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Website Beginner's Checklist

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I love the colors of the west, and they inspire me every day in all of my designs. I thought I’d share them with you, using many of the images that I’ve taken over the years.

Feel free to download these color palettes and use them in your own designs. I’ve added the hex codes to make it easy for you! (Please note, JUST the color palettes are available for you to use, NOT the images themselves.)

Website & Graphic Design Resources

Over the years I have discovered many different websites and tools that have been very helpful to me, so I’ve organized them and am sharing them with you!

Design/Development

  • Adobe Kuler –  Find the perfect color scheme for your project.
  • Color Calculator – Start with your preferred base color and the calculator will come up with the perfect matching colors for you.
  • Sagethumbs – a free tool to for Windows to view PSD files as image thumbnails BEFORE you open them.
  • FreebiesBug – Free PSD, code & resources for designers.
  • Bittbox – Graphic resources & tutorials, and check out their Freebie Gallery!
  • FontSquirrel – great fonts to use in your designs, plus the @FontFace generator to really soup up your webpages!
  • Brusheezy – Great Photoshop stuff.
  • Google Translator – Translate your website into any language you want!

Search Engine Optimization & Site Maintenance

  • Answer the Public – free keyword tool
  • Ubersuggest – a free keyword tool from Neil Patel
  • Google Webmaster Tools – From keyword help to website analytics to click-through advertising, Google provides too many services to list here that can help you market and improve your website presence.
  • HubSpot’s Marketing Grader – This tool will test your website for various things including the effectiveness of your marketing funnel, your site optimization and more.
  • XML-Sitemaps – A very easy way to generate XML sitemaps to submit to Google. Once submitted, Google is instructed to crawl your site. You can set them up to crawl for as often as you update your website, which is why it’s a good idea to update your website frequently!
  • GT Metrix – GTmetrix can help you develop a faster, more efficient, and all-around improved website experience for your users.
  • Feed the Bot – Find out if your site follows Google Webmaster guidelines.

Free Image Sites

Online Image Editing

  • PicMonkey – Free online editor to create those awesome text graphics for building engagement on your social media pages.
  • Canva – Another free online editor to create your social media graphics.
  • PhotoFiltre – free image editing software
  • PhotoScape – another free image editor that offers some different features

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Content Marketing

  • National Day Calendar – Get notified of all those special days to celebrate all year long.
  • Hubspot’s Blog Topic Generator – Fill in some nouns about what you’d like to write about and Hubspot will give you some great titles for your posts!
  • Google Alerts – email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic. You can ask Google to keep an eye out for your name, business, or whatever keywords you choose, and Google will send you an email showing you where these search terms came up.

Small Business

  • StartupNation – By Entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs, a great source for small business advice.
  • MailChimp.com – Free Email Marketing Service – the only one I’ll use!
  • Small Business Administration – Great tools and resources for starting your own business.
  • Google Docs – Word processing, spreadsheets, calendars, etc., at your fingertips and ready to share with the world. Makes compatibility issues obsolete, since you can allow others to access the files. Calendars can also be embedded on your website.
  • OpenOffice.org – Great open source office suite that you can download and install to your computer.

 

Check back soon, as I’ll be updating this list regularly as I come across new and useful resources! If you notice a broken link, please contact me and let me know so that I can repair or remove it.

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