Free tools to make your website pretty and to finish it off
At the moment your website is probably looking a little plain, lots of black and white writing but not many pictures. So let’s make our website look pretty with a nice free header graphic. You can get lots of headers for free at the following sites:
Now you might need to edit your graphics and add in text. To do that you will need a graphics editor. You can, of course, buy Photoshop made by Adobe which is the best graphics editor going. But unless you are planning on being a designer the expense may not justify the purchase. In the meantime, I recommend the following graphics editors both of which I have used and are very user friendly as well as being F.R.E.E.
Finally, you might like to make your website a little more individual by adding a favicon (that’s the cute little icon in your browser’s address bar). You can easily create a favicon from a jpg or gif file that you may have using a free favicon generator. If you don’t have an icon suitable check out the free favicons at Favicon HQ.
Finally, you are nearly ready to send your website out to the world.
Let’s just check that the search engines haven’t already seen the content on your website by checking for duplicate content. We can check for duplicate content by using this tool:
One last thing, not everyone uses internet explorer as their browser. Some people use Mozilla, Opera or Safari. It’s a good idea to check your web site in each different browser. Sometimes sites do not display the same in different browsers.
Finally, let’s send your new website up to your host server so it can go live on the internet. To do this you will need a ftp client. This is just a fancy name for software that uploads your website to the host. You can use the free extension on Mozilla firefox to upload your files or you can use the free edition of Smart FTP (my personal choice).
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