Dan’s list of seven website builders to eternally avoid. Complete with corresponding deadly sins!
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Website Building
Simple concept: you post up your logo needs and freelance designers from across the globe send you their concepts. You choose the winner, pay them, and you each go on your merry way.
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No matter who you are, there’s a decent possibility you’ve thought about creating your own website.
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Brought to you by the fine people at Intuit, a quality website builder in its own right, Homstead.com is a stripped-down, miniaturized but still capable website builder designed to get you and your Internet effort up and running quickly. The good news? Whether you have a blog to create or a store to establish, Homestead should be able to accommodate you at a low price, which is more than some website builders can say.
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Yola has a surprising amount of versatility with an attractive price range – depending on what you need – and is simple enough to use that even your 15-year-old should be able to figure it out. Heck, even Internet newbies who can qualify for senior citizen discounts shouldn’t be intimidated at all.
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Setting up a shop in the 1800s was tough – you needed timber, windows, and probably a fireplace for the winter. In this day and age, we have Yahoo! Site Builder.With Yahoo! Site Builder you get a free, downloadable design program, an easy way of publishing your site, and easy online store integration into your website. What else can you ask for?
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Free flash. The concept sounds so excellent on paper and yet has so unflinchingly disappointed us when we entered it in to Google, finding only the web sites that promised big things but delivered on none of them. “Free flash” has disappointed us so often, in fact, that it’s really become synonymous with “cheap” and “not worth it” – in fact, I’m pretty sure that’s what a lot of Free flash companies now enter in as their sponsored keywords.
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Feeling uninspired? Got writer’s block again? Or you just need a shot of creativity? Well, take a look at our list of the top 20 Text Generators. They’re sure to provide you with the inspiration and creativity needed to spark your next project.
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In the world of website builders, uCoz is quite unique. It doesn’t share the Web 2.0 crispness of your Weebly or Yola, but it’s not as stingy with its features as other sites like Jimdo. Just looking at uCoz’s site (and reading their ridiculous tagline – “YOU CAUSE us to be better.” uCoz! Get it?) is enough to make you think twice about signing up for a website builder that can’t even build its own site into something as professional or attractive as its competition.
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Steve thoughts on SquareSpace, a platform that offers advanced looking blogs for the beginner. It might just be the alternative to WordPress you’re looking for.
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When it comes to logo designs, we’ve been around the block. We’ve seen a thing or two. So when you advertise yourself as being logo design pros, I want to see that you’ve actually got the goods. Let’s find out if they do.
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Although not a spectacular smash-hit in the world of website building, this Jimdo review is willing to cut it a little slack and admit that it’s not the worst option available.
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Let’s face it: getting a logo designed on the Internet is not exactly rocket science these days. All you have to do is plug in a search like “logo designer” into Google and you’ll find a bucketload of different ways you can have some poor schmo on the other side of cyberspace run through Photoshop for you. And while I make the process sound bad, in a way, it’s actually what’s great about the Internet: logo design projects bring people together and the end result is something new and creative that never existed before.
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If you’re building a web site in today’s day and age – or heck, if you’re building any type of marketing campaign or brand at all – then you’re probably in the process of thinking about a logo for yourself. Grab some start-up capital and let’s go.
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Logo design can be like a recipe. You’ve got to start off with a good chef, sure, but if you don’t put together the right ingredients and follow the process correctly, even the good chefs out there can turn out some pretty bad food. So can gurus of logo design, the exact type of “chef” attracted to a site like Logo Design Guru. What is it?
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Is there a cheap white hat link building tool for SEO’s? Yep. It’s called MyBlogGuest.com. Alex Sumerall posts the results of his test. Note the graph showing the PageRank of each guest blog post he scored.
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If websites had personalities, SiteCube would be the outgoing car salesman who’s always trying to get you to add extra features. Okay, GoDaddy would be too, but this isn’t a GoDaddy review. What else do we make of SiteCube’s flashing buttons, attractive woman flash videos and plethora of exclamation points?
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If you have a suspicion that you’re not the best web designer in the world, you may want to get a little helping hand from these free hand-picked web generators.
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DesignCrowd is all about, of course, design. So let’s pop the hood and see if this attractive web site delivers more than just an eye-popping signup page.
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We’ll have to be honest in this LogoSnap review and judge it on its own merits. And when it comes to the do-it-yourself logo makers, this is actually not the worst service in the world. Hey, coming from me, that can be high praise indeed.
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The free version of Soholaunch won’t send you into fits of pure excitement and joy, but the paid version should satisfy most people’s Internet ambitions. Other prerequisites of a good website builder – simple, easy to use, easy to sign up for – are all there. So why start out this Soholaunch review with a diatribe against its price?
