GIMP Free Alternative to PhotoShop
May 20, 2008 at 10:08 pm | In Free Web Tools | Leave a CommentTags: Gimp, Image Editor, PhotoShop
Want A Free Alternative to PhotoShop?
Of course you do!
Check out the open source alternative to PhotoShop, Gimp.
This is a powerful image editor and graphics tool that is free to use. It has pretty much the same tools as PhotoShop but the price is better!
Check out the site, download Gimp and enjoy.
Go get it! Visit the GIMP website.
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Free Web Background Pattern Creator
April 14, 2008 at 12:10 pm | In Free Web Tools | 1 CommentTags: background patterns, Free Web Background Pattern Creator, Pattern Creator
Free Web Background Pattern Creator
I’ve gone to the trouble of making my own background stripes for web pages and know all the hassle that comes with it.
Lining everything up, tweaking till it matches on all sides, tweaking again…
What a waste of time!
Check out this free website background pattern creator called Stripe Generator
It takes the pain out of background patterns and is simple to use.
Enjoy!
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Free Screen Capture Software – Great For Tutorials
November 14, 2007 at 4:16 pm | In Free Web Tools | Leave a CommentTags: camstudio, Free Screen Capture Software, Screen Capture
Free Screen Capture Software
Screen capture is becoming increasingly popular for developing web based tutorials and with Internet Marketers as a tool to promote and sell products on-line.
Video tutorials made with screen capture software can be uploaded to YouTube.com and other video sites and then embedded in any number of webpages and blogs. This means a single video can have multiple chances of being viewed which is a powerful asset and inexpensive form of on-line promotion for any business.
Screen Capture For Beginners
You may ask, “Do I need some audio visual training to effectively use screen capture software? ” The answer is “No”. Play around with the settings and have fun with it. In no time you’ll have mastered the basics and that’s all you’ll need to get started.
Free Open Source Screen Capture Software – CamStudio 2.0
You don’t have to spend any money to get started. If you’re curious about the use of this media check out the free open source screen capture software CamStudio.
To find out where to download CamStudio, watch the video below!
This Was A Commercial Break
October 1, 2007 at 9:55 am | In Free Web Tools | Leave a CommentTags: web tool tips
This Was A Commercial Break
Okay, I’ve been away for a while working my “ctlr C” and “ctlr V” digits to the bone for a living. In that time I’ve learned sooo much about improving website performance it’s mind boggling! Now that I finally have time to think about this blog again I’m going to tell you everything I’ve discovered.
If you’ve read any of my post (thanks Mom!) you’ll know I’m not into “lightweight” or “trendy” blogging. You know the kind of posts I’m talking about; “Will I have cornflakes for breakfast today?”, or “Today I had a deep thought…” etc. FYI I have cornflakes everyday and I only have deep thoughts so this kind of blogging is of no interest to me.
With that in mind, you can expect more deeply interesting web tips and tricks real soon.
Lorem Ipsum For Web Design Mock-ups
July 19, 2007 at 6:35 pm | In Free Web Tools, Website Design Tips | Leave a CommentLorem Ipsum
We web designers often have to mock-up designs without the benefit of having text for the page. Rather than using your shopping list or extracts from your private emails as text placeholders, why not copy and paste some ‘Lorem Ipsum’ text into you web page design instead?
Lorem Ipsum is classical Latin literature from 45 BC (over 2000 years old) and has been used by the print industry since 1960’s. It will not distract from your design as your private emails would and gives a more finished appearance to your mock-ups.
Good for your web design mock-ups, good for your clients.
Visit www.lipsum.com for the full history and a whole bunch of Lorem Ipsum to choose from.
Customize MySpace
July 14, 2007 at 12:00 pm | In Free Web Tools, MySpace | Leave a CommentMaking MySpace Mine
Now that I’m getting the hang of myspace I thought I better figure out how to style the damn thing. I found Dave’s ReallyCreativeName.com to have some good basic themes to get started with and best of all he tells you where to paste the to code (that’s all I need!).
I will be customizing but thanks for the start Dave!
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Smart PageRank for SEO Spys, Hush-hush!
July 12, 2007 at 11:35 pm | In Free Web Tools, SEO Topics | 2 CommentsSmart PageRank, Who’s Linking To Who?
