BaseKit Review And GIVEAWAY

Today we have another exciting giveaway for our loyal WebDesignDev readers. Our giveaway comes from BaseKit.

***THIS GIVEAWAY HAS ENDED***. Thank you all who commented.

To enter: post a comment about why you need to build a website followed by why you want to use BaseKit. The first 10 to leave their comments will win.

A few words about our sponsors:

It seems that every few weeks another web application comes along promising to revolutionize the entire world. Occasionally they do, but most don’t quite have the impact they promise and some just fizzle out.

BaseKit don’t want to revolutionize the entire world. What they want to do is make life easier for those who are unable to code or don’t want to. Unlike before, they can build a website with maximum design in minimum time.

BaseKit allows you to create a website in Photoshop, so that designers can illustrate their creative flair to its full potential without being restricted by the boundaries of coding. They’ve found that creating a great looking Photoshop design is the fun part of building a site. Slicing, turning it into code, adding functionality, uploading to a server and actually getting it online isn’t so great.

BaseKit takes that process and makes it as simple as possible. It’s as straightforward as flattening your PSD, splitting it into named layers and uploading it to BaseKit.

You can also drag fully functional widgets such as galleries, forms, Twitter feed, videos etc into the site, edit the design on the fly and publish to the web with two clicks. Your site is now online and the code is W3C web compliant.

Recently they launched their Plastic release with great functionality improvements, such as new Embed Widget, which allows you to embed your own Javascript code (or other HTML) directly onto your BaseKit page. In addition, you can easily embed 3rd party widget (from providers like Google or Widgetbox), or craft your own widgets directly in BaseKit. Furthermore, you can also add scripts to the header or body of your site by visiting the Page Options lightbox. The Embed widget opens up BaseKit to a full range of services like E-commerce, AdSense, music players and more.

Check out this video for a better look at what BaseKit can do.

They are offering a set of 10 vouchers of Plus account for £1 month over 3
months worth £30. A plus account enables you to build 3 websites with
unlimited pages, 1GB storage and your own domain. To enter post a
comment about why you need to build a website followed by why you
want to use BaseKit. The first 10 to leave their comments will win.

View the original article here

FlashUSAMap and FlashWorldMap Review and GIVEAWAY (3 copies of each)

***THIS GIVEAWAY HAS ENDED***

Aaaand the winners are:

Our sponsor will get in touch with you soon. If you didn’t win, don’t worry! Our kind sponsor has provided us with an awesome 25% off coupon: OFF25 – it works on either the USA or World map.  It is valid through the end of October.

***

We have an exciting new giveaway today. As web developers, you’ve probably encountered situations where you need to visualize geographic information.  Maybe, you’re a non-profit that wants to highlight the differences in child mortality rates across the globe.  Maybe, you’re working for a client who has offices in some states but not others. Or, perhaps, you run a travel directory and want to map available destinations.
Regardless of your situation, integrating a map into your website can be daunting.  What are your options?  You could make an HTML image map.  But, that takes time, is difficult to edit, and is a static solution.  You could use Google maps.  Sometimes that’s the right choice but it could be overkill and it doesn’t always look professional.

You should consider an interactive flash map.  But, who has the time or expertise to build one from scratch?  Fortunately, you can buy an out-of-the-box solution that allows you customize the map’s content and design.  That’s where this week’s giveaway sponsor comes in.  FlashUSAMap.com and FlashWorldmap.com sell clickable interactive maps that are easy to customize by editing a simple XML file.  You don’t need any Flash experience to customize your own map and installation is as easy as uploading some files and copying and pasting some code.

Each map includes informational pop-ups upon mouse hover that you can create using HTML and CSS (see screenshot).  The world map also allows you to include pinpoint locations based on latitude and longitude.  There are lots of features, so to get a feel for the maps you should check out the demos for the flash us map and the flash world map.  These maps typically retail for $59 and $199 respectively.  However, we’ve been given 3 copies of each map to give away to our readers.

