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Top 10 best website builders to create free website

Shivaji Mitra — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 04:11:15 +0000

Few years back, one of my friend tried making his own website with very little knowledge of HTML or CSS or coding and looks for several free website builders and free web hosting service providers which allow to upload files in a traditional way, but unfortunately, none of them satisfied my friend and he never tried to publish his websites on any of the free web hosting providers as suggested by me. With his knowledge, he need a good interface to quickly built websites with drag and drop features maintaining professional website modern web2.0 looks and feels and a quality user interface.

For a more builders reviews, I started googling about Web2.0 style best free site builders with great support history and I found few which are listed below. You can build your own professional looking site quickly and easily with do-it-yourself top website builder, Ad free hosting, Social networking tools like Facebook, Twitter integration, Add 3rd party content like Youtube, Myspace video, Google maps and so on. So here goes the list of top 10 free web site builder:

MoonFruit

Over other website builders I’ve tried, Moonfruit is far and away the best when it comes to its versatility at accommodating particular layouts and positions for content and its ease of use. In all it’s a great choice because of:

Click and drag functionality, allowing text, buttons or images to be placed anywhere on a web page
Over 60 templates to choose from
Easy to use – it’s not necessary to read a manual or refer to the help section to build a site
Great value, even for the package where you can develop as many sites as you want

Moonfruit Do-it-yourself website builder with lot of social networking tools like youtube, facebbok, twitter integration.

Webs.com

Webs.com is the leading website builder with more than 50 million sites already built. You get hundreds of templates to choose from with a ton of unique features. Best of all the interface is drag and drop and there is no coding necessary so it is easy for anyone to have their own website in minutes.

Web Start Today

Web Start Today offers an easy-to-use and intuitive interface especially designed for non-technical users. This does not mean that it cannot create complex websites; the builder has all the features a more advanced user may need. The service is free for small businesses and one can create his website for free for upto one year. In addition to that, Web Start Today has some unique features to help you build a world-class website in minutes and go live the same day without any hassle. You can easily get yourself registered on the website using your e-mail ID and start creating beautiful websites.

Web Hosting HUB – Web Builder

Did you know that Web Hosting HUB offers its customers a FREE Premium Web Builder with all of their hosting accounts? So on top of getting the web hosting services that you need anyways, Web Hosting HUB also incorporates the ease of their web builder into their hosting bundle. Choose from over 500 Website Templates! Customize the color scheme, header, upload your own logo, create a flash intro and add or remove pages. Using our point-and-click interface website editing interface is as easy as using a word processor. Once you’re happy with your site, publish it with a single click and you’re site is ready to go. Be up and running in as little as 5 minutes!

EXAI

Building a website with EXAI is easy and free. You can have a quality, custom-designed website in only minutes without having any experience in programming or design! To start, simply fill in a Website Creator form with information about your website – logo, images, business field, etc. Once you’re done, EXAI AI (artificial intelligence) technology will create 6 custom-made websites, uniquely designed to match the information you provided. All you have to do is choose the one you like best and continue to editing it in the Website Builder. EXAI is a provider of artificial intelligence website building technology.

Weebly

Weebly was named one of TIME’s 50 Best Websites of the year in 2007. Add pictures, videos, music and audio, maps, and photo galleries. Sell products, accept online bookings, create a contact form, or arrange your pages in multiple columns. Drag on slideshows, files, forums, games, RSS feeds, or any other HTML embed code, all by simply dragging and dropping.

Jimdo

Making your own online store has never been easier. With a shopping cart, secure payments, and all the essential features, you’ll be making money faster than you can say “shop!”. # Excellent support for accessiblity. While this is a more advanced area, it will help you with SEO and in support of disabled users. It also might be a legal requirement depending on your business. Jimdo offers multiple layouts including direct access to the HTML, CSS and images for full-featured editing. I’m not a fan of their default designs, personally, and it might require more design work than the others reviewed. On the other hand, if you have your own design, moving it into Jimdo looks dead simple.

Squarespace 6

Squarespace is a great choice for creating a Blog or portfolio site and its a real alternative of using WordPress site. Squarespace is a hosting option that offers an easy way to set up a blog, or even a full website if you’re so inclined, and manage it remotely. Squarespace easily has one of the best interfaces for designing, customizing and personalizing your blog without needing to know programming language or finding third party templates. You have more freedom to move widgets, columns and plug-ins around than you find in other services and it’s much easier too. Squarespace is also one of the few blog services that gives you website traffic statistics.

