CSS font stacks & developer FAQs with Web standards
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By Andy King, Web Site Optimization
A free online service that downloads specified URLs and reports the full byte size of the HTML, CSS and Javascript attached to the document and comments on potential optimizations.
By Janik
A Windows GUI application for systematically renaming batches of files at high speed. Rename will operate on the name part, extension or both and can insert numeric sequences in the output file name. Beyond this, its "Expert mode" gets horribly complex, but its dynamic preview pane shows both the original and new file name under the current renaming scheme before you commit the changes.
By Stephen Turner
Analog is a Web server log analysis tool that can be run from the command line or via an HTML form and CGI on the host server. Analog has extensive configuration options, steams through large log files very quickly (without DNS look-up on) and generates reports in HTML with GIF format pie charts and bar graphs.
GlobalSCAPE Inc.
The standard version is very good and very popular, but the professional version is recommended, mainly for its Secure FTP facilities, but also for advanced synchronization and scheduling features. The simple drag and drop interface with transfer queuing is the great strength of both products.
IBM alphaWorks
A Java application for editing W3C Platform for Privacy Preferences Project (P3P) records in machine readable XML, human readable HTML and compact format for HTTP headers. The application validates records on the fly to flag omissions and likely problems and has useful guidance on how to apply the P3P scheme.
By Simon Tatham
PuTTY is a free Telnet and Secure Shell (SSH) client for Windows. PuTTY is formally a beta release but is robust and perfectly serviceable.
Funduc Software
An incredibly fast multiple file text replacement tool that will churn through directory trees changing word for word or by regular expression using file name masks. Case sensitive replacements, whole word matches and replacement expressions can also be applied sequentially with scripts.
By Dave Raggett
A Windows command line application for batch checking and optionally correcting or "tidying" a range of common HTML, XHTML and XML markup problems. Perhaps best learned and operated with an external configuration file, Tidy will flag Web accessibility issues, can be set to indent markup elements to a standard spacing, strip font elements, change i and b elements for em and strong and clean up Microsoft Word HTML output.
By Tilman Hausherr
The Link Sleuth Web site looks quirky at first glance, but this free link checking application is robust and extremely fast. You can switch off external link checking and exclude specific URLs as required and save reports in proprietary format, for re-testing only broken links, or as HTML with a simple hyperlinked site map.
Helios Software Solutions
A text editor that is optimised for HTML editing and Java coding, with configurable javac and java commands and a view "In Web Browser" option that works with static files or a local HTTP host. TextPad has pre-configured syntax highlighting for many languages, multi-file search and replace facilities with regular expressions, macros and many other convenience features.
IDM Computer Solutions, Inc.
A text editor with a similar feature set to TextPad, including syntax highlighting, external command configuration, macros and templates. It also features disc-based editing and fast search and replace operations with regular expressions and minimal RAM requirements.
