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Web site management books
- Webmaster In A Nutshell, A Desktop Quick Reference
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By Stephen Spainhour and Robert Eckstein
This is an excellent digest from across the board. Everything from HTML markup, image preparation and server management is covered in a remarkably concise format. The sections on the Apache Web server are a good value reference in this package.
Order this book online at Amazon UK
Site management software
- Web Page Analyser
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By Andy King, Web Site Optimization
A free online service that downloads specified URLs and reports the full byte size of the HTML, CSS and Javascript attached to the document and comments on potential optimizations.
- 1-4a Rename
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By Janik
A Windows GUI application for systematically renaming batches of files at high speed. Rename will operate on the name part, extension or both and can insert numeric sequences in the output file name. Beyond this, its "Expert mode" gets horribly complex, but its dynamic preview pane shows both the original and new file name under the current renaming scheme before you commit the changes.
- 1-4a Rename (freeware)
- Analog
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By Stephen Turner
Analog is a Web server log analysis tool that can be run from the command line or via an HTML form and CGI on the host server. Analog has extensive configuration options, steams through large log files very quickly (without DNS look-up on) and generates reports in HTML with GIF format pie charts and bar graphs.
- Analog (freeware)
- Cute FTP Pro
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GlobalSCAPE Inc.
The standard version is very good and very popular, but the professional version is recommended, mainly for its Secure FTP facilities, but also for advanced synchronization and scheduling features. The simple drag and drop interface with transfer queuing is the great strength of both products.
- Cute FTP Pro (evaluation version available)
- Cute FTP (evaluation version available)
- P3P Policy Editor
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IBM alphaWorks
A Java application for editing W3C Platform for Privacy Preferences Project (P3P) records in machine readable XML, human readable HTML and compact format for HTTP headers. The application validates records on the fly to flag omissions and likely problems and has useful guidance on how to apply the P3P scheme.
- P3P Policy Editor (90 day trial licence)
- PuTTY
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By Simon Tatham
PuTTY is a free Telnet and Secure Shell (SSH) client for Windows. PuTTY is formally a beta release but is robust and perfectly serviceable.
- PuTTY (freeware)
- Search And Replace
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Funduc Software
An incredibly fast multiple file text replacement tool that will churn through directory trees changing word for word or by regular expression using file name masks. Case sensitive replacements, whole word matches and replacement expressions can also be applied sequentially with scripts.
- Search and Replace (evaluation version available)
- Tidy
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By Dave Raggett
A Windows command line application for batch checking and optionally correcting or "tidying" a range of common HTML, XHTML and XML markup problems. Perhaps best learned and operated with an external configuration file, Tidy will flag Web accessibility issues, can be set to indent markup elements to a standard spacing, strip
fontelements, changeiandbelements foremandstrongand clean up Microsoft Word HTML output.- Tidy (freeware)
- Xenu's Link Sleuth
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By Tilman Hausherr
The Link Sleuth Web site looks quirky at first glance, but this free link checking application is robust and extremely fast. You can switch off external link checking and exclude specific URLs as required and save reports in proprietary format, for re-testing only broken links, or as HTML with a simple hyperlinked site map.
- Xenu's Link Sleuth (freeware)
Markup validators
As a safeguard against human (and software) fallibility, and for optimal CSS rendering, it is essential to ensure that your markup conforms to a specific DTD. The closer your chosen DTD is aligned to those recommended by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the more likely your documents will work on any Web browser and help you isolate possible browser-specific problems.
Also beware that validation errors near the top of a document may create a cascade of spurious errors further down, so it is advisable to correct each in turn and re-validate as you go.
- Use the W3C HTML & XHTML Validator to check your markup by URI and file upload.
- The WDG HTML Validator can be used in the same way as the W3C version, and to check up to fifty linked pages consecutively online.
Favelets by Tantek Çelik is a set of Javascript event handlers that can be saved as browser bookmarks to pass any current page to the W3C markup validator or CSS checker. A Real Validator by Liam Quinn is an offline version of the WDG validator that uses the same set of user-friendly help references to untangle your messed-up markup.
Finally, James Clarke's NSGMLS is the software that sits behind both the W3C and WDG validators. NSGMLS is part of the SP package of command line applications; it takes some learning to configure initially but is well worth the effort once you appreciate that no output means no errors! The installation archive includes all the W3C HTML DTDs and relevant SGML declarations.
See Validate your markup with SGMLS for a detailed guide to using this tool on Windows systems.
Robot exclusion validator
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