Bet you didn't know that there are all sorts of great online ways
to check out your pages and solve your
problems? I'm going to give you the lowdown (and links) to some
great online home page help sites that
can IMMEDIATELY help your site. Netmechanic: Here's a
site jammed full of FREE online tools to improve your home page. My
personal favourite? The handy-dandy GIFBot that
takes any .gif or .jpg graphic that you have online and reduces it
on the fly. What's the good of that, you ask? Well, smaller file
sizes (not smaller pictures, mind you, but reduced in the amount
of computer memory they use) help your pages to load faster (and
keeps your visitors happy). You can get DRAMATIC results with a
GIFBot reduction, without sacrificing picture quality!
Still not sure? Take a look at what GIFBot did for me!
The original image: a weighty 40k filesize
The GIFBot reduced image: 17k and virtually NO quality is
lost!
And GIFBot is only ONE of several great free online services
that netmechanic provides. Go check them out for yourself and see!
Dr.HTML: Have
they got the prescription for you! First off, there is an
online validator! (A what, you ask?) A validator checks
(validates) your HTML code. It tells you what errors it
finds (like missing end commands to your links or font
codes) and also checks your spelling too!
Dr. HTML has other things in the medicine chest. One that
is a lot of fun is the HTML
Squisher. Yup, that's what it says, SQUISHER! It takes
your page code and condense it as much as computationally
possible so that it loads quickly. Be sure if you do this
to a page you edit often, you also keep a bookmark to HTML
Formatter which will expand your page back into something
easily editable by humans!
I've hardly scratched the
surface of the enormous amount of online HTML Tools and
Utilities.
