Web site building resources

Web site building resources
Here are some resources that can help if you want to customise your site.
Thanks to Salvatore Sanfilippo of http://antifavicon.com/ for many of the links.
Dave


Graphics generators

Favicons
Make your own Web page buttons made easy.

Pixelbutton
Generation of antipixel style buttons. Easy to use.

Brilliant Button Maker
another antipixel style buttons generator, less immediate but allows to include images in buttons.

Random Text Generator
useful in order to test page layouts with real-looking text.

General Text to Image converter with anti-OCR option.

Email Icon Generator
turn emails into images in order to prevent spam.

Fractals Generator
web service, generates real time mandelbrot sets with nice colors.


Color tools

Color Schemes Generator
may save you when in doubt about good colors for your pages.

Color Palette Generator
generates a color palette matching an image you provide.


Search engines / SEO

Top Directories
with free web site submission. A good starting point to get some links.

99 Free SEO tools
is a collection of quality SEO tools.

Overtune Keyword Selector Tool
shows users common searches about a given topic.

Overtune BIDs viewer
is useful to check how much advertisers can pay for click for a given search query.

Robots.txt Generator
select what crawler to allow/deny, what directory to restrict, and so on.

The Visitors Web Log Analyzer
is a free log analyzer with Google specific reports.


Affiliate programs to earn from web sites

AdSense
you earn by displaying google ADs on your site.

Chitika
show banners about products like the Ipod or laptops, earn for every click.