Content has three aspects, that need to be considered:

• Content creation — there are many forms of content: articles, blogs, stories, images, illustrations, videos, podcasts, etc.

• Content presentation — people tend to judge about the quality of the content by its appearance. Just like in products, people believe that better designed products have a better quality.

• Content delivery — the best content in its nicest form has no value if it does not reach anybody.

There are some very useful resources and also some excellent free software tools for producing content. They are all available for Windows, Max, or Linux:

Free Fonts

• Google Fonts: A huge variety of free fonts — also for local download. https://fonts.google.com

• FontSquirrel: Hand-selected pretty fonts. https://www.fontsquirrel.com

License Free Music

• Incompetech: Electronically mastered music by Kevin MacLeod in all styles. https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/music.html

• Bensound: Nice offer of songs. https://www.bensound.com/free-music-for-videos

• Free Music Archive: Thousands of tracks from various artists. https://freemusicarchive.org/

License Free Images (and Video Snippets)

• Unsplash: Beautiful pictures from photographers. https://unsplash.com

• Pixabay: Pictures and videos from a creative community. https://pixabay.com/en

• Pexels: Pictures and videos from creative users. https://www.pexels.com

Free Software (or Free for Academic Purposes)

Text Editors and Transpilers

• VS Code: Excellent and highly customizable editor. https://code.visualstudio.com

• Pandoc: Transpile any document format into another one using the command line. https://pandoc.org

Graphic Editors and Transpilers

• XnView MP: Powerful graphical editor to change images. https://www.xnview.com/de/xnviewmp

• ImageMagick: Transpile any image into another one using the command line. https://imagemagick.org/index.php

Audio

• Audacity: Change audio files. https://www.audacityteam.org

Broadcasting and Screencast

• Open Broadcast Software: Very powerful software for broadcasting and screencasts. https://obsproject.com

Video Editing

• Shotcut: Open source, cross-platform video editor. https://shotcut.org

• DaVinci Resolve: Professional video editing software. https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/

Content Exchange

• Git: Open source distributed version control system. Comes with Linux-commands. https://git-scm.com

• GitHub Desktop: Simplifies your content change workflow. https://desktop.github.com/

Song and Video Player

• VLC: Cross-platform multimedia player that plays almost everything. https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.de.html