Posted by Bob on 03/01/06 08:13

Alan Cole wrote:
> 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.
>
Is that an extension? If so, url?

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