Website tools

Great tools and services for you and your website. If you see a site that should be listed here then please get in contact

Blogging

• Blogger

  Best place to create a free blog, simple to use and easy to setup

• WordPress

  Popular place to create hosted blogs. WordPress software can be downloaded and installed on your own website.

• Live Journal

  You can use LiveJournal in many different ways: as a private journal, a blog, a discussion forum, a social network, and more.

Keyword research

• WordTracker Keyword Research Tool

  Use this site to find keywords and their popularity in search engines

• Keyword Discovery

  Find keywords and their popularity. Good for writing articles and choosing the text of your website

• Google AdWords Keyword Tool

  Googles very own keyword research tool, used as part of AdWords. Use this to find keywords for domain names, articles and more

Free photos and graphics

• Stock Xchng

  This site contains thousands of images you can use for your website or blog. Most, if not all, are royalty free but do make sure that the photo you want is free to use.

Validation tools

• W3C Markup Validator

  This tools allows you to check your website code to make sure it conforms to HTML standards. Great for those who create their own websites, can be used to check over the code generated by programs and online services.

• W3C Link checker

  Do all the links on your site work? This tools can check each link to make sure it goes somewhere!

• W3C CSS validator

  This tool makes sure your CSS coding is valid. Handy tool if you have created your own CSS code or want to check over code generator by a program or service.

Website design

• Favicon Generator

  Favicon generator helps you create those special icons that appear to the left of the address bar. Read more about them here.