Startup - List of useful sites to entrepreneurs
26 Oct 2015When I started creating some web products and sites I always found myself with few options in terms of images, components and tools. Here, I present a list of very useful sites to help you in your work.
HTML Frameworks
Create a website from scratch is not easy, you need to create a default css, define some css classes, components and guidelines. For this reason, I strongly recommend that you to use an html framework, this can save you a lot of time and put some order in your code.
In my case for example I don’t have any great skill for chose color palettes, alignment, typography so an html framework helps me creating a minimally good presented site with low effort.
- getbootstrap.com: Bootstrap is the most popular HTML, CSS, and JS framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web (description extracted from getbootstrap website).
- foundation.zurb.com: Foundation is a family of responsive front-end frameworks that make it easy to design beautiful responsive websites, apps and emails that look amazing on any device (description extracted from foundation website).
Images
When you create a site it is dificult to find good free images with good resolution, here goes a list of some sites where you can get some photos.
- undraw.co
- jaymantri.com
- snapwiresnaps.tumblr.com
- freeimages.com
- picjumbo.com
- splitshire.com
- lockandstockphotos.com
- littlevisuals.co
- stocksnap.io
- negativespace.co
- picography.co
- lifeofpix.com
- unsplash.com
- getrefe.tumblr.com
- gratisography.com
- deathtothestockphoto.com
- pexels.com
- superfamous.com
- publicdomainarchive.com
- visualhunt.com
Videos
Sometimes a video can be better to explain your ideas or products, here goes some services that you can use:
Free icons
Free timelapses videos
Generators
- favicon-generator.org: Generate favicons and icon for Web, Android, Windows Phone and IOS.
- xml-sitemaps.com: Generate the sitemap of your site.
- freefavicon.com: A good favicon gallery and a favicon generator.
Themes and templates
- wrapbootstrap.com: WrapBootstrap is a marketplace for premium Bootstrap themes and templates.
- foundationdeck.com: Foundation Deck is a foundation theme marketplace.
- startbootstrap.com: Start Bootstrap is a library of free to download Bootstrap 3 themes and templates.
- bootstrapzero.com: Curated open source themes for booststrap.
- bootswatch.com: Free themes for bootstrap.
- bootstrapmade.com: Premium Bootstrap Themes & Templates.
- bootstrapious.com/free-templates: Free bootstrap templates.
- themewagon.com/themes: Bootstrap Themes & HTML5 Templates.
- templatemag.com/free-bootstrap-templates: Free Bootstrap HTML Templates.
- bootstraptaste.com: yet another free bootstrap template site.
Community
Testing your site
- webpagetest.org: Test the performance of your site.
- seositecheckup.com: SEO (Search Engine Optimization) checkup.
- responsivetest.net: Test how responsive your site is.
- studiopress.com: Test your site in several screen sizes.
- gauntlet.io: Test your website security againts several scanners (14 days free trial).
Others
- fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome: Huge set of icons as fonts.
- www.iconfinder.com: icon database (not free).
- picapp.net: Generate screens of your site in several devices.
- lipis.github.io/bootstrap-social: Social Sign-In Buttons made in pure CSS based on Bootstrap and Font Awesome.