Helpful tips and links related to creating and maintaining your website.
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Many of these were needed to convert material from our old websites going back to the mid-90s to this one. Much of the audio was posted in real audio and other formats from the 90s and needed to be converted to MP3.
Audio/Video Converters
- asx to mp3 converter
https://www.coolutils.com/online/ASX-to-MP3 - real media format to mp3 converter
https://www.aconvert.com/audio/rm-to-mp3/ (no daily limits)
https://www.zamzar.com/convert/ram-to-mp3/ - wmv to mp4 converter
https://www.freeconvert.com/wmv-to-mp4 - Midi to mp3 converter online - Slow but good quality. One file at a time.
https://audio.online-convert.com/convert/midi-to-mp3
Youtube downloader
I've changed my recommendation from "myconverters" (excessive pop-ups & failed downloads) to this site - https://offeo.com/download/youtube-downloader/ for quick youtube downloads
More on How to backup/download a youtube video with VLC before it gets taken down
Favicons
Online favicon code generator - Use this tool to create multiple device-specific favicons for your website. Download the zip file, extract it, upload it to the root of your website, and put the HTML code into the head section of your CMS template. (Best practice for SEO) If you don't want to do all that you can still use one of the generated images.
Spelling
Grammarly works great while creating and editing pages on the backend. I sure wish I had this decades ago. Some editing forms in Joomla like pages done via the menu item can't be seen by Grammarly. For these try a browser extension like "Spell Checker" that you can set to open a mini window so you can paste in text to be checked. Currently, the browser extensions I tried that check a page live seem to not be working properly.
W3C Spell Checker - https://www.w3.org/2002/01/spellchecker - Paste in a URL of a live page and this tool will check the spelling.
Website Grammar & Spell Check - https://www.grammar.com/check-website.php
More can be found here - https://rigorousthemes.com/blog/best-website-spell-checkers/
