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Web Tools

2009-10-10T06:24:00.000-07:00

Below is a list of your registered and unregistered Bravenet Web Tools. There is no limit to the number of tools you can
use so go nuts. Don't forget our partners are offering some interesting stuff too - as listed at the bottom of the page!

Blog
Create an online diary or blog.

Chat Rooms
Host live chats with your site visitors.

Classifieds
Buy/Sell/Trade with classified ads.

E-Cards
Host your own custom postcard service.

Email Forms
Add a visitor feedback form to your website.

FAQ Service
Automated frequently asked questions.

GuestMap
Site visitors pin your map of the world.

Guestbook
The most popular guestbook on the Internet.

Headline News
Put live news on your web site.

Mailing List
Maintain a distribution mailing list with ease.

Online Calendar
Public event or scheduling calendars

Password Protect
Restrict access to selected website pages.

Photo Album
Store and share your photos online.

Site Search
Allow visitors to search your entire website.

Vote Caster
Hold a multiple-question poll on your site.

Web Poll
Embed a quick poll in your website.

Web Ring
Create a ring of sites with similar interests.

10 Tips To Design The Most Creative Website

2008-01-16T11:03:00.000-08:00

If we would like to develop our company in World Wide Web, then it's necessary to create the most creative website, so people can visit our website and want to take the information about our services and products. It is said that the first impression is the last impression and your website is the first impression to your target prospective clients. The impression should be developed by your creative website in visitor's mind so it's essential to create more creative website for first impression on our client's mentality so they want to visit our site again. To design the most creative website, follow below tips.

1. About Pages

If you want to get the ideas of your visitors, then feedback is necessary. Contact us page is also advisable to start a relation among you and your clients. You must give your email address so visitor can contact you directly and you can give support completely. About us webpage must be included to provide the information about your company. The information can be year of establishment, your growth, and name of country from where you operate. Home page must be included with links to all the other WebPages. All web pages must be given and the link to Home page.

2. Attractive

Your website should be attractive. The color selection for the pages has to be looked nice. The color of background has to be light and design has to be attracted by visitor first look.

3. Professional

Your website should be professional, in proper title pages. The content must be placed and unnecessary content must be avoided in a proper way. At first site, it should be able to show the visitor's interest for continuing your website. For example, you can visit our site - flash web design fort lauderdale

4. Small size of WebPages

WebPages should also be good looking and creative as well. WebPages must not be very comprehensive. Surfing of these types of websites will be simply avoided.

5. Text

Content does not issue; issue is look of expressions in WebPages. The background of the webpage should be light and text should be dark, it will be impressive. To read the text easily, the background should not be dark. All the fonts of the WebPages should be chosen properly which are easily available on every computer. In this case, visitors do not need to install new fonts in computer to read your text of your webpage. They can surf and read your site easily.

6. Capitalized Text

If you want to emphasize something, only when you should use capitalized text. Don't uses capitalize text in every sentences, it is hard to read.

7. Grammar

You should not be careless in text which is written in the webpage. You must not make any mistakes which may prove your ineffectiveness. Before finalize the text of your WebPages, you must check it. Any grammatical mistakes must not be made.

8. Background Images

You should keep minimum background images. Generally, it makes your pages harder to view and read.

9. Image Formats

Generally designers are using two types of formats GIF and JPEG. Let's know the difference between both formats.

GIF stands for Graphic Interchange Format. For different types of images, this format is better with only some different colors like drawing, black and white images and little content that will be little pixels high. It is also supporting transparency. JPEG stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group. It supports 16 million colors which are the best suited for photographs and complex graphics. It does not work well on line drawings, lettering or simple graphics.

10. Frames

When you are using frames in your website, it makes website ugly, confusing and more complicated.

Thus, the expert web designing companies have the best skills to design and online marketing skill and know that how to develop a website that should be one of the most favorable advertising tools in the biggest market of the world. Are you looking for web design fort Lauderdale, you can certainly contact us at Ardis Creative.
About Author: Peter Einheuserhas has been a freelance cartoonist, a journalist and the founder and CEO of Ardis Creative- a Marketing and Advertising agency in USA Florida, fort Lauderdale.

Free Web Tutorial for Beginners

2007-05-19T13:45:00.001-07:00

Welcome! You have stumbled upon one of the few web development tutorial sites that encourage you to GET THE FACTS before you create a website.

Start here to learn what's involved with building a website.

Since 2002, the tutorials on 2CreateAWebSite.com have helped thousands of people launch their very first website. Read what people are saying about this site.

No other site caters to the beginner and I understand how important it is for you to fully understand the process before you begin.

Be sure to take a look at my website creation options page so you choose the right host before you begin building your site.

Free Website Tutorial

Download my free tutorial and learn how to build a website from scratch.

Whether you want to create a personal or business site, this free tutorial tells you all you need to know.

Download it now.
Google Can Fund Your Website

Do you hate the idea of having to pay for a website? Sure, we'd all like them to be free, but the reality of it is, you limit your site's potential and longevity if you use a free web host. I'll never make that mistake again.

