In today's issue of TechnoLawyer NewsWire, tech expert Jill Bauerle covered an online service that enables you to easily build your own Web site complete with blogging capabilities, a program that converts text documents and e-mail into MP3 files, and a free application that creates a peer-to-peer VPN between any two computers. Don't miss the next issue.
Below you'll find one of the three articles from today's edition:
Web 2.0 as Easy as 1-2-3
By Jill Bauerle
Problem: Your firm needs a Web site and a blog desperately, but you don't want to hire a designer and you don't want to become one yourself. The solution? Squarespace, a service that provides you with a design, template, and secure platform for your Web site and blog in one package — at your own domain name. Squarespace's modular site-building architecture enables you to configure your Web site similar to the way you use My Yahoo! or Google's personalized home page. Once you've designed the structure, pick and choose from hundreds of appearance-managing functions to personalize your site — and change them at any time! For a meta-look at your Web site, click "Site Overview" to track recent posts, traffic and your Google PageRank. Sophisticated, versatile, and stocked with the latest in Web technology, your site will look and work exactly how you envisioned it, maybe even better. Squarespace features a tool for attaching podcasts to a blog entry, short URLs, member accounts for employees to log journal entries or subscribe to e-mail updates, Moveable Type importing, spell checking and anti-spam filters. Your blog page features category headings, printable article links, threaded discussions, RSS subscription, multiple authors, XML-RRC pinging, and timed publishing dates. You can even incorporate Amazon affiliate links to that hot new legal treatise you just published. Your Squarespace blog has a special function for importing and crediting Web sources. Once you set up your Web site, maintain it by logging on as the administrator and editing the content using WYSIWYG or HTML. Prices for a Squarespace Web site start at $7 per month. Learn more about Squarespace.
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