Free Website Tools
Free Website Tools

Browse over 2000 free web designs, vote, comment, or submit your own website designs at OpenSourceWebDesign. It also shows the designs in use on the web.

Get hassled about backing up your server, updating your site, finishing your budget, whatever. Simply add your message at Hassleme and you’ll get nagged via email at semi-unpredictable intervals. Simple system, yet incredibly effective.

Beautiful set of six free icons available under the Creative Commons Noncommercial License. The icons at WebMediaMagazine are available as .ico and .png in different sizes.

Try photo-editing, making logos and web templates, filters, color palettes at Aviary.com. You’ll find an image editor, color editor, effect editor, vector editor and an image markup tool. They also offer a screen capture for Firefox.

There are sections for beginners and advanced users, reference guide, shell programming etc. at this UNIX resource at Tutorialspoint.com.

We attempt to only send links to truly free website tools and resources through this feed. Every once in a while a ‘for pay’ service slips through – when this happens, it’s an error on our part, or the free service has changed to a paid service. Feel free to send us a note should you come across a resource that’s not free.

Also, when sending links to free website tools, please make sure they are in fact free.

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Find people to interview, promote your clients and more through a free listing service at HelpAReporter.com. They also have a list for events that are looking for items to place in their gift bags, which is a great way to promote your business. Follow them on Twitter to see current requests.

Social sites are full of them, including Twitter: Wonder where this bit.ly or tinyurl will take you before you click on it? Try Sucuri’s URL expander tool.

An old practice from printing also works well for the web: The 960 Grid System is an effort to streamline web development workflow by providing commonly used dimensions, based on a width of 960 pixels. There are two variants: 12 and 16 columns, which can be used separately or in tandem. Download free templates for Fireworks, InDesign, Inkscape, Illustrator, OmniGraffle, Photoshop, Visio.

Find, create or join Twibes Twitter groups. A Twibe is a group of Twitter users interested in a common topic. To join, simply tweet the full URL, for example http://www.twibes.com/group/nonprofits from your Twitter account – no sign in required.