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

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

Wix Review: Create an Amazing Website Using Wix

Posted on 03. Dec, 2010 by Web Design in Flash

We have been very pleased after reviewing Wix, a free flash website builder. Most website builders do not deliver, but Wix is much different. With Wix you can create your own website with ease without adding even a single line of code. The admin panel is built with a beautiful, graphic drag & drop interface and allows for total creative freedom. Choose from 1000's of professionally-designed web templates or create a website from scratch. If you want to create a site from scratch, it’s extremely simple to add items like titles, logos, clip art, photo galleries and more as you go. Publish in 1-step and your site is live online. Another huge benefit of Wix is that all sites built with Wix are search engine friendly. We can honestly say that this is the best website builder that we have seen to date.

Click Here To Sign Up For Wix For Free

Check out some of the websites built with Wix:

Big John’s Mountain Grill used the website builder to create a mouth-watering, eye-catching free Flash website, with Flash animation, automated photo galleries, beautiful sliding page transitions and high-contrast text and logos. This website makes a powerful impression on its visitors and is an excellent tool for promoting and enhancing the restaurant’s brand

The designers of Excelsior Comics took full advantage of the latest design elements offered by Wix. Their free Flash website uses a dynamic combination of Flash design elements, and HTML widgets, resulting in a visually stimulating, highly interactive website.

Cherie Michels, the creator of Munkybuns, used Wix to make a free website to showcase her hand-made creations and offer them for sale. The playful look of the Munkybuns sock toys is replicated in the design of the Munkybuns site.

Immortal Tattoo used the Wix website builder for their business website. Watch videos of the artists at work, and check out photos of their remarkable creations.

Animation artist and cinematographer Torgeir Ensrud used the Wix website creator to show off his talent. Have fun exploring the depths of his dark universe.

Wix’s website builder enabled Samuel Vernon Crowder to create his graphic design site, Really Big Snowman. Watch animation videos and visit the artist’s blog.

This organization expertly combined Wix’s free website design elements to get its message across. Jump into the color world created by this visionary group.

Gotham Sport Management’s impressive Flash website is another one of more than 4 million websites built with Wix. It uses design and sound to convey professionalism and class. Visit their website and see for yourself.

You should also know that Wix.com itself is built using their website builder. What are you waiting for? Sign up for free and make an amazing website using Wix.

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

Super Tell-A-Friend Review – the best viral marketing tool?

I recently got my hands on a very, very powerful viral marketing tool called “Super Tell-A-Friend”. I decided to review it because I honestly think this is the best viral marketing tool available on the market. Why?

In a nutshell, what this tool does is it allows you to virally promote your site by allowing your users to invite their email contacts to visit your site. Sounds familiar? It’s the same concept that Facebook and Linkedin use, among others. The really cool feature about Super Tell-A-Friend is that it also allows you to incentivize your visitors to mass invite their friends by showing daily and monthly rankings of each user (email is not shown fully) and how many people they invited. I think this is an awesome idea because it opens the door to many possibilities how to further incentivize your users to promote your site virally, such as prizes for top inviters. So what exactly does the Super Tell-A-Friend do?

MULTIPLE FUNCTIONALITY : allow your existing users to promote their affiliate links, allow your visitors to invite their friends to join or visit your website, email list building and newsletter software.To send the emails, the script can use your hosting internal email server or a SMTP server.The script is able to send the email invitations immediately or using a cron job (email queue).The possibility to define maximum number of emails sent per hour and day.Newsletter module – it can send recurrent emails to all emails in the database (invited contacts, users and subscribers).Personalized email invitation. It contains special tags, automatically replaced by the script :
“Recipient’s Name”, “Recipient’s Email”, “Sender’s Name”, “Sender’s Email”, etc.Detailed REPORTS : users, visitors, subscribers, rewards – the ability to download as CSV file.The system can automatically send personalized recurrent REMINDERS to :- All users who invited their friends and ask them to send more invitations (to win the rewards).
- All recipients who did not visit your website (to remind them about the benefits of your website)10 FREE skins included in the package. The skins are also customizable.Customizable thank you email, confirmation email, redirection link and visitor’s landing page.The visitor’s landing page may be a fixed page or sender’s referral page (“email this page” feature).Full Html support. All features, content, text blocks are optional and customizable.

And much, much more. As I stated earlier, Super Tell-A-Friend is, hands down, the best tell-a-friend script.

Where can you get this all-in-one tell a friend script, contacts importer, invitation system and much more?

View the original article here

Whatfontis Review

Are you a graphic designer, photographer, blogger, advertiser, font freak, curious by nature or just dying to find out what’s the name of that awesome font that you saw on a website? Then search no more, because I have come accross WhatFontis ( http://www.whatfontis.com )

With WhatFontis, a free online font identifier, you are only three steps away to find the name of the font that you just can’t stand not knowing about.

Step 1 allows you to upload a screenshot of the font or to enter the url of the image. Step 1 also lets you choose how you want to browse through the 150,000 fonts: display only free fonts or free alternative fonts, display commercial fonts or simply display all fonts.

Step 2 verifies if the characters viewed by WhatFontis match the characters of your uploaded image, that you need to input into the box next to the displayed character.

Step 3 identifies the font for you. If it doesn’t find the right match, it suggests 100 alternatives you can scroll down through and choose the one that most resembles your font. In most cases, WhatFontis

also specifies the websites where you may download/buy the identified fonts from. Many of these fonts are available for free download. With its huge font gallery and a very high processing speed, it is a fun tool to try out.

Overall I am impressed by this tool and can highly recommend it.

View the original article here

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