Optimization, Marketing and Design Tools
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Almost 20 years went into the development of this Ultimate Resource of Marketing and Design Tools and it will be kept updated several times a year. Many of the items on this list are free resources or have a free level. This is far from finished.
I count 480 links at the moment, I think I have another 400 or so. We used to weed out the working links that we didn't use. We no longer do that as we have found that each link has its own relevance in some way to someone. What may work for one client might not for another. If the link works, we do not remove it. Enjoy!
Amazon
Articles of Interest
- How To Launch New Products Successfully
- Get On Page One With The Amazon Launch List
- Amazon Mobile Optimization, Are You? If Not, Your Competitors Thank You
Resources
- FBA Profit Calculator: - Understand your fees and margins
- FBA Fee Calculator: - Determine which product size is applicable
- Amazon FBA Freight Rate Calculator
- AMZSeller Forums: - FBA Private Label Seller Forums
- SellerSEO: Amazon Seller Tools & Amazon SEO
- AMZ Refund
- Refunds Manager
- AMZ Insight
- Refund Retriever
- CAPx
- Helium10: A powerful All-In-One set of seller tools for Amazon Sellers.
- MerchantWords
- Scientific Seller
- Sonar
- MarketHustl
- Market Intelligence by Viral Launch
- Brightpearl
- Skubana
- Neatoscan
- Sellbrite
- SellerActive
- Trade Gecko
- Content26
- MobiReady
- Feedvisor
- Price Checker 2.0
- Informed - AI Pricing Tool
- Viral Launch
- JungleScout
- Snag Shout
- Ecom Engine
- Vine
- Sellerlabs
- PPC Ninja
- TaxJar
- Sellics
- ThornCrest
- Amazon Sellers Lawyer
Competitor Analysis
Keep an eye on this area as I fill it with my best research links!
COMPETITOR ANALYSIS
- Open Directory Search: Search for open directories on a site to easily findinfo that shouldnt be public
- Google Dorks: Google Indexes everything. The right query commands will find it.
- Thruu Serp Analyzer: Analize the top 100 search results for a query to uncover what your competitors are doing and how.
Courses, Inspiration, & Knowledge
LEARN
- Build an online course: A course to help you build an online course.
- MailCharts: A email course to help you become a better marketer.
- Coursera: online classes from 80+ top universities & organizations.
- Khan Academy: Free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere
- Codecademy: Learn to code interactively, for free.
- Audio Podcast: How to start podcasting:
- StartUp Class: As Online Course
- The How: Learn from entrepreneurs.
- Closed Club: Browse shut-down start-ups & learn why they closed down.
- Rocketship.fm: Learn from successful entrepreneurs each week
- Mixergy: Learn from proven entrepreneurs.
- Hackdesign: Receive a design lesson in your inbox each week.
KNOWLEDGE SITES
- Search Engineland: News On Search Engines, SEO & SEM
- Search Engine Journal: - SEO, Search Marketing News and Tutorials
- Trendhunter: Trends, Trend Reports, Fashion Trends, Tech, Design
- Ppchero: PPC Advertising Strategy, Tips & News
- OfferVault: Affiliate Marketing | Affiliate Programs | CPA Offers
- Perform Insider: PACEDM.com -"Pace" Lattin
- Moz Forum: Moz Blog - SEO and Inbound Marketing Blog
- Search Engine Watch: Search Engine Watch
Email & Social Media
EMAIL MANAGEMENT
- SMTP2GO: - SMTP Service Pricing & Signup
- Elastic Email: Elastic Email Dashboard
- Contact form 7: Famous WordPress plugin to collect email addresses.
- Mailchimp: Send 12,000 emails to 2,000 subscribers for free.
- ManyContactsBar: contact form sits on top of your website.
- Sumome List Builder: Collect email addresses with light box popover.
- Scroll Triggered Box: Boost your conversion rates — Wordpress only.
- Sumome Scroll Box: Capture more email addresses, politely.
- Mailgun: The Email Service For Developers. 10K emails/month.
- Sendgrid: Delivers your transaction and marketing email. 12K emails/month
- Mailtrack: The best email tracking solution.
- Canned Emails: A minimal site with prewritten emails.
