Bubbl.us is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online.

Why use bubbl.us?

Because you can:

• Create colorful mind maps online
• Share and work with friends
• Embed your mind map in your blog or website
• Email and print your mind map
• Save your mind map as an image

And it’s FREE!

Examples

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Imagination Cubed is a very simple to use brainstorming tool.

Mindmeister

Online Mind Mapping: MindMeister – free web-based collaborative mind mapping tool for brainstorming and project management.

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1. Open Source Content Management Systems

BLOGS:

Short description: A blog script featuring multiple blogs, categories/sub-categories, skins, search function, multiple languages, search engines friendly URLs.
Homepage: http://b2evolution.net/

b2evolution support forum
(We are not associated with the support forum)

Short description: A powerful blog script featuring multiple blogs, multiple authors, drafts and future posts, bookmarklets.
Homepage: http://nucleuscms.org/

Nucleus support forum
(We are not associated with the support forum)

Short description: WordPress is a blogging software with a focus on ease of use, elegance, performance, and standards with a huge selection of themes and plugins.
Homepage: http://wordpress.org/

WordPress support forum
(We are not associated with the support forum)

Classifieds:

Short description: A classifieds system featuring categories and subcategories in unlimited depth, image upload for categories and classifieds, variable fields per categories, customizable email notifications, locking categories, classifieds approval, auto-thumbnail generation, classifieds management by user, send classified to a friend.
Homepage: http://www.noahsclassifieds.org/

Noahs Classifieds support forum
(We are not associated with the support forum)

Content Managment

Short description: An advanced portal with collaborative book, search engines friendly URLs, online help, roles, full content search, site watching, threaded comments, version control, blogging, news aggregator.
Homepage: http://drupal.org/

Drupal support forum
(We are not associated with the support forum)

Short description: A portal system with a wide range of modules.
Homepage: http://www.geeklog.net/

Geeklog support forum
(We are not associated with the support forum)

Short description: Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.
Homepage: http://www.joomla.org/

Joomla 1.5 support forum
(We are not associated with the support forum)

Short description: A professional level yet easy to use Content Management System featuring inline WYSIWYG content editors, newsfeeds, syndicated news, banners, mailing users, links manager, statistics, content archiving, date based content, 20 languages, modules and components.
Homepage: http://www.mambo-foundation.org/

Mambo support forum
(We are not associated with the support forum)

Short description: One of the most popular community-based portals with a big choice of modules and languages.
Homepage: http://www.phpnuke.org/

PHP-Nuke support forum
(We are not associated with the support forum)

Short description: phpWCMS is a robust and simple but yet powerful web based content management system running under PHP and MySQL. phpwcms is in use on thousands of websites all over the world.
Homepage: http://www.phpwcms.de/

phpWCMS support forum
(We are not associated with the support forum)

Short description: Very powerful Content Management System with document manager, announcements, menu manager, photo album, block maker, FAQ, web pages maker, polls, information categorizer, calendar, link manager, form generator.
Homepage: http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu/

phpWebSite support forum
(We are not associated with the support forum)

Short description: A straightforward content-management system designed for rapid deployment of community-based websites. Nice-looking templates, oriented toward document-sharing, clean interface.
Homepage: http://siteframe.org/

Siteframe support forum
(We are not associated with the support forum)

Short description: TYPO3 is a free Open Source content management system for enterprise purposes on the web and in intranets. It offers full flexibility and extendability while featuring an accomplished set of ready-made interfaces, functions and modules.
Homepage: http://www.typo3.com/

TYPO3 support forum
(We are not associated with the support forum)

Short description: A very popular advanced portal system.
Homepage: http://www.xoops.org/

Xoops support forum
(We are not associated with the support forum)

Short description: Zikula is a Web Application Toolkit, which allows you to run impressive websites and build powerful online applications. Zikula has received praise for many things, but we believe the highlights are ease of use, quick and easy development, security and performance and lastly flexibility.
Homepage: http://zikula.org/