Webnode

Webnode is a Free & Easy website builder. By using Drag-and-Drop from the toolbar you can add new content such as polls, forums, articles, catalogues, widgets such as PayPal and much more. Webnode contains more than 40 beautiful templates or you can make your own.

Handzon

HandzOn is a website building service that allows you to quickly and easily create professional looking websites, created by one of the oldest online website builder companies on the internet today. Handzon can be used for any kind of website or online content, but has been specially built to be the most beneficial to businesses. From “brochure-ware” sites to e-commerce storefronts, makes publishing and designing your website quick and easy.

uCoz

Create an unlimited number of free websites with uCoz, one of the most powerful website builders in the world and #1 in Eastern Europe. Whatever you want to build – a personal or business website, a forum or e-shop, anything is possible with its numerous features. It offers customization along with a template builder, visual editor, FTP access, unlimited bandwidth, free website domain attachment, full HTML5/CSS3 compatibility and much more. Security is high with the uID user management system, its capabilities are fueled by the existing 22 modules including E-shop, Blog, Forum while the users form a vibrant community ready to welcome new members.

Breezi

With Breezi, you can now easily create and manage a mobile optimized, fully custom website online, with absolutely no coding needed. Just sign-up for a free trial, and select a professionally designed starting point to get started. You’re then taken right into the visual, drag-and-drop online website editor. Breezi’s intuitive WYSIWYG editor gives you full control over the design, layout, and content of your pages, and you see each change take form on the fly as you bring your website to life. All of the content you add is managed through a growing library of Apps, which you can drag-and-drop anywhere on your page, and simply click them to change the content.

BlinkWeb

BlinkWeb is definitely targeted toward Internet Marketers. BlinkWeb is a bit like Google Pages. The features of both are similar. The components supported by BlinkWeb right now include a contact form, a guest book, Google Maps integration for showing where an address is, Google Adsense integration, and a custom HTML widget.

IMCreator

IM Creator is a drag n’ drop website creator with cutting edge templates. Create beautiful websites in a trouble-free, accessible and pleasant experience. No need for coding. You can create your own site under i-m.co subdomain, totally free, and it will be compatible with all devices, including mobile phones and tablets. If you decide to use your own domain, premium packages with unlimited hosting starting from 5.95$/month. SEO, analytics and email accounts included. This is one of the easiest site builders and you should definitely check it out.

Wix

Create stunning and interactive flash websites for free, myspace layouts and flash widgets. Easy to use drag and drop editor – No technical skills required – Search engine friendly. Simpler, faster, better way to create stunning free Flash web content. good support. Detailed Review ->

Aircus

In Aircus you can set up a free business or personal oriented one-page website which works on all devices (responsive) very easily without IT skills. You only fill in structured forms and follow a simple wizard. It’s specially designed for non-IT people and very easy to use. You can set it up on your own domain or get the domain and also connect it to your other internet profiles to keep them up to date.

350 Pages

350 Pages Free is a free version of 350 Pages Lite. You can post one website with 15 pages total. It is primarily a demo of their paid service, but if you have a small site you could maintain it with this.

Google Sites

Google Sites is a free and easy way to create and share. Single-click page creatio, No HTML required, Customizable look and feel, Settings for accessing and sharing information And it’s free!

Edicy

Competition to Edicy comes from websites such as Blogger, Homestead and also Weebly. Blogger is primarily designed for blogging, but many people use it to build a general website. The Edicy site is much more versatile than Blogger, however. Homestead and Weebly offer services similar to Edicy, with Homestead being a bit more difficult to use than Edicy, while Weebly is easier to use than Edicy. This is a crowded field, and there are a host of other free website builders available on the web.

Top Commercial Web Hosting Listing

Web Hosting HUB

Web Hosting HUB is the absolute easiest way to get yourself online instantly. With unlimited space, bandwith, transfer, and a free domain, Web Hosting HUB offers a load of tools and services. They offer 24/7 US based support, along with a 90 Day Money Back Guarantee. Add on the 1-click CMS installer via Fantastico, and you can get your WordPress, Drupal, or Joomla site up and running in minutes. Using the popular cPanel interface, users can easily add e-commerce tools, setup emails, and manage all your domains. If you’re a true beginner, Web Hosting HUB also offers a Free Premium Web Builder, so that you can use one of hundreds of existing templates. Just drag and drop to create your site quickly and painlessly.

