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It takes plenty of resources to bring you articles about design and development free of charge. Without our sponsors, we wouldn’t be able to bring you top-notch content that you can enjoy and learn from.

Thankfully, we’re able to do all of this with the help of our sponsors who support our community — companies that also create amazing products and provide excellent services to web professionals like us.

We’d like to thank our site sponsors between March 1 – March 31, 2011 and talk a little bit about what they do.

As readers, you can support Six Revisions by checking them out and seeing if they have products and services that you can take advantage of.

1. Squarespace

Squarespace is one of the easiest and most elegant ways to create websites for your web design clients. It’s a fully hosted solution, and is a flexible and robust platform to deploy your work on. You can try Squarespace for free by signing up (it’ll only take a few seconds of your time).

2. Site5 Web Hosting

Site5 is a web hosting provider catering to the needs of web designers. They have several plans starting from shared hosting at $4.95 a month to dedicated servers at $165 a month. If you are on another web host and would like to move to Site5, they offer a free website migration service handled by their expert migration admins. Only a few hosts can reconcile excellent uptime, features, and support with dirt-cheap prices — Site5 is one of them.

3. Top 25 Web Hosts

TopHosts.com is a complete web hosting resource, providing site owners tools and information about the hosting industry. Founded in 1997, TopHosts.com has been around for a quite a while! They provide a forum as a venue to bring people together to discuss web hosting, as well as a Top 25 Web Hosts list that highlights top-notch hosting providers in various categories (such as Best Customer Support and Best Shared Host).

4. Site24x7

Site24x7 is an application for monitoring your website and web servers. It logs, records, and watches out for website uptime issues, website performance issues, DNS records, and much more. Site24x7 has an iPhone version so that you can keep yourself clued in to the status of your web properties even when you’re located remotely. Developers will gain access to their API for creating custom tools and apps that utilize Site24x7′s service.

5. Zoho Invoice

Zoho Invoice is a web-based invoicing application for managing payments for your projects. With Zoho Invoice, you can view reports of your expenses and revenue to keep a constant monitor of your financial health, avail of their sharing/collaborative features, and invoice in multiple currencies (which is great for web-based entrepreneurs who do business across the globe). Sign up for Zoho Invoice (it’ll only take less than 30 seconds).

6. PageLines

PageLines is a WordPress development company geared towards catering to professionals. They just launched the PlatformPro WordPress Framework (check out the demo), which is a drag-and-drop theme framework for easily creating your own awesome themes. Check out the WordPress themes they currently have in available.

7. PC Pandora

PC Pandora is a computer security tool that records the activities in the computer that it’s installed in. It can be helpful in protecting your business computers from being compromised. Download a free trial version of it to see it in action.

8. Intervals

Intervals aims to simplify and streamline project management by creating an all-in-one web-based solution for management duties that have traditionally required multiple apps. Intervals have plans starting at a reasonably priced $20/month and signing up and trying out the service doesn’t need a credit card, making it convenient and risk-free to give them a whirl.

9. TrackRecord

This Mac OS X app is perfect for professionals that need to track their time. It has a user-friendly interface, tight integration with 37 Signals’ Basecamp, tracks idle times in case you need to step away from the computer and forget to turn off the time-tracking, and more. Try out TrackRecord by downloading their 14-day free trial or buy it now for $20.

10. Adobe Business Catalyst

Adobe Business Catalyst (abbreviated as BC) is complete online business platform for amazing websites and online stores. You can build powerful sites without the need to know backend code, which the platform does all for you. Check out the tour to learn more about the platform to help you evaluate if this is a great solution for your next project, and sign up for free in seconds (literally, they’ve timed it) to take the platform for a test drive.

11. FaceItPages

This nifty tool aimed at businesses helps you create awesome Facebook Pages. With FaceItPages, a do-it-yourself design tool, you can use custom photos, choose from a selection of their design themes, and publish your work as a Facebook Page tab. If you’d like to give them a try, they have a free Starter plan that you can sign up for.

12. Sprout Social

Sprout Social is a social media engagement tool that’s great for businesses as well as individuals. It makes monitoring your social networks a breeze within its intuitive and beautiful web interface. Check out its features by signing up for a free trial.

13. FreshBooks

FreshBooks is a web-based application for sending, managing, and tracking your invoices. It has a wonderful interface that makes it a cinch to produce invoices that you send to your clients. They have over 1 million users and were able to conduct $1 billion woorth of transactions in just 4 months — a testament to the excellence of the app.

14. BannerSnack

BannerSnack is one of the wonderful web apps that’s included in SnackTools. It’s a banner maker for creating professional-level web banners quickly and easily. You can create GIF and Flash animated banners. You can make banners with BannerSnack for free (the registration is hassle-free, you can securely use Facebook, Twitter, Google authentication, etc. to register).

15. PSD to HTML

PSD to HTML offers Photoshop file to HTML/CSS template conversions for web designers wanting to focus on just design and have someone else deal with all the coding. Their packages are reasonably priced, starting from $149. And we all know how much of a pain making HTML email templates are. Why subject yourself to all that frustration when you can have PSD to HTML code it up for you?

16. SiteGrinder 3

SiteGrinder 3 is a Photoshop plugin that will convert your Photoshop PSD files into HTML/CSS web page templates. It’s, according to the creators, your "website development business in a box." Download the free trial of SiteGrinder 3 to see it in action.

17. Full Sail University

With over 30 years of experience in delivering innovative and immersive education at their Florida campus, Full Sail University offers online degrees that continue their reputation as one of the world’s premier media arts schools. In their online Web Design & Development Bachelor’s Degree, you’ll learn the latest software and programming languages, explore design fundamentals, and produce web and mobile sites — ultimately building a digital portfolio to help propel you into the industry.

18. Shutterstock

Shutterstock is one of the biggest stock image sites with over 12 million royalty-free photos. They have monthly subscription plans or the option for on-demand subscriptions to their images (such as 5 high-resolution photos for $49). They have over 240,000 photographers contributing stock photos to their marketplace, and they add close to 80,000 new photos per week!

Giveaway Sponsors: March 2011

1. Avactis – Giveaway: 5 Avactis E-commerce Software
2. Next Day Flyers – Giveaway: 100 Postcards from Next Day Flyers
3. SnackTools – Giveaway: 10 SnackTools VIP Memberships for 1 Year
4. PhotoEQ – Giveaway: 10 PhotoEQ Image Editing Software Licenses

Related Content

• Website Features That You Can Easily Offload
• 10 Free Website Chat Widgets to Make Your Site Interactive
• 12 Social Media Monitoring Tools Reviewed
• Related categories: Site News and Tools

About the Author

Jacob Gube is the Founder and Chief Editor of Six Revisions. He’s also a web developer/designer who specializes in front-end development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and also a book author. If you’d like to connect with him, head on over to the contact page and follow him on Twitter: @sixrevisions.

Advertise here with BSA

It takes plenty of resources to bring you articles about design and development free of charge. Without our sponsors, we wouldn’t be able to bring you top-notch content that you can enjoy and learn from.

Thankfully, we’re able to do all of this with the help of our sponsors who support our community — companies that also create amazing products and provide excellent services to web professionals like us.

We’d like to thank our site sponsors between February 1 – February 28, 2011 and talk a little bit about what they do.

As readers, you can support Six Revisions by checking them out and seeing if they have products and services that you can take advantage of.

1. Site24x7

Site24x7 is an application for monitoring your website and web servers. It logs, records, and watches out for website uptime issues, website performance issues, DNS records, and much more. Site24x7 has an iPhone version so that you can keep yourself clued in to the status of your web properties even when you’re located remotely. Developers will gain access to their API for creating custom tools and apps that utilize Site24x7′s service.

