Bagi yang ingin membuat website yang menarik namun bebas repot, maka sudah banyak provider hosted service yang bisa digunakan. Keuntungan utama menggunakan provider hosted service adalah kita tidak perlu repot hal-hal teknis, baik di sisi hosting maupun layout website. Semuanya sudah siap pakai.

Dan Anda tidak perlu takut dikenakan biaya mahal, karena dengan ketatnya persaingan maka secara umum semua provider memberikan service secara gratis. Bahkan hingga bisa menggunakan nama domain kita sendiri.

Beberapa provider hosted service yang cukup terkenal:
- MoonFruit ( http://www.moonfruit.com )
- WebNode ( http://www.webnode.com )
- Weebly ( http://www.weebly.com )
- Yola ( http://www.yola.com )

Ich gebe zu, wenn ich etwas nicht sofort erledige, dann vergesse ich das. Ähnlich schon wie bei meinen online-Merkhilfen und Organisations Tipps bevorzuge ich deshalb ortsunabhängige Lösungen die meist online sind. Gut, es stimmt der fortbestand solcher Systeme ist nicht immer fix, aber dieses Risiko gehe ich ein. 

In diesem Fall stelle ich ein online CMS System namens webnode vor. Der Vorteil von webnode, sowie auch dem vergleichbaren aber kleineren Jimdo, ist, dass alle Daten auf dem Server des Anbieters gespeichert sind, so kann immer zentral gearbeitet werden und über ein Passwort kann jede Person darauf zugreifen und etwas verändern. 

Next week the Web 2.0 community will turn its eyes on TheNextWeb conference in Amsterdam. If so many of the right people come there, there must be a good reason : Kevin Rose (Diggnation will be made there), Robert Scoble, Nova Spivack (Twine), Chris Saad (DataPortability.org), Scott Rafer (Mashery, MyBlogLog, Lookery),…

An important part of the event will be the startup competition : 24 companies presenting themselves in 5 minutes (that will be 300 seconds sharp). Currently, 22 companies are known, the last 2 will be choosen by the community early next week. Let’s have a short look at some of these startups (in alphabetical order) :

1. andUnite : a German startup with the powerful idea of connecting people that do similar searches on search engines
2. Backbase : the providers of a robust Ajax framework (3 million copies in 80+ countries)
3. Bemba : Dutch startup, providing a button allowing to share any content with your network
4. Beezbox : out of Paris, they enable companies to engage with their communities on social networks
5. ConfNetwork : a tool to facilitate networking at conferences (premiering at TheNextWeb)
6. CoComment : a strong swiss startup that materialized the “commentosphere”, an underlooked component of the blogosphere
7. eBuddy : based in Amsterdam, their browser based chat & messaging service allows millions to connect to MSN, AOL, on the web or on the mobile (recently raised €6.5M funding)
8. Empressr : Ajax/Flash based web presentation company out of New York (they’ve been out for a while)
9. Fav.or.it : plays in the RSS aggregator category, with a twist (or two), allowing to post comments without leaving the window, and to cut ’slices’ of what is of interest to you
10. Fleck : based in Amsterdam (and with an overlap with TheNextWeb people), brought the social dimension into the browser
11. Goojet : manages your mobile “spaces” ; has won LeWeb3 startup competition and raised a €2.3M ’seed-round’ (now this starts to sound US-style)
12. Hoera : under construction at the time of going to (word)press
13. Introniche : facilitates cross-promotion between niche sites
14. Lookery : an ad network for Facebook and social networks, using (anonymized) profiling data ; has raised $900K seed round (and more) from prominent investors
15. Netlog : this belgium-based company would be a heavyweight by European standards : >30 million registered users, it is sometimes compared to a “european facebook”
16. Radionomy : french and belgian team, wants to revolutionize the online radio, by allowing anyone to setup one
17. Symbaloo : with a name that sounds crafted by Kipling, this startup is a new iteration on the “personalized home page” trick
18. Twingly : this links the blogosphere to traditional media (and back)
19. uberVU : a Romanian startup that aims nothing less than “manage all your content and all your conversations in one place”
20. Wakoopa : tracks and shares application usage on your desktop, has been compared to Last.fm and Alexa for desktop apps
21. Wauw.fm : allows to transfer and process the media files of your PC to make them available on your mobile
22. Webnode : web-based website builder and manager
23. ZiLok : last but not least, winner of the public award at Plugg, this company pitches itself as the “eBay of rental”

