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Websites: creation of websites, checking domain names, registering passwords. Some Web 2.0 applications and resources to help.

• Websites
  • Creation of websites
    • ClutterMe - Reinventing the personal webpage.. Create a webpage, add widgets, backgrounds, photographs, let friends edit, keep some private using frames. Neat and simple.
    • disposableWebPage Create a webpage, keep it for up to 90 days, use it, edit it, let your friends play with it and then kaboom! It's gone.
    • Doodlekit. They'll build you a website.It's got some good reviews.
    • Editme is an online service that empowers non-technical to quickly and easily build and host irresistibly editable web sites. Commercial
    • Jottit. This resource lets you make webpages. Choose designs, colour schemes, all looks very simple. Get your own customed Jottit URL as well.
    • Launchsplash aims to provide the tools you need to create an awesome looking Web 2.0 "Coming Soon" Landing Page for your domain quickly and easily.
    • OpenDesigns.org. 403 Free Web Design templates and some of them are rather nice.
    • Ning is a free online service - or Playground - for you to build and run your own social applications. Social apps let anyone match, transact, and communicate with other people.
    • Nvu - The Complete Web Authoring System. Download and run it for free.
    • Sampa. Lets you create a site/blog/whatever for nothing.
    • SynthaSite. Drag and drop interface, free, no ads, no downloads, looks worth exploring.
    • Terapad.com - Beyond Blogging. Provides a content management system, PayPal ready shop, CSS, blogging tools, an image gallery, calendar, WYSIWYG editing, visitor tracking and so on. And it's free.
    • TypeRoom CMS Simplified. This is a website editing tool that allows you to edit a website in seconds.
    • Webjam Create and share your own experience, discover the web, organize your data, build communities, publish and share content.
    • webnode - create your website easily. Create personal web pages, blogs, drag and drop, free hosting, templates, lots of functionality.
    • Weebly - Create a free website and a free blog. Create a site, they'll host it. Switch designs on the fly, drag and drop interface, all the usual stuff.
    • Wetpaint. Free, easy tools for creating wiki web sites where the readers are also the writers.
    • YouBundle This is very like Zimbio and Squidoo in that it allows you to create collections of stuff and publish them for other people to view/use.
  • Domains, checking
    • Compete allows you to check to see how your site is doing in comparison to your competition. Pop in some URLs and see where the site fits in, traffic, keywords and so on.
    • DomainFinder is a web application for webmasters which helps you to find fun domain name. For exemple, if you type My house, DomainFinder will suggest you "my.ho.us/e"
    • Instant Domain Search Instant!
    • NameWidget Domain Searcher. This is very neat. Simply start typing, and this little utility will let you know if there are any domains that match what you're typing, and if they are available. Very fast and effective, though it doesn't do .co.uk domains - it seems to limit itself to .com, .net, .org, .biz and .info domains.
    • popuri.us. A tool to check at-a-glance the link popularity of any site based on its ranking
    • Quarkbase : Everything about a Website. This is a cracking resource - it really does tell you just about everything to do with a website! Highly recommended.
    • socialmeter scans the major social websites to analyze a webpage's social popularity.
    • web2names - find your dream domain name. There are a few of these services about and this is the latest I've seen.
    • Whois Source Automatically generated suggestions
  • Miscellaneous
    • Digital Inspiration. Add Language Translation to website and blogs with simple cut and paste.
    • WebWait - Benchmark Your Website. This is great - whack in a URL and this'll tell you how long the page takes to load. Great for web designers.
  • Passwords/Registering
    • Agatra Appears to be DEAD
    • BugMeNot. Never fill out another registration form just to read one article.
    • Clipperz is a free and anonymous online password manager.
    • KeePass, the free, open-source, light-weight and easy-to-use password manager.
    • KeyWallet is a free password manager application
    • Passpack is another password manager!
    • Password generator Can't think of a good password? This'll create and keep them for you.
    • Passwordsafe Free Password Manager. Works in your browser and with our free desktop application
    • Zipcode Postcode Generator. DEAD

Please note:

• I haven't tried out all of these myself, and people who I don't know have kindly made many recommendations as well.
• Consequently you should exercise sensible caution when trying these things out for yourself, and while I haven't included any programs/utilities/resources that have any spyware or malware included in them that I am aware of, I cannot take any responsibility for the utilities themselves.
• Your choice, your responsibility.
• I can't answer questions on any of the products themselves, as I am not associated with them in any way; if you have queries you should direct them to the owner of that particular product.
• I'm not including anything that isn't safe for work, so don't ask for adult material to be included.

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