The Links Effect
OS of Choice
- Windows XP Profesional
- Yes I'm a sinner I know but when the devils this big how could I resist
- FreeBSD
- A highly study and well built UNIX environment, great for servers
- SUSE (NOVELL)
- Novells revamp has brought life back to this Unix OS Giving it enough to make a great workstation as well as a Server environment. Kicks OSX to the dirt.
- Linux Fedora Core
- It's free its easy and it takes my favourite flavour of Linux back to the general public
Top Free Tools
- LYNX - Text Reader (win32 port)
- One of the original text readers for t'internet.
- Fangs - Modern Screen Reader Emulator
- Fangs emulates viewing webpages on a modern screen reader, within firefox
- Html Validator (firefox plugin)
- Validates and implements html tidy to offer the option of repairing and testing your pages
- WebFire Validation (handy validation 'tool')
- I'd never accept that tools are the be all and end all but this is good for checking the basics
- Disable WGA (windows genuine pain in the arse)
- This tool provided by firewallleaktester.com stops WGA dialling home every day.
Well Worth the Visit
- Deviant Art
- Community of artists and those devoted to Art
- WC3 Tutorials
- Great way to learn new web technologies... correctly.
- Clean CSS
- A web based CSS optimizing tool.
- Standards-Schmandards
- A Great article/blog site about webstandards and accessability