March 9th 2010
SalesForce was one of the first major web applications that showed people the value of having shared information live in the cloud. Unfortunately through the years SalesForce has become bloated with features and additional products, causing their prices to creep up, and virtually making it inaccessible for small- and medium-sized businesses. A new competitor called [...]
March 4th 2010
A few weeks ago we wrote about Cushy, a simple Content Management System for web sites that enables sites that have already been built to add features of content management systems after the fact. This week we discovered a new simple CMS that takes the genre a step further. SurrealCMS is a free app that [...]
March 3rd 2010
Whether you are a web developer or a small-business owner who has worked with a web developer, you are probably aware that font choices are sparse on the web. You may have spent years refining the look and feel of your print pieces and then told that none of those fonts will work on your [...]
March 1st 2010
Typically everyone in an office uses the same one or two browsers and email clients. This gives you get a good sense for how your website or that email you send quarterly looks on those systems. But how does it look for the rest of the world outside your office doors? Litmus is a new [...]
February 23rd 2010
Most businesses overestimate the amount of control they want on their web site. They ask for access to every word, every photo, every comma and then are surprised that their quote from their web company is in the tens of thousands of dollars. In reality, most businesses only need daily access to just a few [...]
February 19th 2010
Although this seems like a niche product on the surface, the fact is that every site needs a privacy policy and terms of service no matter how big or small they are. Some people recycle the fine print from competitor sites. Some people Google privacy policy and use the stock text that comes up in [...]
February 18th 2010
Last week we wrote about Phoenix, a dead-simple image and ad creator that operates much like Photoshop. But we realize that not everybody or every company wants or needs to create that ad completely from scratch. Sometimes you just want somebody to take photos from your site and turn it into a web ad. This [...]
February 17th 2010
We often review some niche apps on this site, but Preceden ranks right up there as among the most unique. Preceden has one purpose – to help you build a timeline for your website. You could build a timeline of your company’s history or even include it in your corporate bios to add a unique [...]
February 12th 2010
Creating a map for your site usually involves a difficult setup on Google maps or creating a custom map using a combination of Adobe Photoshop and Flash. But a new startup is changing the way maps are setup, viewed and tracked on the web. UMapper makes it easy to create, manage, distribute and monetize online [...]
February 9th 2010
No matter what business you are in, you probably have a need to edit, crop and retouch photos. Many businesses think that means they need Adobe Photoshop, a $1,000 piece of software with a very steep learning curve. In fact, very few of those businesses actually do need it. What they should be using instead [...]