Free Online Tools and Resources For Webmasters

Helpful stuff you can use to make the task of building a website a little easier and a lot faster.

  The tools listed below are easy to use. Just check out the examples (where available), and take a 'test drive' to get the feel of it.

  Then all you have to do is plug in your information and click a button to make the code. Placing it on your website is as easy as copy/paste.

  Everything here is free to use, all I ask is for a small link from your site to mine.

  Near the bottom of this page is a list of other free resources - and on the Recommended Free Software page there are other tools that you'll find helpful in starting and running a website.

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  Miscellaneous Tools
Screen Resolution Checker - See how your pages look at different resolutions
Email Address HTML Scrambler - Hide your email address from spam-bots!
HTML Scrambler - protect your webpages from code thieves.
GIF & JPEG Image Crunchers - Make your pages load faster by 'squeezing' your images.
Add-Free Tell-A-Friend Form - No annoying ads for anybody in this Tell-A-Friend!
Javascript Encrypter - To block code thieves.
CSS Code Generator - An easy way to format your text uniformly.
Form Maker w/Textfield Validation - Make forms that self-validate the information entered.
Add Bookmark & Set Homepage Link Generator - A handy link to have.
Robots-txt Code Writer - Tell the search 'bots what to index & what to ignore.
META Tag Generator - Make the META tags you need.
HTML Table Code Writer - Easy table codes, just copy/paste.

  Button Makers
3D Button Maker - Make unique 3D buttons for your website.
Animated Button Maker - Cool animated buttons for your website.
Dynamic Color Buttons Maker - Make colorful buttons with mouseover color changes.

  Navigation Menu Builders
Drop-Down Menu Maker - Make your own space-saving drop-down navigation menus.
Colorful Drop Down Menu Maker - Space-saving drop-down navigation menus in color.
Mouse-Over Enabled Navbar - Smooth Mouse-over action.
CSS Navbar Menu Coder - Nice Navbar controlled by CSS coding.
Advanced Menu Maker - Make personalized menus with your descriptions and colors.
DHTML Menu Builder - Cool effects with this free menu builder.
Graphic Navbar Generator - Make cool graphic menus.
Dynamic Menu Maker - Easily make interesting, colorful nav menus for your website.
Jump-Menu Maker - Easily put a space-saving jump menu on your website.
Advanced menu bar maker - Make your own personalized page-top menu bar in a jiffy.
Slide-In Menu Maker - Make a space-saving menu that slides offscreen.
Horizontal Menu with Active Text Description Box - Cool menu bar with link descriptions.
Advanced Menu w/ Sub Menus Maker - Nice nav menus with this highly configurable tool.
Menu Tree Maker - Easy to make cool menu trees for your website.
Flash Drop Down Menu Builder - Nice flash menu for your website.
Flash Navbar Menu Builder - Cool flash effects for your menu.
Flash Top Bar Menu Builder - Add an attractive page top menu.

  Page / Browser Effect Tools
"Preload Images" Code Writer - Great for mouseover image changes.
Frames Code Maker - If you must use frames, this free tool helps.
Pop-Up Ad Window Maker - Warning: Over-use may pissoff your visitors.
Rollover Image-Change Code Writer - Makes the task easier.
Colorful Scroll Bar Maker - Dump the grey bar!
Scrolling StatusBar Message Maker - Your message scrolling on the statusbar.
Button w/ PopUp Alert Message - Button that gives an alert message when clicked.

  Other Resources for Webmasters
Online Modules and Content Management - No HTML Authoring, Programming or Technical Skills Needed.
Website Page Templates - Save time with professionally designed page templates.
Advanced Webmaster's Color Picker Utility - 4 Hexillion Color Combinations!
~ Free Scripts & Code Snippets
Printable ASCII Special Characters Chart - The HTML codes for £ , Ø , Þ and all the rest.

  Good Free Services on Other Websites:

Free Broken Link Checker ~ dead-links.com

Make free full-size banners & Logos

AdDesigner.com - Lots of designs to pick from, easy to use, but they put the words "Free Ad by AdDesigner.com" on every banner.
AnimationOnline.com - Not as many designs to choose from, (yet) but its quick and easy to use. You can do the full-size banners, buttons or box displays - and they don't add any self-promotion to the finished product.
Logo Generator - A fairly basic 3-D, textured-text logo generator... plus a half-dozen or so editable buttons. However, the final product looks ok and is available in different formats.

Free Advertising

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Miscelaneous Tools

Super-Easy Color Wheel helps you pick web-safe colors for your website - Just click on a few colors in the wheel and you will see them side-by-side, with the HTML, RGB and CYMB values listed.
Flash-button menu generator - Easy and fast to create Navigation Menus. No Flash Expertise Needed. NOTE : Free menus will display a small FlashButtons.com link.
Free Newsletter Manager - YourMailingListProvider.com is an exellent service to manage your mailing list needs.

Tutorials

Full Web Building Tutorials - All Free
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