- Mail Testor: Newsletters spam test by mail-tester.com
- Emailable: Email Verification & Email List Cleaning Service
AUTO RESPONDERS
- Mailchimp: Marketing Platform for Small Businesses
- AWEBER: Email Marketing
- GeETRESPONSE: Marketing Software for Small Businesses
CUSTOMER SERVICE & SURVEYS
- Typeform: beautiful online survey & form builder
- Survey Creator: Create a survey. Get user feedback for free.
- Batch: The first-ever 100% engagement platform for mobile apps.
- Helprace: Customer service tool. for up to 3 agents for small support teams.
- Tawk.to: The 100% live chat application for your website!
- Lightshot (screenshot tool): Chrome Web Store
FORUMS
- Fastlane Entrepreneur Forum: The Fastlane Entrepreneur Forum
- Wicked Fire Forum: Wicked Forum
- Reddit.com: The front page of the internet
- DigitalPoint Forum: Online Internet Marketing & Search Engine Optimization Forum
- WebmasterWorld: WebmasterWorld Forums Index
- Cpaelites Forum: CPA Marketing Forum
SOCIAL MEDIA + COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT
- Spruce: Make Twitter ready images in seconds.
- Click To Tweet: Get more shares on your content.
- WordPress Pin it Button for Images: Add a “Pin It” button.
- SharedCount: Track URL shares, likes, tweets, and more.
- Justunfollow: Follow / unfollow people on Twitter & Instagram.
- Ritetag: Instant hashtag analysis.
- Buffer Plan: Schedule posts to Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Google+.
- Bitly: Create, share, and track shortened links.
- Addthis: Get more shares, follows and conversions.
- Sumome Share: Auto-optimizes your share buttons for max traffic.
- Disqus: Build a community of active readers & commenters.
- Survey Creator: Create a survey. Get user feedback for free.
DOMAIMN AND EMAIL TOOLS
- Privacy Policy: Privacy Policy
- MXToolbox: Domain Health Check - Online Domain Tools - Blacklist, Email, Website, DNS
- MXToolbox: MX Lookup Tool - Check your DNS MX Records online
- Email Blacklist Check: Email Blacklist Check - See if your server is blacklisted
- Bulk Lookup Tool: Bulk Lookup Tool - Bulk IP and Domain Lookup Tool
- Internet Archive: Digital Library of & Borrowable Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
- Email Server Test: Email Server Test - Online SMTP diagnostics tool
- Email Header Analyzer: Email Header Analyzer, RFC822 Parser
- DNS Lookup: DNS Lookup
- Online Email Extractor: Online Email Extractor; Discovery
VPN
- Facebook Stats: Facebook Stats (Audience Insights)
- Press Room:
- Create Facebook Ads: Create Facebook Ads
- Guide to Facebook Ads: Guide to Facebook Ads
- Facebook Ads Cheat Sheet: The guide to all things Facebook ads.
- Ads Page: Ads Page
- Sponsored Stories: Sponsored Stories
- External Ad Policy guidelines: External Ad Policy guidelines
- Help Center for Ads: Help Center for Ads
PAGES
- Create a Page: Create a Page
- Pages Page: Pages Page
- Pages Best Practices: Pages Best Practices
- Vertical Directory of Pages: Vertical Directory of Pages
- FAQ for Facebook Pages: FAQ for Facebook Pages
- Usernames for Pages: Usernames for Pages
- Reporting IP Infringement on Pages: Reporting IP Infringement on Pages
- Facebook: Facebook
- Facebook Live: Facebook Live
- Facebook Studio: Facebook Studio
- Facebook Ads: Facebook Ads
- Facebook Pages: Facebook Pages
- Facebook Platform: Facebook Platform
- App on Facebook: App on Facebook
- Facebook Blueprint: Facebook Blueprint
- General Resources: General Resources
- Examples of Site Integrations: Examples of Site Integrations
- Facebook Platform Page: Facebook Platform Page
- Developer Blog: Developer Blog
- Facebook Games Directory: Facebook Games Directory
- API: API
- Open Graph: Open Graph
- Authentication: Authentication
- SDKs and Tools: SDKs and Tools
- Developer Roadmap: Developer Roadmap
POPULAR FACEBOOK BLOGS
- The Facebook Blog (official blog): The Facebook Blog (official blog)
- Inside Facebook: Inside Facebook
- All Facebook: All Facebook
LEGAL AND PERMISSIONS
- Facebook Brand Permissions: Facebook Brand Permissions
- Promotions Guidelines: Promotions Guidelines
- Statement of Rights & Responsibilities: Statement of Rights & Responsibilities
- Copyright Infringement: Copyright Infringement
Fonts & Icons
TYPOGRAPHY
- Font Squirrel: 100% commercial fonts.
