A list of some of our favourite free tools to help design and manage your website. Links open in new tab.
One of our personal favourites. An open source vector drawing program that's great for designing images for websites and promotional material.
Great little program for quick and easy images fixes, resizing, cutting and reshaping. Great alternative to PhotoShop.
This is a extended version of Notpad that is not only good at removing formating from Microsoft word, but writing in a large number of programming languages.
WinMerge can compare both folders and files, presenting differences in a visual text format that is easy to understand and handle.
Use Canva's drag-and-drop feature and professional layouts to design consistently stunning graphics. (Free + Paid version)
A quick and easy way to find free quality fonts. Google Fonts makes product and web pages run faster by safely caching fonts without compromising users privacy or security.
PageSpeed Insights analyzes the content of a web page, then generates suggestions to make that page faster.
Use the website to check on many aspects of a domain name. Use the Whois Lookup to find out the Registrar of any domain name, who the Registrant Name is and the name of the server the website is hosted on.
Test My Site is a think with Google product to find out how well your site works across mobile and desktop devices.
Heat Maps shows you EXACTLY where people are clicking on your site. With this information, you can then improve your pages to show your visitors what they want to see.
Google Analytics Solutions offer free and enterprise analytics tools to measure website, app, digital and offline data to gain customer insights.
Full analysis of your website: The QuickSprout tool does a comprehensive look at just about everything: SEO optimization, speed, tags, keywords, social, links, and even competitor comparisons.
Track your site's search performance with Google Search Console and browse around for more webmaster resources.
Get a summary view of how well your site is performing and identify what needs emphasis.
This Link Checker checks your website for dead links. It validates both internal and external URLs, shows the location of problematic links, reports error codes for all bad URLs. Runs on Windows, Mac OS X, iOS
Ubersuggest helps you generate keyword ideas for your content marketing strategy and production. With Ubersuggest's free keyword tool, generate an unlimited number of suggestions for free and take your content creation to the next level while increasing your website's chances of ranking against the competition.
The SEO Spider is a desktop program you can install locally on PC, Mac or Linux which crawls websites™ links, images, CSS, script and apps to evaluate onsite SEO.
The industry's leading SEO toolbar over 420,000 installs and climbing MozBar gives you instant metrics while viewing any page or SERP.
Google Trends is a public web facility of Google Inc., based on Google Search, that shows how often a particular search-term is entered relative to the total search-volume across various regions of the world, and in various languages.
Check for duplicate content. Enter a URL for a blogpost or website, and Copyscape can tell you where else that content exists online. You might find results that you’ll need to follow-up with to help get your SEO in order.
Free Instant SEO Checker & SEO Audit ToolFrom small businesses to big companies to marketing agencies, see why WooRank is trusted by thousands!
According to their website "Portable Apps provides packaged software" (like many of the ones mentioned above) "suitable for use on portable media and without leaving any of the setting files on the host computer." Load them onto a USB stick and take them with you anywhere.
Android app that allows you to take control of your phone via any browser to; add contacts, send and receive SMS text, browser photo, files, open web address directly through your phone, transfer files, images. The list is endless..
Connect securely to a remote computer using and iPad, PC, Mac. This program enables you to take control on other devices to assist your clients in setups or understanding programs.
Microsoft digital note-taking app for your tablet, phone, and computer, so you can capture your ideas and to-do lists in one place wherever you are.
MailChimp is the world™s leading email marketing platform. MailChimp integrates with all the major e-commerce providers so you can use your purchase data to send better email and grow your business.
Dropbox simplifies the way you create, share and collaborate. Bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and keep your files safe.
Get access to files anywhere through secure cloud storage and file backup for your photos, videos, files and more with Google Drive.
Use Namechk to search for an available username or domain and secure your brand across the internet.
Password encryption program that works on both PC and Andriod. Password manager system to hold all your passwords. Helps you manage your passwords in a secure way.
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