Domain development tools (1.Viewing)

We all know a good website starts with a good domain but do we know all of the tools available to develop a great website?

I know a few members that use WIX and a lot that use wordpress.


I stumbled across this great article on Sully's blog highlighting some great free domain tools.
https://sullysblog.com/5-free-tools-to-kick-your-domain-development-into-gear/


So maybe here we can list some of the free and paid service our members are using for their websites.

I will start it off...

I have my own server so I can pretty much install anything but I am running most of my online stores on ecwid.com which is a paid service but well worth the price to have a professional look and feel.


For a number of my sites I also use Google Blogger along with Google Domains for email. For some of the sites I use the full blogger platform like on the new dn blog located at blog.dn.ca


For others like mapledots.ca I also use blogger but I have figured out how to strip the entire template and start with a blank page. This is a big experiment because with some of my blogger sites I have NEVER experienced any downtime and the service continues to be free.



Lets hear some of your favourite tools...

Good topic. Here are a few more:

- CMS: Wordpress (w/ the GeneratePress Premium theme - one paid account lets you put it on as many sites as you want)

- On-site behaviour tracking (and more): Google Tag Manager (fire data into Google Analytics)

- Front end design: Browser dev tools: Fn+F12 on most browsers

- Simple backlink checker: ahrefs.com/backlink-checker

- Reporting dashboards: Google Data Studio

- What used to be on that domain?: archive.org