Tools and Resources for Editors
Use these free resources for ongoing help while you work on University websites. If you want to learn more about the science of writing web content, check out the books and articles listed here.
Websites
Quality assurance
- Silktide - full quality assurance platform for content, SEO, readability and accessibility (University subscription)
- - check for broken links (free)
Readability
- - improve readability as you write (free)
- - readability test tool (free)
- - check your spelling (free)
Accessibility
- Digital Accessibility (University guide to creating accessible documents)
- - check for accessibility of colours (free)
- - checks the accessibility of your webpage (free)
- - checks the accessibility of your webpage (free)
SEO
- - tool for SEO (free)
- - tool for SEO (free)
- - checks page loading time to advise on content and technical SEO optimisation (free)
Images and image editing
- - copyright-free images (free)
- - University commissioned photography (University login required)
- - download free or paid illustrations and graphics
- - remove background from images (free)
- - copyright-free images (free)
- Photopea - browser-based image editing tool
Video, infographic and presentation embeds
- - optimised iframe embed for websites (free)
- - easily create graphics, presentations etc (login required)
- - infographic creation and embedding - please contact Marketing Web Services
Document optimisation and embeds
- - compress PDF files (free)
- - flipbook embedding for brochures (free)