General Discussions

**chemicalbrother** · 04-21-2009, 08:07 AM

Without paying for a hosting company could you tell me what the best way would be for me to temporarily host a website im working on so that i can view it as people would see it on the web. Does it involve vmware and if so what is the process ?

**Giselle** · 04-21-2009, 10:53 AM

Hello Alex,

You might want to try Notetab, it's free. While working on your web pages, there is a button you can click on to see what the page will look like on the web from your default browser.

http://www.notetab.com/

**aldor** · 04-21-2009, 12:52 PM

If your site has any server side generated content you will need to have a web server installed on your machine in order to view this content.

One that is easy to install and use and free to use is Abyss which is available here:- http://www.aprelium.com/abyssws/ There is plenty of online information available at this site.

Hope you find this useful.

**chemicalbrother** · 04-21-2009, 01:28 PM

Excellent I needed a good HTML editor so I have downloaded Notetab and I also needed a web server many thanks for the links and the help I will go and have a play !!

**Giselle** · 04-21-2009, 10:25 PM

I have another link you might be interested in also. This one is free too, CSE HTML Validator has a speller where Notetab doesn't, also will check for coding errors, although the free one won't tell you all the errors but even so it helps. Plus the lines are all numbered and that can be a tremendous help.

http://www.htmlvalidator.com/

**chemicalbrother** · 04-22-2009, 06:36 AM

I cant find the free version download of that program Giselle ? Is it just a paid for program or is there a free version available ?

I have used that Notetab progrm and posted some code up on these forums and Ladynred picked up on the fact some of the stuff was depreciated tags, is this because notetab is out of date, is this program your posting more up to date ? Thanks for the help

**Giselle** · 04-22-2009, 10:39 AM

Alex go to the link and scroll down to the third one on the left side of the page, CSE HTML Validator Lite v9.02, that's the free one. Mainly now, I use this software for spelling, sometimes I do check for coding errors. Although with the free software it won't tell you all the errors, they really want you to buy the software, which I can understand. This software also has the numbered lines.

With Notetab, that won't tell you anything about your coding, such as deprecated tags or any other coding errors, that's when one goes here to validate your web page, which will tell you exactly what your errors are and where:

http://validator.w3.org/

or here to their main page

http://www.w3schools.com/default.asp

I might add when you go to the Validator they will be using numbered lines if you have errors.

Vangogh submitted a new thread:

http://www.webmaster-talk.com/websit...tools-web.html

You might want to read that article, if you are using Firefox there is an addon:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/249

Personally I am using Firefox for a browser but as of yet I have not downloaded that addon and I am not sure I will, but that's my own personal opinion. The one thing I like about Notetab you can click on the button to view your page with your default browser to see what the page looks like.