SEO for Designers

Web designers are often unaware of SEO or feel it doesn’t relate to their field, but if you are going to optimize your site for search engines surely it happens at the design stage. Webdesignerwall.com has a great rundown of what web designers should know about SEO, including an overview of Search Engine Optimization and a list of the most common SEO mistakes web designers make.

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Flash Image Zoomer

This free Flash script allows you to zoom in on an image and pan around it. It has a very intuitive interface that let’s you zoom in via scroll wheel, clicking, or Photoshop style slider. It also includes a navigator window to select the portion of the image to view. There is a free and paid version.

Features (from the site)

skinnable
- navigator window
- image as parameter
- zommSteps as parameter
- security feature personalizes your zoomer
- ideal for CMS / eCommerce integration

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CSS Templates

Another batch of great CSS Templates waiting to be downloaded.

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Color blending web tool

Here’s a great online tool to develop a color matching palette. Once you find a palette you like you can download it as a Photoshop Color Table (.ACT) Illustrator colors (EPS) or email it to yourself.
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CSS font and text wizard

Click on the attributes to create a font and text style, then copy and paste the CSS and HTML source code.
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Tabbed menu generator

This fantastic web tool allows you to generate custom tab images
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Get a free SEO review of your website

SEO analyzer from Raven Seo tools gives you a great quick rundown of your website in terms of it’s Search engine optimization qualities; in plain English. It will check your site for multiple design elements that enable good search engine ratings and will offer up suggestions on how to make your site more search engine friendly.
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