files by an average of 50%. Strong JS deletes unnecessary comments, new line characters and spaces. It can also rename variables giving them short names. Freeware for Windows 95 and above.

Aeneas HTML Validator (294 KB) is a (X)HTML validator that validates HTML files according to W3.org standards and generates W3.org reports. Easy to use program that can process files in batch mode. Freeware for Windows 98/ NT/ 2000/ Me/ XP.

WebTide (1.41 MB) is a new html editor and programmer text editor. Has numerous features including code navigation tool, error checking, code completion tool, search and replace tool, etc. Freeware for Windows 9x/ 2000/ XP, Mac & Unix. Requires Java Runtime 1.5.0.

HotHTML 2001 Pro (4.1 MB) is an html editor with a user friendly interface, helpful wizards, html code generators, tools and integrated previewing. Supports html, asp and perl languages. Freeware for Windows.

Top Dawg HTML Editor (941 KB) is a feature rich html editor that includes style sheet, frames and forms support. Also, has built in color picker, html file viewer and ftp client. Opens multiple files at once. Freeware for For Windows 98/ ME/ XP.

WordHTML CV (1.2 MB) is open source software that mass converts MS word documents into HTML files. It automates the conversion process and saves time editing and creating links. Produces quality websites using simple drag and drop. Freeware for Windows 98/ ME/ NT/ 2Kx/ XP.

CheckHosts (852 KB)is a network management tool that continuously monitors specific host availability. When network errors occur, the program can notify you by e-mail or sound alerts. Freeware for Windows XP/ NT 4.x/ 2000/ 2003.

JavaScript Collector (602 KB) is a database program that comes pre-loaded with 200 ready-to-use scripts in more than 20 categories. Configure up to 4 different browsers to preview output and then copy it into your HTML code. You can also add your own snippets to the database and search by keyword. Freeware for Windows 98/ NT/ ME/ 2000/ XP.

SiteLinkChecker (480 KB) is an easy-to-use link checker tool that checks websites for broken links. Easily locates broken links and links containing syntactic errors and reports the status of each link. Freeware for Windows 2000/ XP/ 2003.

Total Validator Tool (19.3 MB) validates web page html coding, accessibility, spell checking, and link integrity. The freeware version is restricted to testing one page at a time. For Windows 2000/ 2003/ XP.

MT Template Wizard (3.8 MB) is a tool for creating professional looking templates. Eliminates the typing of code, allowing you to point and click your way to a fresh looking template. Features include save/print/import/export functions, html validate and easy-to-use pulldown menus & buttons. Freeware for Windows 9x/ Me/ NT/ 2000/ XP.

JS Menu Maker (3.2 MB) is a cross browser DHTML dropdown menu creator. No scripting knowledge necessary. Three levels of menus available as well as over 20 preset styles and a theme creator. Provides full control over menu placement, fonts, colors, borders, padding and margins. Freeware for Windows 95 and above.

EchoSearch (103 KB) allows anyone to offer a search engine on their site. Crawl any site of any size with static or dynamic pages. Freeware. Requires PHP version 4.1 or greater and MySQL database server 3.23 or greater.

RSS Wizard (1.3 MB) is an HTML to RSS converter that can generate an RSS feed from almost any html web page without the need to edit the source code first. Generates feeds using version 2.0 of the RSS standard. With RSS Wizard, you can quickly convert RSS into HTML, edit, and publish to your web-site via FTP. Freeware for Windows 95 and higher.

 
  
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