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Let’s say you run a website, or a blog, like we do here at emudir. One of the really annoying things is getting emails saying “dude, this link doesn’t work – what are you gonna do about it?” And while it’s usually easy to do something about it, it’s nicer to get a handle on these problems beforehand and do something about them. Enter Xenu Link Sleuth.

The impressively small Xenu Link Sleuth is a Windows-only tool, designed to check a website for broken links – something it does exceptionally well, very quickly, and very reliably. …read more »

If you use a hosting service to host your website (such as 1 and 1, which we use here), you will probably find that the access they provide is via ftp, a protocol originally defined in 1971. Hard-core ftp users can make like it’s 1976 and use the command line, but the rest of us mere mortals need something a little more human friendly…

Filezilla is a friendly graphical FTP client. The local filesystem is presented on the left, and the remote site (or sites, in tabs) on the right. Transfers are added to the queue at the bottom …read more »

Have you ever been in the position where you needed to edit a picture – perhaps as little as crop or resize a photo, or remove the red eye effect – but can’t. Maybe you even have paid for Adobe Photoshop, but just haven’t got it installed on the computer you’re on? Well, the GNU Image Manipulation Program can help. …read more »

WordPress is an open source blog management system, used to write websites such as Emudir. It competes directly with online services such as Google’s Blogger (through WordPress.com) as well as being and open source platform that you can use to write your own website. It’s fairly easy to use, and even comes with its own visual editor, similar to Word, so that you don’t need to get involved in the nitty-gritty of HTML and CSS if you don’t want to – a plethora of available themes can make your site sparkle in seconds! …read more »