Just finished a job for ATOC maintain the National rails website (both runners up for ugly site of the month). On this job we had to make the site DDA compliant, so accessible to the less fortunate and standards compliant basically. Because there were a large number of static pages that were maintained by a nasty CMS system there were a lot of pages to check for broken links.
Xenu was then brought to my attention and has changed my life. Point it at a site and it will make a list of all the pages on that site, which pages link to it and from where on that page as well as list broken links and where they are coming from. Further it will prompt you for FTP details and then make a list of all the orphan pages and much more and present this in a web page report.
This is the best site management tool I’ve seen so far. I don’t know why none of the other web development tools do this kind of job.
looks cool! will have to find a win box to check it out on.
I would really like to find an open source framework to do site mapping and testing. Ideally it would have a whole library of available tests that you could throw at site (load testing, security etc). The tests could be similar to unit tests that would run periodically without interaction. You could then write your own tests to test site specific functionality.
keep dropping knowledge. later!