2. Shutterstock

Shutterstock is one of the biggest stock image sites with over 12 million royalty-free photos. They have monthly subscription plans or the option for on-demand subscriptions to their images (such as 5 high-resolution photos for $49). They have over 240,000 photographers contributing stock photos to their marketplace, and they add close to 80,000 new photos per week!

3. Top 25 Web Hosts

TopHosts.com is a complete web hosting resource, providing site owners tools and information about the hosting industry. Founded in 1997, TopHosts.com has been around for a quite a while! They provide a forum as a venue to bring people together to discuss web hosting, as well as a Top 25 Web Hosts list that highlights top-notch hosting providers in various categories (such as Best Customer Support and Best Shared Host).

4. PageLines

PageLines is a WordPress development company geared towards catering to professionals. They just launched the PlatformPro WordPress Framework (check out the demo), which is a drag-and-drop theme framework for easily creating your own awesome themes. Check out the WordPress themes they currently have in available.

5. PSD to HTML

PSD to HTML offers Photoshop file to HTML/CSS template conversions for web designers wanting to focus on just design and have someone else deal with all the coding. Their packages are reasonably priced, starting from $149. And we all know how much of a pain making HTML email templates are. Why subject yourself to all that frustration when you can have PSD to HTML code it up for you?

6. FaceItPages

This nifty tool aimed at businesses helps you create awesome Facebook Pages. With FaceItPages, a do-it-yourself design tool, you can use custom photos, choose from a selection of their design themes, and publish your work as a Facebook Page tab. If you’d like to give them a try, they have a free Starter plan that you can sign up for.

7. FreshBooks

FreshBooks is a web-based application for sending, managing, and tracking your invoices. It has a wonderful interface that makes it a cinch to produce invoices that you send to your clients. They have over 1 million users and were able to conduct $1 billion woorth of transactions in just 4 months — a testament to the excellence of the app.

8. Intervals

Intervals aims to simplify and streamline project management by creating an all-in-one web-based solution for management duties that have traditionally required multiple apps. Intervals have plans starting at a reasonably priced $20/month and signing up and trying out the service doesn’t need a credit card, making it convenient and risk-free to give them a whirl.

9. Adobe Business Catalyst

Adobe Business Catalyst (abbreviated as BC) is complete online business platform for amazing websites and online stores. You can build powerful sites without the need to know backend code, which the platform does all for you. Check out the tour to learn more about the platform to help you evaluate if this is a great solution for your next project, and sign up for free in seconds (literally, they’ve timed it) to take the platform for a test drive.

10. TrackRecord

This Mac OS X app is perfect for professionals that need to track their time. It has a user-friendly interface, tight integration with 37 Signals’ Basecamp, tracks idle times in case you need to step away from the computer and forget to turn off the time-tracking, and more. Try out TrackRecord by downloading their 14-day free trial or buy it now for $20.

11. Site5 Web Hosting

Site5 is a web hosting provider catering to the needs of web designers. They have several plans starting from shared hosting at $4.95 a month to dedicated servers at $165 a month. If you are on another web host and would like to move to Site5, they offer a free website migration service handled by their expert migration admins. Only a few hosts can reconcile excellent uptime, features, and support with dirt-cheap prices — Site5 is one of them.

12. InstaLance

InstaLance is a freelancing network with a twist; clients can work with freelancers in real-time (they also have a video option). Freelancers get paid after the freelance session. Interested? Join InstaLance.

13. Zoho Invoice

Zoho Invoice is a web-based invoicing application for managing payments for your projects. With Zoho Invoice, you can view reports of your expenses and revenue to keep a constant monitor of your financial health, avail of their sharing/collaborative features, and invoice in multiple currencies (which is great for web-based entrepreneurs who do business across the globe). Sign up for Zoho Invoice (it’ll only take less than 30 seconds).

14. ThemeForest

ThemeForest is one of the web’s leading marketplaces for site templates and CMS themes. They offer close to 3,000 site templates and themes (starting from $1 each) for static HTML sites, HTML emails, WordPress, Joomla, Magento, and more. They also have a tumblr blog that covers topics in web design and web development.

15. Full Sail University

With over 30 years of experience in delivering innovative and immersive education at their Florida campus, Full Sail University offers online degrees that continue their reputation as one of the world’s premier media arts schools. In their online Web Design & Development Bachelor’s Degree, you’ll learn the latest software and programming languages, explore design fundamentals, and produce web and mobile sites — ultimately building a digital portfolio to help propel you into the industry.

Giveaway Sponsors: February 2011

1. Zyma – Giveaway: 15 Web Hosting Plans for 2 Years at Zyma.com
2. AceProject – Giveaway: Five 1-Year Subscriptions to AceProject
3. Stockfresh – Giveaway: Royalty-Free Stock Photo Credits from Stockfresh
4. DesignContest.com – Giveaway: 5 Amazon Kindle 3G from DesignContest.com

Related Content

• Website Features That You Can Easily Offload
• 10 Free Website Chat Widgets to Make Your Site Interactive
• 12 Social Media Monitoring Tools Reviewed
• Related categories: Site News and Tools

About the Author

Jacob Gube is the Founder and Chief Editor of Six Revisions. He’s also a web developer/designer who specializes in front-end development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and also a book author. If you’d like to connect with him, head on over to the contact page and follow him on Twitter: @sixrevisions.

Advertise here with BSA

It takes plenty of resources to bring you articles about design and development free of charge. Without our sponsors, we wouldn’t be able to bring you top-notch content that you can enjoy and learn from.

Thankfully, we’re able to do all of this with the help of our sponsors who support our community — companies that also create amazing products and provide excellent services to web professionals like us.

We’d like to thank our site sponsors between January 1 – January 31, 2011 and talk a little bit about what they do.

As readers, you can support Six Revisions by checking them out and seeing if they have products and services that you can take advantage of.

1. Zoho Invoice

Zoho Invoice is a web-based invoicing application for managing payments for your projects. With Zoho Invoice, you can view reports of your expenses and revenue to keep a constant monitor of your financial health, avail of their sharing/collaborative features, and invoice in multiple currencies (which is great for web-based entrepreneurs who do business across the globe). Sign up for Zoho Invoice (it’ll only take less than 30 seconds).

2. PageLines

PageLines is a WordPress development company geared towards catering to professionals. They just launched the PlatformPro WordPress Framework (check out the demo), which is a drag-and-drop theme framework for easily creating your own awesome themes. Check out the WordPress themes they currently have in available.

3. TrackRecord

This Mac OS X app is perfect for professionals that need to track their time. It has a user-friendly interface, tight integration with 37 Signals’ Basecamp, tracks idle times in case you need to step away from the computer and forget to turn off the time-tracking, and more. Try out TrackRecord by downloading their 14-day free trial or buy it now for $20.

4. vzaar

vzaar is the #1 commercial video delivery solution available in the market. The service has loads of features for managing, tracking and delivering your video content. They have customizable video players, HD video and iPhone support, various encoding options, and integration with third-party services such as eBay, Google Analytics, and Mailchimp. Start your 30-free trial now to test out vzaar.

5. Site5 Web Hosting

Site5 is a web hosting provider catering to the needs of web designers. They have several plans starting from shared hosting at $4.95 a month to dedicated servers at $165 a month. If you are on another web host and would like to move to Site5, they offer a free website migration service handled by their expert migration admins. Only a few hosts can reconcile excellent uptime, features, and support with dirt-cheap prices — Site5 is one of them.

6. Top 25 Web Hosts

TopHosts.com is a complete web hosting resource, providing site owners tools and information about the hosting industry. Founded in 1997, TopHosts.com has been around for a quite a while! They provide a forum as a venue to bring people together to discuss web hosting, as well as a Top 25 Web Hosts list that highlights top-notch hosting providers in various categories (such as Best Customer Support and Best Shared Host).

