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The Internet if full of free resources for webmaster's, many of the tools you need to develop your site are freely available - Check here before buy.
Unless your a graphic designer programs like Adobe Dreamweaver are much more powerful than you need to design & edit your webpages.
Kompozer- Finally, a
top-notch WYSIWYG web
page program for the rest of us! Now there's no need to pay
a little fortune for a program to create and edit
great-looking web pages, including powerful and easy to use
CSS capabilities.
Site
Maker - Simple free online Sales
letter or Squeeze page Designer
First Page Html
Editor - Download
Firstpage - Gives you unsurpassed freedom to create and
edit web documents with absolute code
control..
NVU - is a free, open
source software program that allows you to build websites
and web pages using a simple WYSIWYG editor
If you intend to customize web graphics you are going to need Graphic design software. Most web graphics will be supplied in .PSD format that requires Adobe Photoshop or compliant software to edit.
Gimp - Gimp's features include photo retouching image composition, Gimp is often favorably compared by users to Adobe's Photoshop and Illustrator.
Paint.net - Free Layer
Graphic design software
Paint.net - PSD Plugin - Converts .psd to Paint.net compatible files
Krita - "The number of drawing tools is rivaled only by Photoshop"
Colour Pick -
See video of Colour pic in action
View Video
Filezilla Free Ftp
Software - FileZilla is
free open source FTP Software.
Jing "Camtasia" - Video
Capture - Free Image
& screen Capture Software "Camtasia's Little
Brother" Upload & share
online.
Cam Studio - Video
Capture - CamStudio is
able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer
and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its
built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean,
bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)
Audacity - Sound Editing
Software - Audacity is a
free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS
X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems.
Free Auto Responder
Software - Infinite
Responder has many of the features of the paid services without
any of the cost - Great place to start for the webmaster on a
budget.
Free RSS/XML Submission
Software - Get extra
exposure & free traffic to your website - Automatically
submit your RSS/XML feeds to Feed
Directories.
Header Creator -
Create Stunning Header Graphics, With This Free Header
Graphic Tool
Dynamic
Drive - Dynamic Drive Large
Selection of DHTML & Javascripts to enhance your web
site!
Form
Creator - JotForm is the first web
based WYSIWYG form builder.
Free PDF
Convertor -
Convert PDF to Word or Word to
PDF
Glassy
Buttons - Create Web 2.0 Style
Glassy Buttons with this FREE online tool. Insert your own
text & choose the buttons size shape & Colour!
Ajax
Loaders - Don't show your Visitors
a blank page while your interactive items are loading. Ajax
Indicators display active barber poles, clocks & scroll
bars to indicate your content is loading.
Webpage
Backgrounds - Spruce up the overall
look of your site with a Gradient or patterned
background.
Free Logo
Maker - Create your own custom Logo
Online for Free!
Free Favicon
Generator - Create your own custom
Favicon / Favorites Icon. Static or scrolling icons or text.
Add <link rel="shortcut icon"
href="favicon.ico"> between the <head> tabs of
your page.
Free Favicon
Designer - A little more advanced
than other online favicon creators. Upload or
Design your own Favicon, you can also control
the animations timing.
Static, scrolling, revolving icons or text!
If you don't suffer from "Big Brother" syndrome then SEO starts with Google. Get a Google account & add webmaster tools & Google Analytics. All these tools are free & once implemented the tracking results are invaluable to SEO & PPC campaigns.
SEO
Analysis - SpyderMate is a
free SEO analysis toolbox. It can be used as SEO for
beginners or by those with experience in the field
already. It offers several SEO reporting tools: Site
Analysis, Link Equity, and a compare feature – SEO
Competitor Analysis.
All in One Seo
Checker - One of the best
online resource I have found for checking your websites SEO
stats. Includes - Indexed Pages, Backlinks,
Pagerank, Social Bookmarks, Syndication &
Validation.
Page Seo
Analysis - Great SEO
tool for checking your website page by page - Grades your
pages A-F for the keywords you specify & provides SEO
recommendations.
Webmasters
Search
Engine -
Why aren't you ranking #1? Find out what your competition
is doing that youre
not!
Robots.txt
Generator - The
robots.txt file tells search engine and other robots which
areas of your site they are allowed to visit and
index.
Back Link
Watch - detailed information about
quality and quantity of backlinks pointing to your website.
It will show you "anchor" text, pagerank, total outbound
links on that page, and nofollow flag for each of your
inbound link available.
Online Domain Value
Calculators
WebSite
Outlook - Websiteoutlook is the
perfect place to evaluate any website. When choosing to buy
or sell a website having the proper information about your
investment can be crucial to your success.
Cube
Stat - Cubestat is a free and
perfect tool for website value calculation, estimations and
information.
Resources Used on this page
Power Effects 2 - If you Like the
Light Box Pop Ups I use on this site you can easily implement
them on yours using Power Effects
2
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