Zikula support forum
(We are not associated with the support forum)

Customer Relationships:

Short description: A Live Help chat system featuring monitor your visitors, proactively open a chat session, multiple chat sessions, referrer tracking, page view tracking, multiple operators, canned responses/images/URLs, multiple departments each with different icons, leave a message.
Homepage: http://www.craftysyntax.com/

Crafty Syntax Live Help support forum
(We are not associated with the support forum)

Short description: Very powerful all-in-one help center including Live Help, Support Tickets and FAQ. Features include unlimited operators/departments, monitor visitors, initiate chat, collect visitor’s information, track visitor’s footprint, auto save chat transcripts, canned messages, leave a message, auto-assign tickets to operators, unlimited FAQ topics.
Homepage: http://www.helpcenterlive.com/

Help Center Live support forum
(We are not associated with the support forum)

Short description: osTicket is a widely-used open source support ticket system. It seamlessly integrates inquiries created via email, phone and web-based forms into a simple easy-to-use multi-user web interface. Manage, organize and archive all your support requests and responses in one place while providing your customers with accountability and responsiveness they deserve.
Homepage: http://osticket.com/

osTicket support forum
(We are not associated with the support forum)

Short description: A simple, one-admin Support Tickets system featuring self-registering, emailing to admin, attachments.
Homepage: http://www.phpsupporttickets.com/

PHP Support Tickets support forum
(We are not associated with the support forum)

Short description: A Support Tickets system featuring multiple email addresses, admin/staff/user panels, canned responses, HTML tags support, email limit on a per user/day basis, attachments.
Homepage: http://www.support-logic.com/index.php

Support Logic Helpdesk support forum
(We are not associated with the support forum)

Discussion Boards:

Short description: A widely-popular open-source bulletin-board package, works well, simple user interface and admin panel, clean look, scales well, and can be customized.
Homepage: http://www.phpbb.com/

phpBB support forum
(We are not associated with the support forum)

Short description: Elegant. Effective. Powerful. Free. SMF is all of the above. SMF is a next-generation community software package and is jam-packed with features, while at the same time having a minimal impact on resources.
Homepage: http://www.simplemachines.org/

SMF support forum
(We are not associated with the support forum)

E-commerce

Short description: An easy to use yet powerful shopping cart featuring unlimited categories and products, multiple payment gateways, downloadable products. The design is very easy to modify.
Homepage: http://www.cubecart.com/

CubeCart support forum
(We are not associated with the support forum)

Short description: A power-user shopping cart with a big variety of modules and support of almost every payment gateway. A big developers community is ready to offer custom solutions depending on your needs.
Homepage: http://oscommerce.com/

OS Commerce support forum
(We are not associated with the support forum)

Short description: Zen Cart truly is the art of e-commerce; a free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart system. The software is being developed by group of like-minded shop owners, programmers, designers, and consultants that think e-commerce could be and should be done differently.
Homepage: http://www.zen-cart.com/

Zen Cart support forum
(We are not associated with the support forum)

Gallaries

Short description: An Image Gallery system featuring unlimited categories/subcategories, web-based and FTP images upload, auto-thumbnails, comments, send a picture, rate a picture, random pictures, extensive administration panel.
Homepage: http://www.4homepages.de/

4Images Gallery support forum
(We are not associated with the support forum)

Short description: An Image Gallery system featuring categories and albums, thumbnails and intermediate size pics, search feature, new and random pictures, user management (private galleries, groups), user comments, e-cards feature, slideshow viewer.
Homepage: http://coppermine.sourceforge.net/

Coppermine Photo Gallery support forum
(We are not associated with the support forum)

Short description: An Image Gallery system featuring albums within albums, thumbnailing specific picture area, captions, rotate, reorder pictures, album-based attributes, album mirroring.
Homepage: http://gallery.menalto.com/

