web publishing

Web Publishing: Build Your Own Mashups with Microsoft's Popfly

Web application Popfly takes a building block approach to mashup creation, allowing regular folks like us to connect services like Flickr, Twitter, and maps to your heart's content and your...

Online Identity: Get a Personalized Contact Page with Reachby

Call it the poor man's web site: free web service Reachby hosts custom contact pages for users at a http://yourname.reachby.com address. Avoid giving out email addresses on web sites, forums, or on...

Web Publishing: Design Web Site Icons at Favicon.cc

Create an address bar/tab icon for your web site instantly with Favicon.cc, a web-based paint application and image converter that creates favicons. Draw your icon and preview the results in actual...

Screenshots: Screen Grab Web Sites Online with Thumbalizr

Easily generate web site screenshots and thumbnails with web application Thumbalizr. Just submit the URL into the search box and wait about a minute until the screenshot becomes available. ...

Web Publishing: Record and Share a Whiteboard with Sketchcast

Record and share real-time (but not live) drawings and whiteboards with YouTube-like embedded videos at web site Sketchcast. Sketchcast's intro video (above) touts the product as a potentially new...

Web Publishing: Create an Instant Web Site with Jottit

Webapp Jottit offers no-registration, one-click web publishing wiki-style plus lots of neat advanced features. One part Twitter (just a text box), four parts wiki, Jottit supports special markup for...

Reader Poll: Do You Have a Web Site?

We post a variety of software tips and tricks around here, and only a fraction of them have to do with web publishing. However, since the proliferation of free hosted blogs, more and more people are...

Web Site Traffic: Get Real-Time Visitor Data on an Interactive Map

If you were wondering where your website visitors were coming from but don't feel like viewing your web statistics or doing an IP-to-location lookup, you may find maps.amung.us interesting. The...

Web Publishing: Finally going to take the leap and get yourself ...

Finally going to take the leap and get yourself or your project your very own URL? First check out CNET's 11 steps to buying a domain name that doesn't suck.

How To: Hide your email from spam bots

Wired offers a couple of good tips for hiding your email address from spam bots without pulling it from your web site altogether. The most user-friendly suggestion is the Email Protector tool, which...