9 Free Webmaster Tools You Can Fall In Love With

Webmasters and developers don't need a whole lot of money to spend on tools in order to work efficiently and be productive.Here is a list of free tools that help me run my everyday webmaster chores.

Notepad++

Dreamweaver and such designing tools might have become very advanced in the recent years but I am still far from satisfied with them.I prefer to do the coding with a simple text editor and be in total control of the code and not end up with unnecessarily long code.Recently I discoverd Notepad++ which has the few bells and whistles that are desired by hard core programmers such as code highlighting, Regular Expression Search/Replace support, capability to extend functionality with plugins and nice depository of contributed ones.Worth your attention.

Filezilla

If you are like me and don't use WYSIWYG editors to do your HTML/CSS designs then you are probably need or are already using a standalone FTP client to upload/download files to and from your server. Filezilla is a free tool that I have been using for some time and has not failed me.New version 3 has lots of new features, if you are FTPing stuff often maybe you should check it out.

Xampp

XAMPP is an apache server distribution that integrates php, mysql, phpmyadmin and a bunch of other great open source projects into an easy installation.It can be used on production servers to host one's sites but I mostly use it locally to code and test my html/css/php projects.Its easier to develop locally because there is no need to upload files on servers everytime, and only upload when your project is complete. It can be installed on Windows/Linux and lots of other platforms and if you are serious about developing you should get it installed in your computer and start playing with it.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a free web site statistics package that anyone can easily incorporate into their website in a few minutes. Analytics on your site once its collected data and install gives you reports that come through the websites your visitors to the country in which they live, how long they stayed on your site, the pages have become more popular and a series of reports that you probably No further statistics package for your site. These statistics are crucial to the progress of a site in order to understand a Web site audience and find out what might need improvement. You can add as many Analytics) accounts as you like (unlimited number of websites, as long as your page views in total no more than the monthly allowance of 5 million euros.

Firefox

Mozilla Firefox is not only a great browser for surfing with. Firefox build with extensibility in mind and has given developers a way to extent its functionality with add-ons. Add-ons can enhance the capabilities of Firefox and continue to improve everyday work. There are a number of add-ons in the Mozilla repository that you can help with the task of downloading such as bookmarks, searching, social interaction, development, messaging, to name but a few categories. Some of the following favorite tools of mine actually Mozilla Add-ons. The definetelly worth your attention.

SeoQuake

Seoquake is a Mozilla add-on that was created with the SEO professionals in mind. It will help you gather important statistics about a website or web page with the touch of a button. Such statistics include PageRank, indexed pages, google backlinks, Cached date etc.One can also extend it/configure it to gather other important statistics from online services not already included in it.

Firebug

Firebug is yet another Mozilla Add - on that is, to understand, JavaScript webmaster tools can help in debugging. Because it is a lot of bells and whistles, I think that I devote an entire article to it. I feature my own use, and to examine the HTML and CSS editing on the fly, and debug the JavaScript in place that are running are many people referring to monitor network activity . Here I recently found a video tutorial Firebug debugging to help you begin the

Gimp

GIMP is an open source image processing package that can help photo retouching, image composition, format conversion, and, among other things, animation you. It will not replace Adobe's Photoshop any time soon, but the free alternatives have been found to have a lot of followers, and through its commitment to plug-in architecture built in the only image processing tools, you will not need to . Some of its features are given a demonstration of the way, but nothing can convince you to actually install it and try more than you himself.

Drupal

Drupal is a content management system like WordPress, but much more expandable. Wordpress is a good CMS (content management system to expand) for simple Web sites and although there are many plugins to their capabilities would not I recommend building anything other than a blog with. Drupal on the other side was to be constructed in such extensible. A programmer digging in its code is its flexibility, appreciate the quality of the code, and the modular design and simplicity to write a new module. Drupal has been built from the ground up a tool for creating community sites, and as a result it has many features to support such sites is, but it is also suitable for supporting standard websites. The learning curve is pretty steep, but it pays in the end. Worth more than a glance from you.