7. Intervals

Intervals aims to simplify and streamline project management by creating an all-in-one web-based solution for management duties that have traditionally required multiple apps. Intervals have plans starting at a reasonably priced $20/month and signing up and trying out the service doesn’t need a credit card, making it convenient and risk-free to give them a whirl.

8. Shutterstock

Shutterstock is one of the biggest stock image sites with over 12 million royalty-free photos. They have monthly subscription plans or the option for on-demand subscriptions to their images (such as 5 high-resolution photos for $49). They have over 240,000 photographers contributing stock photos to their marketplace, and they add close to 80,000 new photos per week!

9. PSD to HTML

PSD to HTML offers Photoshop file to HTML/CSS template conversions for web designers wanting to focus on just design and have someone else deal with all the coding. Their packages are reasonably priced, starting from $149. And we all know how much of a pain making HTML email templates are. Why subject yourself to all that frustration when you can have PSD to HTML code it up for you?

10. Site24x7

Site24x7 is an application for monitoring your website and web servers. It logs, records, and watches out for website uptime issues, website performance issues, DNS records, and much more. Site24x7 has an iPhone version so that you can keep yourself clued in to the status of your web properties even when you’re located remotely. Developers will gain access to their API for creating custom tools and apps that utilize Site24x7′s service.

11. ThemeForest

ThemeForest is one of the web’s leading marketplaces for site templates and CMS themes. They offer close to 3,000 site templates and themes (starting from $1 each) for static HTML sites, HTML emails, WordPress, Joomla, Magento, and more. They also have a tumblr blog that covers topics in web design and web development.

12. TaskAnt

This excellent team task management web app has a slick and useful interface that makes managing project tasks as easy as emailing. It has a robust search feature that supports search expressions, a feature called Smartlist for saving searches and views, and a simple and powerful design that makes task delegation and tracking actually enjoyable instead of being a burden. Sign up for a free account.

13. Full Sail University

With over 30 years of experience in delivering innovative and immersive education at their Florida campus, Full Sail University offers online degrees that continue their reputation as one of the world’s premier media arts schools. In their online Web Design & Development Bachelor’s Degree, you’ll learn the latest software and programming languages, explore design fundamentals, and produce web and mobile sites — ultimately building a digital portfolio to help propel you into the industry.

14. SiteGrinder 3

SiteGrinder 3 is a website development platform plugin for Photoshop. For web designers that have difficultly in coding and deploying websites, SiteGrinder 3 is a tool you may want to check out. You can expand SiteGrinder 3 through addons, including a Commerce add-on for building e-commerce-enabled websites.

15. FreshBooks

FreshBooks is a web-based application for sending, managing, and tracking your invoices. It has a wonderful interface that makes it a cinch to produce invoices that you send to your clients. They have over 1 million users and were able to conduct $1 billion woorth of transactions in just 4 months — a testament to the excellence of the app.

16. Adobe Business Catalyst

Adobe Business Catalyst (abbreviated as BC) is complete online business platform for amazing websites and online stores. You can build powerful sites without the need to know backend code, which the platform does all for you. Check out the tour to learn more about the platform to help you evaluate if this is a great solution for your next project, and sign up for free in seconds (literally, they’ve timed it) to take the platform for a test drive.

Giveaway Sponsors: January 2011

1. AlertFox – Giveaway: AlertFox Website Monitoring, $300 in Credit
2. MacX DVD Ripper Pro – Free Exclusive Download: MacX DVD Ripper Pro (Win/Mac)
3. JoomlArt – Giveaway: 5 Memberships to JoomlArt Magento Theme Club
4. OSTraining – Giveaway: Joomla Online Training Classes at OSTraining.com
5. IconDemon – Giveaway: 5 1-Year Memberships to IconDemon

Related Content

• Website Features That You Can Easily Offload
• 10 Free Website Chat Widgets to Make Your Site Interactive
• 12 Social Media Monitoring Tools Reviewed
• Related categories: Site News and Tools

About the Author

Jacob Gube is the Founder and Chief Editor of Six Revisions. He’s also a web developer/designer who specializes in front-end development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and also a book author. If you’d like to connect with him, head on over to the contact page and follow him on Twitter: @sixrevisions.

Advertise here with BSA

It takes plenty of resources to bring you articles about design and development free of charge. Without our sponsors, we wouldn’t be able to bring you top-notch content that you can enjoy and learn from.

Thankfully, we’re able to do all of this with the help of our sponsors who support our community — companies that also create amazing products and provide excellent services to web professionals like us.

We’d like to thank our site sponsors between December 1 – December 31, 2010 and talk a little bit about what they do.

As readers, you can support Six Revisions by checking them out and seeing if they have products and services that you can take advantage of.

1. Squarespace

Squarespace is a popular hosted/managed web publishing platform. Quickly build and deploy a site with a custom design — whether it’s a blog, portfolio, news site — on their platform. They’ll even host it for you. All of that for only $12 a month. Check out the beautiful examples of sites that use Squarespace, and try out the Squarespace platform for free!

2. Full Sail University

With over 30 years of experience in delivering innovative and immersive education at their Florida campus, Full Sail University offers online degrees that continue their reputation as one of the world’s premier media arts schools. In their online Web Design & Development Bachelor’s Degree, you’ll learn the latest software and programming languages, explore design fundamentals, and produce web and mobile sites — ultimately building a digital portfolio to help propel you into the industry.

3. Shutterstock

Shutterstock is one of the biggest stock image sites with over 12 million royalty-free photos. They have monthly subscription plans or the option for on-demand subscriptions to their images (such as 5 high-resolution photos for $49). They have over 240,000 photographers contributing stock photos to their marketplace, and they add close to 80,000 new photos per week!

4. TrackRecord

This Mac OS X app is perfect for professionals that need to track their time. It has a user-friendly interface, tight integration with 37 Signals’ Basecamp, tracks idle times in case you need to step away from the computer and forget to turn off the time-tracking, and more. Try out TrackRecord by downloading their 14-day free trial or buy it now for $20.

5. Adobe Business Catalyst

Adobe Business Catalyst (abbreviated as BC) is complete online business platform for amazing websites and online stores. You can build powerful sites without the need to know backend code, which the platform does all for you. Check out the tour to learn more about the platform to help you evaluate if this is a great solution for your next project, and sign up for free in seconds (literally, they’ve timed it) to take the platform for a test drive.

6. Site5 Web Hosting

Site5 is a web hosting provider catering to the needs of web designers. They have several plans starting from shared hosting at $4.95 a month to dedicated servers at $165 a month. If you are on another web host and would like to move to Site5, they offer a free website migration service handled by their expert migration admins. Only a few hosts can reconcile excellent uptime, features, and support with dirt-cheap prices — Site5 is one of them.

7. Site24x7

Site24x7 is an application for monitoring your website and web servers. It logs, records, and watches out for website uptime issues, website performance issues, DNS records, and much more. Site24x7 has an iPhone version so that you can keep yourself clued in to the status of your web properties even when you’re located remotely. Developers will gain access to their API for creating custom tools and apps that utilize Site24x7′s service.

8. PageLines

PageLines is a WordPress development company geared towards catering to professionals. They just launched the PlatformPro WordPress Framework (check out the demo), which is a drag-and-drop theme framework for easily creating your own awesome themes. Check out the WordPress themes they currently have in available.

