THE TOOLS & RESOURCES | History Maker 101
Welcome to the Gear & Resources page of History Maker 101! Here, we share our top recommended tools and resources designed to amplify your results and accelerate your journey to success. Whether you’re looking to enhance your productivity, boost your knowledge, or equip yourself with the best tools in the industry, you’ll find everything you need right here. Each resource has been carefully selected to help you gain more knowledge, stand on your own, and make history in your own unique way. Dive in, explore, and start transforming your life today!
Tools for Building a Business & Life Changing
WordPress
My first experience with WordPress came in 2009. WordPress is the only platform I use and recommend.
vSiteground
I've used Siteground since 2015. They are an affordable and reliable hosting provider for WordPress.
Piotnet Forms
Highly customizable WordPress Form builder. The only form builder that I use for my websites.
WPCodeBox
A powerful code snippets plugin that lets you save and share code snippets across your websites.
ACSS
Essential and developer-friendly add-ons for page builders such as Oxygen + Bricks Builder.
BricksForge
Powerful animations and effects add-on plugin for Bricks Builder. Create pro animations with ease.
CSS Hero 5
The most underrated real-time WordPress theme builder/editor plugin on the internet. Great for beginners!
Affiliate Program
Codepen
The FVM course platform site is built on WordPress and Oxygen Builder.
Emmet
A nifty plugin designed to help improve your HTML workflow.
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CSS Tricks
A valuable reference site for HTML and CSS code snippets.
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MDN
Online directory of resources, references, and coding guides for devs.
W3C CSS Validator
A super useful tool for checking and validating your CSS code.
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Visual Code
A powerful and customizable open-source code editor.
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Local WordPress
A powerful desktop application for creating and developing WordPress websites on your local computer.
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Duplicator
A useful and easy-to-use plugin for migrating or cloning a WordPress website. Perfect for those building sites on their local computer.
UI/UX Tools
Tints + Shades
Find the perfect shades and tints to use in your website design.
UI Gradients
Cool UI gradient CSS generator. Used for the background colors for this site.
Flat UI Colors
A copy-and-paste color palette tool for UI designers.
Clippy
A useful CSS clip-path generator for designers and devs. Add some interesting shapes and borders to your elements.
HTML Colorcodes
The only online tool you need to generate RGB, HEX, and HSL colors. This tool will also generate the CSS for you.
Online Learning & Continuing Education
Google Developers
A library of must-use dev tools created by Google.
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Coursera
Professional Certificates offer flexible, online training designed to get you job-ready for high-growth fields. 7-day free trial
Hexometer
A 24/7 website health and SEO monitoring service for website owners.
Creativity Tools
Affinity Designer
Affinity Designer is a powerful vector graphics editor for Mac, iOS, and Windows. We use this application for all the intensive graphic design and wireframing projects here at FVM.
Affinity Photo
Affinity Photo is a professional raster graphics editor for Mac, iOS, and Windows. We use this application to adjust and enhance photos for the web and marketing here at FVM.
PhotoScape X
PhotoScape X is a freemium photo editing software for the Mac. We use this app to create social media graphics and marketing graphics on the fly. There is also a premium version of this app.
Descript
Descript is an all-in-one audio and video editing application for Mac and PC. We use Descript to edit almost all of the screen-based tutorials, including our online course content.
Final Cut Pro X
Final Cut Pro is a professional video editing application for the mac. We use FCPX to edit all of the videos for our social media and premium content.