The Slacker's Guide to HTML: Free Tools to Build a Great Website.

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The Slacker's Guide to HTML and CSS is pleased to bring you our collection of downloadable tools to help you build a better website. All of these downloads and tools are guaranteed to work and are totally free! Not just are they free, they are better than free. They are all freeware, and not shareware. That means that you never have any obligation to buy anything, register for anything, or look at "nag screens".

HTML Editors (13)

Validators and Debuggers (5)

Online Site Inspectors (5)

RGB Hex Programs (2)

Other (1)

HTML Editors

AOL Users Click Here - This is a link to AOL's AOLPRESS web authoring tools.
CodeEDit - A simple customizable, code-based HTML editor.
CrackerJack - Customizable HTML editor software which works in Word (6.0 and above).
EasyHTML Editor/Generator for Word - Unique HTML editors/generators for Microsoft Word.
eAuthor - Very nice considering it's freeware!
IMS Web Dwarf - Another very, very nice freeware HTML-editing application.
CutePage - CutePage is a completely free web page editor. It supports build-in FTP, highlighted keyword's tags and can be integrated with its component tools. These tools include CutePage CoolMenu, CoolText, SlidingMenu, CoolButton. which will help you create enchanting web pages with animated banners, smart buttons, lively menus and so on.
Web In-Site - Web In-site is a fully-featured HTML editor developed using the latest Java programming technology. This provides it with a unique cross platform capability enabling it to be run with an identical interface on any computer platform capable of running Java programs.
Web-O-Rama - Web-O-Rama is a full-featured HTML editor with many tools, including forms for adding body and font information, special characters, hex values, images, links, lists, rules, sound, and tables.
Web-Ed - Web-Ed Webpage and Scripting Editor is designed for those who want to write the HTML code themselves. The intention is to keep it as lightweight and simple as possible while still providing useful conveniences.
Cool Page - Cool Page is a WYSIWYG Web page design tool that allows you to create a page simply by dragging and dropping objects into a layout.
1st Page 2000 Web Editor - Great editor that comes packed with 15 DHTML Scripts, 17 Perl scripts (search site, guestbook, chat, counters, etc.), 6 HTML scripts, 2 CGI scripts (text clock, text counter), a complete Web Builder Reference, 450 Javascripts/VBScripts, and more!
StyleMaster 1.2 - A very complete and helpful CSS editor.

Validators and Debuggers

CSE HTML Validator - The freeware version of a fast, powerful, highly user configurable, and easy to use HTML development tool that assists in the creation of syntactically correct HTML documents.
SpyGlass HTML Validator - The Spyglass HTML Validator is a tool that allows document authors to check their documents against an HTML markup specification (called a "Document Type Definition" or "DTD") to be sure that there are no markup errors. This ensures that the document's content will appear reliably on HTML browsers.
HTML-Kit - HTML-Kit is a free and easy to use Windows program designed to help HTML, XML and script authors to edit, format, lookup help, validate, preview and publish web pages.
WebLint - Weblint is a syntax and minimal style checker for HTML.
Dr. Watson - Dr. Watson is a free service to analyze your web page on the Internet. Watson can also check out many other aspects of your site, including link validity, download speed, search engine compatibility, and link popularity.

Online Site Inspectors

Site Inspector - Checks webpages for HTML validity and browser compatibility.
W3C HTML Validation Service - W3C's easy-to-use HTML validation service, based on an SGML parser.
Web Site Garage - Improve your web site, do maintenance checks, load time, dead links, HTML, compress images, browser compatibility & track traffic. Create email mailing lists. Improve ranking on search engines, increase hits & traffic.
Net Mechanic - Free Link Validation. Our robot will find broken links in your web site. Maximum less than 430 links.
LinkScan - Link Scan is a free web-based link-checking service. Limited to 75 links.

RGB Hex Programs

Color Picker - Figure out hex codes for any color easily with this small (106k) program.
Color Manipulation Device - Much the same as the above program, but larger (908k).

Other

CAST - Bobby - Bobby is a web-based tool that analyzes web pages for their accessibility to people with disabilities.