9. Zoho Invoice

Zoho Invoice is a web-based invoicing application for managing payments for your projects. With Zoho Invoice, you can view reports of your expenses and revenue to keep a constant monitor of your financial health, avail of their sharing/collaborative features, and invoice in multiple currencies (which is great for web-based entrepreneurs who do business across the globe). Sign up for Zoho Invoice (it’ll only take less than 30 seconds).

10. PSD to HTML

PSD to HTML offers Photoshop file to HTML/CSS template conversions for web designers wanting to focus on just design and have someone else deal with all the coding. Their packages are reasonably priced, starting from $149. And we all know how much of a pain making HTML email templates are. Why subject yourself to all that frustration when you can have PSD to HTML code it up for you?

11. SiteGrinder 3

SiteGrinder 3 is a website development platform plugin for Photoshop. For web designers that have difficultly in coding and deploying websites, SiteGrinder 3 is a tool you may want to check out. You can expand SiteGrinder 3 through addons, including a Commerce add-on for building e-commerce-enabled websites.

12. vzaar

vzaar is the #1 commercial video delivery solution available in the market. The service has loads of features for managing, tracking and delivering your video content. They have customizable video players, HD video and iPhone support, various encoding options, and integration with third-party services such as eBay, Google Analytics, and Mailchimp. Start your 30-free trial now to test out vzaar.

13. Intervals

Intervals aims to simplify and streamline project management by creating an all-in-one web-based solution for management duties that have traditionally required multiple apps. Intervals have plans starting at a reasonably priced $20/month and signing up and trying out the service doesn’t need a credit card, making it convenient and risk-free to give them a whirl.

14. Paymo Timetracker

Paymo is a free time tracking web app that can handle your time tracking, invoicing, and timesheet needs. Check out the app’s feature set by taking the tour and sign up now for the free plan–perfect for freelancers just starting out.

15. Verio

Used by over 250,000 companies in 146 countries, Verio is one of the largest hosting providers for sites, applications and SaaS. They were named the Best Hosting Company of 2008 by HostingReviews.com. They have many hosting services such as small business website hosting, Microsoft Exchange email hosting, domain name registration and management services, dedicated servers on Linux or Windows, and more.

16. ThemeForest

ThemeForest is one of the web’s leading marketplaces for site templates and CMS themes. They offer close to 3,000 site templates and themes (starting from $1 each) for static HTML sites, HTML emails, WordPress, Joomla, Magento, and more. They also have a tumblr blog that covers topics in web design and web development.

17. Top 25 Web Hosts

TopHosts.com is a complete web hosting resource, providing site owners tools and information about the hosting industry. Founded in 1997, TopHosts.com has been around for a quite a while! They provide a forum as a venue to bring people together to discuss web hosting, as well as a Top 25 Web Hosts list that highlights top-notch hosting providers in various categories (such as Best Customer Support and Best Shared Host).

18. FreshBooks

FreshBooks is a web-based application for sending, managing, and tracking your invoices. It has a wonderful interface that makes it a cinch to produce invoices that you send to your clients. They have over 1 million users and were able to conduct $1 billion woorth of transactions in just 4 months — a testament to the excellence of the app.

Giveaway Sponsors: December 2010

1. Site24x7 – Giveaway: Site24x7 Website Monitoring Service
2. SlideshowBox – Giveaway: 10 SlideshowBox Premium Plus Licenses ($149 Each)

Related Content

• Website Features That You Can Easily Offload
• 10 Free Website Chat Widgets to Make Your Site Interactive
• 12 Social Media Monitoring Tools Reviewed
• Related categories: Site News and Tools

About the Author

Jacob Gube is the Founder and Chief Editor of Six Revisions. He’s also a web developer/designer who specializes in front-end development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and also a book author. If you’d like to connect with him, head on over to the contact page and follow him on Twitter: @sixrevisions.

Advertise here with BSA

It takes plenty of resources to bring you articles about design and development free of charge. Without our sponsors, we wouldn’t be able to bring you top-notch content that you can enjoy and learn from.

Thankfully, we’re able to do all of this with the help of our sponsors who support our community — companies that also create amazing products and provide excellent services to web professionals like us.

We’d like to thank our site sponsors between November 1 – November 30, 2010 and talk a little bit about what they do.

As readers, you can support Six Revisions by checking them out and seeing if they have products and services that you can take advantage of.

1. Top 25 Web Hosts

TopHosts.com is a complete web hosting resource, providing site owners tools and information about the hosting industry. Founded in 1997, TopHosts.com has been around for a quite a while! They provide a forum as a venue to bring people together to discuss web hosting, as well as a Top 25 Web Hosts list that highlights top-notch hosting providers in various categories (such as Best Customer Support and Best Shared Host).

2. SkyLedger

SkyLedger is a user-friendly bookkeeping web app geared towards small and medium-sized businesses. SkyLedger takes pride in its "dead simple" user interface, which makes signing up and immediately getting started literally a 1-minute affair. Take a tour of the app or sign up for free.

3. Adobe Business Catalyst

Adobe Business Catalyst (abbreviated as BC) is complete online business platform for amazing websites and online stores. You can build powerful sites without the need to know backend code, which the platform does all for you. Check out the tour to learn more about the platform to help you evaluate if this is a great solution for your next project, and sign up for free in seconds (literally, they’ve timed it) to take the platform for a test drive.

4. eConnect

eConnect is a web-based application for creating, managing, and sending email campaigns. It has an intuitive interface that gives you features such as reporting and analytics, the ability to create subscription web forms, and an API for making your own tools and apps. It has possible integration with other applications and services such as Salesforce. To get started, you can request for a personalized live demo of their product.

5. Intervals

Intervals aims to simplify and streamline project management by creating an all-in-one web-based solution for management duties that have traditionally required multiple apps. Intervals have plans starting at a reasonably priced $20/month and signing up and trying out the service doesn’t need a credit card, making it convenient and risk-free to give them a whirl.

6. Verio

Used by over 250,000 companies in 146 countries, Verio is one of the largest hosting providers for sites, applications and SaaS. They were named the Best Hosting Company of 2008 by HostingReviews.com. They have many hosting services such as small business website hosting, Microsoft Exchange email hosting, domain name registration and management services, dedicated servers on Linux or Windows, and more.

7. Shutterstock

Shutterstock is one of the biggest stock image sites with over 12 million royalty-free photos. They have monthly subscription plans or the option for on-demand subscriptions to their images (such as 5 high-resolution photos for $49). They have over 240,000 photographers contributing stock photos to their marketplace, and they add close to 80,000 new photos per week!

8. Full Sail University

With over 30 years of experience in delivering innovative and immersive education at their Florida campus, Full Sail University offers online degrees that continue their reputation as one of the world’s premier media arts schools. In their online Web Design & Development Bachelor’s Degree, you’ll learn the latest software and programming languages, explore design fundamentals, and produce web and mobile sites — ultimately building a digital portfolio to help propel you into the industry.

9. Bigstock

Bigstock is a user-friendly marketplace for high-quality stock images. Started in 2004, they quickly grew to become one of the Web’s leading stock photo sites. Bigstock has over 5 million royalty-free photos organized in 27 intuitive categories. You can purchase stock photos for as low as $1 each. The way it works is you buy Bigstock credits to download only the stock photos you need, which starts from $15 for 5 credits.

10. vzaar

vzaar is the #1 commercial video delivery solution available in the market. The service has loads of features for managing, tracking and delivering your video content. They have customizable video players, HD video and iPhone support, various encoding options, and integration with third-party services such as eBay, Google Analytics, and Mailchimp. Start your 30-free trial now to test out vzaar.

11. PSD to HTML

PSD to HTML offers Photoshop file to HTML/CSS template conversions for web designers wanting to focus on just design and have someone else deal with all the coding. Their packages are reasonably priced, starting from $149. And we all know how much of a pain making HTML email templates are. Why subject yourself to all that frustration when you can have PSD to HTML code it up for you?