Smart PageRank Backlinks Analyzer is the easy way to check your website or blogs backlinks.
Just enter your domain name in the search field and click ‘Check Domain’. Smart Pagerank Backlinks Analyzer will display a list of websites linking to your website, it also shows the pagerank of each of those pages that link in (which is great isn’t it?).
It’s Not All Fun And Games
You can have a lot of fun with this simple and easy to use free web tool but a far better use is to spy on your competitors backlinks and to discover which websites those links come from. Check out each of those link generous websites and see if you can get any of them to link to your website. Cheeky but completely above board!
This is a great way of sourcing links, and what do links mean? Links mean better pagerank (and much more importantly links mean more traffic!).
Smart PageRank is a crucial web tool for any SEO Spy!
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Go Way Back In Time To A World Without CSS and AJAX
July 11, 2007 at 12:00 pm | In Blogging, Free Web Tools | Leave a CommentThis post is related to my previous post “Content Tips for Bloggers with Bloggers Block!“, read it and all will be clear.
Fun With The Way Back Machine
Internet Archive have been archiving websites since 1996 right up to today. They’ve managed to archive over 85 million websites so far and counting.
Internet Archive’s Way Back Machine is a window into the Internet’s colourful past, allowing us to travel back in time to visit websites that are now only a distant memories (and archived in the Way Back Machine of course – not that distant really). For some website designers those old defunct websites are best left to rest, but to our eternal embarassment people can still get a glimsp of those table hack websites with nasty JavaScript of yester-year.
Enough Talking Time To Travel Back In Time…
I found one of my very first websites on the Way Back Machine and it’s not as bad as I thought it was. Join me on a trip back to May 24th, 2002.
- First, go to the Way Back Machine
- Enter the URL http://www.socialistparty.net (BTW, I’m not a socialist, they had to pay me)
- Hit the ‘Take Me Back’ button (you are now travelling back in time…)
- You should now be able to see the search results, click on May 24 2002, the date I worked on the site
- Result, the site is loaded, all-be-it without some graphics that I guess were deleted from the server at some time.
Lets Be Practical
Okay, this is the kind of web tool that I could spend hours playing with but it’s not just for fun, yes, it has a practical use too.
Tip: If you’ve lost information from a website because you saved over it or whatever, it might be worth checking the Way Back Machine to see if the pages were archived prior to you totally destroying them (I just checked one of my websites and it was last archived May of this year).
With luck you’ll be able to retrieve the website content you’re looking for and get on with the rest of your life.
MySpace good for SEO?
July 5, 2007 at 10:16 am | In Free Web Tools, SEO Topics | 2 CommentsMySpace – Web design Ireland
So I signed up to MySpace yesterday but would you believe the names I wanted to use for my MySpace were all taken! The early bird gets the worm I guess. So after a little testing for available names I discovered that http://www.myspace.com/webdesignireland was available.
It was a temptation I just could not resist (for SEO and networking reasons). I decided to go for it as I work in the web development and web support services industry. What will be interesting is to see how my MySpace URL will perform in searches for ‘web design Ireland’.
There’s not a lot going on over at my MySpace just yet but it’ll be interesting to play around with it see how useful it is for networking, promotion.
Free Friend With Every Sign-up
Every sign-up to MySpace seems to get a FREE friend. I don’t even know this guy and he’s made me his friend! I’m on the fast track to popularity now!
Get Your Own MySpace And Be My Friend!
I invite you to sign-up for your own MySpace space and drop over to see me at http://www.myspace.com/webdesignireland
FREE Keyword Density Web Tool – How Dense Are Your Keywords?
July 4, 2007 at 10:53 am | In Free Web Tools, SEO Topics | Leave a CommentFREE Keyword Density Web Tool
Keyword density is considered to be one of the most important factors for on-page search engine optimization (SEO). There’s a whole plectra of keyword density tools out there that you can use to check your keyword count, that said, Live Keyword Analysis is well worth a minute of your time.
Live Keyword Analysis allows you to enter your webpage content within a text box and receive instant feedback on the health of your pages’ keyword density. Make a change to the text and instantly see the percentage ratio of your keyword to the rest of the text.
Live Keyword Analysis is FREE and easy to use so…
…how dense are your Keywords?
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