Wonderful Web Tools for Visual Storytelling

People love pretty pictures. If you want to create content for the Web, this is something you should keep in mind. Images are often described as being “worth a thousand words” and, when chosen appropriately, they usually make the written content more interesting, memorable and shareable.

Since the majority of popular blogging platforms emphasizes text as a primary means of expression and/or communication, I went looking for something else. I wanted to find a web app that puts images in the spotlight and lets them carry the story – and I found two. Cowbird and Jux are two completely different web apps that share a common goal: making visual storytelling easy and wonderful.

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Portfoliobox - All You Need to Build a Website

Creating a website used to be difficult. Not anymore – nowadays almost everyone has a website or at least a blog, thanks to different CMS solutions and blogging platforms that make it possible to build a website in just a few clicks.

Of course, the range of available options varies from service to service, and so does the level of customization you can perform. If you're not too finicky, but still want a beautiful website, may I recommend Portfoliobox?

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How Software Systems Like WordPress CMS And Microsoft SharePoint Have Changed The Landscape

Many moons ago people got software either off the shelf and it was rubbish or got a developer to sit and code. This simply made clever websites too expensive for most people so they just had simple flat HTML websites and simple intranet systems.

Over the years we have moved a distance away from hard coding every website and intranets to out of the box solutions that really do work. See https://wordpress.org/ and http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/sharepoint/. Two very different solutions but both having lots of out of the box functionality meaning hard coding is only needed for the bespoke.

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Ghost Blogging Platform

There are plenty of blogging platforms out on the web today. A blogging platform is a service that allows you to post content in a manner of a journal, much like WordPress, Squarspace, Blogger, or even Live Journal. A lot of these blogging platforms are better recognized and known more than others. There is one blogging platform that proves to be interesting, and isn’t very well known, and that platform is simply called “Ghost”. Ghost solely focuses on publishing while keeping a simple yet sleek design for those web designers. It’s free to use and free to download, but it does have a service you can pay for that includes hosting and some advertisement. But let’s take a look at what this service truly has to offer.

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