12. FreshBooks

FreshBooks is a web-based application for sending, managing, and tracking your invoices. It has a wonderful interface that makes it a cinch to produce invoices that you send to your clients. They have over 1 million users and were able to conduct $1 billion woorth of transactions in just 4 months — a testament to the excellence of the app.

13. Zoho Invoice

Zoho Invoice is a web-based invoicing application for managing payments for your projects. With Zoho Invoice, you can view reports of your expenses and revenue to keep a constant monitor of your financial health, avail of their sharing/collaborative features, and invoice in multiple currencies (which is great for web-based entrepreneurs who do business across the globe). Sign up for Zoho Invoice (it’ll only take less than 30 seconds).

14. SiteGrinder 3

SiteGrinder 3 is a website development platform plugin for Photoshop. For web designers that have difficultly in coding and deploying websites, SiteGrinder 3 is a tool you may want to check out. You can expand SiteGrinder 3 through addons, including a Commerce add-on for building e-commerce-enabled websites.

15. Site5 Web Hosting

Site5 is a web hosting provider catering to the needs of web designers. They have several plans starting from shared hosting at $4.95 a month to dedicated servers at $165 a month. If you are on another web host and would like to move to Site5, they offer a free website migration service handled by their expert migration admins. Only a few hosts can reconcile excellent uptime, features, and support with dirt-cheap prices — Site5 is one of them.

16. Justinmind

Justinmind is a feature-rich prototyping software. With Justinmind, you can create wireframes and prototypes, export your work into HTML (or even Microsoft Word), collaborate in real-time with team members, and auto-populate the content of your prototype components so that you can produce realistic results. Download Justinmind Prototyper (free for 30 days) and give the application a whirl.

17. ThemeForest

ThemeForest is one of the web’s leading marketplaces for site templates and CMS themes. They offer close to 3,000 site templates and themes (starting from $1 each) for static HTML sites, HTML emails, WordPress, Joomla, Magento, and more. They also have a tumblr blog that covers topics in web design and web development.

18. Site24x7

Site24x7 is an application for monitoring your website and web servers. It logs, records, and watches out for website uptime issues, website performance issues, DNS records, and much more. Site24x7 has an iPhone version so that you can keep yourself clued in to the status of your web properties even when you’re located remotely. Developers will gain access to their API for creating custom tools and apps that utilize Site24x7′s service.

19. TrackRecord

This Mac OS X app is perfect for professionals that need to track their time. It has a user-friendly interface, tight integration with 37 Signals’ Basecamp, tracks idle times in case you need to step away from the computer and forget to turn off the time-tracking, and more. Try out TrackRecord by downloading their 14-day free trial or buy it now for $20.

20. PageLines

PageLines is a WordPress development company geared towards catering to professionals. They just launched the PlatformPro WordPress Framework (check out the demo), which is a drag-and-drop theme framework for easily creating your own awesome themes. Check out the WordPress themes they currently have in available.

21. Squarespace

Squarespace is a popular hosted/managed web publishing platform. Quickly build and deploy a site with a custom design — whether it’s a blog, portfolio, news site — on their platform. They’ll even host it for you. All of that for only $12 a month. Check out the beautiful examples of sites that use Squarespace, and try out the Squarespace platform for free!

Giveaway Sponsors: November 2010

1. CU3ER – Giveaway: 10 CU3ER 3D Image Slider Licenses
2. Blinksale – Giveaway: 6 Blinksale Silver Plans for 1 Year
3. CodeMyConcept.com – Giveaway: $250 CodeMyConcept Gift Cards
4. Campaign Monitor – Giveaway: 5 Books – HTML Email That Just Works

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• 10 Android Apps Every Web Designer Should Know About
• 10 iPhone Apps Every Web Designer Should Know About
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About the Author

Jacob Gube is the Founder and Chief Editor of Six Revisions. He’s also a web developer/designer who specializes in front-end development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and also a book author. If you’d like to connect with him, head on over to the contact page and follow him on Twitter: @sixrevisions.

Advertise here with BSA

It takes plenty of resources to bring you articles about design and development free of charge. Without our sponsors, we wouldn’t be able to bring you top-notch content that you can enjoy and learn from.

Thankfully, we’re able to do all of this with the help of our sponsors who support our community — companies that also create amazing products and provide excellent services to web professionals like us.

We’d like to thank our site sponsors between October 1 – October 31, 2010 and talk a little bit about what they do.

As readers, you can support Six Revisions by checking them out and seeing if they have products and services that you can take advantage of.

1. Site5 Web Hosting

Site5 is a web hosting provider catering to the needs of web designers. They have several plans starting from shared hosting at $4.95 a month to dedicated servers at $165 a month. If you are on another web host and would like to move to Site5, they offer a free website migration service handled by their expert migration admins. Only a few hosts can reconcile excellent uptime, features, and support with dirt-cheap prices — Site5 is one of them.

2. FreshBooks

FreshBooks is a web-based application for sending, managing, and tracking your invoices. It has a wonderful interface that makes it a cinch to produce invoices that you send to your clients. They have over 1 million users and were able to conduct $1 billion woorth of transactions in just 4 months — a testament to the excellence of the app.

3. MailChimp

MailChimp is a web application for dealing with email marketing campaigns. Used by over 400,000 people, the application is loaded with useful features such as social media integration, a slick backend for managing your email campaigns, and even mobile apps for when you’re on the go. Developers get access to their robust API for creating apps and tools that leverage MailChimp’s web service.

4. Adobe Business Catalyst

Adobe Business Catalyst (abbreviated as BC) is complete online business platform for amazing websites and online stores. You can build powerful sites without the need to know backend code, which the platform does all for you. Check out the tour to learn more about the platform to help you evaluate if this is a great solution for your next project, and sign up for free in seconds (literally, they’ve timed it) to take the platform for a test drive.

5. SiteGrinder 3

SiteGrinder 3 is a website development platform plugin for Photoshop. For web designers that have difficultly in coding and deploying websites, SiteGrinder 3 is a tool you may want to check out. You can expand SiteGrinder 3 through addons, including a Commerce add-on for building e-commerce-enabled websites.

6. Intervals

Intervals aims to simplify and streamline project management by creating an all-in-one web-based solution for management duties that have traditionally required multiple apps. Intervals have plans starting at a reasonably priced $20/month and signing up and trying out the service doesn’t need a credit card, making it convenient and risk-free to give them a whirl.

7. Formstack

Formstack is a hosted web form app for developing contact forms, surveys, and more. What’s so great about Formstack is that they have integrated solutions for accepting payments, which makes the service awesome for receiving online payments, donations and managing event registrations. They have a slick form builder that can get you up and running in minutes, theming and embedding features so that you can seamlessly integrate your web forms into your existing site, the ability to brand the app so that you can provide it as a service to your own clients, and more.

8. Bigstock

Bigstock is a user-friendly marketplace for high-quality stock images. Started in 2004, they quickly grew to become one of the Web’s leading stock photo sites. Bigstock has over 5 million royalty-free photos organized in 27 intuitive categories. You can purchase stock photos for as low as $1 each. The way it works is you buy Bigstock credits to download only the stock photos you need, which starts from $15 for 5 credits.

9. PSD to HTML

PSD to HTML offers Photoshop file to HTML/CSS template conversions for web designers wanting to focus on just design and have someone else deal with all the coding. Their packages are reasonably priced, starting from $149. And we all know how much of a pain making HTML email templates are. Why subject yourself to all that frustration when you can have PSD to HTML code it up for you?