- Google Fonts: Free, open-source fonts optimized for the web
- DaFont: Archive of freely downloadable fonts.
- 1001 Fonts: A huge selection of fonts.
- FontPark: The web’s largest archive of fonts.
- Font-to-width: Fit pieces of text snugly within their containers.
- Adobe Fonts: The free, easy way to get started with web fonts.
ICONS
- Fontello: Icon fonts generator.
- Flat Icon: A search engine for 16000+ glyph vector icons.
- Material Design Icons: 750 open-source glyphs by Google.
- Font Awesome: The iconic font and CSS toolkit.
- Glyphsearch: Search for icons from other icon databases.
- MakeAppIcon: Generate App Icons of all sizes with a click.
- Ico Moon: 4000+ vector icons, icon generator.
- The Noun Project: Thousands of glyph icons from different artists
- Icon Finder: icon section of the website.
- Vector Line Set:
- Make Appicon: Generate App Icons of ALL sizes with a click.
- Cyberline Icons: 3500 vector icons with a clean look and feel.
- FlatIcons: flat icon customizer, royalty free.
- To(icon): icons.
Images & Graphics
STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY
- Pixabay-FREE
- UnSplash-FREE
- Pexels-FREE
- Picography-FREE
- Stokpic - FREEMIUM
- Free Images - FREEMIUM
- RGBStock - FREE
- Free to use images on Flickr - FREE
- Startup Stock Photos - FREE
- Stock Photos
- Stock Up
- All The Stock
- Jay Mantri
- Moveast
- Travel Coffee Book
- Designers Pics
- Death to the Stock Photo
- Foodie’s Feed
- Mazwai
- Jéshoots
- Super Famous
- Picography
- Magdeleine
- Snapographic
- Little Visuals
- Splitshire
- New Old Stock
- Picjumbo
- Life of Pix
- Gratisography
- Getrefe
- Cupcake
- The Pattern Library
- Public Domain Archive
- ISO Republic
- Stokpic
- Kaboompic
- Digital Photos
- Morguefile
- ImageFree
- Rgbstock
- Dreamstime
- FreeImages
- FreeRangeImages
- StockSnap
- Nature Stock
BRANDING & LOGO
- Logaster: Professional online logo maker & generator
- Signature Maker: A web based tool that creates your handwritten digital signature.
Tools
- Gimp - FREE
- Canva - FREEMIUM
- PicMonkey - FREEMIUM
- BeFunky - FREEMIUM
- PaintNET - FREE
- Meme Generator - FREE
- Pixlr - FREE
- Pablo - FREE
- Splitshire - FREEMIUM
- Life of Pix - FREE
- Picjumbo - FREEMIUM
- KaboomPics - FREE
- Jeshoots - FREE
How-To tutorials
- Canva tutorials
- Tuts+ Tutorials
- Adding vectors to your graphics
- Colour guidelines for web graphics
- Twitter image compression and Facebook image compression
Video tutorials
- How to Create Custom Graphics for Your Blog
- How To Design Stunning Graphics That Are Fully Optimized For Wordpress
- Social media design using Photoshop
- Adobe Photoshop Tutorial : The Basics for Beginners
- Shawn Barry, Creative
- tutvid
- Photoshop Tutorials
- Kimberly Ann Jimenez
- Image Editing Basics in GIMP
- How To Take Better Pictures With Your Smartphone (iPhone/Android) - 5 Tips
- Gimp video tutorial
- Photoshop Tutorials by PHLEARN
- How To Take & Edit Minimal Instagram Photos
COLOR PICKERS
- Flat UI Colors: Beautiful flat colors.
- New Flat UI Color Picker: Best flat colors for UI design.
- Coolors: Super fast color schemes generator for cool designers.
