WordPress ,
"my number one choice based on the features, plethora of free themes
and plugins, and the ability to use it as an alternative to create or
host a web site with static content."
Blogger
is popular and easy to use. You can post text, photos and videos to
your blog, personalize it with many templates, add gadgets, get feedback
from your readers and more.
Best Free Online Domain Name Checker
KnowEm ,
"type in the name you want to use, and the site instantly tells you
whether the domain name is available in various countries, and whether
it's already in use on any of around 50 different social networking
sites."
Favicon.cc ,
create a new favicon for your own web page, import an image file to
edit and save it as a favicon, or search for top rated and latest
Favicons. See also Extract a favicon from a web page.
Net2ftp , a web based FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
client to gain access to the FTP server and manage your websites, view
and edit codes, add or rename files and directories, upload or download
files as well as other advanced FTP functions.
Facebook ,
a popular website for you to share your personal profile, posts, photos
and videos with friends, add them to your list, send them messages, or
join a network group organized by workplace.
Google+ ,
share your profile, posts, photos and videos or send messages to your
circles of friends, start a handout with voice and video chat, search
and pin topics of your interest under Sparks, check the things you liked
on the web in your +1's, or post a comment in Buzz. A new arrival to
rival Facebook.
,
a real-time information network and a micro blogging service allows you
to share and discover what's happening now based on brief text messages
sent by users via the Twitter website, SMS or external applications.
Wayback Machine ,
a fascinating archive of web sites that stretches back more than a
decade—just type in the URL of the site you're interested in, and you
can browse all the snapshots of the site. See the website of Tech Support Alert (now Gizmo's Freeware) back in December 2000. (Review)
Byet
provides you with a free hosting service for your web sites without
forced advertisements. It features 5.5 GB disk space, 200 GB monthly
traffic and a useful control panel to add domains, upload files via an
online file manager, create databases, check websites usage, etc.
Alexa ,
a useful resource to find out information about a website, site owner,
traffic statistics, search analytics, clickstream, top sites, hot pages
and a lot more. This is our site info according to Alexa.
CSS Sprite Generator
takes a number of source images and combines them into a single
"sprite" image, supplies CSS to map to each image within the sprite
generated for download. Useful for improving the performance of a web
site by reducing the number of HTTP requests.
CSS Portal
provides popular CSS tools and online generators in one place, also
includes a CSS Sprite Generator that's a fast way to make CSS sprites
without the need to zip and upload your source images as all the work is
done in your browser.
Smush.it
optimizes web images by removing unnecessary bytes from the images
without changing their look or visual quality. A "lossless" and
convenient tool to minimize image files for your web page.
Webnode
is designed for you to easily build and maintain a website from
anywhere online. It's convenient to use with builder tools,
drag-and-drop functionality, ready-made gadgets and widgets, and has no
intrusive advertisement banner occupying the precious space of your
webpage.
Wix
allows you to create great-looking flash-based websites easily. Just
register, click on a template and start editing. You can change the
text, pictures and about everything else, create as many pages and edit
them as often as you wish. (Review)
WebPagetest , a handy tool to conduct a webpage performance test—just enter a Website URL, click Start Test,
and in a short while, you get a summary table with metrics about the
page load, first view, repeat view and the content breakdown.
GTmetrix ,
paste a URL and get the latest performance for a webpage in a summary
showing the page speed grade, YSlow grade, page load time, page size and
number of http requests. Check out the images that can be optimized too
from this service.
Pingdom Tools ,
test the load time of a web page and find bottlenecks, test DNS servers
and settings for a domain name, and test network connectivity to a
server. All in one place.
Show Slow
helps monitor various website performance metrics by capturing the
results of YSlow, Page Speed and dynaTrace rankings over time. You can
check performance rankings for Alexa Top 100 websites, compare rankings
by graphs or add your URLs to the list for monitoring.
Cool Template "is really very clever indeed. You can change the number of columns,
the menus, text, colours, position of content blocks, and just about
everything else. When you're done, choose whether you want your finished
page downloaded as HTML/CSS files or other templates."
Monitor.Us saves you time and helps keep your site running even more smoothly.
Just enter the URL of the sites you want to monitor and log in any time
to see a graph of performance including the ping response time and
percentage uptime of your site. Some advanced services are not free.
UptimeRobot ,
monitor up to 50 websites in 5 minutes intervals for each of them and
get alerts via email, SMS, RSS, Twitter or push notifications if a
website becomes offline. This service finances itself with sponsors and
ads to keep it free but with a disclaimer here. |