10. Shutterstock

Shutterstock is one of the biggest stock image sites with over 12 million royalty-free photos. They have monthly subscription plans or the option for on-demand subscriptions to their images (such as 5 high-resolution photos for $49). They have over 240,000 photographers contributing stock photos to their marketplace, and they add close to 80,000 new photos per week!

11. Top 25 Web Hosts

TopHosts.com is a complete web hosting resource, providing site owners tools and information about the hosting industry. Founded in 1997, TopHosts.com has been around for a quite a while! They provide a forum as a venue to bring people together to discuss web hosting, as well as a Top 25 Web Hosts list that highlights top-notch hosting providers in various categories (such as Best Customer Support and Best Shared Host).

12. ThemeForest

ThemeForest is one of the web’s leading marketplaces for site templates and CMS themes. They offer close to 3,000 site templates and themes (starting from $1 each) for static HTML sites, HTML emails, WordPress, Joomla, Magento, and more. They also have a tumblr blog that covers topics in web design and web development.

13. Verio

Used by over 250,000 companies in 146 countries, Verio is one of the largest hosting providers for sites, applications and SaaS. They were named the Best Hosting Company of 2008 by HostingReviews.com. They have many hosting services such as small business website hosting, Microsoft Exchange email hosting, domain name registration and management services, dedicated servers on Linux or Windows, and more.

14. Site24x7

Site24x7 is an application for monitoring your website and web servers. It logs, records, and watches out for website uptime issues, website performance issues, DNS records, and much more. Site24x7 has an iPhone version so that you can keep yourself clued in to the status of your web properties even when you’re located remotely. Developers will gain access to their API for creating custom tools and apps that utilize Site24x7′s service.

15. SkyLedger

SkyLedger is a user-friendly bookkeeping web app geared towards small and medium-sized businesses. SkyLedger takes pride in its "dead simple" user interface, which makes signing up and immediately getting started literally a 1-minute affair. Take a tour of the app or sign up for free.

16. Sensational Jobs

Sensational Jobs is a new job board for web professionals that’s quickly shaping up to becoming an industry leader. It has great features such as live search and an easy-to-use interface that job seekers and employers will love. Don’t forget to check out their Six Revisions giveaway for a chance to win an Apple Trackpad as well as to learn more about them.

17. Lytiks

Lytiks is an all-in-one analytics app specifically for your marketing campaigns. It’ll track radio/TV/print campaigns, email, search, mobile, web banners, and everything in between. This is the solution that all of you marketing and analytics whizzes have been waiting for. Sign up for a 30-day free trial and learn more about the app.

18. Full Sail University

With over 30 years of experience in delivering innovative and immersive education at their Florida campus, Full Sail University offers online degrees that continue their reputation as one of the world’s premier media arts schools. In their online Web Design & Development Bachelor’s Degree, you’ll learn the latest software and programming languages, explore design fundamentals, and produce web and mobile sites — ultimately building a digital portfolio to help propel you into the industry.

19. eConnect

eConnect is a web-based application for creating, managing, and sending email campaigns. It has an intuitive interface that gives you features such as reporting and analytics, the ability to create subscription web forms, and an API for making your own tools and apps. It has possible integration with other applications and services such as Salesforce. To get started, you can request for a personalized live demo of their product.

20. vzaar

vzaar is the #1 commercial video delivery solution available in the market. The service has loads of features for managing, tracking and delivering your video content. They have customizable video players, HD video and iPhone support, various encoding options, and integration with third-party services such as eBay, Google Analytics, and Mailchimp. Start your 30-free trial now to test out vzaar.

21. Zoho Invoice

Zoho Invoice is a web-based invoicing application for managing payments for your projects. With Zoho Invoice, you can view reports of your expenses and revenue to keep a constant monitor of your financial health, avail of their sharing/collaborative features, and invoice in multiple currencies (which is great for web-based entrepreneurs who do business across the globe). Sign up for Zoho Invoice (it’ll only take less than 30 seconds).

22. Justinmind

Justinmind is a feature-rich prototyping software. With Justinmind, you can create wireframes and prototypes, export your work into HTML (or even Microsoft Word), collaborate in real-time with team members, and auto-populate the content of your prototype components so that you can produce realistic results. Download Justinmind Prototyper (free for 30 days) and give the application a whirl.

Giveaway Sponsors: October 2010

1. P2H – Giveaway: PSD to HTML Conversion Service from P2H.com

Related Content

• Website Features That You Can Easily Offload
• 10 Android Apps Every Web Designer Should Know About
• 10 iPhone Apps Every Web Designer Should Know About
• Related categories: Site News and Resources

About the Author

Jacob Gube is the Founder and Chief Editor of Six Revisions. He’s also a web developer/designer who specializes in front-end development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and also a book author. If you’d like to connect with him, head on over to the contact page and follow him on Twitter: @sixrevisions.

Advertise here with BSA

It takes plenty of resources to bring you articles about design and development free of charge. Without our sponsors, we wouldn’t be able to bring you top-notch content that you can enjoy and learn from.

Thankfully, we’re able to do all of this with the help of our sponsors who support our community — companies that also create amazing products and provide excellent services to web professionals like us.

We’d like to thank our site sponsors between September 1 – September 30, 2010 and talk a little bit about what they do.

As readers, you can support Six Revisions by checking them out and seeing if they have products and services that you can take advantage of.

1. Site5 Web Hosting

Site5 is a web hosting provider catering to the needs of web designers. They have several plans starting from shared hosting at $4.95 a month to dedicated servers at $165 a month. If you are on another web host and would like to move to Site5, they offer a free website migration service handled by their expert migration admins. Only a few hosts can reconcile excellent uptime, features, and support with dirt-cheap prices — Site5 is one of them.

2. FreshBooks

FreshBooks is a web-based application for sending, managing, and tracking your invoices. It has a wonderful interface that makes it a cinch to produce invoices that you send to your clients. They have over 1 million users and were able to conduct $1 billion woorth of transactions in just 4 months — a testament to the excellence of the app.

3. MailChimp

MailChimp is a web application for dealing with email marketing campaigns. Used by over 400,000 people, the application is loaded with useful features such as social media integration, a slick backend for managing your email campaigns, and even mobile apps for when you’re on the go. Developers get access to their robust API for creating apps and tools that leverage MailChimp’s web service.

4. Adobe Business Catalyst

Adobe Business Catalyst (abbreviated as BC) is complete online business platform for amazing websites and online stores. You can build powerful sites without the need to know backend code, which the platform does all for you. Check out the tour to learn more about the platform to help you evaluate if this is a great solution for your next project, and sign up for free in seconds (literally, they’ve timed it) to take the platform for a test drive.

5. SiteGrinder 3

SiteGrinder 3 is a website development platform plugin for Photoshop. For web designers that have difficultly in coding and deploying websites, SiteGrinder 3 is a tool you may want to check out. You can expand SiteGrinder 3 through addons, including a Commerce add-on for building e-commerce-enabled websites.

6. Stackable.com

Stackable is a relatively new VPS provider aimed at web application developers. For only $35 a month, you get 1TB of bandwidth, 256MB RAM, a DNS manager, and more. What’s great about Stackable is their 1-click scalability: At no cost, you can scale your VPS up if you’re expecting a lot of traffic (bursting it up to 16GB), or scale it down during idle times. Stackable can be your development and staging server to test new features before deployment, or it can be your production server. Stackable has a nice knowledge base filled with helpful tutorials and reference for VPS administration.

7. Intervals

Intervals aims to simplify and streamline project management by creating an all-in-one web-based solution for management duties that have traditionally required multiple apps. Intervals have plans starting at a reasonably priced $20/month and signing up and trying out the service doesn’t need a credit card, making it convenient and risk-free to give them a whirl.

