Web apps

So have you ever built your own website or even thought about putting one together? Website builders often offer huge, complicated behemoths of design that are not only hard to create but also cost a fair amount of money. Quite often they are so complicated that you end up hiring a professional design team to do it for you. This is fine for big business but, if you are a small business or a creative professional, that's often  not an option. Plebu is a 'software as a service' web design and website creator that makes it easy and cheap to quickly put together a professional website ...  More

Do you still see those advertising boards all over town that say "Create your own website for $???" Yes, there are still plenty around where I live, that's for sure. But these days it is not necessary to spend hundreds of dollars to put your own website together. Surely, EXAI Website builder is the simplest and one of the cheapest ways of putting a professional website together that has all the  elements of a professionally designed one. By simply entering basic information, EXAI creates your website with one click and then let's you edit nearly every aspect of your site to create one ...  More

There are several different reasons why it is wise to add some sort of a site map or on-page guidance for your website. On the one hand, of course, there is the simple answer that visitors want to find what they are looking for easily and not to give them any reason to give up in frustration and go elsewhere. This streamlining of your information is the sort of thing that turns trial customers into paying customers. But there's also the matter of your call-center costs and customer support to take into consideration. Improving the traffic flow through your site will cut down on the amount ...  More

I guess the biggest difference between this new online survey application and other recently reviewed apps like TabletView and Pinnion is that Survey Anyplace has been developed specifically for mobiles. This iOS and Android app is a simple way for anyone to create eye-catching surveys and quizzes, wrap them in their own brand colors, add a logo and multimedia elements and get customer feedback to provide a better service and better profits. At under thirty dollars a month for the most popular plan Survey Anytime may be a cost effective way of providing better customer service management ...  More

The Internet is a weird evolving object that springs up more than a few surprises. People can be even weirder. If you have read any Malcolm Gladville you will be well aware of the organized chaos that we live in. Take social networks for example. I remember a friend telling me not long after Facebook's inception to "just sign up" and it wasn't that long before its reputation grew and the "Tipping Point" was reached. Now it is getting close to a billion users and everyone from cute Kentucky girls to Sherpas in Tibet seems to have an account. Add to that the phenomena of Twitter and, more ...  More

Fine Bottles is a social application for iOS that is made to benefit both the wine connoisseur as well as the wine maker and distributor. On the one hand it is a handy note-taker and journal for the wine lover to wax lyrical about the bottle of wine being consumed. For the wine maker there is the chance to connect with potential customers and offer special deals as well as offering more information on specific wines from all regions of the world.   Fine Bottles is a native iPhone and web application for the fast creation of wine tasting notes. You can easily create notes and rate the ...  More

While being a very simple photoshare application Instatrip surprisingly turns out to be quite an engaging little Instagram offshoot - especially for those who love to take photos of the fantastic places that they visit on their travels. And really, all you need to do is to tag your Instagram photos with their location as your photos are automatically generated out of your Instagram photostream. It's a place where you can create and share your photos from your vacation or holiday trips and share them with your friends as well as the rest of the world.   Many vacationers tend to take ...  More

It's always a good sign when doing research work on an app to find it mentioned (in a good way, I might add) in lots of different posts. It appears that Linkcious is a rather popular social media monitoring application. So why is it so popular? Well, when you strip it right back, Linkcious is a contextual replacement for Facebook Social Plugins but with the option to add other social networks like Twitter and Pinterest. This means that the app will gather together and track all the relevant clicks, impressions and social interactions and places them on your web page.   In its most ...  More

Easy WebContent Presenter was developed by the web building app Easy WebContent and it was designed as a cloud-based HTML5 animation tool that puts the user in complete control of creating web and mobile friendly interactive content for your website. The Presenter makes it easy to create animations, interactive presentations and resumes, infographics and banners and can be integrated through all your favorite social networks, digital documents, websites and blogs. The aim is to simplify and have complete control over the way we communicate with an audience by creating animations and ...  More

I guess the significant word for this social sharing application  is INTERESTING! You see, ScanThe.Net is a great place to find new content while scanning the net for cool things to share on your social networks. And, in a Twitter-ish or Pinteresting kind of way, you can follow people as well as your interests via keywords and find all sorts of interesting stuff that you might not find through normal channels. You can vote for your best or worst content so you'd better make sure the content you come up with is, at the very least, interesting.   ScanThe.Net encourages you to start ...  More