Nexcess Ecommerce Hosting

There are few famous open-source ecommerce application available like Magento, Prestashop, OScommere, we strongly recommend NEXCESS. Among all plans, the Magento SIP Plans are newest, cutting edge E-Commerce hosting solution. Each SIP is an entirely self-contained hosting environment. Each comes with a pre-installed and optimized Magento store – running the most recent Magento software and optimized for increased performance, stability and security. All SIP plans also include unlimited e-mail mailboxes (POP/IMAP), full FTP access, InterWorx control panel, R1Soft file backups.

Verio Windows Hosting

For commercial Windows Virtual Server Hosting we recommend VERIO. Verio offers award-winning services to the small business community including Domain Name Registration, Website Hosting, Hosted Microsoft Exchange Business Email and more. When it comes to understanding the technology needs of today’s small and medium sized businesses, Verio has it covered. With over 250,000 small business customers and 12 years experience bringing them innovative web-based services, they bring both the depth and breadth of knowledge about what SMBs really need to succeed in today’s fragmented and uncertain market. And they bring that expertise to you. Click on Banner to visit the site.

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Top 5 Misconceptions of a Free Website Builder

Sandy Pardal — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 10:29:47 +0000

For those debuting into the world wide web and wondering how you reach the online community using this powerful tool or if you just need a website to promote your products or services but don’t have a clue where to start and don’t have the resources to hire someone to build one for you, you can use a website builder. In your floundering about the world wide web, you have read about blogs and related information, but you don’t even know what a website builder is in the first place.

To start the newbie out, a website builder is a tool that allows you to create a website without manual coding. This enables you to override all the technical knowledge needed to produce a website from scratch.

So, you wonder if your Do It Yourself website will take off into the light of the day without you having any technical knowledge to build it, and the answer is yes. Why? There are many misconceptions about free website builders, but they are disproved right here.

You need to have programming knowledge to use a free website builder
Now that is a load of hogwash. You need exactly zero programming skills to use a website builder. All you need is creativity and a good understanding of what you want to use the website for. Then you choose a good online website builder, and you are good to go. Good website builders have wizards or templates which help you build your website from scratch without using a single code.
A free website builder will not give you the best features for your website
This is certainly not true! All free website builders have built in features that help you choose beautiful designs, apps, settings and menus that will enable your website to be as interactive as possible. Just keep working on it to discover what the capabilities are, and try them out. 24X7 advice should not be far away either.
A free website builder will have glitches
This could not be further from the truth. Website builders that host multiple websites make sure that they give their users the best quality. How would they attract people to use their product if it has glitches? The fact that it’s free does not mean its poor quality. The cliché that free is cheap is not true of website builders. So go ahead and use any of the free website builders available online.
Free Website Builders don’t allow you to make changes to your content
All website builders enable you to create your content and change it whenever and wherever you like. The fact that they host your website does not give you less of a right to control the content you have on your site.
Using a free website builder will make search engines rank your website low
Nay! Great many websites that are ranking high on search engines are created and hosted on free website builders. It’s the content that you put on your website that matters, not the website builder hosting it. So don’t be afraid of using a website builder, just make sure your content is relevant and attractive enough for people and search engines.

There, you have it all. Armed with this information plunge into the world wide web and create your own website. To gain more confidence, work on an offline page on your computer and when done, settings are available that will allow you to publish the document you have created onto an online website builder which will facilitate ease of formatting the webpage and work from there!

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Website Usability Testing Tools

Shivaji Mitra — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 07:47:23 +0000

So you design a website from a web design company, and you started getting traffic, but the sales aren’t rolling in as you expected. Website Usability and User Experience testing is vital key on making a successful website. In the past I spent lot of money recruiting expensive company to submit a report on website usability tests analysis. But now the time has changed, by using readily available free or commercial usability testing tools, you can tackle almost any usability analysis job. Once the initial site get built or you just finished designing a website, it’s absolutely important that you perform a detail website usability testing to ensure that it’s functioning like it was expected. Conversion rates analysis is also a must.

Website Usability & Conversion Analysis tools as listed below, will help you redesign your site in a manner where your website visitors will find it easy to navigate your website.

Userlytics

With Userlytics, you can set up a feedback study and see exactly what your audience sees when visiting your website or application! It got ability to test prototypes, videos, mobile apps, display ads, search and social behavior, desktop and web applications, smart-phones and tablets in addition to websites. You can view results in the cloud, share with colleagues and clients on a study by study basis, and download and edit video and survey results. You have the ability to include up to 100 post-recording survey questions per test to compare what participants say with what they do when interacting with stimuli. QA of every video with identification & transcription of key events and comments, hyper-linked to specific video and timeline moment.

