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Dirhtml Help - A Few Links (all free)

Program / Web SiteDescription
HTML Dog, W3CHTML Reference sites
HTML DogCSS reference
Firefox Html ValidatorAdds html validation to the Firefox View Source window
CSE HTML Validator Lite   Offline HTML validator and editor
W3COnline HTML validator
W3C/JigsawOnline CSS validator
Web DeveloperFirefox extension of exceptional quality (the Edit CSS window is great for tweaking generated files, as the css can be pasted back into the source dirhtml script)
FirebugVery powerful Firefox extension that enables real time html/css editing, javascript debugging and other things
FirefoxMozilla web browser
OperaAnother browser (alternately, the portable version which unfortunately self-extracts upon load)
Notepad++Very good source code editor (html, c++, javascript, text, etc.) or the portable version
Color CopGrabs small sections of the screen or pixel colors (very handy)
IrfanviewThe definitive free Windows image viewer
ScrapBookFlat file text database, written by the author of dirhtml
DM2Multipurpose gadget that minimizes applications to the system tray, provides multiple desktops, keeps windows on top, etc.
CSS Table GallerySample tables that use CSS formatting
Color BlenderGenerates intermediate colors between two colors (also Adobe Kuler, Color Blender #2 and Color Schemes)
ListamaticGeneric versions of CSS list styles and page layouts
Portable KompoZerWYSIWYG html editor, useful for getting correct html syntax