Tools and generators for your website can be really useful. They are created to help you improve your website in many different ways. Here's a list with 60 of my personal favorite tools or generators for your website.
Of course, all of these tools, websites and online generators are free to use. Enjoy and good luck with your blog. I've split the tools in several categories. Everything is listed alphabetically.
Articles, Spelling / Translation
Orangoo Spell Check
Spell Check Your Text or Website Right Now! Free Online Spell Checker. Fast and Accurate Results. No Software Required.
Spellery
Spellery the website spell checker is a fast and cute tool, really nifty to have at hand. So bookmark it in a safe place and use it to check your spelling on blog posts and websites. Just submit your URL in the field and hit Spell Check and Spellery does the checking for you.
TheCompleteWord
Tired of blogging? Can't think of effective content for your website or ezine? All you have to do is type in the keywords for the subject your searching for and you'll find thousands of articles free for you to use. Millions of articles in the database!
WorldLingo
WorldLingo Computer Translation. If you're not a native speaker that is the same language as your blog, you could have difficulties writing the correct sentences. WorldLingo could help you with with translating text and words.
Design & Color
BrowserShots
Browsershots makes screenshots of your Web design in different browsers. It is a free open-source online service created by Johann C. Rocholl. When you submit your Web address, it will be added to the job queue. A number of distributed computers will open your Web site in their browser. Then they will make screenshots and upload them to the central server here.
Color Palette Generator
Enter the URL of an image to get a color palette that matches the image. This is useful for coming up with a website color palette that matches a key image a client wants to work with.
Color Scheme Generator 2
This application generates color schemes of several types. Every scheme is based on one (base) color, which is supplemented with additional colors making together the best optical imperssion - using one of the authentic algorithms.
Genfavicon
Nice online tools that allows you to create a favicon. A favicon (short for 'favorites icon'), are litle icons associated with a particular website or webpage, shown next to the site's name in the URL bar of most browsers.
Font Browser
This flash application will allow to quickly preview the fonts active on your system.
Font Tester
Font Tester is a free online font comparison tool. It allows you to easily preview and compare different fonts side by side with various CSS font styles applied to them. It is very useful for web developers who are looking for just the right font/style/color to use in their pages.
Genfavicon
Nice online tools that allows you to create a favicon. A favicon (short for 'favorites icon'), are litle icons associated with a particular website or webpage, shown next to the site's name in the URL bar of most browsers.
Forms
Web Form Factory
Web Form Factory is an open source web form generator which automatically generates the necessary backend code to tie your form to a database. By generating the backend code for you, WFF saves you time... time you could spend doing more interesting stuff.
phpForm
Create your own PHP form with three simple steps.
Hosting, Domainname, DNS
MyIPneighbors
For those on shared hosting, myIPneighbors IP search is a great way to find out who your neighbors are or just to see how many other websites your hosting company hosts your server.
WhoIsHostingThis
Who Is Hosting This is a tool that enables you to find out who is hosting any web site. Simply type in any domain name, and you'll get a link to the company that's hosting this particular domain. It's that simple!
WhoIsTheOwner
Who Is The Owner is a free online tool which enables you to discover who is the owner of any domain by querying more than 350 whois servers in the world. Simply type in any domain name and you'll get all the available informations (name, address, phone, ...) about its owner.
Programming and Coding
CSS Optimiser
Online CSS Optimizer/Optimiser is a web tool for reducing the file size of cascading style sheets. In order to save more space optimized files would be messy even so you may output it as a file. Non-valid or hacked (for certain browsers) CSS files may result in error.
Grid
As all designers know, the grid is absolutely fundamental to layout, whether you want to keep to a tight grid, or break it for effect. Grid is a highly configurable JavaScript bookmarklet which overlays a layout grid on any web-site you wish.
XRAY
XRAY is a bookmarklet for Internet Explorer 6+, and Webkit and Mozilla based browsers (including Safari, Firefox, Camino or Mozilla). Use it to see the box model for any element on any web page.
