The following tools and services will help you check that your website design is functioning properly. Design marketplaces are also listed.
![]() | 99DesignsA design contest service where you can have designers design something to your specification such as a logo, blog design, or banner. You then choose which one you like the best. |
![]() | Bing Webmaster ToolsA range of free webmaster tools, statistics, and resources, for Microsoft’s search engine Bing. |
![]() | BrowserShotsA great tool that lets you check how your blog looks on dozens of different browsers. It is very useful for spotting blog design errors. |
![]() | Color Scheme DesignerThe perfect tool for choosing your next color scheme. There are many preset color schemes to choose from, together with useful options such as undo and redo. |
![]() | CrowdSpringA design contest marketplace for logos and designs. The average competition receives over 100 entries. |
![]() | CSSmaticLots of great CSS tools such as a gradient, border radius and box shadow generator. |
![]() | DeGraeveLots of great free design tools such as a favicon generator, color palette generator, and ASCII Art Generator. |
![]() | Dynamic DriveOne of the largest collections of DHTML, CSS, and Javascripts, on the internet. It has hundreds of tools and applications you can add to your blog free. |
![]() | Google Webmaster ToolsAn essential set of tools and resources for checking your blog’s settings and performance on Google. |
![]() | LogoMyWayA logo design contest service that boasts over 15,000 logo designers. Most competitions get a few hundred entries. |
![]() | LogoTournamentA logo design contest service that promises at least 50 entries per competition. |
![]() | Online Meta TagA free tool that helps you generate the meta information for your blog. |
![]() | Test EverythingA free service that promises to “test everything”. It features CSS and HTML validators, SEO tools, text tools, image tools, and much more. |
![]() | Test SizeTest any web page in any window size. Bizarrely, the free service also tells you how many minutes and seconds your computer clock is. |
![]() | TyntAdds a link back to your blog whenever someone highlights your content via copy and paste. |
![]() | W3 Markup Validation ServiceCheck the markup of your blog pages using the official markup validation service. |
![]() | WhoIsHostingThisA handy tool that lets you see who is hosting any website on the internet. |
![]() | WufooAn online form builder that lets you create beautiful contact forms. You can create up to three forms free, however additional plans and entries require you to subscribe to a monthly subscription. |
![]() | YouGetSignalA collection of network tools such as an IP checker, a reverse IP domain checker to see what other websites are hosted on a network, and whois lookup tool for checking domain names. |