Tools
Website Editor
http://nvu.comThe Webs Best Free WYSIWYG Web Editor. You can edit your websites with this program - the new version may include a ftp program.
Free Search and Replace
http://www.orbit.org/replace/At its core, ReplaceEm is essentially a text search-and-replace program. However, unlike the search-replace functionality of a standard text editor, ReplaceEm is designed to operate on multiple files at once.
Free Hosting
Start Your Search Here. A good resource for free webs hosting and nice tables to compare features. Caution - most fee host display advertising banners on your site including adsense ads.
Cheap Hosting & Domians
http://www.ghettowebhosting.biz Not free but excellent support and prices
FTP Programs
http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ - A FTP File Transfer Protocol program for uploading your files to you host.
http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/network/fwftp.html A large list of freeware ftp programs.
Image Editor
Copyright Free Commercial Image Sources
http://www.pixelperfectdigital.com
http://www.texturewarehouse.com
http://office.microsoft.com/clipart/default.aspx?lc=en-us
Keyword Research Tools
The Dowser Free Keyword Tool
Niche Bot Online keyword research
Niche Keyword Tool Online keyword research
Good Keywords is free Windows software tool from Softnik Technologies for finding the ideal set of keywords for targeting your web pages. Use Good Keywords to find suitable keywords sets, create your meta tags, brainstorm product ideas, etc.
Templates
Ann’s free templates - the self improvement site was built with one from here.
Tom Dean’s VM Newsletter Join and receive access to an ever-growing supply of free templates - tools and even websites! Free to Subscribe. Currently over 100 free templates - one package includes resell rights and resellers mini site.
Doc to PDF Converter
PDF Tool List
An excellent Free Suite of PDF Tools PDF995 This is what we used before purchasing adobe.
Let there be free conversion Doc to PDF Converter
Signature Generators
Sig Generator Get a cool handwritten signature
Word Processor - Excel Spread Sheet - Similar to MS Office
Press Release Maker
A Free Online Press Release Maker
Auto Responders
This free auto-responder is easy to use and it works! I used it to get started then upgraded in order to use the broadcast function. right here
Webmaster Tools & Scripts
Hot Scripts - Many Free Scripts and Tools
Color Picker
Make sure those colors go together
More Search Tools & Research
AOL Hot Searches: Top current queries, or see those in the last hour, last day and within particular categories.Ask Jeeves / Jeeves IQ: See top searches at Ask Jeeves.
Dogpile SearchSpy: Choose to see either a filtered or non-filtered sample of top, real-time search terms from this popular meta search service. Sister site MetaCrawler offers a similar MetaCrawler MetaSpy service.
Google Zeitgeist: What people are searching for at Google and its associated specialty services in a variety of categories. There are versions for various countries, as well.
Lycos 50: Long-standing service showing top searches at Lycos each week.
MSN Search Insider: Top 200 queries on MSN Search (annoyingly in random order), top “movers” in TV, sports and music, and a “duels” feature pitting top queries in a race against each other.
Yahoo Buzz Index: Shows you what’s hot and what’s not in terms of search topics at Yahoo.
dWoz Search Phrase Lists: Great directory of services like those above, for search engines large and small, across the web. Also see the Search Spies & Voyuers category.
Yahoo Keyword Selector Tool: Formerly called the Overture Keyword Selector Tool and the Overture Search Term Suggestion Tool before that, this free service is primarily designed to help advertisers who wish to select terms to target with ads on the Yahoo network. But you can use it to see how popular particular terms are.
Google AdWords Keyword Tool: Similar to Overture’s tool above, this is designed to help Google advertisers know what terms to target but can be used by anyone to gauge the popularity of terms.
Free Web Directory: Here is a listing of over 500 Free Directories. All were verified as free and did not require a link back when I submitted to them. I have been doing directory submissions for my clients for years and it works quite well but an up-to-date list of free directories is key. Enjoy!
