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Public engagement organisations

IT and Web support organisations for the voluntary sector

Weblogs, Wikis and other Web 2.0 Resources

Technical website-making resources

  • Aptana – web authoring system – a bit slow
  • COI Usability Toolkit – website guidelines
  • css Button generator
  • Cynthia says – accessibility checker

  • Delicious – web bookmark sharing
  • Downloads – source of most free software (e.g. GIMP/image fixing program, Filezilla/website uploader) also and try-before-you-buy software
  • Fav Icon Generator – the graphic at the top of your browser to the left of your website’s url
  • Filezilla – for uploading your site to the web
  • Free Webhosts
  • Free Web Tutorial – HTML, CSS, Search Engine Optimisation (getting more traffic)
  • Google Analytics – Track how your site is being used
  • Google Webfonts – add non-standard fonts to your webpages
  • Javascript Source – client-side (user’s PC) scripting language
  • Kompozer – Free Web authoring Tool – not good with php!
  • Mr Site – Make your own website
  • Mysql – Free database – usually supplies if your Internet service provider uses Linux servers
  • Php – scripting language – usually found on Linux web servers
  • Picassa – Free picture editor from Google
  • RNIB – Accessibilty guide for websites for the visually imapaired
  • Sitemaps – advice on setting up an xml file to help the Google search engine index your site
  • the site wizard
  • Sourceforge – open source software
  • Survey monkey – online survey maker
  • W3 Schools – all you need to know about web technology (almost)
  • W3C – Website validation tools (HTML, CSS, accessibility)
  • Whois – site for finding, who hosts a site
  • Weebly – webiste and blog generating system
  • Wix – website generating system
  • Xenu – Broken weblink detector