The Prizes:
3 Licenses for the FlashUSAmap (each good for use one one site)
3 Licenses for the FlashWorldMap (each good for use on one site)

To ENTER: Post a comment stating which map you’d like and how you plan to use it.  You can request both maps if you’d use them. Please use a real email address; otherwise we won’t be able to contact you.

This giveaway ends on 9/30/2010 at noon EST.

View the original article here

Next Day Flyers Giveaway – 100 CUSTOM Post Cards! Do not miss.

Hey guys, today I’m offering a postcard contest in conjunction with the company, Next Day Flyers. Postcards are great because there are so many different ways you can use them. For instance you could send out a holiday message to your customers. Or you could mail out a photo postcard of your family, letting the relatives see just how much older everyone is getting! Maybe you just moved into a new home, take a photo of your house put it on the front of the postcard and list your new address on the backside.  You could use them as thank you cards to thank customers for their loyal patronage, or they could be used to promote an event or a party. That’s the great thing about this contest, the prize can be customized to meet your needs.

The prize one lucky winner will receive is 100 4”x 6” printed postcards. They will be printed on 14 PT cardstock, which if you don’t know is considered thick in terms of a postcard. You’ll be able to have a full color design on the front side, the back side can be personalized with a message in black and white, or you can leave it blank. The prize will include next day printing service, meaning if you get your order in by 6pm PST, it’s ready to be shipped the next business day.  While we’re talking about shipping, the prize will be shipped via ground shipping anywhere in the Continental United States.

Next Day Flyers even has a ton of templates that you could use to create your postcards. Actually they have a multitude of other great products like brochures, business cards, and tickets. Hopefully we’ll have another giveaway with these guys soon, and you’ll have an opportunity to win something else in the near future.

To enter just leave a comment stating how you would personalize the postcards if you win.  A winner will be chosen and contacted via email. This contest will end in 1 week on 11-24-10 at 9 PM EST.

View the original article here

BaseKit Review And GIVEAWAY

 Today we have another exciting giveaway for our loyal WebDesignDev readers. Our giveaway comes from BaseKit.

***THIS GIVEAWAY HAS ENDED***. Thank you all who commented.

To enter: post a comment about why you need to build a website followed by why you want to use BaseKit. The first 10 to leave their comments will win.

A few words about our sponsors:

It seems that every few weeks another web application comes along promising to revolutionize the entire world. Occasionally they do, but most don’t quite have the impact they promise and some just fizzle out.

BaseKit don’t want to revolutionize the entire world. What they want to do is make life easier for those who are unable to code or don’t want to. Unlike before, they can build a website with maximum design in minimum time.

BaseKit allows you to create a website in Photoshop, so that designers can illustrate their creative flair to its full potential without being restricted by the boundaries of coding. They’ve found that creating a great looking Photoshop design is the fun part of building a site. Slicing, turning it into code, adding functionality, uploading to a server and actually getting it online isn’t so great.

BaseKit takes that process and makes it as simple as possible. It’s as straightforward as flattening your PSD, splitting it into named layers and uploading it to BaseKit.

You can also drag fully functional widgets such as galleries, forms, Twitter feed, videos etc into the site, edit the design on the fly and publish to the web with two clicks. Your site is now online and the code is W3C web compliant.

Recently they launched their Plastic release with great functionality improvements, such as new Embed Widget, which allows you to embed your own Javascript code (or other HTML) directly onto your BaseKit page. In addition, you can easily embed 3rd party widget (from providers like Google or Widgetbox), or craft your own widgets directly in BaseKit. Furthermore, you can also add scripts to the header or body of your site by visiting the Page Options lightbox. The Embed widget opens up BaseKit to a full range of services like E-commerce, AdSense, music players and more.

Check out this video for a better look at what BaseKit can do.

