Website Building Tools
Let’s build a website together
Listed here are hand picked website building tools we use.
Website Builders
Use these website building tools to build out your next website.
Some require downloading and hosting free website software (WordPress), while others are simple point and click online tools.
| WordPress.org | Free open-source software for building and managing your own website. Get website themes and plugins here. |
| Shopify eCommerce Stores | Looking to sell your products online? The simplest and easy to use system for building and managing your online e-store. Open a 14 day free trial account to see how easy it is to sell online. |
Generators
Generators are fun to play with. In most cases, it’s simple to use the tool, then copy & paste the code to your website
| Animista | CSS animations for entrances, exits, text and background images |
| CSS Smooth Shadows | Make some shadows in your CSS - nifty online tool |
| Hero Generator | Creating a hero or masthead banner? This tool will help |
| Omatsuri | Open source tools for colors, gradients, symbols and more. Fun to engage with. |
| Schema Markup Generator (JSON-LD) | Create structure data for articles, events, faqs & how tos web pages |
| Tiny Helpers | You'll spend a lot of time here exploring various helpers for accessibility, CSS, Fonts, HTML, Icons, Images, SVG and more. |
Photos
Stuck for some photography for your website?
| Unsplash | The internet’s source of freely-usable images. Powered by creators everywhere. |
| Pixabay | Stunning free images & royalty free stock |
Images
Image optimization tools
| Squoosh | Smaller images, mean faster website loading times. Online tool for image optimization. |
| Favicon Creator | Need an .ico favicon for your website? This handy favicon generator will help you create one |
Speed Testing
Test out the performance of your website.
| WebPageTest.org | Website speed tester |
| GTmetrix | Find out how fast your website loads. |
| Pingdom Website Speed Test | Imporove web page performance with various recommendations provided by this website performance testing tool. |
Testing
White your website is in-development or after it has launched, evaluate your webite with these testing tools. Here you will find tools for testing Structured data, additional data provided to the search engines.
| Structure Data Testing Tool | Where webmaster go further by evaluating structure data |
| Rich Results Testings | Search results that dive deeper than standard listings. |
Webmaster
Become your own website master by mastering these great tools to study, evalaluate and submit your website online
| Broken link checker | Free online service to check for broken links |
| Bing Webmaster Tools | Free SEO, reporting and diagnostic tools for webmasters. Submit your website here as well. |
| Google Analytics | Used to measure visitor traffic and engagement on your website. |
| Google Tag Manager | Add tags, scripts and more from one central place |
| Google Search Console | Built in search optimization tool that gives feedback on your website. This is where you can submit your sitemap.xml file(s) |
| IndexNow | Protocol for submitting your website to the search engines. Get your API key here. |
| Website Code Validator | Markup checker and validator for HTML |
DNS
Use the DNS tools to troubleshoot website performance or when launching a new website.
| CloudFlare | DNS management by CloudFlare. Protect yourself from spam bots, adjust DNS records & SSL records. |
| DNS Checher | Test DNS propagation from various international locations. Useful tool when making changes with your website hosting provider or setting up a new website. |
| Google Public DNS | Having issues with your local Internet provider? This is a free, global DNS resolution service that you can use as an alternative to your current DNS provider. |
Blogs
Recommended blogs to follow for additional tips, insight and guidance on building and managing your website.
| Bruce Clay Search Marketing | The original SEO master (in our opinion) search marketing blog for what's happening in the search engine world. |
| Google Search Console Blog | Get latest updates on Google Search, core updates & web vitals, product rankings, structured data and more. |
| Search Engine Journal | SEO, Search Marketing News and Tutorials |
| Smashing Magazine | All things websites: CSS, Javascript, HTML, Guides and more. |
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