Tools you may need to view some of our files may be found at the sites marked with a » . A combination of tools most webmasters should have to develop and manage a web site are marked with a » 

Web file development and management utilities

1. WebCopier — Copy entire web sites to your local drive, to be viewed offline or preserved if the site goes down. Good user interface. May not retrieve some CGI-managed files.
2. » iOpus — Internet macro tool for automatically accessing web pages and extracting information from them.
3. Hushmail — Secure web-based email and document storage system, featuring transparent, end-to-end 2048 bit encryption.
4. CAcert — Free digital certificates for email clients and servers. Supports secure transactions and messages.
5. Thawte — Free digital certificates for email clients. Encrypt and authenticate your messages.
6. » Tidy — Tool to clean bad HTML, such as that produced by Microsoft Word and Frontpage, but can't handle all the problems with that HTML, so may need to combine it with a good HTML editor like HoTMetaL Pro. You may prefer the TidyGUI version for MS Windows.
7. » Webinator — Local search engine you can install on your web server. Free for small or educational sites. Plugins for commercial versions can also index PDF and word processor files.
8. World Time Server Atomic Clock Sync — Free utility to set your computer to Universal Coordinated Time. Useful to keep all your computers synchronized so file time stamps match, to facilitate file synchronization and backups.
9. WorldMerge — Mail server for your PC that can merge data into each message to customize and send directly, bypassing your ISP's mail server.
10. ArGoSoft Mail Server — Set up mail server on your own local machine. Can be used to send email bypassing your ISP's mail server and its restrictions. If you have a fixed IP you can also use it to receive email to multiple accounts, and thereby avoid paying extra for multiple email accounts provided by an ISP.
11. VisualRoute — Allows tracing of web accesses and emails along all the hops to their source or destination, identifying bottlenecks and disabled servers, and network and server performance. Combines ping and tracert functions. Allows tracking sources of spam. Displays routes on a world map.
12. LiveCounter — Page/site counter using Java to present near-real-time count as it changes.
13. Winamp — Free tool to produce and play network audio and video streams.
14. OpenOffice — Free, better than Microsoft Office, and runs on Linux and Mac as well as Windows.
15. Mizar Project — Language and libraries for representing, finding and verifying mathematical proofs.
16. GraphCalc — Graphing calculator.
17. Calc98 — Downloadable scientific calculator you can put on your desktop. Useful for doing some of the calcuations involved in site management.
18. HylaFAX™ — Free client software for fax sending and receiving.
19. Progress — Ultimate database management system that supports thin-client browser access.
20. MacroExpress — Allows user to define complex macros across multiple applications on a Windows platform, useful for repetitive activities.

Documentation and Digitization Tools and Services

1. » Finereader — The OCR software we use to render books into web pages. Does a better job with rough originals such as old books.
2. HoTMetaL Pro — Our favorite HTML editor. Validates that HTML is correct, and can convert to HTML from other formats and correct bad HTML, such as that produced by MS tools. But no longer sold or supported.
3. XMLSPY — XML development environment, including XML editor and HTML-to-XML conversion tool.
4. » UltraEdit — Excellent programming editor. We use it to prepare the text versions of files.
5. » MultiClipBoard — Provides multiple clipboards, useful for repetitive copying and pasting.
6. » WordPerfect — Use to convert files between formats, and a better word processor than MS Word.
7. » Jafsoft — Have an excellent ASCII to HTML file converter. We use it to convert text files to HTML.
8. » Adobe Acrobat — Use to produce and read files in PDF format.
   1. Online PDF to HTML converter — Enter web URL and get HTML version of file, which you can save to your local disk. But only works for character-PDF, not image-PDF, and not on local PDF files.
9. PDF Factory Pro — Convert files into PDF ready for printing.
10. PrintKey2000 — Print or save to image files your screen or any part of it.
11. Djvu — Superior image compression and viewing tools.
    1. LizardTech — Commercial versions of DjVu editors, browser plug-ins and other tools.
    2. Document Express — Main DjVu compression and editing tool.
13. WinZip — Compress files to save space and speed transmission.
14. MonarchCharts — Shareware to produce 2D and 3D graphs and charts in Java. Also offer MonarchGraph for producing things like flowcharts, entity-relationship diagrams, etc.
15. Terrain Tools — Software for surveying, mapping & drawing terrains. Have freeware for simpler applications.
16. 4DigitalBooks — Offer a scanner with page-turning robot arms for high-speed unattended scanning.
17. Book Collector — Database for maintaining catalog of books and other materials, can retrieve information about them from Internet.
18. Eraser — Freeware to thoroughly remove deleted files from storage media.
19. Digital Divide Data — Digitization and rendering services, based in Cambodia.

Web page display tools and fonts

1. The IPA-SAM phonetic fonts — Used to represent the sounds of words in every language.

Internet Resources

1. Dynamic Drive — Free DHTML scripts, cross-browser.
2. W3C Link Checker — Enter a web page and it will check the validity of all the links on it. Use it to find dead links.
3. Google Groups — Read and post to Usenet newsgroups. Searchable archive of newsgroup postings back to 1995. In case you want to get everything someone posted on every newsgroup, you can find it here. They bought out dejanews.
4. OANDA Currency Converter — Allows you to convert units of any national currency or precious metal into units of any other, for any date back to 1990, one at a time.
5. Scientific Calculator — Online tool.

Open-Source Operating Systems and Connectivity Products

1. Linux — Links to sites on the leading contender to replace Unix and MS Windows. Check this page for products that compete with those listed above.
2. unununium — Organic operating engine, using no static code.

Non-open-source Distributed and Connectivity Products

1. NetWin — All kinds of server and client software to enhance your web site. They have a great webmail.
2. Santronics Software — Offer Wildcat! interactive net server, to host a web site on your home system.

Methods

1.   How to render documents — Short manual on scanning printed documents and converting them into web pages.

See also the Security and Privacy page.