Monday, September 5, 2011

To publish free, quick and smart on the Net

To publish free, quick and smart on the Net

HTML skills? Frickeling with FTP? All unnecessary in Web services like Tumblr, and Jimdo: Who wants to have a website, there has to grapple with little technology and graphics. The company offers design and deliver complete storage space - you will get an overview.
Many prospective home-owners would like to get their new website as simple as a finished house. The furniture back into place, perhaps even more paper, but nothing more - is transferred to the web, so we determine the layout, upload pictures and write texts.
When hosting a classic but often they receive no more than building sites. Customers are then architect, construction manager and builders in one person and need to take care of uploading the files on the structure and layout of the site to maintain the server scripts to do everything ourselves.
A set of Web services now offers content in any form relating to simplest hotel room. The webmaster then processed in an easy to need to take care to use Content Management System (CMS) its pages, without bothering about the foundation - he did not even get to face. In order to maintain the system, et cetera, the backup will take care of the hosting provider.
By specifying a name for his site and choose a layout, the user has created in these services within seconds, the basic framework of a new site. Its sides, he edited within the WYSIWYG editor, some even insite, ie already in place and the look of the finished page. Videos or multimedia widgets from other sites integrated it with just a few mouse clicks.
This article presents examples from a representative of services for Web sites of four different types. In detail: for sites Jimdo Page with a classic structure, Onehub as a platform for teamwork in the network, as Tumblr Tumblelog particularly easy to handle as well as Flavors.me Lifestream Center. For each tested service, the table lists the functions of the cheapest version in detail, other pricing models are, with their differences in the line "other version (s)". For each service type, the text mentions a range of alternatives.
As convenient and affordable website with easy CMS may be, they pose one major drawback: it binds with selecting a provider, the customer. He must trust that this does his homework in terms of site content backup, secure the system, et cetera. A simple change to another hoster like selbstverwaltetem web space or on a standard CMS such as Drupal - the many providers now offering a so-called one-click installation - is not consistently with the proprietary systems possible.
Individual providers include:
Jimdo - websites with classic side structureClear it is hardly all related to the whole site functions, eg "layout", "Settings" or "statistics" are at Jimdo in a menu bar at the right edge of the browser window. Anything that has to do with the current page, edit the user insite, ie in the layout and the point where it appears later. He must go with the mouse over text, images, or about the navigation, the service already displayed a shortcut menu.
Pages Jimdo is composed of rows of content blocks with each other. Here, the work goes smoothly from the hand comfortably. The service distinguishes between 20Different content types, of "heading", "image", "Forms" to "google maps" or "widget / html", which embeds the webmaster via any HTML snippets widgets. He can also set up a blog for his website.
For personal use Jimdo offers many useful gimmicks, such as the simfy player which deposited the website operator for its music pages. The free basic version provides the site with very striking characteristics, and Google ads. Calculated for an ad-free account including the domain operators five euros per month. Even the basic version offers Jimdo various functions for search engine optimization, and integration with Google Analytics.
Microsoft Office Live Small Business is also under an editor for "classic" Web sites. Charge the customer gets there, 500 MB disk space for one domain, you pay € 10 per year. The offer for small businesses based on optically-house office suite. In two ribbons at the top of it very clearly separates the options for individual pages and for the entire site. Similar services are also Edicy and Webnode as well as some classic hoster Strato or 1 & 1 ready .
Onehub - the platform for teamwork on the WebSometimes you do not want to present to the outside of his home, but requires a quick set up and easy to use work as a hub for the team. Such as "stroke" is meant Onehub. A hub is there is a virtual workplace, and includes, on separate tabs, including a file storage, task list, a calendar, a forum, a link list and a wiki.
The layout is: form follows function. There are four themes, but they vary only in details. In the overview of the hubs users can insert tabs and widgets on top of it. For the five tab layouts to choose from, including multi-column, so you can bet such as a comment next to the widget list of uploaded files in order to share ideas.
A "News" page summarizes all changes to a hub. If required, the user holds Onehub with automatic emails on the date that he either sent or when any change in definable intervals. Onehub stroke differs across the four different user roles with different access rights.
There are a large number of services in the Onehub class. For the coordination of a team are also wikis, or about TikiWiki TWiki, which are found on the DVD. For this one needs, however, PHP or Perl enabled web space and have to take care of the administration.
Tumblr - Simple and chic blogsBlogging platforms like WordPress or Blogger.com have already been designed in a very simple operation; try Tumble log services like Tumblr, to top it one. With these services, it is all about, as quickly and easily build Web-finds, therefore, pictures, quotes, links, video or audio files to (re) publish.
In the backend, called Dashboard, is that there are seven buttons text, photo, quote, link, chat, audio and video, each leading to Bare editors for the different types of content - in which one can embed also own HTML code , or about gadgets. Tumblr posts can be published automatically on Facebook and Twitter.
For the design of the entire blog more than 400 themes to choose from. Among them are several very well-designed eye-catcher. Who wants to fine-tune a design can also edit the source code. Unless it supports the theme, the user can also create static pages, such as the imprint. Something like a menu editor for the pages is missing.
The dashboard allows users to follow other Tumblr, they get updates from their blogs that they can Reblog with one click - such as Twitter with no character limit. That almost makes Tumblr into a kind of social network. In a directory service presents a selection of about six million blogs.
Soup.io offer similar functions and Posterous. The latter can also be very convenient e-mail fill: The user simply sends Posterous posts, this makes it online. This is especially true for images Albums: Images as attachments attached, wrote a short text, sent it on: Posterous worth seeing as the pictures published album.
Flavors.me - the Life Stream CentralThe digital native is typically out on various social networks, and maintains a Twitter account, perhaps a buzz and operates one to three blogs. Since he can sometimes lose track. The chronologically ordered stream of all electronic documents that someone receives from others and customizing it themselves, or about every status updates and all the blog posts, also called Lifestream.
Make a number of vendors, it is therefore the task of aggregating the life stream of surfers and make them manageable, including lifestream.fm or friendfeed.com. Even Facebook and Twitter itself can act as a sort of stream-Life headquarters, if you are embedding the updates from other sources there. All these services also take care of the updates from social networks of friends.
Flavors.me is, though, tend to present in a kind of Web 2.0 business card, the self-produced content in one interface. For this purpose it may embed content from 20 Mitmachweb services, from social networks like Facebook and Twitter about blog hosters like Tumblr and Posterous, to multimedia add-hoarding like YouTube and Flickr.
Hence it is building in the basic version are very simple, elegant sites. Can select from four designs, which can be adapted in terms of colors, fonts and the background image. Access to the source design does not receive the user. When the layout is dominated by the surface fills the background image. The contents of the embedded services presented Flavors.me depending on the chosen design until the user clicks a navigation link. In the extended version, the user for 20 U.S. dollars per year have your own domain and a tool for traffic analysis.
Summary and OverviewWhether it comes to create a classic home page, set up a team-work, set up a blog, or combine their own content in Web 2.0: There is for all applications easy to use offers that click together with those located within minutes send results . let All providers are also a basic version for free.

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