Favorite Tools & Resources
After years of designing websites and teaching online, I've tested countless tools and resources for building an effective online presence. This curated collection features my favorite websites, apps, and services that I regularly recommend. Whether you're creating a website, growing your business online, or streamlining your home office, these trusted resources can help you work more efficiently and confidently.
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Squarespace.com
Squarespace is an all-in-one website builder that helps people create professional websites, blogs, portfolios, and online stores without coding.
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Free Hi Res Images
Pexels offers large library of free, high-quality stock photos, videos for personal and commercial use. A valuable resource for finding professional imagery to marketing materials.
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Password Manager
A password manager securely stores your passwords and login information in one encrypted location, while making it easier and safer to sign in across your devices.
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Canva.com
Canva is an easy-to-use design platform to create graphics for websites, and marketing materials using ready-made templates. The free version is robust Canva Pro is around $120 per year.
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Calendly.com
Calendly is an online scheduling tool that makes it easy for clients, students, and collaborators to book time with you based on your availability. The free plan includes one event type.
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Chat GPT
An AI language model developed by OpenAI that can understand and generate human-like text based on the prompts it receives. It can help with content creation, brainstorming ideas.
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Coolors.co
Coolors.co is an intuitive color palette generator that helps you quickly create, explore, and save harmonious color schemes for design projects. It’s widely used by designers and creatives.
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Portfolio Mockups
Rawpixel.com is a creative resource platform offering high-quality stock images, design assets, and curated visual content for creative projects to help showcase branding, websites.
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Compress files
Smallpdf.com is an easy-to-use online platform for working with PDF files, including tools to compress, convert, edit, merge, and sign documents. It helps streamline everyday document tasks.
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File Types Cheat Sheet
A visual quick reference guide that helps you quickly understand common file formats across categories like images, audio, video, and fonts.
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Troubleshooting Checklist
A quick-reference PDF with 7 essential troubleshooting tips to help you avoid common tech issues, improve workflow, and keep your website projects running smoothly. Includes practical fixes for browser problems, cache issues, live chat support, and more.
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SEO Checklist
A simple SEO checklist to help optimize your website for better Google visibility, faster performance, and higher search rankings.
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Color and Font Kit
A beginner-friendly design PDF featuring 3 curated color palettes, essential Font 101 tips, and 3 recommended font pairings to help you create a polished, cohesive website style. Perfect for simplifying design decisions and building a more professional brand look with confidence.
Video tutorials
Check out my video tutorials on YouTube, where I share step-by-step guidance, practical tips, resources to support your learning new online tools.
More Resources
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Accessibility
A web accessibility tool that helps improve website compliance and usability for all users by adding features like text scaling, and screen reader support in an easy-to-install widget.
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Multilingual Site
weglot.com
Weglot is a website translation tool that allows you to quickly make your site multilingual and manage translations with an easy-to-use interface and automatic language detection. -
Video
zight.com
Zight is a screen recording and visual communication tool that lets you easily capture screenshots, record your screen, and share annotated videos or images via a simple link. -
Privacy Policy
termageddon.com
Termageddon is a website policy generator that automatically creates and updates legally compliant privacy policies, terms of service, and related legal pages as laws change. -
DEI Glossary
A helpful DEI glossary that defines common diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, and belonging terms, making it easier to engage in informed conversations about social justice.
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The Ethical Move
Initiative that promotes ethical marketing by encouraging businesses to use transparent, and non-manipulative marketing practices that put people before profits.
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Center for Humane Tech
A nonprofit organization focused on creating technology that supports human well-being by advocating for ethical design, responsible AI, and products that prioritize people over profit.
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Favorite Books
Browse some of my favorite books on Bookshop.org, a platform that supports independent bookstores while helping readers discover meaningful and inspiring titles.
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Copy Template Shop
One of my favorite copywriting resources, Copy Template Shop offers practical templates and swipe files to help you write clearer, more confident website, email, and marketing copy.
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Creative Market
Creative Market is a go-to resource for high-quality fonts, graphics, templates, photos, and design assets created by independent designers around the world. Make your website unique!
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Honeybook CRM
HoneyBook is an all-in-one client management platform that helps small business owners streamline inquiries, proposals, contracts, invoices, and project communication in one place.
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Notion
Notion is a flexible workspace for organizing notes, projects, content calendars, databases, and business workflows all in one customizable platform.