Not to mention the condition of many of these companies offering free websites is sometimes uhhh...let's just say unstable. :)

You read my story above, right?

So the solution to your problem is to get Google to help you fund your website. I did! Now they fund much more than my site. :)

Want proof? See one of my commission checks and then learn more about Google Adsense.

"How Do I Create a Web Page?"

After you've registered your domain and chosen a web host, you can either learn how to code HTML yourself, buy software like CoffeeCup or use my free HTML editor to build your website.

I have a handful of free HTML templates and flash templates that can get you started with your site design.

How to Start Creating a Website

2007-05-19T13:45:00.000-07:00

First Step: Register a Domain (Dot Com) Name

If you're looking to create a website that will last, you should register your own domain name (yoursite.com), rather than using a free host.

Learn why you shouldn't create a free website.

Trust me. It's no coincidence that many of these companies hide the "Contact" link on their sites. The support is sub par because their service is free. You definitely get what you pay for.

Second Step: Choose a Web Host

You cannot build a website without a host. This is the company that houses your web files and provides the platform so you can create and update your site anytime you wish.

Learn more about choosing a web host here.

Third Step: Create Your Web Pages

Download my free HTML editor (Windows users only).

You can use this free website creation software to create your website and then save your pages directly to your web host using the software's built-in FTP client.

It's easy enough for beginners but suitable for all levels of website building experience.

Embed Music Into Site

2007-04-18T15:46:00.000-07:00

How to embeding your songs/musics to your sites ?

it's very exiting if we hear the beautifull songs or musics when our sites opened. just a few step we can do that :

1. Choose your favorite musics or songs that you will embed
2. Choose the trusted free musics, mp3, midi, or wave webhosting or just go here
3. Uplode them to webhosting
4. Get the code
5. Copy and paste the code into your website

for more details send me an email at sdickyn@yahoo.com

Web Tools

2007-03-31T11:43:00.000-07:00

WebTools is everything that we need to build a websites, blog. WebTools will complete our site fasilities. for example we can put into our homepage a chat room, web counter, a'clock, shout box, online visitor.

Embed Voice to your Site:

2007-03-14T17:02:00.000-07:00

This page is brought to you by NCH Swift Sound who provide Voice Recording Software, Sound Editor Software, and other Audio Recording Programs. Contents:
1. Obtain a Wav File
* Recording and Editing Wav Files
* Downloading Wav Files
* Professional Voice Over Services
2. Embeding Wav Files
* Embeding Wav Files
* Autostart and Loop features
3. Real Audio
* Advantages/Disadvantages
* Encoding Real Audio Files
* Embeding Real Audio Files
4. Mp3
* Advantages/Disadvantages
* Encoding mp3 Files
* Embeding mp3 Files
5. Add Music to your Site
* Download Midi Files
* Embed Midi Files on Hypertext Pages
* Synchronising music and sound together

Obtain a Wav File

Record and Edit Wav Files Wav is currently the most popular audio file format because it is the format defined and endorsed by Microsoft and used by Windows based computers. Today wav files are supported by most platforms and by Netscape and the Internet Explorer.

Wav files can have a range of sample rates and different sample types. Without going into the technical detail, PCM is the purest audio format, and offers much better sound quality than other compressed formats such as ADPCM or Real Audio. The downside is that file sizes are large. A high sample rate provides better quality audio but has a much larger file size. Similarly, 16 bit PCM gives less hiss but has a file size double that of 8 bit PCM. As a general rule, you will not viably be able to embed an autostart file which is longer than 10 seconds. To have longer recordings you will need to use Real Audio or mp3 (see below).

For a reasonable quality short voice prompts we recommend 11.025kHz, 8 bit PCM Wav Files. (We use 11.025kHz 8bit wav for our voice over index).

To record and edit a wav file download a shareware editor:

* Cool Edit Audio Editor
* Gold Wave Audio Editor
* Acid Wav Audio Editor
* Links to More Audio Tools...

Downloading Audio Files There are many sites on the net where wav files can be downloaded. Try some of the following links:

* Sound Effects
* Animal Sounds
* Australian Sounds
* Musical Instruments
* Links to more sound effects...

Take care to avoid any breaches of copyright. Note that it is also fair that you copy the audio file on your server and do not link to a file on another server. Not only will this avoid the possibility that your sound suddenly disappears, it saves servers being overloaded.

Professional Voice Overs If you want to give your site a professional sound, by using professional voice artists to record messages. Please see: Guide to Obtaining Professional Voice Overs and the International Voice Over Artist Index www.world-voices.com.

Embed the Wav File Using the EMBED tags To add the wav file to your html page use the following: <EMBED src="file.wav" autostart=true loop=false volume=100 hidden=true><NOEMBED><BGSOUND src="file.wav"></NOEMBED> Where the a file named file.wav has been uploaded to your site in the same directory as the page which contains the EMBED tags.