They are offering a set of 10 vouchers of Plus account for £1 month over 3
months worth £30. A plus account enables you to build 3 websites with
unlimited pages, 1GB storage and your own domain. To enter post a
comment about why you need to build a website followed by why you
want to use BaseKit. The first 10 to leave their comments will win.

View the original article here

FlashUSAMap and FlashWorldMap Review and GIVEAWAY (3 copies of each)

 ***THIS GIVEAWAY HAS ENDED***

Aaaand the winners are:

Our sponsor will get in touch with you soon. If you didn’t win, don’t worry! Our kind sponsor has provided us with an awesome 25% off coupon: OFF25 – it works on either the USA or World map.  It is valid through the end of October.

***

We have an exciting new giveaway today. As web developers, you’ve probably encountered situations where you need to visualize geographic information.  Maybe, you’re a non-profit that wants to highlight the differences in child mortality rates across the globe.  Maybe, you’re working for a client who has offices in some states but not others. Or, perhaps, you run a travel directory and want to map available destinations.
Regardless of your situation, integrating a map into your website can be daunting.  What are your options?  You could make an HTML image map.  But, that takes time, is difficult to edit, and is a static solution.  You could use Google maps.  Sometimes that’s the right choice but it could be overkill and it doesn’t always look professional.

You should consider an interactive flash map.  But, who has the time or expertise to build one from scratch?  Fortunately, you can buy an out-of-the-box solution that allows you customize the map’s content and design.  That’s where this week’s giveaway sponsor comes in.  FlashUSAMap.com and FlashWorldmap.com sell clickable interactive maps that are easy to customize by editing a simple XML file.  You don’t need any Flash experience to customize your own map and installation is as easy as uploading some files and copying and pasting some code.

Each map includes informational pop-ups upon mouse hover that you can create using HTML and CSS (see screenshot).  The world map also allows you to include pinpoint locations based on latitude and longitude.  There are lots of features, so to get a feel for the maps you should check out the demos for the flash us map and the flash world map.  These maps typically retail for $59 and $199 respectively.  However, we’ve been given 3 copies of each map to give away to our readers.

The Prizes:
3 Licenses for the FlashUSAmap (each good for use one one site)
3 Licenses for the FlashWorldMap (each good for use on one site)

To ENTER: Post a comment stating which map you’d like and how you plan to use it.  You can request both maps if you’d use them. Please use a real email address; otherwise we won’t be able to contact you.

This giveaway ends on 9/30/2010 at noon EST.

View the original article here

Next Day Flyers Giveaway – 100 CUSTOM Post Cards! Do not miss.

 Hey guys, today I’m offering a postcard contest in conjunction with the company, Next Day Flyers. Postcards are great because there are so many different ways you can use them. For instance you could send out a holiday message to your customers. Or you could mail out a photo postcard of your family, letting the relatives see just how much older everyone is getting! Maybe you just moved into a new home, take a photo of your house put it on the front of the postcard and list your new address on the backside.  You could use them as thank you cards to thank customers for their loyal patronage, or they could be used to promote an event or a party. That’s the great thing about this contest, the prize can be customized to meet your needs.

The prize one lucky winner will receive is 100 4”x 6” printed postcards. They will be printed on 14 PT cardstock, which if you don’t know is considered thick in terms of a postcard. You’ll be able to have a full color design on the front side, the back side can be personalized with a message in black and white, or you can leave it blank. The prize will include next day printing service, meaning if you get your order in by 6pm PST, it’s ready to be shipped the next business day.  While we’re talking about shipping, the prize will be shipped via ground shipping anywhere in the Continental United States.

Next Day Flyers even has a ton of templates that you could use to create your postcards. Actually they have a multitude of other great products like brochures, business cards, and tickets. Hopefully we’ll have another giveaway with these guys soon, and you’ll have an opportunity to win something else in the near future.

To enter just leave a comment stating how you would personalize the postcards if you win.  A winner will be chosen and contacted via email. This contest will end in 1 week on 11-24-10 at 9 PM EST.

View the original article here