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The Codeless Website: Four Awesome Tools for Creating Cool, No-T. Sometimes, even HTML is just too hard. In this postmodern world, we're all professionally fragmented jacks of all trades, and few of us have the patience (read: OCD) for learning enough CSS and Flash to allow us to keep up with the Jonses in terms of functional, sexy web design. Here are some cheat sheets, the Cliff Notes of site creation, if you will. Read on to discover four awesome, in-browser resources for creating your own beautiful corner of the web without the horror of code. Edicy: Sites in Seconds Edicy is a resource we just found out about recently. YourOwn.com: Edicy offers free vanity.edicy.com domains and publishing to any domain the user chooses for about $8.50 a month.

Choose Your Own Coding Adventure: Users can only pop the hood, so to speak, on HTML for sections of text. SEO-riffic: Edicy lets users add keywords and descriptions, but not other metadata or tags for images or other media. Zimplit: Fully Simple, Fully Editable SEO-riffic: Sorry, Charlie. 5 Essential Sites for Professional Photographers. The world of professional photography has come a long way since the days of the darkroom and Ektachrome film. Although there are traditionalists who still swear by film photography, advances in technology have brought photography to a whole new level, both in process and product.

In addition to innovation in photography equipment, there are many valuable resources online that are becoming essential tools for professional photographers. Everything in a photographer’s world can now be managed online, including content, rights, business processes and client relations, to name a few. Aside from shooting the actual photographs, the Internet has made it possible for the rest of the business to be handled from the comforts of the studio with a few clicks of the mouse. The following are five essential web sites for pros: 1. LiveBooks LiveBooks provides professional photographers (and other creatives) a powerful platform for establishing their web presence. Pricing: $39 per month 2. 3. 4. 5.

100 Awesome Niche Photo Sites You’ve Never Heard Of | Art Career. My Favorite Blogs & Websites of 2008. 30 Dec 2008 Following are the top 20 websites / blogs that I pay most attention to as per FeedDemon. couch mode print story Following are the top 20 websites / blogs that I pay most attention to as per FeedDemon. The snapshot on the left was captured in June (for comparison) while the one on right reflects my current reading habits. I was subscribed to some 1168 feeds in June but that number has shrunk to less than 650 today and I therefore have more time to spend per feed. Another big surprise is Hacker News – it has climbed to #2 position from nowhere while old favorite Techmeme has dropped to #8. You can find links to all the above sites through this list of recommended websites. tutorials — how-to guides — feeddemon — lists — my favorite blogs & websites of 2008. In 2008, I became addicted to these 5 apps. And you? « TheNextWe.

End of the year lists are here to stay. Here are my two cents. I decided to share the five apps I got hooked on last year – blended with some The Next Web travel stories. Hope you dig the read and most of all, share your favorite five programs of 2008. Best wishes, dear readers! 1. Evernote – a second memory for everybody I met Evernote director Alex Pachikov during the Altsearchengines meet-up in San Francisco, last April. // Evernote.com 2. During The Next Web Open Office Road Trip I spent the hours in the car reading Getting Things Done by David Allen. On another trip, this time Krakow, Next Web mobile editor Peter Evers advised me to use Things. // Things on Cultured Code 3. During the China 2.0 trip last November, Shel Israel, Mike Butcher (TechCrunch UK) and I found ourselves in many Chinese offices – listening to the presentations of the entrepreneurs who will take over the world. // Tweetdeck.com 4.

“Hi, I’m Avner from Boxee“. // Boxee.tv 5. Yeah I know, I know. // Pipes.Yahoo.com. Jeqq / Published News.