ClickTale

See everything visitors do on your website, every mouse move, hover click and scroll. Find videos of visitors who experienced errors, abandoned your shopping cart, or could not find what they were looking for. Dramatically improve conversion rates by reducing customer abandonment to recover lost revenue, finding usability issues, and fixing vital business processes in real time. Discover what page elements, images and content your visitors like and pay attention to. Build web pages that give visitors what they want and make sure content, links and call to action buttons grab their attention.

Loop11

Loop11 is a remote usability testing tool that enables you to test the user-experience of any website and identify navigational and usability issues. Get the hard facts about your website quickly and cost effectively! Test an unlimited number of websites, ask an unlimited number
of tasks or questions and invite 1000 users! There’s no code to insert and users don’t need to download software, meaning their response rates will be higher. Test any HTML interface, not just your own website. Test your competitors and see how your website compares.

Rating: 10.0/10 (11 votes cast)

PHP Training in Kolkata

Shivaji Mitra — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 07:49:33 +0000

Placement Assistance Given. If you are looking for a computer based job after graduation, the chances your getting one increases only if you know Open source programming with PHP and MySQL. This is because open source programming is today one of the hot solutions that easily meets the dynamic needs of e-business.

It is with the help of open source programming using PHP and MySQL database that web forms, blogs, e-commerce and info database and online catalogs are today created. These interactive websites work as per the wishes of its visitors and administrators.

When compared to other script languages, any fresher can learn PHP, and create websites in a matter of four to six months’ time. It is cheaper to host PHP and MySQL websites than Windows supported websites. There is no need of paying any fees for using PHP language, unlike Windows supported languages. Applications created using PHP are sturdier, and unlike other scripts, can easily adapt to other web hosting environments. This means that while PHP scripts can run on Windows hosting, ASP and .NET applications don’t run on Linux and UNIX. Today, most small and medium businesses use PHP/MySQL to run and improve its online presence as there are no limits to the number of web applications they create. Though there are quite a few trained PHP programmers, its number does not meet the number of PHP jobs available.

So if you want a better chance at getting computer jobs after graduation, just join Anblik. Anblik is today a leading provider of Web 2.0 web design and websites for employment, recreation, heath care, government, education and commerce sectors. Anblik concentrates on developing semantic web and first class service and high quality products, so that they can meet the needs of any business, with the right user friendly SEO web applications.

Anblik conducts an advanced course on weekend PHP and MySQL programming classes that are carefully designed for student and working candidates. In addition to this, their course also provides Placement assistance on completion of the course.

Course details

Each course spans 3 months with flexible timings. There are no batches to join; you just have to complete 3 hours of training twice in a week. The course fee is Rs. 15,000 which can be paid in 3 installments of Rs. 5,000 each.

The course spans three levels where the first level is an introduction to the internet and World Wide Web. You are also given an introduction to websites, its functionality, XHTML, CSS.

The second level consists of a complete and industrial package in PHP and MySQL Programming. It includes topics like introduction to PHP and MySQL database, use of PHP operators, flow control, configuration and functions and understanding of variables and expressions, conditional tests and events and string manipulation in PHP.

The third level of the course is where students receive ‘hands-on’ experience working with WordPress, Joomla, OsCommerce and Prestashop Ecommerce with live, international projects, while under the guidance of industry experts and the company’s professionals.

So if you want to get an edge over others on the internet world, join Anblik to learn the latest and everything you want about PHP/MySQL script. You also get an opportunity to use whatever you learn on ‘live’ projects using the latest in web technologies.

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Join Live PHP Projects

Shivaji Mitra — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 07:22:50 +0000

For many, it is not easy to get a job, even if you are trained in PHP script language. If you are one of these people, you will be pleased to know that the reason for this is not bad luck, but only because employers feel that though you have undergone PHP training, you don’t have sufficient practical knowledge in the language.

In fact, it has been found out, and proven that about 80% of people trained in PHP don’t get jobs because of a lack of real life project experiences. It is because of this that they don’t actually know how to complete live PHP projects.

To solve this problem, you can turn to Anblik, a professional web development clinic for help. Here, you are offered training in one of their many international live projects under the able hands of their experienced team of project managers. This training is imparted in their development center found in Kolkata.

Participation in a project in Anblik gives you exposure in designing project specifications, communications with clients, web hosting, responding and accepting client feedback, creation of database, programming of the project and even beta testing. This is why all the students who have completed a live project in Anblik are immediately offered multiple job opportunities in the outside world.

With project expansions taking place every month in Anblik, there is a great opportunity for candidates to get immediate inclusion in the Anblik team, based on the individual’s aptitude and grades.