- Skala Color: An extraordinary color picker for designers and developers
- Colorful Gradients: Gradients automatically created by a computer.
- Adaptive Backgrounds: Extract dominant colours from images.
- Brand Colors: Colors used by famous brands.
- Paletton: The color scheme designer.
- Colour Lovers: Create & share colors, palettes, and patterns.
- Adobe Color CC: Color combinations from the Kuler community.
- Bootflat: Perfect colors for flat designs
- Get UI Colors: Get awesome UI colors
- Colllor: Color palette generator.
- Palette for Chrome: Creates a color palette from any image.
IMAGE OPTIMIZERS
- TinyPNG: Compress images.
- Compressor.io: Optimize and compress your images online.
- Kraken: Optimize your images & accelerate your websites
- Smush.it: Image optimizer WordPress plugin.
- Dunnnk: Beautiful mockups.
- InstaMockup: Create beautiful screenshots of your app or website.
IMAGE EDITORS
- Canva: Amazingly simple graphic design for bloggers.
- Pixlr: Pixlr Editor is a robust browser photo editor
- Easel.ly: Empowers anyone to create & share powerful visuals.
- Social Image Resizer Tool: Create optimized images for social media.
- Placeit: product mockups & templates.
- Pablo: Design engaging images for your social media posts quickly.
- 2000+ Free Mockup Templates
- DIY Free Book Cover Templates
Vectors & icons
- Freeble - FREE
- Freepik - FREEMIUM
- Freebies Bug - FREE
- 365psd - FREE
- Free vectors section on 1001freedownloads - FREE
- Free Vectors - FREE
- Free vectors section on Vector Stock - FREEMIUM
- Free design section on Pixelden - FREEMIUM
- UISpace - FREE
Templates & helpers
- Kraken.io - FREE
- Compressor.io - FREE
- Hubspot's Infographic templates - FREE
- Hubspot's social media graphics templates - FREE
- Placeit - FREEMIUM
Infographics
- Infogram - FREEMIUM
- Canva Infographics - FREEMIUM
- Easel.ly - FREE
- Vengage - FREEMIUM
- Gliffy – FREE TRIAL
- Piktochart – FREE
Apps for smartphones
- Wordswag - FREE
- PicCollage - FREE
- Photoshop Express - FREE
- Pixlr - FREE
Inspiration
Keywords
Keyword Manipulation/Listing Creation
- Delim: Online Comma Separator Tool
- Product Listing Creator: - HTML generator for descriptions
- Description Character Counter: - Maximize your available space
KEYWORD RESEARCH
- Scientific Seller: Amazon Keyword & Long-tail Tool
- Ubersuggest: Keyword & Long-tail Tool, Generate More Suggestions
- Answer The Public: Keyword Data Visualization & Long-tail Tool
- Soovle: Search & Long-tail Keyword Tool
- LSI Graph: Latent Semantic Indexing & Long-tail Keyword Tool
- SearchVolume.io: Free Google Keyword Planner Alternative
- Sonar: Amazon Keyword and Product Research Tool
- Word Tree: The Fast, Easy Way to Get New Customers
- MerchantWords: The Amazon Keyword Tool for Search Volume
- KParser: Research Tons of Amazon Keywords For SEO
- KeyWord Keg: Winning FBA Ideas [eBay, Etsy, Alibaba APIs]
- SellerSEO: Keyword Tool For Amazon
- SpyFu : Keyword Research & Tracking Tools
- Keywordshitter
- Keywordsheeter
- SEO Scout:
- KWFinder
- Sellerapp free amazon keyword tool
- Amazon Keyword Tool
- Amazon Keyword Tool: Simple, Useful Keyword Research Tool For SEO
- Google Keyword Suggestion Tool
- Google Display Planner: Google Display Planner
- Google Keyword Planner: Google Keyword Planner
- Keywordtool.io: alternative to Google Keyword Planner.
Misc Tools
INVOICE
- Invoice to me: Invoice Generator.
- Slimvoice: Insanely simple invoices
- Invoice.to: invoice generator.
LEGAL DOCS , TRADEMARKS
- Ocracy: An open collection of legal documents
- UK Trademark Info and Search: Official forms and search portal for UK Trademarks
- USPTO: US Office of Patents and Trademarks
URL SHORTENERS
- Bitly. The power of the link: Bitly. The power of the link.