8. Formstack

Formstack is a hosted web form app for developing contact forms, surveys, and more. What’s so great about Formstack is that they have integrated solutions for accepting payments, which makes the service awesome for receiving online payments, donations and managing event registrations. They have a slick form builder that can get you up and running in minutes, theming and embedding features so that you can seamlessly integrate your web forms into your existing site, the ability to brand the app so that you can provide it as a service to your own clients, and more.

9. Bigstock

Bigstock is a user-friendly marketplace for high-quality stock images. Started in 2004, they quickly grew to become one of the Web’s leading stock photo sites. Bigstock has over 5 million royalty-free photos organized in 27 intuitive categories. You can purchase stock photos for as low as $1 each. The way it works is you buy Bigstock credits to download only the stock photos you need, which starts from $15 for 5 credits.

10. PSD to HTML

PSD to HTML offers Photoshop file to HTML/CSS template conversions for web designers wanting to focus on just design and have someone else deal with all the coding. Their packages are reasonably priced, starting from $149. And we all know how much of a pain making HTML email templates are. Why subject yourself to all that frustration when you can have PSD to HTML code it up for you?

11. Shutterstock

Shutterstock is one of the biggest stock image sites with over 12 million royalty-free photos. They have monthly subscription plans or the option for on-demand subscriptions to their images (such as 5 high-resolution photos for $49). They have over 240,000 photographers contributing stock photos to their marketplace, and they add close to 80,000 new photos per week!

12. Top 25 Web Hosts

TopHosts.com is a complete web hosting resource, providing site owners tools and information about the hosting industry. Founded in 1997, TopHosts.com has been around for a quite a while! They provide a forum as a venue to bring people together to discuss web hosting, as well as a Top 25 Web Hosts list that highlights top-notch hosting providers in various categories (such as Best Customer Support and Best Shared Host).

13. ThemeForest

ThemeForest is one of the web’s leading marketplaces for site templates and CMS themes. They offer close to 3,000 site templates and themes (starting from $1 each) for static HTML sites, HTML emails, WordPress, Joomla, Magento, and more. They also have a tumblr blog that covers topics in web design and web development.

14. Verio

Used by over 250,000 companies in 146 countries, Verio is one of the largest hosting providers for sites, applications and SaaS. They were named the Best Hosting Company of 2008 by HostingReviews.com. They have many hosting services such as small business website hosting, Microsoft Exchange email hosting, domain name registration and management services, dedicated servers on Linux or Windows, and more.

15. Site24x7

Site24x7 is an application for monitoring your website and web servers. It logs, records, and watches out for website uptime issues, website performance issues, DNS records, and much more. Site24x7 has an iPhone version so that you can keep yourself clued in to the status of your web properties even when you’re located remotely. Developers will gain access to their API for creating custom tools and apps that utilize Site24x7′s service.

16. SkyLedger

SkyLedger is a user-friendly bookkeeping web app geared towards small and medium-sized businesses. SkyLedger takes pride in its "dead simple" user interface, which makes signing up and immediately getting started literally a 1-minute affair. Take a tour of the app or sign up for free.

17. Sensational Jobs

Sensational Jobs is a new job board for web professionals that’s quickly shaping up to becoming an industry leader. It has great features such as live search and an easy-to-use interface that job seekers and employers will love. Don’t forget to check out their Six Revisions giveaway for a chance to win an Apple Trackpad as well as to learn more about them.

18. Lytiks

Lytiks is an all-in-one analytics app specifically for your marketing campaigns. It’ll track radio/TV/print campaigns, email, search, mobile, web banners, and everything in between. This is the solution that all of you marketing and analytics whizzes have been waiting for. Sign up for a 30-day free trial and learn more about the app.

19. Full Sail University

With over 30 years of experience in delivering innovative and immersive education at their Florida campus, Full Sail University offers online degrees that continue their reputation as one of the world’s premier media arts schools. In their online Web Design & Development Bachelor’s Degree, you’ll learn the latest software and programming languages, explore design fundamentals, and produce web and mobile sites — ultimately building a digital portfolio to help propel you into the industry.

20. 5pm

5pm is an intuitive web-based project management tool. It lets your team collaborate in a central location, and it can manage tasks, time tracking, generate reports, and more. Check out their demo (as an aside, the login names are a reference from the movie, Office Space) and also their tour.

21. eConnect

eConnect is a web-based application for creating, managing, and sending email campaigns. It has an intuitive interface that gives you features such as reporting and analytics, the ability to create subscription web forms, and an API for making your own tools and apps. It has possible integration with other applications and services such as Salesforce. To get started, you can request for a personalized live demo of their product.

Giveaway Sponsors: September 2010

1. Sensational Jobs | Win an Apple Magic Trackpad from Sensational Jobs
2. PHP Link Directory | Win PHP Link Directory Licenses
3. BlueCotton.com | Win $200 Coupon on T-Shirts from BlueCotton.com

Related Content

• Website Features That You Can Easily Offload
• 10 Android Apps Every Web Designer Should Know About
• 10 iPhone Apps Every Web Designer Should Know About
• Related categories: Site News and Resources

About the Author

Jacob Gube is the Founder and Chief Editor of Six Revisions. He’s also a web developer/designer who specializes in front-end development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and also a book author. If you’d like to connect with him, head on over to the contact page and follow him on Twitter: @sixrevisions.

Advertise here with BSA

It takes plenty of resources to bring you articles about design and development free of charge. Without our sponsors, we wouldn’t be able to bring you top-notch content that you can enjoy and learn from.

Thankfully, we’re able to do all of this with the help of our sponsors who support our community — companies that also create amazing products and provide excellent services to web professionals like us.

We’d like to thank our site sponsors between July 1, 2010 – August 30, 2010 and talk a little bit about what they do.

As readers, you can support Six Revisions by checking them out and seeing if they have products and services that you can take advantage of.

1. Site5 Web Hosting

Site5 is a web hosting provider catering to the needs of web designers. They have several plans starting from shared hosting at $4.95 a month to dedicated servers at $165 a month. If you are on another web host and would like to move to Site5, they offer a free website migration service handled by their expert migration admins. Only a few hosts can reconcile excellent uptime, features, and support with dirt-cheap prices — Site5 is one of them.

2. FreshBooks

FreshBooks is a web-based application for sending, managing, and tracking your invoices. It has a wonderful interface that makes it a cinch to produce invoices that you send to your clients. They have over 1 million users and were able to conduct $1 billion woorth of transactions in just 4 months — a testament to the excellence of the app.

3. Stackable.com

Stackable is a relatively new VPS provider aimed at web application developers. For only $35 a month, you get 1TB of bandwidth, 256MB RAM, a DNS manager, and more. What’s great about Stackable is their 1-click scalability: At no cost, you can scale your VPS up if you’re expecting a lot of traffic (bursting it up to 16GB), or scale it down during idle times. Stackable can be your development and staging server to test new features before deployment, or it can be your production server. Stackable has a nice knowledge base filled with helpful tutorials and reference for VPS administration.

4. MailChimp

MailChimp is a web application for dealing with email marketing campaigns. Used by over 400,000 people, the application is loaded with useful features such as social media integration, a slick backend for managing your email campaigns, and even mobile apps for when you’re on the go. Developers get access to their robust API for creating apps and tools that leverage MailChimp’s web service.

5. Bigstock

Bigstock is a user-friendly marketplace for high-quality stock images. Started in 2004, they quickly grew to become one of the Web’s leading stock photo sites. Bigstock has over 5 million royalty-free photos organized in 27 intuitive categories. You can purchase stock photos for as low as $1 each. The way it works is you buy Bigstock credits to download only the stock photos you need, which starts from $15 for 5 credits.