So it looks like it will be a hot and contrasted show among all those startups, demonstrating that the European web 2.0 scene is alive and kicking. We will profile some of them in more detail.

And also wait anxiously for the last 2 candidates…

If you are craving to create your own website but still doesn’t know a single line of programming, yet webnode.com is here to help you.

webnode.com is a website where you only have to select what you want to appear on your website, type the text and everything else is done for you instantly and they even host the website for you free at an address like yourpersonalwebsite.webnode.com. It is free and for a freebie it is quite good.

Here is a small list of what you can add on your website:

• Articles
• Polls
• Discussion forums
• FAQ
• Dynamic lists
• E-commerce
• Site map
• Photo galleries
• Full-text searching
• Website statistics
• Webmail
• RSS

I think for those who really don’t know how to create a website from scratch, this is a very good way to start their online presence and even online e-commerce.

So, be quick and start your brand own website

Após várias pesquisas sobre software livre optámos por escolher entre dois: o Webnode e o Joomla.Quanto ao primeiro, foi excluído por não incluir o português na escolha do idioma, parametro definido na ficha de trabalho.Optámos então pelo Joomla, por permitir desenvolver a página com os requisitos propostos na ficha de trabalho.Este software é um CMS (Content Management System) desenvolvido a partir do Mambo. É escrito em PHP e corre no servidor web Apache ou IIS e base de dados MySQL.É um projecto de código aberto (licença GNU/GPL) e a sua última versão estável é a 1.0.13. No entanto a programação da nova versão 1.5 já se encontra bastante avançada. Instalar o Joomla requer alguns conhecimentos de informática, sem necessidade de conhecer nenhuma linguagem de programação. Com um servidor de internet e uma base de dados, é possível obter um site completo, sem erros e seguro.

Principais características

• Código aberto (Licença GPL);
• Sistema simples de fluxo de aprovação;
• Arquivo para conteúdos não utilizados (Lixeira);
• Gestão de banners;
• Sistema de publicação para o conteúdo;
• Sumário de conteúdo no formato RSS;
• Pesquisa optimizada (qualquer palavra registrada);
• Frontend já traduzido em várias línguas;
• Fácil instalação para novos templates, módulos e componentes;
• Hierarquia para grupos de utilizadores;
• Estatísticas básicas de visitantes (existem módulos mais complexos que podem ser adicionados);
• Editor de conteúdo WYSIWYG;
• Sistema de enquete simples (com acompanhamento de resultado em tempo real);
• Sistemas de índices de avaliação;
• Extensões  livres em diversos sites (Módulos, Componentes, Templates, Traduções).

 Fonte: http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joomla

I am sure my readers would excuse me this time for posting about a non-indian startup. It is Webnode. I had received an email from the Project Manager of webnode asking me to blog about their product. I was about to reply to them saying that I blog only about “Indian Startups”. Out of curiosity, when I checked out their site, I got totally impressed. If you have a small business and want to quickly create a professional website that too for free, then do check out webnode.

These are some of the features that make them really stand out from the crowd. (Google Page creator, weebly)

• Drag and drop
• Active contents (Articles, Polls, Dynamic lists)
• Social features – Tagging
• Widgets – Youtube video, Google Maps, flickr
• Payment – Drag n drop paypal widget and start accepting money!
• Plus lots more …

You can find our own page here.

Given that not many blogs have profiled about them, I thought webnode deserves some coverage. Is Techcrunch watching this?