Of course, all of these tools, websites and online generators are free to use. Enjoy and good luck with your blog. I've split the tools in several categories. Everything is listed alphabetically.
Articles, Spelling / Translation
Orangoo Spell Check
Spell Check Your Text or Website Right Now! Free Online Spell Checker. Fast and Accurate Results. No Software Required.
Spellery
Spellery the website spell checker is a fast and cute tool, really nifty to have at hand. So bookmark it in a safe place and use it to check your spelling on blog posts and websites. Just submit your URL in the field and hit Spell Check and Spellery does the checking for you.
TheCompleteWord
Tired of blogging? Can't think of effective content for your website or ezine? All you have to do is type in the keywords for the subject your searching for and you'll find thousands of articles free for you to use. Millions of articles in the database!
WorldLingo
WorldLingo Computer Translation. If you're not a native speaker that is the same language as your blog, you could have difficulties writing the correct sentences. WorldLingo could help you with with translating text and words.
Design & Color
BrowserShots
Browsershots makes screenshots of your Web design in different browsers. It is a free open-source online service created by Johann C. Rocholl. When you submit your Web address, it will be added to the job queue. A number of distributed computers will open your Web site in their browser. Then they will make screenshots and upload them to the central server here.
Color Palette Generator
Enter the URL of an image to get a color palette that matches the image. This is useful for coming up with a website color palette that matches a key image a client wants to work with.
Color Scheme Generator 2
This application generates color schemes of several types. Every scheme is based on one (base) color, which is supplemented with additional colors making together the best optical imperssion - using one of the authentic algorithms.
Genfavicon
Nice online tools that allows you to create a favicon. A favicon (short for 'favorites icon'), are litle icons associated with a particular website or webpage, shown next to the site's name in the URL bar of most browsers.
Font Browser
This flash application will allow to quickly preview the fonts active on your system.
Font Tester
Font Tester is a free online font comparison tool. It allows you to easily preview and compare different fonts side by side with various CSS font styles applied to them. It is very useful for web developers who are looking for just the right font/style/color to use in their pages.
Genfavicon
Nice online tools that allows you to create a favicon. A favicon (short for 'favorites icon'), are litle icons associated with a particular website or webpage, shown next to the site's name in the URL bar of most browsers.
Forms
Web Form Factory
Web Form Factory is an open source web form generator which automatically generates the necessary backend code to tie your form to a database. By generating the backend code for you, WFF saves you time... time you could spend doing more interesting stuff.
phpForm
Create your own PHP form with three simple steps.
Hosting, Domainname, DNS
MyIPneighbors
For those on shared hosting, myIPneighbors IP search is a great way to find out who your neighbors are or just to see how many other websites your hosting company hosts your server.
WhoIsHostingThis
Who Is Hosting This is a tool that enables you to find out who is hosting any web site. Simply type in any domain name, and you'll get a link to the company that's hosting this particular domain. It's that simple!
WhoIsTheOwner
Who Is The Owner is a free online tool which enables you to discover who is the owner of any domain by querying more than 350 whois servers in the world. Simply type in any domain name and you'll get all the available informations (name, address, phone, ...) about its owner.
Programming and Coding
CSS Optimiser
Online CSS Optimizer/Optimiser is a web tool for reducing the file size of cascading style sheets. In order to save more space optimized files would be messy even so you may output it as a file. Non-valid or hacked (for certain browsers) CSS files may result in error.
Grid
As all designers know, the grid is absolutely fundamental to layout, whether you want to keep to a tight grid, or break it for effect. Grid is a highly configurable JavaScript bookmarklet which overlays a layout grid on any web-site you wish.
XRAY
XRAY is a bookmarklet for Internet Explorer 6+, and Webkit and Mozilla based browsers (including Safari, Firefox, Camino or Mozilla). Use it to see the box model for any element on any web page.
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