Anblik follows high standards of training with its training being imparted by famous industry experts. Each student enrolled in the course get personal workstations and is given one to one interaction with tier trainers.

Anytime broadband internet access, a resourceful library full of e-books and reference books and the use of advanced web servers for hosting your work are the highlights of Anblik, and a few of the many reasons most PHP trained programmers join Anblik for added experience to their PHP knowledge.

The aim of Anblik has always been, and will always be to shape IT professionals to deliver to the requirements of international standards. The IT professionals coming out of Anblik are trained and well versed in PHP/MySQL script programming, and are thus capable of handling any project and job opportunity they face.

So if you are interested in this offer by Anblik, just join their live project course that spans a month. While the course fee is Rs. 8,000, you will have to put in 8 hours of work everyday to complete a project and of course, the course.

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We are Hiring!

Shivaji Mitra — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 06:35:21 +0000

At Anblik, we regularly hire knowledgeable and experienced candidates in our Kolkata office. Interested candidates can Apply for below given post. We specially prefer candidates from South Kolkata Area.:

Web Designer job in Kolkata

If you are a designer who makes every pixel count, you are in luck! As an integral team member, you will be responsible for visualizing, conception, and executing Anblik’s designs. You will be responsible for all of Anblik’s visual aesthetics including web page designing, and presentations. We are seeking talented, creative, generalists who have had previous experience designing web and software interfaces for consumer products with very good understanding of XHTML and CSS and creating a site maintaining W3C Standards. Creative design is a must! Most importantly, we seek an energetic and passionate designer who works well in a fast-paced environment.

Skills Required

Photoshop
Illustrator
Flash
Dreamweaver
Expertise with XHTML/DHTML/CSS and familiarity with JavaScript
Familiarity with programming languages, web server techniques
Ability to design and convert designs into multiple browser compatibility
Knowledge of latest online trends including Web 2.0 and beyond

Responsibilities Include

Develop visual layout for our clients projects using Liquid deign concept
Collaborate with team members to make design decisions
Create web designs, graphics, and templates compatible with D/XHTML
Flash Action script writing

PHP/Mysql Web Developer job in Kolkata

Talented, experienced, dedicated and detail-oriented PHP Programmers needed to join Anblik at our Kolkata office. Candidate will help code for our client websites, applications, internal database-driven sites. Candidate must be highly proficient with XHTML/CSS, able to write/maintain existing PHP/MySQL, and familiar with Adobe Photoshop.

Skills Required

Minimum of 2-3 years in a professional working environment.
Required Competencies in PHP, SQL(MySQL), XML, XHTML, AJAX, CSS, UNIX
Exceptional problem solving and analytical skills a must
Object-oriented programming as well as procedural methodologies
Relational database design and optimization
Demonstrated expertise in developing and deploying client/server applications
Joomla, Drupal, WordPress or other Open Source CMS knowledge
Standards-compliant web authoring techniques

Responsibilities Include

Develop and support interactive web sites, content management systems, database applications, e-commerce solutions.
Support and maintain internal technology products, including content management system.
Build standards-compliant XHTML websites based on Photoshop design comps.
Interact with clients to define and explain technology requirements

Classic ASP3.0/MSSQL Web Developer job in Kolkata

Talented, experienced, dedicated and detail-oriented Classic ASP3.0 Programmers needed to join Anblik at our Kolkata office. Candidate will help code for our client websites, applications, internal database-driven sites. Candidate must be highly proficient with XHTML/CSS, able to write/maintain existing ASP3.0/MSSQL, and familiar with Adobe Photoshop.

Skills Required

Minimum of 2-3 years in a professional working environment.
Required Competencies in ASP3.0, MSSQL(2000/2005), XML, XHTML, AJAX, CSS, Windows
Exceptional problem solving and analytical skills a must
Relational database design and optimization
Demonstrated expertise in developing and deploying client/server applications
Standards-compliant web authoring techniques

Responsibilities Include

Develop and support interactive web sites, content management systems, database applications, e-commerce solutions.
Support and maintain internal technology products, including content management system.
Build standards-compliant XHTML websites based on Photoshop design comps.
Interact with clients to define and explain technology requirements

Location, Compensation & Benefits

Ideal candidate from South Kolkata (preferably Santoshpur) will get maximum preference.
Salary is commensurate with skills and experience

If you meet all, or many, of these criteria, then we want to meet you!

To Apply: Please send a cover letter, current resume w/salary history, and 2-4 best work samples to: admin@anblik.com.

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