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Free Online Tools to Design (and Maintain) Your Website  by: Susan Gross These days, it seems that everyone has a website. Unfortunately, many of these websites are either bland, or sloppily designed by people who don't understand how to use HTML effectively or are intimidated by it. And, they don't have the money to spend on a good page editor, so they limp along using the page templates that their website might provide, or they attempt to use programs like MS Word, which offers conversion to HTML. Yet, there are many free tools available that people can use to give their sites some extra polish that will put them a cut above most sites on the WWW. Here is a listing of three of my favorite online tools that will help you create and manage your site: ColorMaker http://www.bagism.com/colormaker/ This is an essential site to use when designing web pages. It allows you to select the text, link, and background colors from a table. Then, you can preview your choices, and make changes to them to compare different color schemes and change them instantly. It even allows you to upload multiple backgrounds and combine them with your color choices. Once you have found the combination you're going to use, click the link that says, "copy the Body Tag," then copy the text that is shown, and paste it into your document. Media Builder http://www.mediabuilder.com If you don't have a graphics program, you can still have pictures on your site, and not be limited to their original size or color. GifWorks, part of the MediaBuilder Networks, is a free, online GIF editing program that will transform these files with a number of effects, and even make buttons for your site from any GIF that you upload. QuickCheck http://www.elsop.com/linkscan/quickcheck.html Nothing is more annoying on a website than dead links. But, checking links manually is quite time consuming, especially if you have many links on your pages. However, there is a free service that checks the links on your webpages, and even validates the HTML. Your pages can have up to 200 links each, and you can check 10 pages per hour and 50 per day. I hope these tools help you to make your website even better than it is currently. Please let me know what you think of them. About The Author Susan Gross Avalon Technical Services How-to articles on computer topics updated often. Forthcoming: topic-based webguides If you have any topics you'd like to see an article or webguide on, please let me know. http://avalon-technical-services.com/ This article was posted on February 2, 2002 Read More Articles from the "Web Design and Development" Category: Get FREE copy of Fully-Working TierDeveloper Windows Edition by Momina Dar Simple Web Design Steps to Improve Your Website's Readability by Mark Webster Using the Web Accessibility Toolbar by Trenton Moss Dotcom Business Plans Archive project by Laura Ciocan Web Hosting Features by Carl Madison 6 Fatal Design Flaws “Newbie” Web Designers Make: These Mistakes Will Kill Your First Website Baby by Mitone Griffith Open Source Free Software De-Mystified by Jared Alberghini Web Hosting: To Switch or to Stay? by Joelene Wickens Orlando SEO Step One Of Ten: Keyword Research by Dave Davies ASP vs. PHP by Halstatt Pires << Back to "Web Design And Development" Index

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