Here is a selection of tools you need to create,
develop and maintain your website. From auto responders to form
creating software, these tools and the related links will make your
website perform.
Each of these were current as of this
writing, if you find any broken links, please contact us so we can update
our site.
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Website Creation Tools
Web Editors
Sothink HTML Editor is a great HTML editor that is easy to use and has a built-in preview window.
They offer a free version or a paid version. The free version limits you to having only one document open at a time
otherwise is fully-functional and worth using.
Clip Art
& Graphics
#1
Clip Art has over 10,000 free clip art images in over 300 categories
for you use.
Animation
Factory
offers over 100,000 Premium Web Animations and Graphics! Flags, buttons, dividers, icons, bullets, animals, people and
more.
CoolText.com
allows you to create great looking logos for free. Just a couple of step by step instructions to follow
and you will easily create great-looking logos and text. Nothing to download, you just do it right on their site.
Clipart.com
- If your looking for clipart, photos & graphics to add to your web
pages look no further. Clipart.com has links to 200 web sites and
ranks them in order of best to worst.
Gift Works Is an online GIF image editor. This free unique tool is
completely on-line -- nothing to download or install. Optimize your
graphics for the Internet and lower their file sizes.
Banner Creation
Four
Corners Effective Banners is dedicated to the study of all
things banner-like, including: banners, click-through ratios, banner
advertising, banner link exchanging, etc. You'll learn how to improve your
banners and increase your site traffic.
Link
Exchange is probably the best known link exchange programs out
there. What is not as well known is the great information and links
that can be found by visiting their website.
Forms:
I will just list these form-building links in
order. They all allow you to build fill-out forms to your website without
any programming knowledge.
Formsite
Freedback
Response-O-Matic
SurveyMonkey
allows you to build online surveys and publish them to an unlimited number
of recipients. You can view your results in real time or download them
into an Excel spreadsheet.
Zoomerang
Tools for checking your website:
ANYBrowser.com
is the place to find out how your web site looks in any browser. The
viewer on this site allows you to see your page as it might be seen by
visitors viewing your page. You might be shocked to know how other people
are seeing your web pages!
HTML
Repair will review your Web pages and will both identify coding errors
and make recommendations to repair your code.
InternetSeer
remotely monitors your web site to insure that customers and visitors
have access to your site 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. If
InternetSeer is unable to reach your site, it will send you an email
message alerting you that your site is on error.
Netmechanic.com
has a variety tools for checking your web pages. Tools to check your HTML,
page load speed, spelling and server monitoring.
Websitegarage.com
Other Web Tools
JimTools
was listed above for search engine tools, but we are listing it here again
because of all the great tools they offer including a keyword generator,
and analyzer. They have many useful tools worth checking out.
Linksmanager.com
offers a service that will maintain your reciprocal linking page. It allows Webmasters to add/edit their links on your
site and also handles routine tasks such as finding dead
links listed on your links pages. The reciprocal link checker will search the
net to verify that your link exists on all websites listed on
your links pages and automatic links rotation
insures equal coverage for all the links on your site
The cost of this service is $19.95 per month and they do offer a 30 day free
trial period.
Marketleap.com
has a cool tool that will measure your link popularity and give you a
ranking of haw popular your site is. You can also check its popularity
against three other URL's
Marketing Tools
Search Engine Tools
Overture's Search Term Selection Tool
will help you determine what keyword to build your web pages around. This tool will allow you to
enter a term related to your site it will return how many times related terms were searched for in
the last month on Overture
JimTools has
some great tools and information on getting your site listed higher in the
search engines. The Keyword Research Tool by will analyze a
keyword for you and return a list of other keywords which you can use to
optimize your site with.
The keyword analyzer will analyze a web page to
see how often keywords appear on the page. Use this tool to help optimize
your pages for better search engine ranking.
Keywordcount.com
will analyze any web page for keywords. It will check keyword density and
count the number of times each word appears on a page. Plus it allows you
to compare two web pages side by side.
Try comparing your website against one that consistently comes up
before you in the search engines. Then you can analyze the results and see
what you need to do to improve your results.
WordTracker
will show you what the top search terms that people are looking for on the Internet. Use this information
to develop you pages to bring in more traffic to your website.
Autoresponders
Autoresponders are automated email reply
programs. Each autoresponder is assigned its own email address and will automatically
send your pre-written email message to anyone who sends any email to its address.
Using autoresponders will save you time sending out general information, newsletters
and makes it easier to follow up with customers and prospects.
For an example, you could
have a link on your website that says:
click here to sign up for our newsletter
The link would open up your email program and all you have
to do is press the send button. No subject line or message is necessary.
(go ahead and give it a try if you want to sign-up for our free newsletter).
Then check your email in a few minutes and you'll get your automated response.
Most web hosts offer basic autoresponders with their hosting accounts. But if you want
more features like timed delivery and sequential email delivery for sending out newsletters,
email courses, etc. you'll need a to get something a bit more powerful.
Here are stwo autoresponder companies I can highly recommend. They both offer an unlimited amount of autoresponders
for you to use and are packed with the most advanced feature. They also both offer fast and toll-free telephone
support.
Getresponse
has both free autoresponders or a paid version that is just packed with features,
recommended by many top Internet marketers.
Aweber is another
excellent autoresponder service that also consistantly gets great reviews form some of the top Internet marketers.
Other Tools to Help your Business
E-mail Tools:
ColoradoSoft
has some great programs that will make things much simpler to do.
The Inbox Organizer will help you take control of your e-mail inbox. Convert e-mail
web forms into database records, manage your mailing list, view and save
attachments and much more!
WorldMerge allows you to quickly and easily
generate large numbers of personalized e-mail messages using your database
of recipients and a "template" e-mail message. Stop sending
e-mail notices to 'Dear Customer' when it's so easy to personalize them
with WorldMerge!
Faxing Services:
eFax
will give you a free phone number to allow you to receive faxes and voicemail
which they will forward to your email. They also offer some paid upgrades
such as a local number with your area code (not avail in all areas).
jfax
works similar to manner to eFax. Check them both out. In fact,
sign up for a free number from both, you never know when they will come in
handy.
Pagoo
is a free service that you use to send phone calls to when your line is
busy. If you are using your phone (such as connected to the
internet) you can forward calls to Pagoo. They will accept voice
mail and faxes and will forward them to your email similar to eFax and
jfax.
In order to use Pagoo, you need to sign-up for
"call forwarding-busy signal" from your telephone company (of
course there is a charge for this). Not all areas have this "call
forwarding-busy signal" service available (like us at Run The Web)
Ureach.com - Get your own toll-free 800#, voice mail, fax and even get
your email over the phone - all for free
Guestbooks:
freeguestbooks.com
guestbook4free.com
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