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8 tools to make your website for free. It’s the truth that sometimes we have to and want to produce web sites on a budget.

8 tools to make your website for free

It’s also true that sometimes we may just want to put up and create some sites for fun, so we don’t want to spend a ton of money on them. Well fortunately, that’s where the web comes in. There are so many great technological advances that allow us to create and put up websites, not just on a budget but for free. From web design to development, there are all-free services that allow us to create PROFESSIONAL web sites, not just template-based sites reminiscent of the late 90s.

Today, we’ve picked 8 of the best sites to help you make your site—that’s right—everything is web-based and FREE. The design For many of us who are designers, we may start out with the design of the web site. Phoenix by Aviary What the developers say: “From basic image retouching to complex effects, Phoenix delivers the key features of a desktop image editor with the simplicity and accessibility of a web-based application.”

Splashup. Lotto Lab : Home. Internet Native Film – An Annotated List - Home. CV. Public Art LabPublic Art Lab. Digital Art / Public Art: Governance and Agency in the Networked Commons. Digital art has expanded, challenged, and even redefined notions of public art and supported the concept of a networked commons.

Digital Art / Public Art: Governance and Agency in the Networked Commons

The nature of agency within online, networked "systems" and "communities" is crucial to these developments. Electronic networks enable exchange and collectivist strategies that can question existing structures of power and governance. Networks are public spaces that offer enhanced possibilities of interventions into the social world and of archiving and filtering these interventions over time in an ongoing process.Networked activism and tactical response as well as artistic practice that merges physical and virtual space and augments physical sites and existing architectures are among the practices that are important to the impact of digital public art on governance.

Digital technologies and new media art have expanded, challenged, or even redefined concepts of what constitutes public space, the public domain, and public art. The People Speak. Public art in the digital era. If you give an artist a digital camera, heâ''ll start taking pictures.

Public art in the digital era

Heâ''ll want GPS device, a digital compass, and a laser distance meter to code the pictures, a computer to analyze the pictures, and software that can run calculations on the billions of pixels. Heâ''ll want a building on which to display the pictures. And, eventually, heâ''ll come up with an answer to a question only an artist would ask: What color is Palo Alto? This, in a nutshell, is a seven-year project that came to be called The Color of Palo Alto. It is public art in the digital age. In 2001 the City of Palo Altoâ''s Public Arts Commission gave artist Samuel Yates $10,000 to photograph the cityâ''s 17,739 parcels.

Meanwhile, with another $25,000 from the city and $40,000 from Hewlett-Packard, Yates has printed out a photograph of every house in the town and plastered the images on city hall, in alphabetical order by street. And what color is Palo Alto? Selected texts by Saul Albert. Portal to web related art. DigitalTransitionsReport-FINAL-EN. Selecnetart. Net-art: arte electrónico -> arte digital. Aleph · [ pensamiento ] Net art net. DATABASE - DATABASE OF VIRTUAL ART.

Net.art. Tate Intermedia Art Archive: View All by Date. Espacionetart. Dive. CORE LABS - new media art production center. TXT.CONT3XT.NET - ART LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY.