19 Sep 07 WebAsyst, Suite Free Hosted Accounts

WebAsyst is an american company offering an online collaboration suite allowing you to manage all your personal and professional data in an easy and efficient way. There are two ways you can work with their Suite package, either downloading the free version, or now registering for a free hosted account on their website.

 The company, that has always offered 30-day free trial accounts; will allow now users to create free accounts that never expire. These free accounts have however some limitations. e.g. number of entries, storage space, and number of users, but they still allow users to enjoy the benefits of WebAsyst software. Most important, all WebAsyst functions and features available for paid accounts will also be available for free accounts, including free software upgrades.

Customers wishing to remove limitations or add more storage space and users will be able to upgrade to paid accounts at any time. This means that you will be able to combine free and paid services in one account, and even downgrade from paid to free services, if they find that an application offers more than they need.

05 Jul 07 Flare9, creating a website from scratch

It’s been some time since our last review of interesting applications to help create websites with absolute zero knowledge, from scratch to a nice and good looking personal or professional webpage.

Now, thanks to Sponsored Reviews (this blog profile here :-) , we get the chance to discover a new one that promises to provide even to the most novice user, the possibility to create a professional quality website without having to know any HTML code whatsoever.

We are talking about Flare9, a website builder with an integrated content management system where every page is editable via a simple to use WYSIWYG ( What You See is What You Get ) editor and that will help you provide that very important good image for your business or company on the web ( and we all know how important it is to have a well designed page, don’t you agree? :-), at least I am trying it with this blog , LOL ).

It is actually pretty easy to start the process and make it work, all sum up in a few steps. The sign up of the account will take you only 5 minutes and then you are ready to start building the website. You can select first one of the many themes available for you, and later you can customise according to your preferences. If you do own already a domain you can use it or you can register one via their system, where you have also hosting facilities.

Also, the website packages come with a full set of features that most probably you will be willing to have ( Google Analytics support, management of feeds, integrated blog, control of your meta tags to do some SEO and improve your presence on the net, etc). By getting the whole package here you get the chance to have everything integrated from the beginning. The idea is good, no need to work further to improve the pages you have created, everything comes at once. 

So, if you are one of those willing to start your own professional website, with plenty of features and not willing to get a headache in the process, get a look at this service cause it may be interesting for you

13 May 07 ThinkBigsites, and make buzz about your webpage

We have reviewed, in the short but intense life of Review the Market :-), several companies that helped us to improve the way our website looked or the traffic it was getting, but never so far an entreprise we have seen  got as a slogan the promise to design your page on a way that it would create a buzz on the net :-).

We are talking about ThinkBigsites, a website optimization firm that focus in offering to you more website traffic  and  website optimization services to boost your visibility on the net.

On this last point in which I was particularly interested, they offer blog design optimization, SEO, webdesign and hosting, custom webprogramming, link building and even designing newsletters for you to reach potential customers or readers by email.

There is also a Blog marketing section where they work with us on improving and/or giving a more profesional look, to create a plan and strategy for your blog ( which is something I actually did not know was something it had to be done….mmmm…. :-)) or increasing the presence of your business in the blogosphere.

If all that was not enough, we can also get online support in the form of a webmaster to do the maintenance of our pages, or to fix quickly any problem that may arise. In summary, I guess the whole offer sums up as a good and complete package for bloggers like us, that may be passionated about blogging and writting, but sometimes may need some help in the rest of necessary work to keep the blog live and kicking all the time.

 

05 Abr 07 dhtmlxGrid, new JavaScript Grid Control

I have recently discovered that Scand , a Belarus based company, launched a couple of months ago the version 1.2 of its JavaScript grid control dhtmlxGrid aiming to create feature rich DHTML Tables with Real-Time Performance. Enriched by new powerful features, this version allows easy creation of dynamical tables with draggable columns, multiline headers/footers, per-cell formatting, etc.

The software is AJAX-powered and in the new version it introduces a number of features which extend existing user experience capabilities and provides developers with more control over the grid which is something developers were demanding.

Version 1.2 allows easy reordering of grid columns either through an API script or using drag-n-drop functionality. Besides that, now columns can be inserted/removed with JavaScript on the fly. Also, there is the ability to place complex HTML objects (controls) inside header/footer cells (e.g for filtering functionality or sum total).

dhtmlxGrid 1.2 is available in two editions: Standard and Professional. If you want to try it for free, the Standard edition is licensed under GNU General Public License (GPL) and can be downloaded from dhtmlxGrid Homepage . Enjoy!