Hello OC-friends,
Today a blog post with all our favorite apps, websites and online tools. These are the resources that we at Open Classifieds frequently use or of which we think that they are worth sharing.
We have categorized the resources in several groups to make the overview more organized. Hopefully you find some interesting links that you can use for building your classifieds website. If you have any app, tool or website that you like a lot and is not in the list, please share it with us in the comments. We would love to hear from you!
Do your emails not always arrive in the inbox of your recipient, but in the SPAM folder? Mail tester lets you test your emails and improve the chances that your email is not seen as SPAM. Send your email to Mail Tester and you will get feedback back. A perfect score? Then there probably isn’t a lot you can improve. But in case you don’t have a 10, then you will get advice on how to achieve that.
The Scope tool from Litmus you can easily share emails. Create a clean, web-based version of any email, with desktop and mobile previews for free! Great extra is that Scope won’t show your personal information when sharing the email, so you keep your privacy.
Email Sherlock can be a useful tool if you want to determine the identity of an unknown email address that appeared in your mailbox. Just enter the email address you want to research and Sherlock will do the work for you.
Putsmail is a tool that can be used for testing your emails. It enables you to preview your emails on different platforms and devices. Simply insert the html code of your email, send it and you will see how your email is displayed on various devices.
Do you want to have your texts checked first, before putting them online? Use Hemingway for this! The app will help you to improve your writing by highlighting sentences that are hard to read, sentences that are too long or words that have a simpler alternative. Just insert your text in the app and it will get reviewed instantly.
Web development
Hacker Toolbox is a very extensive source of useful tools for website builders. Offering tools ranging from cloud hosting to disposable email and many more in between, they practically offer anything that you need for your site. The website has a simple but very organized layout and is therefore easy to use.
With this website you are able to analyse the speed of your site and make it faster. Enter your websites url will GTmetrix perform a series of tests and create a performance report on how fast your website is. Based on these outcomes you will get actionable advices on how to improve the speed of your website.
http://quirktools.com/screenfly/
The Screenfly tool from Quirktools let you view your website on a range of different device screens and resolutions. This makes it possible to test how your website is displayed on for example an iPad, when you don’t have one yourself. Therefore a great tool to optimize the usability of your website for everyone.
Mergely is a powerful online web application for viewing and merging changes between documents online. It highlights changes in the text and can be embedded within your own web application to compare files.
Design
Typewolf helps you choose fonts for your design projects by showing real examples of typeface combinations in the wild along with links to similar typefaces and recommended pairings. http://www.videvo.net/
For all your free video and motion graphics Videvo is a fantastic source. Videvo provides free HD footage and motion graphics for any of your projects. The current selection contains over 3,000 clips, but new material is added every day. Only thing you need to do is register.
Pexels offers a great collection of free stock photos. The website offers various possibilities to find the photo you need. Search by color, browse through popular categories, etc. A very nice and fast website.
Icons Etc offers a great variety of free icons, brushes, custom shapes, layer styles, patterns and other web elements that are very useful when building a website. All these resources can be used for free for both personal as commercial projects.
With Cool Text you can easily create your own logo for your website. The service that is offered is complete free and no graphical design skills are needed. Use existing logo styles and apply them for the logo of your website.
Text Anim is there to create an animated text picture (gif) for you. Simply use the creator tool on their website and within only 10 seconds you will have the GIF ready. Download it and use it on your website.
Icon Finder is another website that offers a huge amount of icons. In total there are more than half a million icons available. So you will definitely find the icon you need on here. Both free and paid icons are offered. You can pay per icon or use a subscription, which gives you unlimited access to the paid material.
Withoomph lets you instantly create a logo online. No graphical skills needed. The only thing you have to do is insert your company name and give one or more keywords. Based on that Withoomph will create a variation of logo suggestions. After choosing them you can change the color schemes to make the logo fit your company colors.
Logishi is another tool to create your own logo. With this tool you draw your own messy sketch of your logo and provide your company name. Based on that input Logoshi will come up with two logo suggestions.
https://medium.com/@dustin/stock-photos-that-dont-suck-62ae4bcbe01b
Of course you want nice images on your website, but it is not always easy to find them. Especially not when you have a limited budget. Following this link you will find an ongoing list of links to great stock photo websites where you can get your (free) images from.
