Free Website Tools
Free Website Tools

Finding matching colors is not that difficult but when you have to do it every day all the time, you might reach a point when you’re running out of ideas. For ready made instant thematic color schemes visit GPeters.com’s site. The color scheme generator works by getting colors from pictures Yahoo! search will find when given a keyword or phrase.

Google recently announced the importance of load speed when it comes to ranking websites. Measure how fast your site loads with Yahoo!’s YSlow Firefox add-on. Not only does it measure the tim eit takes for your site to load, it will also offer suggestions on how to optimize your site for faster loading speeds.

If you’re looking for a random text generator that lets you choose the type of text, number of words or characters, font-family, style, size and also lets you preview the text in the size column you choose, you may love the Blind Text Generator. Being able to format and preview the text before you copy and paste can be incredibly useful, esp. when working on several pages simultaneously.

If you’ve visited our ‘books‘ page you know why we usually don’t get too excited about free e-books. This free SEO guide published by Google is an exception though. It provides all necessary information you need to get started with search engine optimization and is well written and illustrated. It provides lots of examples incl. how to use heading tags and optimize your images, but also tips for basic ‘good practices’ like having a useful 404 page and a sitemap. If you’re working on your first website, or you need a ‘to-do-list’ for an existing website, this guide will be of tremendous help.

Your site is up and running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Or is it? If you want to make sure that your server and the network are up and running, Mon.itor.us, a free website, server and traffic monitoring service can be of help. After signing in with a free account, you get multiple options for monitoring, generating reports, widgets for your websites, statistics, alert feeds and more.

Creatr’s free logo generator lets you choose from 7 presets for creating your logo, incl. logos with mirror effect and striped backgrounds. The site also has a generator for backgrounds which lets you add text to create buttons.

This free logo generator at Web2.0Stylr doesn’t give you any options besides font style, color, and background color but the default style (mirror effect) is pretty useful and we like it! Try it here…

Choose from a couple of dozen different styles and then customize your logo with different fonts, sizes and color options at CoolText. The buttons generator also lets you define the size of the button and effects used. This generator works quickly, offers hundreds of different fonts to choose from and lets you download or e-mail your image in various different formats incl. animated gifs.

Want to see who is using your images? Unlike conventional image search engines, TinEye uses image identification technology rather than keywords, metadata or watermarks. With TinEye you can find where an image came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions. We’ve tried the search with purchased and licensed stock images and random pix from the web and the results were amazing! Cool search examples here…

Does your screen capture program only capture selected parts of the page, have too many features to be practical, or is it too slow? Pearl Crescent Page Saver is an extension for Firefox that lets you capture images of web pages, including Flash content. The great thing about this add-on is that you can choose to capture the whole page, the visible portion only, a frame, or a selection of a window with just one click. It works in PNG or JPG and you can scale captured images to any desired percentage.