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If you are a farmer, definitely you need tools to carry out your working in the field.
If you are a doctor, definitely you need tools to carry out your working in the hospital.
If you are a mechanic, definitely you need tools to carry out your working in the garage.
…And the list goes on. But as website owners, bloggers, or whatever area that you play a roll in the webmaster industry, what tools do you use on your site to make your work easier?
Every since I started doing web design and blogging, I have some great web tools that I use to make my work easier in completing my task. I have some 13 free web tools that you can use to make my site look great and to help you become a better webmaster.
13 Free Web Tools For You
Feedburner is a must have for each blogger. You use Feedburner for reports, tracks and helps you promote your blog’s RSS feed.
Twitterfeed.com is a great tool to use and publish new blog post to Twitter and Facebook as soon as you write new articles.
I have a great banner rotator at the top of my blog which displays my affiliate banners after 10 seconds. I use HTML Basix Javascript Banner Rotator to do so.
Find out how fast your site is with this website speed test. Too slow? Perhaps you need to optimize the page or move to a faster server. That’s why I moved to hostgator.
Use HTML Basix Stylesheet Code Generator to set your font/colour values for your website. In no time you can create your own CSS style sheet.
With the Free Site Counter you can know how much visitors are coming to your site on a daily basis.You can also customize your text counter.
You can set up a survey feature to ask questions from your web site visitors and then present the answers in a graphic way by using the Free Web Survey Script.
123-banner.com is a free flash banner generator. Within only 60 seconds you can create your own free Flash banner directly here on the website using one of the 123-banner.com templates.
You can use any color you like for your promotion text and for the background. Even the transparency of your text and the background can be adjusted.
TheColorTool.com is a great tool to use to generate HTML colors for your site.
Google Analytics is the enterprise-class web analytics solution that gives you rich insights into your website traffic and marketing effectiveness.
Google Reader: Use Google Reader to make it easier to subscribe to other blogs if you would like to follow their updates.
Wufoo is a HTML form builder which helps you create contact forms, online surveys, and invitations so you can collect the data, registrations and online payments you need without writing a single line of code.
Firebug is a free, open source in-browser web development tool for the Firefox web browser. It’s many features include: on-the-fly HTML and CSS editing for tweaking or debugging.
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I’ve heard and do use quite a few of these that you have listed and find them extremely useful, but I’ve not heard of WuFoo, so that’s one that I’ll have to go and check out
Karen recently posted..Top Gear’s The Stig Finally Has His Helmet Removed!
September 1, 2010 at 2:06 pm
Thanks for the comment Karen, WuFoo is really great, check it out
Kharim, FireBug is my favorite plugin for firefox. Firebug for firefox has more power as compared to firebug for chrome. So it means you are also using the firebug cuz, I can see the traces of its usage
Your custom subscription widget. Cheers my friend.
September 1, 2010 at 2:43 pm
Thanks for the comment Imran, yep I guess you noticed
Is it safe to say Firefox is your preferred browser of use? I recently had both Firefox and Chrome and now no pc. They seem to disagree with each other.
YaGirlNextDoor recently posted..Writer’s Block
September 1, 2010 at 4:14 pm
Well I use Google Chrome on my pc. I am not sure.
September 2, 2010 at 3:00 am
Hi Kharim,
Thanks for sharing these awsome list, I haven’t use some of them but am gonna try it now.
Thanks for providing your readers this information!.
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September 3, 2010 at 11:28 am
Thanks for the comment Valentine.
Have fun checking them out
I happened to stumble upon Firebug some months ago and I have to say that it proved to be one of the best tools a webmaster can have. It is great since you don’t have to change the real HTML code and you can test pretty much every CSS modification that comes to your mind.
Daniel Sharkov recently posted..Why Having a Great Design for Your Blog Is So Important
September 3, 2010 at 3:37 pm
Thanks Daniel for the comment
I could really use Website Speed Test tool & Stylesheet Code Generator. Other than that, I am already using tools like Feedburner, Twitterfeed, Sitecounter & Analytics.
September 6, 2010 at 1:11 pm
Thanks for the comment Sarah, glad I could be of some help to you
Useful tip Kharim!
I didn’t know the color tool, it is my new found tool now, thanks to you!
My fav tools so far are feedburner, iwebtool, and firebug, also google analytics
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September 6, 2010 at 1:17 pm
Thanks for coming by Kimi
Thanks for the great tools . infact i am using some of them
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September 6, 2010 at 1:21 pm
Your’e welcome aatif
Just re site counters: One of the best is Stat Counter. Gives you heaps of information, and you get three counters free. Gostats is good too.
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September 6, 2010 at 5:33 pm
Thanks for the comment Matt
Kharim, thanks for sharing what looks to be some pretty darn useful tools. I know a few of them, but will be checking the rest out!
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September 6, 2010 at 5:35 pm
Hey Steve, thanks for stopping by man
Being able to use the website speed tool and check multiple domains is great. Thanks so much.
Now if only my best site didn’t take double the time to load as all my others! Haha.
September 6, 2010 at 5:39 pm
Thanks for the comment Thomas and glad I could be helpful to you in this post
Hey Kharim,
Thanks for all the tools, just used the speed test for my website and got a speed of 0.79 seconds, pretty impressive.
Thanks!
Karl
September 7, 2010 at 8:06 pm
WOW, That’s very great Karl
I got 1.11 seconds for my site
Well heck, everyone else was posting their results, haha…
Domain name Size Load Time Average Speed per KB
FavTrip.com 62.83 KB 0.55 seconds 0.01 seconds
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September 7, 2010 at 8:27 pm
lol that’s cool Thomas
Nice list but I rely more on Desktop Tools so that I can access it offline too..
here are few which I use:
Windows live writer
feed demon
tweetdeck
Polaris for Google analytic
Nifty stats
Harsh Agrawal recently posted..11 Habits Of “A” List Bloggers
September 11, 2010 at 3:29 pm
Thanks for the comment Harsh Agrawal, I use tweetdeck at times
You can also look at this Free Website Speed Test Tool to check the loading time of a website on different connection speeds like dialup, dsl, cable and more.
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September 16, 2010 at 1:02 pm
Thanks for the suggestion Nicole
Hey Kharim,
Great set of tools for every site owner here. Everybody should be using Feedburner as it’s great for collecting RSS subscribers and very easy in terms of analytics. Also Firebug is fantastic for Firefox, shame there’s not a similar version for Chrome, the Chrome version is really awful, hopefully they bring something better out.
Great set of tools,
Regards,
Karl
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October 5, 2010 at 8:43 am
Thanks for the comment Karl. I really like Chrome as well and hope they update that extension soon.
To measure website speed, I just recommend the Pingdom tools as they are much more accurate than iwebtool. We can see which elements are slowing our web pages and take action immediately.
Thanks for sharing other tools also.
January 29, 2011 at 7:20 pm
Than ks for the comment and the suggestion, Tuan. Gonna check it out now
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