Website Sustainability

Extract from:  10 new web tools to add to your armoury | Web design | Creative Bloq : "We investigate some of best new web design tools to appear over the last few weeks. New year, new tools. That's what they say. Isn't it? Anyway, regardless of who says what, we've rounded up some of the niftiest web design tools that have generated a bleep on our radar recently. There's a range of interesting utilities here to help you get to grips with Material Design; work with SVG; develop web apps; communicate with colleagues; and make colour palettes, backgrounds, UI elements and plenty more. There's bound to be at least one tool here that will help you to do something in a quicker, simpler way. Dive in!" To read more go to:  http://www.creativebloq.com/web-design/new-web-tools-11513879 'via Blog this' All views are those of the author and should not be seen as the views of any organisation the author is associated with.

Previously in this blog I looked at Dropbox as a tool for web-hosting . I recently came across this link  How To Host a Simple Website Using Dropbox : a few tools to take this further. Personally, I haven't played with them so I am not sure how good they are; but the posting is interesting -  http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-host-a-dropbox-website/ If you do try them out please let me know if they are any good. Related Dropbox (see: http://websitesustainability.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/alternative-hosting-approach-1-dropbox.html )  Google Sites (see: http://websitesustainability.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/google-sites-for-sustainability-week-3.html  ) Hosting options: http://websitesustainability.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/hosting-how-to-get-it-out-there-for.html Free tools: http://websitesustainability.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/the-best-free-tools-for-website.html Amazon S3 (see: http://websitesustainability.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/thoughts-about-using-ama...

By Ahsan Anderson, (anderson.ahsan@gmail.com)  Nuffield Bursary Student . All views are Ahsan Anderson not necessarily the views of the blog editor. I’ve created a few websites in the past, varying from those for business use or those to advertise bands in local areas, but with my line of work they’ve all had the same thing in common, and that’s money. When I’ve created them I have used a variety of tools; web builders for example, and one very key thing to these is that they all cost money for hosting. There are a few hurdles you can’t overcome, for example, there is no escaping the cost you will have to pay to have your domain name bought, but when building your website, sometimes there is no need to have to pay for the tools, as I will explain now. Whether you are willing to pay for the hosting or you wish to host yourself (or use free sites like 000hosting.com) this list will narrow down the choice of good modern builders that you can use. I was looking for...