- tinyurl: TinyURL.com - shorten that long URL into a tiny URL
A/B TESTS & GROWTH HACKING
- Optimizely: One optimization platform for websites and mobile apps.
- GrowthHackers: Unlocking growth. Together.
OUTSOURCING
- AirTasker: Hire local people to do work for you from office work to gardening
- UPWORK: Hire Freelancers & Get Freelance Jobs Online
- Guru.com: Guru.com
- Truelancer : Hire Freelancers & Find Freelance Jobs Online
- iWriter: iWriter: Content & Article Writing Service
- Hirewriters: Hire Writers - Article Writing Service
- Fiverr: Freelance digital marketing experts & Online marketing services
- Bestjobs Phillippines: Phillippines - Jobs and employment opportunities
- OnlineJobs.ph: Hire the best Filipino employees and virtual assistants
Articles Of Interest
Resources
- Pinterest For Business
- Claim Your Website
- Claim Your Account On Etsy, Instagram Or Youtube
- Rich Pin Signup
- Rich Pin Validator
- Pinterest Widget Builder
- The Pinterest Categories list
- Learn About Analytics
- Commercial Terms Of Service
- Pin Etiquette Policy
- Pin4Ever: Firefox plugin for cleaning boards
- Pingroupie: A Pinterest Group Discovery Tool
- Buyable Pins For Shopify
- Pinoculars: Pinterest conversion and tracking app for shopify
- IOS App: Apple Pinterest App
- Canva: A Simple Social Media Image Builder
- Stencil: A Simple Social Media Image Builder
- Tailwind: An excellent scheduling tool with a lot of options
- Picktochart: An infograph building tool
- Woobox Pinterest Tab
Project Management & Collaboration
DISCOVER TOOLS & STARTUPS
- Product Hunt: Curation of the best new products, every day.
- Angellist: Where the world meets startups.
- Beta List: Discover and get early access to tomorrow’s startups.
- StartupLi.st: Find. Follow. Recommend startups.
- Startups List: Collections of the best startups in different places.
- Beta Testing: Where great new products are born.
BUILD TOGETHER
- Assembly: Co-create new ideas no matter where they are.
- CoFoundersLab: Find a co-founder in any city, any industry
IDEA MANAGEMENT
- Experiment Board: Test your startup idea without wasting time or money
BUSINESS / PROJECT NAME GENERATORS
- Wordoid: Pick a short and catchy name for your business
- Lean Domain Search: Find a domain name for your website in seconds.
- Domainr: Fast, free, domain name search, short URLs.
USEFUL
- Foundrs: Co-founder equity calculator
- Entrepreneur.com: Pay-Per-Click ROI Calculator
- App vs. Website: Should you build an app or website?
- Pitcherific: Pitcherific helps you create, train, and improve your pitch.
- Startup Equity Calculator: Figure out how much equity to grant new hires in seconds
- UI Faces: Find and generate sample avatars for user interfaces.
- Copy Paste Character: Click to copy.
- Window Resizer: See how it looks on various screen resolutions.
INTEGRATION TOOLS
- Cisual Ping: Visualping: #1 Website change detection, monitoring and alerts
- IFTTT : IFTTT helps your apps and devices work together
- Zapier: Zapier | The easiest way to automate your work
- Wachete Forum: Wachete - Monitor web changes
- Page2Rss: Page2Rss
- Cyfe Cyfe: All-In-One Business Dashboard - Cyfe
- Google. Forum: Google Alerts - Monitor the Web for interesting new content
- Mobile Twitter – the mobile web version of Twitter (accessed from a browser on your smartphone, NOT the same as the mobile apps)
- Help @ Twitter – help, formerly https://support.twitter.com
- Status @ Twitter – Twitter API Status
- Twitter Directory – an alphabetic directory of public accounts
- Media @ Twitter – for brands’ and content - formerly https://studio.twitter.com
- Business @ Twitter – for businesses, Ads @ twitter
- Marketing @ Twitter – marketing
- About Twitter – blog & info about the company
- Blog @ Twitter – Twitter’s blog announces
- Tweetdeck – really useful for people who regularly use more than one account, eg. for work. You can log in to more than one account at once and there’s also the useful Teams feature where you can grant someone access to use a work account without giving them the password
- Twitter Search – Twitter search (basic)
- Twitter Search Advanced – Twitter search (advanced)
- Analytics @ Twitter – check the activity of your tweets
- Pic @ Twitter – pictures @ Twitter
- Developer @ Twitter – API & forums at Developer @ Twitter Community and Twitter Community and check out all these Community Badges dev people can get!
