This page is full of tried and tested resources to help you build and maintain your dream website. There are currently 65 resources.
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Code Editors
Design Tools
Adobe Photoshop
My favourite tool for graphic design and photo editing.
Briefbox
A website containing briefs for fictitious design projects to help designers develop their skills.
Canva
A free online graphic design tool. Great for creating social media graphics.
Paletton
A tool that can help you to create colour schemes.
PNG to JPG
A tool that converts PNG files to JPEG format.
Subtle Patterns
A collection of patterns for you to use on websites and graphic design projects.
TinyPNG
A website that compresses PNG and JPEG images for your website.
Ecommerce
Gumroad
A website for selling digital products.
Email Marketing Services
Mailchimp
An easy to use email marking service. Great for beginners.
Email Tools
Boomerang for Gmail
An add-on for Gmail that allows you to schedule emails.
Fonts
DaFont
Free fonts to download.
Font Squirrel
Free fonts to download.
FontPair
Shows you pairs of Google fonts that work well together.
Google Fonts
A library of over 800 fonts that you can use on your website for free.
Transfonter
A tool for converting your fonts into various web formats.
FTP Clients
FileZilla
My favourite FTP client. Free to download and easy to use.
Hosting
Namecheap
My favourite hosting provider. I have been a loyal customer for 8 years now.
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Icon Libraries
Font Awesome
An icon library with over 1,000 free icons.
Mindmap Tools
Workflowy
An organisation tool that allows you create mindmaps and list.
Notes
Evernote
A free tool for taking notes and storing website snippets.
Google Docs
A free word processing tool, similar to Microsoft Word. Can be accessed anywhere via your Google Account.
Project Management
Airtable
A spreadsheet and database tool that you can organise anything. Perfect for managing projects.
Asana
A project management tools based on a lists. A Kanban system of boards, lists and cards is also available.
Trello
A project management tool based on a Kanban system of boards, lists and cards.
Find out how I use Trello to plan out my blog content
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Zenkit
A project management tool. It’s like mixture of Asana and Trello but it also with mind mapping tools.
RSS Feed Readers
Bloglovin
A popular platform for following blogs and discovering new blogs to read.
Flowreader
My favourite feed reader where you can combine blogs and social media feeds in one place.
Screen Capture Tools
ScreenToGif
A free tool that allows you to record your screen and turn it into a GIF.
Social Media Tools
Buffer
A social media scheduling tool.
Hootsuite
A social media scheduling tool.
Linktree
A tool that allows you to share multiple links in your Instagram bio.
Namechk
A website where you can check the available of a username across multiple websites.
Planoly
A planning and scheduling tool for Instagram.
Tailwind
A scheduling tool for Pinterest and Instagram.
Tweetdeck
Twitter’s official scheduling tool.
Stock Images
Time Tracking
Toggl
A tool for tracking your time. It can also create beautiful reports to share with your clients.
Web Development Resources
Can I use…?
A website where you can search for HTML and CSS elements to see which browsers they are compatible with.
Codecademy
An interactive website for learning how to code.
FreeCodeCamp
An interactive website for learning how to code.
Local by Flywheel
Software that allows you to work with WordPress locally.
Pluralsight
Previously known as CodeSchool. An interactive website for learning how to code.
Scrimba
A website where you can learn to code through interactive screencasts.
W3Schools
A website containing comprehensive guides to various languages including HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
WriteMaps
A sitemap builder that helps you to plan out the pages on your website.
Website Analytics
Google Analytics
My favourite tools for tracking website traffic and user behaviour.
Website Testing
Google Mobile-Friendly Test
A tool that checks if your website is mobile-friendly or not.
GTmetrix
A tool that analyses the speed of your website and that provides you will help insights to improve the loading time of your website.
Nibbler
Checks your website for SEO, accessilbity and compliance and provides you with a report.
SEO SiteCheckup
Analyses how optimised your website is for search engines and gives you feedback.
Why No Padlock?
A tool that tests your website and tells you why it’s not being marked as secure.
WordPress Plugins
Akismet
An anti-spam plugin that detects and catches spam comments.
UpdraftPlus
A plugin that can automatically backup your website and send the files to a remote storage location of your choice.
WooCommerce
An ecommerce plugin that allows you to sell physical and digital products through your WordPress website.
Yoast SEO
A popular plugin that helps you to improve the SEO of your website and its content.