Tool Tryout Tuesday

  • Trying Out Fotojet

    Trying Out Fotojet

    The nice people at Fotojet invited me to try out their graphics tool. Like so many other tools on the web, this one lets you upload your own photos or graphics and then add text and embellishments. Compared with Canva (the one I always compare to), Fotojet has more variety in design, including hand-drawn style…

  • Trying Out Kindle Converters

    Trying Out Kindle Converters

    You’ve got a great e-book and you want to share it with the world! Usually we just upload a PDF to a website, but that’s because most of the e-books we make are intended to serve as premium content for marketing. When you want to sell your ebook or to get it into the largest…

  • Trying Out Web Text Tool

    Trying Out Web Text Tool

    WebTextTool is a text editing tool designed to help you optimize your content for the web, a sort of automated SEO tool for website content. Let’s acknowledge that machines aren’t as good with human languages as humans are, and that you can write complete drivel into the editing box of this tool and still get…

  • Trying Out the Add This Popup

    Trying Out the Add This Popup

    We all hate popups, right? Gideon actually went out of his way to tell me how much he dislikes the pop-up we added here at Haden Interactive. But I’ve been testing the Add This popup with a friendly invitation to sign up for our newsletter. Because we may dislike popups, but they work. We often…

  • Trying out the WordStream Keyword Tool

    Trying out the WordStream Keyword Tool

    Keyword research can involve lots of different strategies, but using a keyword tool is a pretty obvious option. We’ve looked at free keyword tools before, and have not been impressed. Years ago, I read a suggestion to use a dictionary to identify useful keywords, and the keyword tools we tested didn’t rise far above that…

  • Trying Out WP-Optimize

    Trying Out WP-Optimize

    Your company’s WordPress website requires some maintenance and upkeep. This is a reason some people don’t choose to use WordPress, but the alternative is to allow your website to degrade over time, and have a new one built every few years. That’s what people used to do, and it is still an option. If you…