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Free Tools for Local Businesses

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Content Creation

Tools from Brighter Websites 

This tool ensures that the final home page content is both professional and SEO-friendly, tailored to resonate with the business’s target audience.

 https://chatgpt.com/g/g-675fab399c7c81918b1c22d38c72544c-home-page-content

This GPT is designed to help business owners craft compelling home page content for their websites. It follows a structured process to gather necessary details about the business and generate tailored content using the information provided.

Key Features of this GPT:

  1. Interactive Discovery Process: Guides users through a series of questions to understand their business, target audience, unique selling points, and objectives.

  2. Custom Content Generation:Uses the responses and a predefined outline (referenced in the uploaded document) to generate website home page sections, including:

    • Hero Section: Captures attention with a bold statement and clear call-to-action.
    • About Section: Introduces the business and highlights credibility.
    • Services Section: Showcases key offerings with engaging descriptions.
    • Benefits Section: Outlines why customers should choose the business.
    • Testimonials/Reviews: Builds trust with customer feedback or project successes.
    • Call-to-Action: Drives users to take the next step, like contacting or purchasing.
    • Footer: Provides essential business details and links.
  3. Flexible Refinements: Offers the option to refine each section before finalizing.  Adapts the content based on user preferences or additional information.

  4. Delivery and Guidance:  Provides instructions for uploading the content to a workspace or sending it via email. Suggests best practices for integrating images and other assets.

 

Finding the Perfect Colour Pallet

Adobe Color Palette Generators

Adobe Color offers a powerful set of tools for generating colour palettes, including a Colour Wheel, Extract Theme from images, Extract Gradient, and Accessibility Tools. It’s perfect for designers looking to create harmonious colour schemes or test colour accessibility.

https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel

WCAG Contrast and Colour Blind Checker

Adobe's WCAG Contrast and Colour Blind Checker helps users ensure that their designs meet accessibility standards by testing colour contrast and simulating colour blindness. It’s an essential tool for creating accessible, inclusive designs.

https://color.adobe.com/create/color-contrast-analyzer

Colorhunt Colour Palettes

Colorhunt offers a range of 4-colour palettes created by contributors and designers. Users can browse through a curated collection of palettes for inspiration and easily apply them to their design projects.

https://colorhunt.co/

Canva Colour Palette from Image

The Canva Colour Palette Generator makes it easy to extract a colour palette from any photo. Simply upload your image, and Canva will automatically generate a colour palette based on the photo’s colours.

https://www.canva.com/colors/color-palette-generator/

Venngage Accessible Colour Palette Generator

Venngage’s tool helps users discover beautiful colour combinations that follow Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). It’s designed to ensure that your designs are not only visually appealing but also accessible to a wide audience.

https://venngage.com/tools/accessible-color-palette-generator

Font Selection & Pairing

Monotype - 2 Font Pair Generator

Monotype’s Font Pairing tool helps users create harmonious font pairings by allowing them to combine two fonts from their library. It’s perfect for designers seeking professional and balanced typography combinations for their projects.

https://www.monotype.com/font-pairing#/

Fontjoy - 3 Font Pair Generator

"Font pairing made simple" - Fontjoy uses deep learning to generate font combinations that work well together. By adjusting contrast and similarity sliders, users can find font pairings that suit their needs, making it a powerful tool for design projects requiring multi-font combinations.

https://fontjoy.com/

Mixfont

Mixfont allows users to easily generate and browse through a variety of font pairings. By combining random fonts, it offers a creative way to explore different styles and find the perfect typography mix for your projects.

https://www.mixfont.com/Lateef+Over-the-Rainbow

Fontpair Chrome Extension

A free Google Chrome extension that identifies the fonts and colours used on any website, making it a valuable tool for designers and developers who want to quickly analyse the typography and design choices of different web pages.

Install on Chrome

Free Basic Logo Generators

Design.com Free Logo Makers

"Find the perfect Logo" - Generates logos automatically based on the style, colour, and industry you select. The platform provides a variety of pre-generated logos that can be customised quickly, offering a hassle-free way to create a professional-looking logo for your business or project.

https://www.design.com/maker/logos/

Looka Logo Generator

Looka provides an easy-to-use logo generator that combines AI technology with your design preferences to create a logo instantly. After selecting your preferred styles, colours, and symbols, Looka generates multiple logo options, and you can further customise your selection. It's perfect for users looking for a quick, yet professional logo design solution.

https://looka.com/explore

Canva Logo Maker

Start with a template and customise it to create your own logo easily using Canva’s intuitive design tools. Canva offers a vast library of templates, icons, and fonts, making it ideal for both beginners and those with design experience. You can adjust every element to match your brand's identity, making it a flexible and powerful tool for logo creation.

https://www.canva.com/create/logos/

Royalty Free Stock Images, Vectors and Graphics

Vecteezy

Vecteezy offers a free collection of vectors, stock photos, and videos, with some content available under a free license for personal and commercial use. Paid plans unlock premium content, faster downloads, and extended usage rights.

https://www.vecteezy.com

Pixabay

Pixabay provides a large selection of free vectors, photos, and videos available for commercial use without attribution. There are no paid plans on the site itself, but premium content is available through linked third-party services.

https://pixabay.com/vectors/

Freepik

Freepik offers both free and premium vectors, illustrations, and photos, with free users required to credit the source. The premium plan removes the attribution requirement and gives access to exclusive content and higher download limits.

https://www.freepik.com

Pexels

Pexels is a completely free platform offering high-quality vectors, photos, and videos, with all content available for personal and commercial use. There is no paid plan, and all files come with a license that requires no attribution.

https://www.pexels.com/search/vector/

VectorStock

VectorStock provides a mix of free and paid vector images, with free downloads available for personal use and some commercial projects. For full access to premium vector files, users must purchase individual vectors or subscribe to a paid plan.

https://www.vectorstock.com

Free Website Builders that are actually Free

Websites

Google Sites

Google Sites is a free website builder that allows users to create basic, no-frills websites without any cost. It’s ideal for small projects, but it lacks advanced SEO tools and customisation options which are not available in the free plan.

Yola

Yola offers a free plan that includes up to two websites with limited storage and basic features. For additional functionality like custom domains and advanced SEO tools, users need to upgrade to a paid plan.

Wix

Wix offers a free plan with Wix-branded domains and ads, along with access to its drag-and-drop website builder and templates. To connect your own domain, remove ads, and unlock advanced SEO features, a paid plan is required.

Blogs

Ghost

Ghost is primarily a paid platform, with no free tier, but it provides professional tools for creating fast, SEO-friendly publishing websites. While open-source and free to self-host, the managed hosting service starts with paid plans for more convenience.

Tumblr

Tumblr is free to use for creating blogs and sharing multimedia content, with no hidden fees. However, users can opt for premium themes or custom domain support by paying for third-party services.

WordPress.com

WordPress.com offers a free plan that includes basic website creation tools, though it features WordPress ads and a branded domain. To access custom domains, remove ads, and enable SEO tools, users must upgrade to a paid plan.

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