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Stuff to help you when working on your website

 

If you're like me, you don't want to create websites for a living, but maybe are trying to create your own website for fun or profit - or even just trying to learn more about it and tweak your site.

It has always been wonderful when I've been able to find free tools for my website on the Internet when I needed them.  

I work on my own website, and along the way I found I needed tools to help me do things I wanted.

Rather than keep them hidden away in my Favorites List, I decided to share them on this page so more people can find these good websites!

If you have any to suggest, please feel free to let me know about them, so I can consider them for this page.

Free SEO Evaluation of your Website 

Free Evaluation of your Website's SEO
Free report will help you get on the right track. Unlike other websites that might give you some kind of computerized evaluation of your site, Emily (a real human being!) will evaluate your site and show you the problem areas and give you a quote to get the problems fixed.

If you are paying a lot of money for advertising your site, you may find that having your search engine optimization of your website is an investment that keeps paying you back (I've found is more effective in the long run than advertising.)

Page Rank and Submitting your URL to Search Engines 

Google Page Rank Prediction
Enter the urls you want to check and see where they are predicted to rank on Google.
Google Page Rank
Check your web site ranking report for Google, Yahoo and other search engines
How to Submit your URL to Search Engines, Google
How can you index your website in the search engines?!? This is an often asked question for website owners! There are several top search engines to think about. Indexing your website will gain more exposure for your site, since your URL will be indexed among the best of the best...but it's your job

Books to help you build a website 

You aren't a dummy to use these, just knowing that none of us know everything there is to know about something is a sign of intelligence. The titles are just to be cute and catch people's attention, and it has worked. The 'for Dummies' series of books have been popular for several years, and each is written and edited by a known expert in the topic featured.

Link Checkers - Make sure all your website links are working 

Free link checkers online to ensure all website links are working
W3C Link Checker
Free link checker from W3C

Don't lose this info!

Remember to add this page to your Favorites or email it to yourself so you can find this page again when you need it!(link on right)

Stopping Website Plagiarism 

I have had my website content stolen a lot lately. You really have to be vigilant and diligent to make people change it. Duplicate content hurts both the offender and the offended sites!
Copyscape
Search for copies of your page on the Web. Defend your site with a plagiarism warning banner! Premium - Unlimited searches, copy and paste. Copysentry - Automatic web monitoring.
Copyscape How to Respond to Plagiarism
Actions to take if you find your website content has been stolen.
BitScan : Copyright Protection
Free Scan Enter a URL and BitScan searches for duplicate copies of your digital content. What I especially like is that they not only highlight the offending text in yellow, but it allows an option to email the Report directly to the offending webmaster (webHACK is more like it, eh?)
BitScan : Check your text going in
Have you written some text for your website and want to make sure it passes the plagiarism test? Cut and paste the text you intend to use into the scan field on this page, and BitScan will let you know if it is available anywhere else on the Internet. This is a great way to make sure you aren't inadvertently using someone else's words, and helps your website by making sure your website content is unique....an important thing for Search Engine Optimization.

Ebay Listing Help 

Zoicks
How to create your own "About Me" page, creating backgrounds, adding images to your auction with HTML, background color selector, jazzing up your page with templates, and more.

Zoicks.com is the place to get your eCommerce website customized, set up and installed. Customer Support is part of the complete package. We stick with you until you are confident with your website and can run it yourself.

Website Designers on eBay 

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Text and Graphics Sites, Free Animations and Logos 

CoolText
Cool Text is a free graphics generator for web pages and anywhere else you need an impressive logo without a lot of work.

HTML Help 

I finally have some basic HTML memorized, but it has taken me quite awhile! I still need to go to sites for help.
Tryit Editor v1.4
This is an HTML test board. You put your HTML or work on your HTML on the left side of the screen, and on the right you can see it generated into how it would appear. This has saved me a LOT of headaches.

Website Color Help 

Color Match, HTML color code, match website colors, color scheme
Color Match is a website tool showing how to match website colors and help in choosing a website color scheme or color code. Also displays the HTML Color Code.

Places you can get a free website 

Tripod
Tripod.com offers free websites that are supported by advertising.
Google Pages
Google now offers free websites without any advertising on them. If you already have a Google account, this is very fast and easy.
Freewebs
Freewebs offers free websites supported by advertising.
Site Kreator
Several people have recommended this free web-site builder to me.

Other Squidoo Pages Related to Sitebuilding and SEO 

SEO Tips for Newbies
When I first came up with the idea that I could make more money by having my own website I didn't have a clue about what I was getting into!Since then it's been a rat race to get the No.1 page rank in the search engines...

More Free Website Tools 

IBD Host
Features include tutorials for php cgi shopping cards, etc. Code for a PHP contact form. Lots of good tools here.
WebsiteGrader.com
Just enter your url and Website Grader will point you toward some things you can do to improve your website's ranking and marketability.

Free Photos Pictures for your Website 

Morguefile has free photos that users upload. Please give the photographers credit whenever and wherever you can to show your appreciation for their kindness and talent!
morguefile.com Where photo reference lives.
Morguefile.com free stock photos

 

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    Neat Stuff 

    Pop Up Generator
    Really easy to use html generator for pop up window
    Scrolling Text Box
    html scrolling text generator
    Blinking Title Bar Text
    If you want text to appear in the title bar of your visitor's browser, this will help you do it. A great way to promote a special offer!

    Blog Goodies 

    Make Blogspot Blog into 3 Columns
    This page gives you step-by-step instructions on how to turn the Minima Blogspot Template into a 3 column layout. Works great! Just follow it carefully to make sure you don't miss any steps.

    Button and Graphic Generators 

    Free button and graphic generators. Glassy buttons, navigation buttons for your website and more.
    Glassy Buttons Generator
    Creates glassy looking buttons.
    Free Web Button Maker - ButtonGenerator.com
    Web Button Generator
    Create multipurpose web buttonsfor your website. This one is especially good for navigation buttons

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    These are good resources especially for newbies who has lot to learn about maintaining their site. These are very helpful.

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    Looks GREAT! Can't wait to try some of this. 5*

    Posted April 21, 2008

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    awesome

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