Gallery support forum
(We are not associated with the support forum)

Site Builders:

Short description: From basic, informational websites to robust e-business applications, this script vastly simplifies the creation and management of cutting-edge internet solutions. It installs at the end-users web site and empowers novices and seasoned developers alike with a streamlined development and management process unmatched by any other software product.
Homepage: http://www.soholaunch.com/

Soholaunch Pro Edition support forum
(We are not associated with the support forum)

Short description: Use Templates Express to install static templates to your website. You will need to use FTP and edit the html files, replacing the default text with your own text. Standard information like title, name, address and similar will be collected during installation and placed into the installed template in the appropriate locations.

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If you would like to link to buildasuccessfulwebsite here is the code you would add to your page.

<a href=”http://buildasuccessfulwebsite.com/” title=”build a successful website” target=”_blank”>Build a Successful Website</a>. <a> begins the hyperlink </a> ends the link. Href is a short form for hyperlink reference. Do not forget the equal sign and the two quotation marks.

I have also included a title. This title will appear once you place your cursor on the hyperlink.

target=”_blank” tells a web browser to display the page in a new window.

The Words in between the opening and closing tags appear (usually underlined) on the page.  The link we have just created will look something like this (you can change the colour of the hyperlink in your CSS file):

Build a Successful Website.

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FTP Clients need to be reliable and secure because the internet is one large network used by many people from all over the world. Even though the internet is designed to be secure, there are people who fish for passwords and other personal information.

FileZilla is a FTP client that is designed to guard against these kind of attacks.

Download FileZilla.

To use FileZilla you must enter your domain name and password.  Once you are connected, the files on your computer will appear in the left panel. The files on your web server will appear in the right panel.

FileZilla is a FTP client that sends your files to your web server and sends files from your web server back to your computer. If you delete a file that is on your web site’s server, you can drag it back to your computer using FileZilla.

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1. How Does A Web Site Work?

A web site runs a lot like your computer. The files on your computer are stored on your hard drive. The files you use on your web site are stored on your computer’s hard drive and on a “internet hard drive” called a web server. Web servers are owned by companies, individuals, and organizations who allow you to display your web site on the servers they own for an annual fee.

Every time you send files to the web server you have to connect to the server using a password supplied by your hosting company. Often several web sites are placed on one web server by your hosting company.

The first step putting a web site on the world wide web is to find a hosting company. I recommend shopping around online for a web host. Read several reviews about it, and then consider buying a years worth of hosting.

Often web hosts will include the cost of your domain name within the overall cost of their web hosting service. They may also allow you to host more that one website on the server. However, you can expect to pay the cost of the new domain name.

Once you found a web server, and start hosting your web site with them, they will send you an e-mail with your username and password. Do not delete this e-mail. Use it to log into your web server. Print out the e-mail and store it in a safe place.

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1. Web Site Costs

It is becoming increasingly popular today to think of a unique domain name like Squido. I am not sure why that name popped into my head. But, perhaps that is the way you would like to go. Develop your own name for your own web site.

The second main cost of a web site is the hosting costs for having your information stored on a web server. This cost can vary a lot from host to host. Right now I have my web site hosted with JustHost. I have not experienced any problems. However, their support is not the greatest. For example, I solved the problem I had. It took me awhile to figure out how to get my server side includes to work. Sadly, I figured out how to make the SSIs work before support could figure out what I was trying to ask them:)

If you have not the foggiest idea of how web sites work, would like to start a web site, but do not know where to start, SBI is for you. SBI or Site Build It is the best web site package I have ever found on the web. It is quite pricey, but it really is worth it if you want to become part of a community of web site owners, who like you, are learning how to build a web site.

