Posted by Alan Cole on 02/28/06 12:20

In article <49680214hscr27tku601dkeu6ht93b76gm@4ax.com>,
xyZed <xyzed@xyzed.co.uk> wrote:

> I've realised a link checker is pretty essential, but are there other
> essential tools for maintaining a html web site? Also, I would be very
> grateful if I could be recommended an industry standard or accepted
> link checker. There are a ridiculous amount available from freeware to
> "professional" and I can't trust the sites own spiel.

I'd say the only ESSENTIAL tools are:

A text editor to build the pages,
A ftp program to upload the pages,
A web browser to test the pages,

Other nearly essential tools for me are:
A graphics editor to build and optimise graphical elements
Lots more web-browsers to fully test the pages

There are then numerous useful online tools that are nice but by no
means essential such as:
Link checkers (can't say I've really used these)
HTML validators
CSS validators
Accessibility testers
and so on.

Probably my favourite development tool that is non-essential (although I
couldn't live without it now) is the web-developer plug-in for Firefox
which contains all of the above non-essential tools and much much more.

Al.

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