Link Checkers
 

Big Brotheris a management tool for hypertext (HTML) documents developed by Francois Pottier. If you maintain a Web site, or simply a set of bookmarks, it will verify that the links they contain are valid.  Problems with dead links are identified.

Big Brother 1.x runs on MacOS. Big Brother 2.x runs on most Unix systems (including Linux and MacOS X Server), as well as on Windows 95/98/NT. Both versions are in the public domain, which means that they are available in source code, and may be used, modified and re-distributed with no restriction whatsoever.

Version 1.x is more user-friendly, but offers fewer features than its successor, and is much more crash-prone. Version 2.x offers unprecedented speed and robustness, and can easily be configured to suit your specific needs.  It is, however, a command-line tool.
 
 

JChecker 2.1 [Mac OS 8.x] is a compact shareware utility that offers HTML validation and link checking capabilities as well as some other nice touches for Macintosh OS 8.x. (There is no 68K version.)

In addition to checking HTML syntax and links, JChecker also has a Beautify HTML function which organizes HTML pages hierarchically, numbers code lines, and color-codes different HTML components. The Minimize HTML function cleans up excess and "dirty" code left behind by WYSIWYG editors and multiple revisions. [From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2000. http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/ ]

JChecker is shareware that costs about $21 after a twenty day free trial.
 
 

Web-Based Learning: A Librarian's Guide:  Home By Carolyn Johnson email:carolyn.johnson@asu.edu