Our WebMaster’s Ressources
This page is a none exhaustive list of the tools that our web masters utilize on a daily basis.
Web Browser
- Internet Explorer 6.0 Can’t develop any web site without being sure it will show up correctly under it!
- Firefox The easiest to develop for!
- Opera In between
- Konqueror - Almost as good as Firefox. That’s the KDE desktop’s default browser under Linux.
- SeaMonkey - Was called the mozilla suite before. As good as Firefox because it utilize the same HTML engine.
Online tools
- Google Analytics - You need to create a Google account to be able to utilize that ressource. It give a better overview of how and from where people are finding our web site.
- Google Site Map - The same as above with this other usefull tool.
- Google Alerts - This tool is usefull to follow what is added to the Google’s index.
- Google Maps - This tool could be usefull to locate a property available on DRListings.com but since there is not much info about the Dominican Republic in that tool, we are still waiting before actually implementing a service based on this tool in our web site.
- Alexa Page Rank -Some people like to think that it is still a usefull ressource to help web master figure out the popularity of their web site. I found it usefull just to check how far from reality they are! It is base on the browsing experience of the people that utilize the Alexa Toolbar, so!
- SEO book Where you will find some very well design tools to check your ranking and optimize a web site. We may use some their tools here on DRListings.net with some little adaptation in a near future.
- IP to Location on the SEOMOZ.org web site.
- A large variety of SEO tools on the SEOChat web site
Web editor Softwares
- DreamWeaver - A powerfull wbe site editor. Our designer use it with Firework to prepare the layout of the new web site and to maintain other web site.
- HTML-kit - My prefered flat text HTML editor. I like to keep FULL control over the HTML tags.
- Fireworks - A powerfull graphic software for the layout designer and to prepare the litle graphics tha will spice up a web site.
- TopStyle - In its Lite form it already a powerfull Cascading style sheet editor. The pro version incorporate the features of the Lite version but is more oriented toward a full HTML editor.
- WinAmp - Everybody has the right to work in a pleasent environement.
- Nvu - A XHTML compliant WISIWYG editor. Very usefull to create a draft XHTML file with styles. Its development is apparently on the hold for some reason. Maybe to move forward on new technologies.
Operating system
- Windows XP - Every body knows it! I think
- Linux Slackware - Linux version that we have installed on our Linux machine.
- FreeBSD - The OS available on our production hosting server.