There is probably no better way to lose the respect of your visitors than to present them with a site riddled with errors. Spellling and grammer mistakes particular bad, if you know what we mean. There are other fine tuning services that aren't concerned with visible mistakes, but that work to make web sites more efficient. Such services may improve your site's download time and improve its overall appearance.

NetMechanic is one of those all-in-one web fine tuning shops. Their service will help you fix broken links, correct your HTML, speed up your site's download time, and fix your spelling.

If your web site takes forever to download, the odds are that your image files are too big. The same pictures you currently have on your site can be modified to download faster without any loss in quality. GIF Wizard can shrink your images to allow your page to be downloaded in a fraction of the time. Enter your site's URL here and GIF Wizard will conduct a free examination of your site. The examination only takes a minute or so and will tell you if your image files can be reduced and by how much.

Now that you've identified those files that are too fat, crunch 'em down with this cool, free, service. You can choose between crunching gifs or jpegs. Click on Browse to choose the file from your computer that you want to crunch, and click on the "Crunch from disk" button. Try it out, we use it all the time!

For those of you who don't feel you've yet mastered HTML but want to have the ability to periodically update the content and look of your page, Flypage Updator is a program that can help you accomplish this. The program premarks certain areas of your HTML code that you will likely want to update on a periodic basis. When you want to add an update, it simply opens those areas of the HTML script in an environment that is far simpler to work with. You make the changes you want in the Flypage environment and when you save the changes it will plug the new commands back into the HTML script.

• NetMechanic
• GIF Wizard
• GIFCruncher Free GIF Optimizer
• JPEGCruncher Free JPEG Optimizer