Archive for September 2011
Weebly is an online, free, widget-based Web-site creator, funded by micro-seed fund Y Combinator. It makes use of a widget style format, allowing users to generate pages with only a few clicks by dragging and dropping different page elements (images, text, or interactive content, etc.) onto a page and filling in the content.
It competes with WebStarts, Yola (formerly Synthasite), Jimdo, Webs, uCoz, Wix, and other hosting and creation sites.
The site was originally created by David Rusenko, Dan Veltri, and Chris Fanini, all of whom attended Penn State for an undergraduate degree. It was named by Time Journal as number six of the fifty best sites of 2007.
Weebly’s WYSIWYG editing interface allows users to easily and quickly “drag and drop” content into the currently open Web page, which Weebly considers as its flagship feature. Consistent with this design are also a blog editor, a simple method of implementing and customizing its library of themes, and a policy of no forced advertising on even free accounts’ Web sites. Pro accounts include more capabilities such as the adding of in-site audio or video content, “premium” support, and site statistics.
The objective of Weebly when it was first created was to enable content creation. According to Weebly staff:
” How lots of people have lovely information that they need to put on the world wide web, but currently don’t know how? Perhaps it is because they don’t have a web host, perhaps it is because they don’t know how to write a web page and upload it. Whatever it is, web-site creation needs to get simpler, and I think this is the next step. Need a six column layout? Drag and drop. Add Google AdWords to your site? Drag and drop. Then click six times it, and set your options from simple drop-down-menus.”
Now you know the right place to generate your own web-site, so why wait log on to Weebly…
If you’re ready for your own website, blog, or online store, you may be “on the fence” about whether to hire a professional web designer to create a website for you, or to go with a template website instead. The truth of the matter is that the best way to create a website is to use a website builder. A website builder is a program that allows you to select from various website designs that are pre-fabricated by expert web designers. You simply drop or drag your content into the template and you’re ready to launch your website. It’s that simple. You do not need to have a vast amount of technical or computer knowledge in order to use a sitebuilder. Website builders like Websemble.Com are easy to use and have a number of advantages over hiring a designer for the job, including:
Fast turnaround. When you go with a sitebuilder, you can get your website up and running faster than a custom website. Building a custom website is time-consuming and labor intensive, involving hours of coding and programming.
Software for Creating Flyers
It’s common for businesses to make use of flyers to serve as their advertisement and get the word out on their company’s products or services. If you have searched around for program or software to help in designing a brochure or flyer, you have come across products such as:
Adobe Illustrator CorelDraw Macromedia Fireworks
These three are excellent programs, and if you decide in making use of the software often, it may be worth your money to invest any of these packages. However, if you don’t use the software often, purchasing any of these three becomes an expensive and bit used investment for the business.
Online Resources Offering Free Flyer Templates
Some websites provide free, downloadable flyer templates, which are easy to utilize and let you print the flyer yourself or make a clean copy for use in your printer.
These resources offer different sorts of template categories, so take time and shop around for free templates that work best for you. When you plan on downloading a template to your computer, take time to customize it to suit your business’ individual needs.