There are many ways to make a website or a blog an effective communications tool for businesses. I think you would agree with me that the days when websites merely function as online brochures are over. Sure, you could just have a static page telling people what the company does and how great their [...]

Let’s round up our coverage of managing photos with a look at some places online to put them. You know, as in photo galleries, as well as ordering actual prints. There’s something for everyone, and there are certainly interesting choices beyond the obvious ones.

When we edit an image, we fire up Adobe Photoshop, or maybe Paintshop Pro, Gimp, or some other desktop image processing program we enjoy and love. Well, sometimes they aren’t convenient, or even available, but we still need to fix that crappy photo. Luckily there’s a cure: Online image applications that actually cut it!

You tweet, bookmark, read RSS feeds, fave videos on YouTube, plan your day with Google Calendar, and listen to music using last.fm. Basically, you’ve got your whole life online these days. Why not share it on your site, and why not treat it as content to give it more flair? Let’s take a look at some ways to get the visitor closer to the writer, by embedding the online tools we all love and use.

Can the social web browser, Flock, challenge the established choices like Firefox, Internet Explorer 7, and even Opera? It just might, I’d say, after running it as my default browser for a few days. Check out the review and share your thoughts.

A new “version” of the popular ShareThis tool has been released. You will probably recognize the icon as it has been used on thousands of blogs the world over, due to the simplicity it adds to allowing visitors to bookmark, email or otherwise share articles they are reading.

If you are looking to add a way for your users to quickly share your content, the new ShareThis should help do that.

With multiple slicing services available just about every where you look, it is hard to select a clear leader. Each service offers its own benefits and has its own pricing scheme - some more expensive than others. Today we look at XHTML Slicer, a service I recently used for client work.

Wait, why would I need [...]

iSalient is a survey and form creation application that allows you to create and deploy surveys to your visitors, but how exactly does it do? I review this paid service and let you know what its main down fall is, and how the rest of the features stack up.

Thousands of free font directories make their home on the web. For this review, we were asked to take a look at Urbanfonts, a new font directory entering a crowded field. Can they stand out at all? Take a look and find out.

Colourlovers is a resource containing user submitted and rated colors and palettes. With color being so important to making a breaking a design, decide what color scheme to use on each design can sometimes be nerve racking. This review and short article describes how CL can be used to find the colors you need for your design.