The best thing about SBI is that they teach you how to make your website generate traffic. Over a short period of time (3 months) you will be watching your traffic GROW! Site Build It is worth every penny. If you are a stay at home mom, or have lost your job and are looking for another small source of income, you will learn how to make money by building your own online business. If you do it right you will succeed. And that is what Buildasuccessfulwebsite and SBI is all about.

Testimonials from “SBI” owners:

“I no longer work from home in the evenings and my income is constantly growing. Right now, it’s double what I was making when I was standing behind a chair… I do what needs to be done the most at any given time and the nature of website building is such that I can stop or take a break at any point and carry on when time allows. I can work in my pyjamas and fuzzy slippers and switch from work mode to mommy/caretaker to silly dance partner whenever the mood strikes.”
~ Michelle Schill
style-hair-magazine.com

“I was skeptical that I could get the visual feel that I wanted with a template-based builder. Little did I realize that SBI does not limit you to templates — I had the option to “start from scratch” to create my own Web page elements for a truly one-of-a-kind look. I took the plunge — “jumped in with both feet”, as you say — and as you can see, I used the SBI builder to make a beautiful site. I was surprisingly impressed with the flexibility of the builder.”
~ Marney Makridakis
Artella Words And Art

“”My dream for 2004 is that Sarah and I to start a family… That means buying a family size house and Sarah giving up full time work. With Site Build It!, that dream is about to become reality!”
~ Marc Liron
updatexp.com

“Having two children in college, and not finding much success in traditional marketing, SiteSell and SBI have made a tremendous difference in my life. And from what I see here in Silicon Valley, local search is just starting to take off. The best is yet to come!!”
~ Dr. John Burch DDS
DrBurch.com

But, what if you can not afford SBI? Well that is where Buildasuccessfulwebsite comes in.  Although I can not give you all the tools SBI offers, I can give you some helpful advice. Read through my posts. They will point you in the right direction. Subscribe to my RSS Feed (the orange button at the top of every page) so that you will know when I have added more valuable information for you to consume!

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1. Plan for your Web Site
2. Finding your Niche

Download the FREE Alexa Toolbar form Alexa.com.

This toolbar is great because it  gives you a good idea of how much traffic a web site receives.  As you browse through relevant links, look down at the ranking of the web site.

You may wish to add an Alexa widget to your web site like this one.

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Dreamweaver is very expensive, so I’d advise playing around with some of the free WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) HTML editors before purchasing something like Dreamweaver. You need to have a basic knowledge of HTML and CSS before you can start taking advantage of the cool functions and tools Dreamweaver provides.

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1. Good HTML Editors

Not all that long ago creating web pages in a text editor was seen as the best way to create a web page because the editor had would use only the necessary codes that were required for the page to be displayed properly in a web browser.

Now web design programs such as Dreamweaver allow you to create solid codes and view what your page looks like while you create it. Less time is spent on finding errors in your script allowing you to become more productive. For example, in Dreamweaver CS4 all files associated with your pages will open together with the HTML file you choose to open. As soon as you click on a certain area of the page the CSS section associated with that particular area show up in a side bar. This makes it easy to access and edit and modify your CSS file from inside your HTML file. No longer do you have to go and find yourCSS file, open it, find the area you need to change, change it, and go back to editing your HTML script.

There are a number of HTML editors that you could use. Some of them are free and others have a nice price tag attached to them. Before you buy an HTML editor, why not start by using a free one. Perhaps for your purposes the free one will work just fine.

A free HTML editor that I have used in the past is Evrsoft First Page. This WYSIWYG editor works well and I have been very happy with it. Clicking on the link will bring you to the Evrsoft site where you can download the editor and install it on your computer. Although you will be able to work more productively DreamWeaver CS4, Evrsoft First Page has all the tools you need to create your first web pages.

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Have fun with it. It really adds to the tools I have listed here. It is just one of the great collections of tools Site Build It (SBI) offers. Thanks SBI!

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1. Keyword Tool – Adwords
2. Keyword Tool – WordTracker
3. Plan for your Web Site