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SimpleScripts actually does well in terms of scripts available against the age old one-click installer that comes stock in Fantastico. Both scripts make your site installation life a great deal easier.
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While it’s hard not to be impressed with 99 Designs, it’s also hard not to realize that the “design crowd” concept is not exactly an innovation these days.
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Charlie Sheen would not have made it as a domainer as this sad case illustrates.
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When it comes to LogoMaker, it takes the “none of the above” approach, instead putting the .PNG file in your own hands and advertising itself as a “free” logo maker where the deed is of your own doing. I’m always enticed by the promise of something free, so I have to give it to this little site: I’m intrigued. And if you’re reading this, there’s a chance you are, too.
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While not exactly in the same do-it-yourself category as services like LogoMaker, LogoNerds is priced like one: in fact, it’s priced quite a bit lower. And since the LogoNerds.com site promises a much more customized, intensive design process than those present in the do-it-yourselfers, the prospect of hanging out with the LogoNerds suddenly becomes more attractive.
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We arrive at the site of LogoYes, another web site aimed at bringing us in to design our logo and sending us out with a fresh new order placed on our credit card. If I sound a little suspicious, it’s because I am, and you should be too. So in this LogoYes review, let’s take a peek around the site and see if there’s anything that makes the service worth our while.
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How we sum up crowdSPRING? Easily: if you’re a creative type and you need work done or simply need work, crowdSPRING should raise an eyebrow or two.
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Intuit is a sitebuilding service that targets small businesses who need not only a web presence, but an actual system of getting things done online. You’re not going to put up a four-page template for your business with Intuit; you’re going to employ marketing services, use online payroll, integrate your site with QuickBooks – basically, you’re going to feel like you own the web.
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It’s not exactly hard to figure out Site Build It’s angle. It’s named “Site Build It,” for crying out loud. It’s not trying to be complicated: it’s a simple marketing message and it’s a simple service. In this day and age, that can be a very good thing.
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While Weebly is not the Rolls Royce of website builders, it doesn’t make any attempts to tell you it is, either. That’s a good thing. When it comes to website builders, there are all sorts of different makes and models on the market.
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Link building for web designers can be easy… and some might say sleazy.
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There are those rare occasions when the design, colors, navigation and overall look and feel give you the feeling of love at first (Web) site. Then there are these.
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Guest blogger Mike does a comparison and gives some examples of Google Sites, Jimdo, Yola, uCoz, and Weebly free website builder tools.
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I probably should have paid attention to the fact that Sarah was virtual and not real.
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Strange occurance of the RSS logo in real life. See for yourself.
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I love you McDonald’s for this creative form of advertising.
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A lot of folks have heard of Linux and many more have even been interested enough to check it out. Thing is, a lot of what is spread around the ‘net about Linux unfortunately is giving people the wrong impression. Let me help dispel the rumors.
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Is the term “webmaster” on the decline?
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A very basic introduction to PHP. It wouldn’t be a beginner turorial with a Hello World, right?
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Few lives must be more satisfying than the life of a Web designer. Liora Stein describes her experience.
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Attention beginning JavaScripters. Here is a chance to dive into this web only scripting language with simple explanations and sampleimages. All you need is a little basic HTML knowledge and an understanding of basic programming logic. Check out Michel Barakat’s viewpoint.
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Book review of HTML 4 For Dummies by Ed Tittel & Mary Burmeister, paperback edition. ISBN: 0764589172. The book continues to be in demand as the number of dummies wanting to code their way out of ignorance remains significant.
One decade after beginning the quest of learning HTML, the Clickfire webmaster picks up a copy of the newest HTML 4 for Dummies book to review it. What has changed in the Dummies series?
The easiest beginner HTML tutorial ever created! Learn HTML by doing.
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Learn CSS with the simplest ever cascading style sheets tutorial.
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No need for a button maker software program if you have ZPaint, a graphics program that draws “3D-looking” shapes like buttons, rings, and boxes.
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sTile Review – a review of the Windows freeware seamless tile creator. The program allows fast creation and testing of seamless tiles. It’s a useful tool for ridding your image of ugly edges.
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Review of IrfanView Windows freeware picture viewer. A very nice image viewer that also edits images with functions like crop, rotate, flip, resize, increase/decrease colors and effects like sharpen, swap colors and many more.
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A review of IconEdit32, a powerful icon editor once available as freeware. Let’s you make your own icon.
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Are you a rebel? Do you hate following the rules? From the Ten Commandments to the Prime Directive, we’ve been binding ourselves with rules in order to attain higher standard of life. XHTML is no exception.
In future time, through all coming coding standards, let the developer, who may write code in any development environment, observe the XHTML rules which W3C has written in their white papers. How XHTML rules are similar to Hammurabi’s code.
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