- https://t.co/ – Twitter’s in-house URL shortener
- Careers @ Twitter – work for Twitter!
Utilities
MAINTENANCE- BACKUP & SECURITY
- Copy.com: Copy.com
- Virus Total: VirusTotal
- Box: Login
- MEGA: MEGA
- Google Drive: Google Drive
- Dropbox: Login - Dropbox
- Clone Zone: Clone Zone
- Open Broadcaster Software: Open Broadcaster Software
- After the Deadline: After the Deadline - Chrome Web Store
- SetCronJob: Online CronJobs - Reliable Web Cron service
- Openall: Open multiple URLs/links at the same time
- Feedly: Read more, know more
- Notepad++ : Current Version
- Launchy: The Open Source Keystroke Launcher
- VideoLAN: Official site - multimedia solutions for all OS!
TRAFFIC ANALYSIS
- Facebook Ads: Facebook Audience Insights
- Google Trends:
- Google Marketing Platform: Analytics Tools & Solutions for Your Business
- Crazy Egg Website Optimization Software: Heatmaps & A/B Testing
- WolframAlpha: Computational Intelligence: Personal Analytics
- Twitter: Twitter Analytics
Writing & Content
INSPIRATION
- FLTDSGN: Daily showcase of the best flat UI design websites and apps.
- Site Inspire: Web design inspiration.
- Moodboard: Build a beautiful moodboard and share the result.
- Crayon: The most comprehensive collection of marketing designs.
- Land-Book: Product landing pages gallery.
- Dribbble: Show and tell for designers.
- Behance: Showcase & discover creative work
- Awwwards: The awards for design, creativity and innovation
- One Page Love: Resource for one page website inspiration
WRITING / BLOGGING
- Also Asked: A great tool for exploring Google's People Also Ask feature visually with depth
- People Also Ask: Another People Also Ask tool that aggregates a lot more questions than just what you see in the search results
- Topical Relevance: This tool will take your search phrase and returns with all of the different that you would expect to hear in a conversation about the keyword phrase. It also returns a preformatted entity schema for the p[hrase,
- Search Response: This tool aggregates Google's People Also Asked questions as well as People Also Searched For. In-depth metrics provided too.
- Topic Mojo: Topic research and mention discovery across many different tools and aggregated into one dashboard
- Outranker: A very powerful AI content research and writing tool utilizing all of the tools above.
- Writers Zen: An AI content writing asnd
- Hemingway: Hemingway App makes your writing bold and clear.
- Grammarly: Finds & corrects mistakes of your writing.
- Medium: Everyone’s stories and ideas.
- Editorial Calendar: See all your posts, drag & drop to manage your blog
- WP Hide Post: Control the visibility of items on your blog.
- Social Locker: Ask visitors “to pay” for your content with a tweet, etc.
- Egg Timer: Set a time and bookmark it for repeated use.
- BlankPage: Writing made simple
- Known: A single site for the content you create
- Dbook: Structured and collaborative writing for large documents.
- CoSchedule: Blog post headline analyzer
- Quilbot Rephrasing Tool: Enter any phrase and watch as the Quilbiot rephrases it using different words.
- Essay Typer: Enter your topic and receive an essay written about it. It is duplicate content,
FIND (TRENDING) CONTENT (IDEAS)
- Buzzsumo: Analyze what content performs best for any topic or competitor.
- Alltop: Popular News Sites for Any Topic.
- Feedly: Compiles news feeds from a variety of online sources for the user to customize
- Google Trends: A new way of displaying trending searches.
- Twitter Trending:
- Quora:
- Reddit:
- Hubspot Blog Topic Generator: Custom blog ideas.
- Portent: Content idea generator.
- Growth Hackers: Helping teams unlock their company’s full growth potential through a combination of software, services and community.
