Coming up in our next issue Jan 2010 : DIY – Everything about creating a website using template + free template
Creating a website can be simple & fun. The advantages of using a template are to speed up the development time, to add consistency to your web pages, and to make your website easier to maintain & edit.
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Free open source software for video editing, antivirus, OpenOffice, collaboration tools, PDF creator, Email, and Internet browser.
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Internet Browser - Mozilla Firefox
Firefox is the Mozilla Project’s web browser. It has tabbed interface, a pop-up blocker, multiple search tools and built-in RSS reader. However, firefox
has no activeX support so that not all sites work in
Firefox. Functions can be added through add-ons. One in every four people on the Internet are now using open-source Firefox browser, said VP of Califonia-based Net Applications.
Mozilla Thunderbird is an alternative to other email clients. Thunderbird provides a series of tags by default – Important, Work, Personal, To Do and later –which you use to mark each message.
You can then sort tags to pull together all mails of a certain type. Another strength is its search facilities. It includes a lighting-fast search-as-you-type that pulls up all matches to a word as soon as the characters you’ve typed are unique. The program maintains a search history so if you need to return to a search you ran earlier, you can do so from a drop-down list.
Zoho Office Suite is a web-based online office suite containing, word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, database, note-taking, wikis, CRM, project management, invoicing, etc. Users can share files and photos online. It also allows multiple users to work and collaborate real-time on a document simultaneously. It is free at entry-level.
Google Docs is a free, web-based word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, and form application offered by Google. It allows users to create and edit online while collaborating in real-time with other users.
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