Tools

Image Tools:

• Awesome Stock Resources – very large list
• Adobe Spark – similar to Canva
• Canva – my go to creative tool
  • Canva color palette generator
  • Canva design size guide
  • Canva font combinations
  • Canva online photo editor – simple basic program
• Compressor – online image compression
• PickMonkey  – a great online image editor, my favourite!
• Pixr – I find this program very hard to view.  Must be designed for young eyes!
• Fotor – similar to PicMonkey
• Fotojet – useful and easy to use
• BeFunky – I used this program first but now others are more suitable for my purposes
• Remove image background

Image Sources:

• Freepik – a good starting place
• FreeJPG – a varied collection of stock photos
• Pexels – a new free stock photo site
• Pixabay – a good resource for web quality images
• Pngimg – a great selection of cutout images
• Subtle Patterns – great collection of subtle backgrounds
• StockSnap io – good collection of free stock photos
• Bossfight – another good dipslay of stock photos
• Awesome- stock resources – huge Github list
• 20 Cool Sites For Free WordPress Header Images

Design Tools:

•  Google Maps Generator
• Google Material Design
• Secure Password Generator

Colour Tools:

• Adobe Color CC
• Coleure
• Material Design Color Tool
• Material Palette
• Paletton
• RGB palette
• Colour review tool for accessibility
• Theme Options

Typography:

•  Google Fonts  – see then in action
• Google Font Tester
• Typespiration – font pairings

Online Logos:

• Vectr – online logo creator + SVGs
• Logastor
• Logoshi
• Ucraft
• Make Logo Online
• Online Logo Maker

CSS Tools:

• A large collection of CSS stylesheets
• Aspect Ratio Calculator
• Border Radius Generator
• Colour Shades Generator
• * CSS Matic – good cross browser border radius, box shadow & gradient generators
• CSS Animation Generator
• CSS Box Shadow Generator
• CSS Button Generator
• CSS Text Shadow Generator
• CSS Code Validation Tool
• CSS Stats – reports your websites CSS metrics
• Generate media queries
• Generate vendor prefixes
• Generate breakpoints
• Generate image filters
• Generate font units px/pt/em/%

* my favourites

SEO Tools:

• Yoast Google Suggest – expander SEO keyword list
• Yoast SEO KB
• Yoast SEO KB: WooCommerce

Misc Tools:

• Business Name Generator –  a tool to assist in finding the perfect business name
• Create a map for your website without Google API
• FontFling – a small online font selection tool
• Why You Should Be Using a Password Manager
• LastPass – the best password management solution
• Lorem Ipsum generator – a cat inspired dummy text generator
• Proposify – create professional business proposals
• 123apps – online multi-media tools (video cutter)
• Blog post headline analyser – check you headline
• Link Checker – check for 404s
• Favicon Generator
• Favicon Checker