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Free online tools

HTML coding

  • NetMechanic HTML Toolbox validates your Web pages against the HTML standards and point out browser compatibility issues that affect how visitors see your site. It will also find coding errors and offer design tips on how to improve your site.
     
  • Dr. Watson analyses the HTML syntax, verifies regular and image links, generate word counts, spell-check non-HTML text, compute estimated download speeds and, check search engine compatibility and site link popularity.

Web Writing and Keywords

  • Keyword Discovery Discover the best keywords for your website and your PPC campaigns by searching this database of approx 32 billion searches collected from 180 search engines world wide in the last 12 months. There is also a paid version of this amazing keyword search tool that offers an extended database, related terms, spelling mistakes, industry jargon, seasonal search trends and other more advanced features.
     
  • Ranks.NL calculates your keyword density and prominence.
     
  • GoogleDuel: Looking to use on your website the most popular words and phrases that people search for? Take any group of synonyms or similar phrases, and type them into the GoogleDuel to compare how they rate in popularity. Tool created by Geoff Peters.
     
  • KeywordSpyPro (not free but worthwhile) A powerful Competitive Research tool to uncover your competitors' PPC and Organic campaign strategies, build a profitable list of keywords using your competitors' keywords, pinpoint exactly the profitable keyword and ad-copy combinations of your competitors without the hassle, and much more.
     

Calculators

  • Download Time Calculator tells you how fast a file will download depending on your connection speed. Factors that affect the speed are your modem, phone line and ISP.
     
  • Australian Postage Assessment Calculator: Save time by calculating postage online. Australia Post provides a "Postage Assessment Calculator " to cost the postage of letters and parcels delivered within and outside Australia.
     
  • File Size Converter: Confused with bit, byte, kilobyte (KB), Megabyte (MB), Gigabyte (GB), Terabyte and Petabyte? Let this tool convert file sizes for you.
     
  • Loan*Calculator! Plus includes seven easy-to-use calculators in 1 program: loan, compound/simple interest, remaining balance, accelerated payment, balloon payment, amortization schedule and refinance advisor. It is easy to use and free to download for personal use. 
     
  • Social Networking Media ROI Calculator: What is the true cost of your Social Media campaign? This handy calculator will do a detailed cost-benefit analysis, identifying costs for setting up and monitoring, as well as benefits from Web traffic, PR and Word of Mouth.

Virus Scanner

  • Trend Micro™ HouseCall is an free online application for checking whether your computer has been infected by viruses, spyware, or other malware. HouseCall performs additional security checks to identify and fix vulnerabilities to prevent reinfection. This tool may detect virus, spyware or malware that have slipped through the radar of your current virus scanner.

Miscellaneous

  • WayBack Machine: Have you been looking forward to open a new or a bookmarked web page just to find out that "The Page cannot be found"? How frustrating this is! The good news is that 40 billion web pages have been archived since 1996 and you can access those archives with the WayBack Machine . And it's easy to use. Just enter the web address of a site or a page and the search results will display archived pages, if available. Not all web pages are archived. But you may be lucky and find the one you are looking for!
     
  • bit.ly: Are you sick of sending by email URLs (web addresses) that break and need to be cut and paste it back together by the recipient? Finally you can create tiny URLs that do not break in email postings.
     

Website tools

  • Free Clock for your website: Let your clients know what time it is at your end. Display a clock beside your phone number and opening hours. You can design your clock to match your website (choice of fonts, colours & alignment) and configure the clock output. Looks really professional!
     
  • Pixie: Would you like to reproduce a colour found on another website? Simply point to the colour and Pixie, a colour spy, will tell you the RGB, hex, HTML, CMYK and HSV values of the colour. You can then use these values to reproduce the colour in your favorite programs (however, be careful not to infringe copyrights). A dream tool for creating your colour scheme.
     
  • Tumbshots.com: Thumbshots are screenshots of web pages in thumbnail sizes. Integrating thumbshots in your search engine enable your users to instantly visualize any web page before navigating to the site. Thumbshots are instant advertisements of web sites. We empower the next generation of search engines and directories by providing preview functionality.
     
  • SiteMap Generator: Use Sitemap Generator to extract all the links from your site recursively and generate Google Sitemap (XML), Yahoo Sitemap (TXT), HTML and CSV sitemaps automatically.
     
  • Submit Express: Submit Express can register your website URL with 40+ search engines and directories, all for free. They submit your site to few main search engines, but given that several of the search engines share their data, you will end up on at least 40 search engines.
     
  • Impact Web Audio: (not free but worthwhile)  If you want to add audio to your website, look no further. This software is not free but very cheap and easy to use. No technical skills required.

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