GridPapr is an online tool with which you can make wireframes and prototypes. There is no signup needed and you can start creating a wireframe directly. Best thing is that you can share with others and collaborate together.
A whiteboard on your computer! Draw anything you want using Awwapp and share your creations with others using a shareable link.
Various
Sharedrop is an app with which you can easily and securely share files between devices. There is no need to upload the file to a server first. Simply open the app on both devices and drag and drop the file to the other person’s avatar.
Need a timer? Use E.gg Timer! A simple but effective tool to set a timer in case you need to remember to do something. The tool also provides some special timers, like one for a morning routine, that lets you do some exercising ;)
Defonic is a noise generator. Use sounds from the world, like thunder, rain or whispering birds and create your own background melody.
Out of inspiration for a good company name? Use Naminum to create one for you. Simple enter a word and Naminum will generate a huge list of random names.
Want to find out with what a website is built? And what services it is using? Then use Built With. This tool will show you the hosting providers, web servers, email services, tracking software, etc.
Structure your thoughts with Mind42. Create and share your mind maps online for free.
Growth hacking
Peek is a free usability testing tool. It offers you the possibility to see a 5 minute video of an actual user that is using your website. This tool will help you to find out how the visitors experience is on your website and why they are leaving or staying. With this information you will be able to improve the user experience and increase sales.
A great online course on growth hacking. Learn everything about marketing, advertising and PR. Very useful website to get more traffic to your website.
Growthverse is a website built for marketeers, by marketeers. Currently there are more than 600 marketing technology companies listed on the website. This huge amount is very nicely visualized. This makes it easy to find the proper tool for the marketing problem you want to solve.
Startup
http://www.startuputility.com/
Owning a startup takes a lot of your time. Startup utility is there to make your life a bit easier. This website provides a collection of useful resources for startups. Everything is neatly organized in categories to make it easy to find what you need.
Startup Stash provides you a huge amount of sources that are useful when launching your own startup. Great overview of various tools that are neatly categorized. Put this link in your bookmarks and use it!
Seo
Woorank is a great tool that analyses your website and gives you fantastic feedback on how to improve your website. This advice includes optimization of SEO, mobile, usability, technology, social media and more. After having inserted your website address you will get a very clear overview of where your website scored good and where it needs optimization.
In need of more traffic to your website? Quicksprout can help you with that. Simply insert your website address and Quicksprout will analyze it for you and give you advice on how to increase traffic to your website.
FirstGuide is a website lookup tool created with the purpose to help web beginners improve their site and see what their competitors are up to. By using it, they can check server information, page speed, different score metrics, page tags and attributes, keyword consistency, estimated traffic and used technologies.
SumoMe is a tool to grow your websites traffic. The tool offers a variety of possibilities to do that. One of them is creating heat maps of your websites. These will show you which parts of your websites are working and which are not.
Business
http://transferwise.com/u/2dc0
Transferwise is a service that lets you send money from one country to the other, without having to pay excessive charges. The service is very fast and much cheaper than sending your money with a traditional bank.
Gumroad is a marketplace where you can sell your work directly to your audience. Upload your product and create a very simply landing page for your customers where they can buy your product.
If you have your own business, it is very likely you need legal agreements. Terms feed will help you to provide these agreements. You can for example create a privacy policy, terms and conditions, terms of service, etc. After having gone through a few steps, where you need to give some information about your business, you can download your personalized agreement
https://www.free-invoice-generator.com/
If you need to create an invoice, Free Invoice Generator is there to assist you. Select currency, discount, shipping and VAT and insert your details. Once that is done you can just download your invoice and send it.
Are you working together with people who are living in other time zones? With My Meeting Time you can easily find good times to connect with them. Simply select where you are and where your partner is and My Meeting Mime will show you between which hours you can connect.
Do you have a little job that needs to be done, but not able to do it yourself? Use Fiverr to find someone who can do the job for you for only 5 dollar! On Fiverr you will find people will all different kind of skills. So if you have a programming problem or a design issue, with Fiverr you will find someone who can help you.
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