Website Tools
 
Firefox: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/
 
["View" > "Page Source"] A primary learning and troubleshooting tool (most any browser has this). Let's you view the raw HTML of any webpage in your browser.
 
["File" > "Save Page As" > "Web Page Complete"] Let's you see the other files that make up the webpage. Images and often "CSS" files are usually an integral part of webpages. You'll usually find them in a folder that is associated with the *.html file.
 
Firefox Extensions
 
FireFTP: A small Firefox extension that has all the FTP features you need.
 
LinkChecker: Checks the links on a page to see if the address is correct, and that they still exist.
 
View Rendered Source Chart: Reveals the structure elements of the webpage
 
Get FireFox Extensions -- https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/ -- search for the extension name, e.g., FireFTP, under "extensions"
 
 
Editors: see Editing for HTML Editors
 
 
FTP Clients - upload/download files:
 
FireFTP -- see under Firefox above: This is a full-fledged client.
 
FileZilla -- free and highly rated
 
Core FTP LE -- free powerful program
 
SmartFTP -- a modern FTP client, free and paid options.
 
 
 
Link Checking:
 
LinkChecker -- see under Firefox above:
 
Xenu's Link Checker -- free, powerful, but a little challenging to use.
 
Dead-Links.com -- Free Broken Link Checker
 
 
Special Tools:
 
SHTML Viewer -- if you want to use SSI (server side includes) -- which I highly recommend -- to build your website you'll want this essential tool. It combines your *.ssi files with your *.shtml file and presents it to your preview browser just like a Web server would.
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