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Tune Up



So you finally have your pages up and running on the Internet - pat yourself on the back. However, there is still a long way to go before you should be fully satisfied with the results of your efforts. Just like a cleaning up or a tuning up helps maintain a product in real life, on the Internet, a regular clean-up of your homepage or website will do you and your visitors the world of good.

There are sites on the Internet that help you tune up your homepage or website for free - Website Garage and Net Mechanic are two of the most popular.

Website Garage allows you to do a one page tuneup of your website for free, so you'll have to try each page individually unless you want to pay for their advanced package. Type in your webpage URL and it will give you a report of how it fared in a few seconds, along with suggestions and tips for you to improve your page. They also have some resources to help you promote your webpages.

Net Mechanic has much more to offer for free and is a favourite. The site allows you to check a single page or your entire site (limited to processing of a site to 20 HTML files or 800 links, whichever comes first). Most tests can be performed online (as you wait), or in the background and a report sent to you later. You can currently try the following tests for free at Net Mechanic:
  • Browser Compatibility: Find out how well your HTML is supported by the major browsers. Browser Compatibility is a tool that tells you which of your HTML tags are supported by each version of the major browsers.
  • Spell Check: Spell Check is an automated tool that will visit one or all of your web pages and check the text on the page for spelling errors. It even allows you to customise your spellings (to include propah English spellings, technical terms and jargon)
  • Load Time Check: This test will show you just how long your page takes to download. When a browser downloads a Web page, it must first open a network connection to the Web server. Once the connection is open, the browser can download multiple objects -- such as HTML files, image files, or audio files -- from a single connection. However, if your page includes objects that reside on several different Web servers, the browser must open a network connection to each of these servers. Each one of these connections takes about two seconds to establish and adds to your page load time.
  • GIFBot: This robot runs through your images and reduces the size of it (in terms of KB, not dimension) so that your page will download faster. Nice and easy way for you to optimise your images sometimes up to 90%!
  • Link Check: Let their robot go through your pages, follow the links you have given and check and tell you which ones are dead links!
  • HTML Check: HTML Check tells you how well your code conforms to the HTML standards. Their robot will spot bad HTML tags and check your HTML syntax. Useful to make sure you have not forgotten a tag here or there.
  • Server Check: The "lite" version of Server Check Pro to test your Web site and see how fast it responds, how accessible it is etc. Tests every 15 minutes for 8 hours for free and then gives you a report.

The Steps

Introduction

Content

Create (HTML)

Images

Jazz It Up

Hosting

Tune Up

Promotion

Maintenance

ToolBox



Related Links

Net Mechanic
Highly Recommended!!
Perform various tests for free:
Browser Compatibility,
Spell Check,
Load Time Check,
GifBot,
Link Check,
HTML Check
and Server Check


Website Garage
Perform an online check of a single page and get a report and recommendations for improving it.

SiteOwner
Another great online performance tester that also has promotion tools in store. More about it in the following step...






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