Comments on: Helpful Tools http://www.websitewriters.co.za/accessibility/2006-03-14/helpful-tools/ Standards Compliant Web Design in South Africa Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:17:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: sn http://www.websitewriters.co.za/accessibility/2006-03-14/helpful-tools/#comment-11 sn Thu, 20 Apr 2006 20:10:33 +0000 http://www.websitewriters.co.za/accessibility/2006-03-14/helpful-tools/#comment-11 Since I usually develop sites off-line on my local web server before deploying them on-line, I've started using a the HTML Validator plugin you link to above a lot. It lets me know immediately if I've let some illogical code/typos/other errors creep into my mark-up and I find I require a lot less constant validation tests through the W3 validator. <em>However</em>, you should still run your site through the W3 validator since it may still highlight other errors which the plugin (which is based on TIDY) might not pick up. That said though, I think that's a pretty solid list of plugins. Here are some tools (or "services", rather) you might want to add though: <a href="http://www.snugtech.com/safaritest/" rel="nofollow">SafariTest</a> <a href="http://browsershots.org/" rel="nofollow">Browsershots</a> Since I usually develop sites off-line on my local web server before deploying them on-line, I’ve started using a the HTML Validator plugin you link to above a lot. It lets me know immediately if I’ve let some illogical code/typos/other errors creep into my mark-up and I find I require a lot less constant validation tests through the W3 validator. However, you should still run your site through the W3 validator since it may still highlight other errors which the plugin (which is based on TIDY) might not pick up.

That said though, I think that’s a pretty solid list of plugins. Here are some tools (or “services”, rather) you might want to add though:

SafariTest
Browsershots

]]> By: Standards Compliant Web Design in South Africa | websitewriters.co.za » More Helpful Tools http://www.websitewriters.co.za/accessibility/2006-03-14/helpful-tools/#comment-4 Standards Compliant Web Design in South Africa | websitewriters.co.za » More Helpful Tools Tue, 14 Mar 2006 09:50:48 +0000 http://www.websitewriters.co.za/accessibility/2006-03-14/helpful-tools/#comment-4 [...] An update on the previous Helpful Tools post. For SEO purposes the most helpful tool I’ve come accross is the Quirk SearchStatus Extension. For every site you visit using Firefox or Mozilla, SearchStatus lets you view its Google PageRank, Google Category, Alexa popularity ranking, Alexa incoming links, Alexa related links and backward links from Google, Yahoo! and MSN - all in one place. This combined search-related information means you can view not only the link importance of a site (according to Google), but also its traffic importance (according to Alexa), so providing a balanced view of site efficacy. [...] […] An update on the previous Helpful Tools post. For SEO purposes the most helpful tool I’ve come accross is the Quirk SearchStatus Extension. For every site you visit using Firefox or Mozilla, SearchStatus lets you view its Google PageRank, Google Category, Alexa popularity ranking, Alexa incoming links, Alexa related links and backward links from Google, Yahoo! and MSN - all in one place. This combined search-related information means you can view not only the link importance of a site (according to Google), but also its traffic importance (according to Alexa), so providing a balanced view of site efficacy. […]

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