Color Schemes from Photographs

Earlier this week I posted a gallery of colorful websites. Today I’d like to take a look at a few online tools that can help you to generate a color scheme for your website by taking the colors from a photograph. When designing a new website, color inspiration can come from just about anywhere. Photographs can often be an effective source of color inspiration, and if you find this to be the case for your designs, there are some tools that can help even more.

10 Tools for Researching Domain Names

If you are planning to start a new website and buy a domain name you will probably need to do some research on any domains that you are considering. This article does not focus on finding the right domain name, but rather the research that should be done once you’ve found a domain that you want to use.

The domain name that you purchase may or may not have a history, and that is what you need to know about. It’s possible that the domain has been penalized by Google or other search engines for the practices of previous owners, which is certainly something that you will want to avoid. A domain with a negative history can carry over when you start hosting your site on that domain.

69 Tools to Monitor, Measure, and Track Your Website

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SEOmoz Page Strength Tool – A useful tool that gives an overall look at the strength of a page.
Sitening’s SEO Analyzer – See if your pages are structured to achieve high search engine rankings.
Self SEO’s Page Speed Checker – Test the load time of your pages and your competitor’s pages.
GoogleRankings.com [...]

9 Essential Tools for Bloggers

Here is a small collection of the most important tools to maximize your productivity and effectiveness. Feel free to leave comments with your opinions and other recommendations.
1 – FeedBurner
FeedBurner is a free service that will publish the RSS feed from your blog and, most importantly, will provide you with subscriber counts and stats on [...]

8 Tools to Help You Find the Right Domain Name

Name Boy is a free tool that lets you enter a primary word and a secondary word, and then Name Boy finds available domain names that are relevant to those words. It presents results for .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz, and .tv extensions. And (of course) they make it easy to buy the domain [...]

User’s Guide to Google Webmaster Tools

Google’s Webmaster Tools can be very useful for website owners, but it can also be overwhelming if you’re not sure what is available and how to use it. We’ll take a step-by-step look at the free tools available and how to use them.
If you don’t already have a Google Webmaster Tools account, you can sign [...]