NEWSLETTERS
- Email1K: A 30 day course to double your email list.
- Design for Hackers: 12 weeks of design learning, right in your inbox
- UX Newsletter: Tales of researching, designing, and building.
- UX Design Weekly: Best user experience design links every week.
Website, Design, & Code
DESIGN RESOURCES
- Freebbble: High-quality design freebies from Dribbble.
- Dribbble: Dribbble search results for “freebie”. An absolute freebie treasure.
- Graphic Burger: Tasty design resources made with care for each pixel.
- Pixel Buddha: and premium resources for professional community.
- Premium Pixels: Stuff for Creative Folk.
- Freebiesbug: Latest PSDs & other resources for designers.
- 365 Psd: Download a psd every day
- Marvel: resources from designers we love.
- UI Space: High quality hand-crafted Freebies for awesome people.
- Section of Pixeden: design resources.
- Section of Creative Market: Freebies coming out every Monday.
- Teehan+Lax: iOS 8 GUI PSD (iPhone 6).
- Freepik: igraphic resources for everyone.
- Tethr: The most beautiful IOS design KIT ever.
- Web3Canvas: PSD Freebies, HTML Snippets, Inspirations & Tutorials.
- SketchAppResources: graphical resources.
- Placeit Freebies: Freebies delivered right to your Dropbox.
DEVELOP / CODE THINGS
- GitHub: Build software better, together.
- BitBucket: Git and Mercurial code management for teams
- Chisel: Chisel offers an unlimited number of fossil repositories.
- Visual Studio: Comprehensive collection of developer tools and services
- Swiftype: Add great search to any website. with limitations.
- Keen.io: Gather all the data you want & start getting the answers you need.
- Coveralls: Test coverage history and statistics.
- LingoHub: for Small Teams, Open Source usage and Educational projects.
- Codacy: Continuous Static Analysis designed to complement your unit tests.
- Searchcode: Search over 20 billion lines of code.
- TinyCert: SSL certificates for your startup.
- StartSSL: SSL certificates.
- Pingdom: Website monitoring. for one website.
- Rollbar: Full-stack error monitoring for all apps in any language.
- Loggly: Simplify Log Management Forever. for one user.
- Getting Real: The smarter way to build web apps. A book by 37signals.
- User Testing: Get a free, 5-minute video of someone using your site.
- Creator: Build better Ionic apps, faster.
- DevFreeCasts: A huge collection of screencasts for developers.
- Cody: A library of HTML, CSS, JS nuggets.
WEBSITE
- Layers: A WordPress site builder so simple. It’s free, forever
- HTML5 UP: Responsive HTML5 and CSS3 site templates.
- Bootswatch: themes for Bootstrap
- WordPress.org:
- WordPress.com: Create your new website for free.
- Strikingly: Free, unlimited mobile optimized websites for strikingly domains.
- WIX : Website Builder.
- Weebly: Drag and drop Website Builder.
SEO + WEBSITE ANALYZERS
- Open Site Explorer: A comprehensive tool for link analysis.
- Ahrefs: Site explorer & backlink checker.
- Quick Sprout: Complete analysis of your website.
- WordPress SEO by Yoast: Have a fully optimized WordPress site.
- SEO Site Checkup: Check your website’s SEO problems for free.
- Hubspot Marketing Grader: Grade your marketing
- OpenLinkProfiler: The freshest backlinks, for free.
- Google Analytics:
- Google Search Console
- Trends:
- Nibbler: Test any website.
- Browseo: How search engines see your website.
- Broken Links: Find broken links, redirects & more.
- Copyscape: Search for copies of your page on the web.
- Google Pagespeed Insights: Check the performance of your site.
- Pingdom: Test & the load time of a site.
- GTMetrics: Analyze your page’s speed performance.
- Moz Local: Check your local listings on Google, Bing, and others.
- XML Sitemaps: Sitemap generator that creates XML & HTML variants
- W3C validator: Easy-to-use markup validation service.
- Featured Snippet Tool: Find out exactly where you page needs to go to become the featured snippet
- Site Crawler: Identify broken links and redirects to be fixed
- Site Speed Test: Check the speed of your site for borth desktops, and mobile
- Sucuri Site Check: Check your site for malware and blacklisting
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