Using autostart and loop In the above example where autostart=true, the file will automatically start playing. Use this tag for background sound which should start immediately once it is downloaded.

You can also use loop=true where you want the sound to repeat over and over. By editing a short sound and using the loop=true option you can create continuous audio from a very short audio cut. For example: waves, applause, engine sounds and so on.

Real Audio

Advantages/Disadvantages Real Audio is audio compression and streaming technology that is frequently used on the internet. The technology is not in the public domain and as such you must download the plugin player and encoder from www.real.com.

Advantages:

* Almost immediate and real time audio.
* Long audio files are viable.
* Streaming audio so it will play as it downloads.

Disadvantages:

* Many casual surfers cannot play real audio (this is improving because Real Audio is supplied with Internet Explorer 5). It is because of this that we supply alternative wav files on our voice over index - we want the voice samples to be playable by all users.
* Poor quality audio. High compression results in loss of quality.
* A special server is required for live streaming audio.
* Your server has to be set up for the real audio MIME type.
* Streaming audio will not play through some server firewalls.

Encoding Real Audio To encode real audio, you need to download the real audio encoder from www.real.com. The real audio encoder will convert your wav file to a real audio (.ra) file.

Embed Real Audio Files Most simply, try to embed your real audio files in a similar manner to wav files: <EMBED src="file.ra" autostart=true hidden=true> This works on some servers (It depends on the MIME configuration). If this does not work properly visit the Support Pages of www.real.com which describes how to set up the server MIME configuration.

For better streaming (more immediate play) use a text editor to write a "rpm" file with one line something like this: http://www.yoursite.com/file.ra Save the file as "file.rpm" and upload it to your site. On your web page, embed the real audio file like this: <EMBED src="file.rpm" autostart=true hidden=true> Note: Using "rpm" makes your sound start to play faster.

mp3

Advantages/DisadvantagesMp3, like Real Audio, is audio compression and streaming technology that is frequently used on the internet. To use mp3 you must have installed a player such as WinAMP or the Real Audio Plugin (from www.real.com).

Advantages:

* Almost immediate and real time audio.
* Long audio files are viable.
* Streaming audio so it will play as it downloads.
* Suitable for better quality audio than Real Audio.

Disadvantages:

* Many casual surfers cannot play streaming mp3.
* Your server has to be set up for the streaming mp3 MIME type.
* Streaming audio will not play through some server firewalls.

Encoding mp3 To encode mp3, you need to download an mp3 encoder. We recommend you use WavePad the mp3 editor software. Download it from the Wave Editor Download page.

Embed mp3 Files Most simply, try to embed your mp3 files in a similar manner to wav files: <EMBED src="file.mp3" autostart=true hidden=true> This works on some servers (It depends on the MIME configuration). If this does not work properly, ask your server to setup the MIME type for mp3.

For better streaming (more immediate play) use a text editor to write a "m3u" file with one line something like this: http://www.yoursite.com/file.mp3 Save the file as "file.m3u" and upload it to your site. On your web page, embed the mp3 file like this: <EMBED src="file.m3u" autostart=true hidden=true> Music To add music files to your site, use midi files (.mid). Midi files are much smaller than wav files and, if the user has a good sound card, the quality can be much better.

Download Music Files There are thousands of midi files available on the internet. Again, take care to avoid breaching any composer's copyrights. Some useful links follow:

* General Midis
* Popular Music
* Popular Music
* Classical Music Files
* Classical Music Files
* Celtic Music

Note that the sound of the music depends very much on the quality of the midi player that the user has. Listen to your selected music on a variety of sound cards before embedding the audio since some sounds that sound very good on good sound sources can sound awful on cheaper players.

Embed Midi Files To embed midi files use the following: <EMBED src="file.mid" autostart=true loop=false volume=100 hidden=true><NOEMBED><BGSOUND src="file.mid"></NOEMBED> You can use the autostart and loop features as you can with wav files. Please remember to copy to midi file to your site and do not reference another site's midi file directly.

Synchronising Music and Sound Files Most systems accommodate simultaneous sound and music. It is common to want to have a voice introduction announcement followed by music. The difficulty is that it is almost impossible to time the voice and music together.

Sometimes it is possible to assume that the music and voice will begin to play at approximately the same time. Using this you can insert a gap at the start of the mid file so that it starts at exactly the end of the voice prompt. This works sometimes but depends on the speed of the link, number of elements downloading and other factors. Importantly, never assume that it will work and always have the music much softer than the voice.

An example follows: <EMBED src="file.wav" autostart=true loop=false volume=100 hidden=true><NOEMBED><BGSOUND src="file.wav"></NOEMBED> <EMBED src="file.mid" autostart=true loop=false volume=30 hidden=true><NOEMBED><BGSOUND src="file.mid"></NOEMBED>

If you need assistance:

NCH Swift Sound Sound Design Service offer professional, recording, editing, mixing, encoding and advice. For more information including a quote for your next sound project, please see:

* NCH Swift Sound Design Service