SEO Tools Of The Trade

Free Favicon Icon Editor

I’m forever fiddling with my sites and I noticed that some websites show a little icon to the left of the URL.

After a little digging I found out they’re called favicons and you typically need a specialized editor to create the tiny images.

I found this nice icon editor that allows you to create an icon from any picture. Works great for making little icon heads of yourself!

http://icofx.ro/downloads.html

Once you make either a 16×16 or 32×32 pixel icon, you upload it to your website and add these two lines within the head tags of your HTML.

It adds a nice branding touch to your sites.

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Free Website Templates

If you’re doing Wordpress or have a need for a CSS template then here a great site filled with free css templates.

http://www.freecsstemplates.org/

Here’s another good site for free css templates. Mostly for non-Wordpress sites.
http://www.oswd.org/

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What The Font

If you ever need to find out the typestyle for a particular font — maybe you’re wanting to emulate another site’s lettering — then this site can help.

http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/

You upload a picture of the font and the software will attempt to pattern match it against a library of known fonts.

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Show Your True Website Colors

Ever notice how some sites have colors that work really well together? Even if the design is simple having colors that are coordinated can do wonders for the overall look and feel.

However, if you’re like me you may find yourself “color-challenged.” You know what looks good — you just can’t pick the colors on your own.

Here are two GREAT color programs to the rescue:

http://www.degraeve.com/ - This site not only has a very nifty online color picker, there are a lot of other very interesting and cool utilities like an business card maker, an icon generator, and a fun site translator.

http://www.colorschemer.com - Super cool software that’ll make you the look like a fantastic color schemer. If you got $50, well worth it.

Finally, a nice thread on Google with lots of links to color information. http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=290239

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