Showing posts with label free tool. Show all posts
Showing posts with label free tool. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

4 Online Image Editors | Photo Editing Online

To get your job done, you need the powerful tools. To make sure your images are displayed at the correct size, format and resolution, you need to use good image-editing software. Previously we have mentioned several free image-editing software. But most of them are desktop applications, and it means that you have to download and install them on your computer before using them. Here I will tell you 4 online image editors. With these photo editors, you can edit your photos online from any computer with an Internet connection.

www.photoshop.com
On photoshop.com, users can add it organized and share photos on the web. But before you in July always the free benefits of this site, you need to get the Adobe ID by creating an account on the website. By signing up a free account, you can get 2 GB storage capacity to store you images online for free. They also allow you to store videos on the site. Most importantly by becoming a member of the site, you gain the access to all their online photo editing tools to create and share your work.

www.pixlr.com
On pixlr.com, visitors can enjoy the free online photo editing services provided. To use the pixlr editor, you don't need to create and login to your account on the site. You can directly use it by creating a new image or uploading an existing imager from your computer or from a web page. But if you want to load the major from the pixlr gallery, you need to log into your account the first. It is one of the most of popular online photo editing sites.

www.splashup.com
Splashup is another good online image editing tool, and it is also free. The splashup editor comes with many powerful features, and it allows you to work on several images at the same time. You don't need to log into your account to use this free photo editing tool.

www.ipiccy.com
Ipiccy.com is another website offering online free photo editors Internet users. Similar to pixlr and splashup, they don’t require visitors to register to use their editor. Now ipiccy is still in Beta version.

If you want to do some photo editing online, you can try these online image editing sites.If you are a professional web designer and need a professional software for your project, you may consider paid software like Adobe Photoshop, Adobe fireworks, pixelmator and paintshop Pro. If the full version of Photoshop is too expensive for you, you can try their cheaper alternative: Photoshop elements.

Monday, March 19, 2012

How to Track Your Website Visitors | Free Tools

After building, testing and promoting your new website, you now have to face another issue: tracking your website traffics. Have you wondered how many visitors your website has and where they are from? To answer these questions, you need to actively monitor your website traffics. There are many advantages to do website analytics. By collecting your site traffic data, you will gain more information about your site’s audience. The more you know your audience, the better you will serve them better in the future.

Usually your web server should have features for basic web analytics. If they are not available to you for some reason, you can use some third party service to get the job done. For example, I found Google Analytics (www.google.com/analytics/) is a free and nice tool for analyzing websites. To use Google Analytics, you have to create a free account on their site. After logging into your account, you can add your site, generate a tracking code, and add the tracking code to your website. After the code has been successfully installed, your website traffic data will be collected and shown as a report in your Google Analytics account. With this service, you can easily know how many people have visited your site, where they are located, how they came to your site and what kind of web browser they used to access your website.

If for some reason that you don’t want to use the Google Analytics service, you may try the following services instead:
Piwik
http://piwik.org/
Clicky
www.clicky.com/
MyBlogLog
www.mybloglog.com/

You may need to pay to access their full services but their basic features are free to use.

There are more and more web analytics sites offering free services. If you need free tools to keep tracking your site, you should try several of them and find the best one to fit your needs.

How to Test a Website’s Browser Compatibility Online

Before launching your website, you have to test whether your new site can be displayed correctly in most popular web browsers such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera and Flock.

One way to test your website’s browser compatibility is to install all the latest versions of these browsers and open your site in them one by one. But it is going to take you a lot of time.

The other way is to run the test online, which will save you time and effort. One website that I find useful for the browser compatibility test is http://browsershots.org/. On this site, you can test your website on major browsers. They list the web browsers’ name and version under their operating systems including Linux, Windows, Mac and BSD. The list is pretty long, but you really don’t need to test all of them. You can make your own choices by your needs.

Similar to the markup validator on W3.org, the BrowerShots is also a free tool for testing your website.

Check HTML Code Online: A Free Tool for Testing Your Website

Before launching your new website, you should run a thorough test on your site to see whether there are errors. You want to make sure that all the text, graphics, links and HTML codes are correct on your site.

To check HTML code online, you can use a free tool provided by W3C at http://validator.w3.org/. This markup validation service allows you to check the markup of web documents online. It is free and easy to use. What you need to do is just go to their site, choose the validate methods, and validate your document online. For instance, when using validate by URL, you need to put in your web address. If you don’t have a URL yet, you can validate HTML codes by uploading the file or pasting your markup directly on the site. This markup checking tool can be used to validate not only HTML but also other languages such as XHTML, SML, and so on.

If the report returned on http://validator.w3.org/ showed some errors or warnings, you can make changes correspondingly on your site. After making big changes to your site, you can run the markup test again on the same website. After repeating this process several times, you will make your site better for sure.

Besides, HTML Tidy (www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/)is another useful tool for checking HTML codes. You can also find an online version of HTML Tidy at http://infohound.net/tidy/.
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