Top Website Tools

25 April 2014
Uncategorized, Articles, Website Design
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Building a website can be an intimidating task, but with a variety of tools at your fingertips they can certainly help to easy the pain.
Here are just some of the tools/websites that I have used at sometime and found helpful – just thought I would spread the word to see if some of them might help you.

 

 

1. TinyPNG

Need to optimize that .png image quickly ? No sign ups, no email list spamming. Just drag and drop your image onto the webpage and bam, your .png file size is greatly reduced! Just click on the download link they provide and you can get on with your next task. I regularly get a 70-80% reduction in file sizes. (want to make it even easier on yourself – do what I did, make a desktop shortcut to the website).

Image Optimizer - Tiny PNG website

 

2. Open Site Explorer

Curious about who links to you – or who you link to ? Try Site Explorer. It has quite a few features, look at what your competition is doing too. You can compare up to 5 other websites in the free area.

Links tool. Site Explorer Website

 

3. Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator

Need to add a gradient to your website without using photoshop ? Give Ultimate Gradient Generator a spin and just copy the css and paste.

CSS Gradient Generator website

4. Favicon Generator

Generate your own Favicon for your website and why not view galleries of what others have made.

Favicon generator website

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What tools do you use to make your life a little easier ? Don’t be shy..Leave a reply

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Article by Eric Rowen

Eric Rowen is the founder and driving force behind Silver 6 Media, a Brantford-based web design and marketing consultancy dedicated to empowering  entrepreneurs and growth oriented businesses.

4 thoughts on “Top Website Tools”

  1. Hi,

    I like that you mention favicon because mostly people not mention favicon. I personally believe that favicon is also as important as like website logo. Nice reources mate. Thanks for sharing this post.. 🙂

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