6. Verio

Used by over 250,000 companies in 146 countries, Verio is one of the largest hosting providers for sites, applications and SaaS. They were named the Best Hosting Company of 2008 by HostingReviews.com. They have many hosting services such as small business website hosting, Microsoft Exchange email hosting, domain name registration and management services, dedicated servers on Linux or Windows, and more.

7. Shutterstock

Shutterstock is one of the biggest stock image sites with over 12 million royalty-free photos. They have monthly subscription plans or the option for on-demand subscriptions to their images (such as 5 high-resolution photos for $49). They have over 240,000 photographers contributing stock photos to their marketplace, and they add close to 80,000 new photos per week!

8. Top 25 Web Hosts

TopHosts.com is a complete web hosting resource, providing site owners tools and information about the hosting industry. Founded in 1997, TopHosts.com has been around for a quite a while! They provide a forum as a venue to bring people together to discuss web hosting, as well as a Top 25 Web Hosts list that highlights top-notch hosting providers in various categories (such as Best Customer Support and Best Shared Host).

9. SiteGrinder 3

SiteGrinder 3 is a website development platform plugin for Photoshop. For web designers that have difficultly in coding and deploying websites, SiteGrinder 3 is a tool you may want to check out. You can expand SiteGrinder 3 through addons, including a Commerce add-on for building e-commerce-enabled websites.

10. PSD to HTML

PSD to HTML offers Photoshop file to HTML/CSS template conversions for web designers wanting to focus on just design and have someone else deal with all the coding. Their packages are reasonably priced, starting from $149. And we all know how much of a pain making HTML email templates are. Why subject yourself to all that frustration when you can have PSD to HTML code it up for you?

11. Formstack

Formstack is a hosted web form app for developing contact forms, surveys, and more. What’s so great about Formstack is that they have integrated solutions for accepting payments, which makes the service awesome for receiving online payments, donations and managing event registrations. They have a slick form builder that can get you up and running in minutes, theming and embedding features so that you can seamlessly integrate your web forms into your existing site, the ability to brand the app so that you can provide it as a service to your own clients, and more.

12. ThemeForest

ThemeForest is one of the web’s leading marketplaces for site templates and CMS themes. They offer close to 3,000 site templates and themes (starting from $1 each) for static HTML sites, HTML emails, WordPress, Joomla, Magento, and more. They also have a tumblr blog that covers topics in web design and web development.

13. Site24x7

Site24x7 is an application for monitoring your website and web servers. It logs, records, and watches out for website uptime issues, website performance issues, DNS records, and much more. Site24x7 has an iPhone version so that you can keep yourself clued in to the status of your web properties even when you’re located remotely. Developers will gain access to their API for creating custom tools and apps that utilize Site24x7′s service.

14. WORKetc

Worketc is an all-in-one app solution for project-based work. It’s a customer relationship management (CRM) system, it can handle your billings, sales, support, and can manage your project and timelines. If you’re sick and tired of juggling a myriad of apps to run your business, Worketc gives you an integrated solution.

15. eConnect

eConnect is a web-based application for creating, managing, and sending email campaigns. It has an intuitive interface that gives you features such as reporting and analytics, the ability to create subscription web forms, and an API for making your own tools and apps. It has possible integration with other applications and services such as Salesforce. To get started, you can request for a personalized live demo of their product.

16. Concept Feedback

Concept Feedback is a community for getting and providing professional feedback for your designs. Filled with excellent and engaging game mechanics, Concept Feedback makes gathering constructive and useful critiques on your work really fun. It’s free to sign up and participate, and if you want a bit more than the average user, there are premium services available.

17. Intervals

Intervals aims to simplify and streamline project management by creating an all-in-one web-based solution for management duties that have traditionally required multiple apps. Intervals have plans starting at a reasonably priced $20/month and signing up and trying out the service doesn’t need a credit card, making it convenient and risk-free to give them a whirl.

18. SkyLedger

SkyLedger is a user-friendly bookkeeping web app geared towards small and medium-sized businesses. SkyLedger takes pride in its "dead simple" user interface, which makes signing up and immediately getting started literally a 1-minute affair. Take a tour of the app or sign up for free.

19. B2Bee

B2Bee is a web-based app for invoicing, expense tracking, and profit reporting built with freelancers, contractors, entrepreneurs, and other service providers in mind. The company is colorful — they contribute a part of your subscription fee to research aimed at saving the bees and post interesting videos and informative blog posts. Sign up for your 30-day free trial.

20. Sensational Jobs

Sensational Jobs is a new job board for web professionals that’s quickly shaping up to becoming an industry leader. It has great features such as live search and an easy-to-use interface that job seekers and employers will love. Don’t forget to check out their Six Revisions giveaway for a chance to win an Apple Trackpad as well as to learn more about them.

21. CU3ER

CU3ER is a slick Flash 3D image slider that’s sure to impress your viewers. It has loads of features such as unique slide transitions, a JavaScript API for developers to be able to customize CU3ER, various user interface options for the end-user, and more. What’s more is that you can use CU3ER for free (and they have premium versions for those that need more features).

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About the Author

Jacob Gube is the Founder and Chief Editor of Six Revisions. He’s also a web developer/designer who specializes in front-end development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and also a book author. If you’d like to connect with him, head on over to the contact page and follow him on Twitter: @sixrevisions.

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1. Site5 Web Hosting

Site5 is a web hosting provider catering to the needs of web designers. They have several plans starting from shared hosting at $4.95 a month to dedicated servers at $165 a month. If you are on another web host and would like to move to Site5, they offer a free website migration service handled by their expert migration admins. Only a few hosts can reconcile excellent uptime, features, and support with dirt-cheap prices — Site5 is one of them.

2. FreshBooks

FreshBooks is a web-based application for sending, managing, and tracking your invoices. It has a wonderful interface that makes it a cinch to produce invoices that you send to your clients. They have over 1 million users and were able to conduct $1 billion woorth of transactions in just 4 months — a testament to the excellence of the app.

3. Wistia

Wistia is a business-grade video hosting, sharing, and tracking service. They have a slick admin interface for keeping track of your video marketing campaigns and for analyzing  trends and usage. For developers, they provide an API for working with your hosted videos. Some companies that use Wistia include Nestlé, Map Quest, and Bostley. Check out their product tour to see what Wistia can bring to the table.

4. Stackable.com

Stackable is a relatively new VPS provider aimed at web application developers. For only $35 a month, you get 1TB of bandwidth, 256MB RAM, a DNS manager, and more. What’s great about Stackable is their 1-click scalability: At no cost, you can scale your VPS up if you’re expecting a lot of traffic (bursting it up to 16GB), or scale it down during idle times. Stackable can be your development and staging server to test new features before deployment, or it can be your production server. Stackable has a nice knowledge base filled with helpful tutorials and reference for VPS administration.

5. MailChimp

MailChimp is a web application for dealing with email marketing campaigns. Used by over 400,000 people, the application is loaded with useful features such as social media integration, a slick backend for managing your email campaigns, and even mobile apps for when you’re on the go. Developers get access to their robust API for creating apps and tools that leverage MailChimp’s web service.

6. Bigstock

Bigstock is a user-friendly marketplace for high-quality stock images. Started in 2004, they quickly grew to become one of the Web’s leading stock photo sites. Bigstock has over 5 million royalty-free photos organized in 27 intuitive categories. You can purchase stock photos for as low as $1 each. The way it works is you buy Bigstock credits to download only the stock photos you need, which starts from $15 for 5 credits.

7. KISSinsights

With KISSinsights, you can build slick feedback forms to integrate within your web products. KISSinsights differs from other polling apps out there in that it is focused on gathering actionable insights from your customers. Integration is easy and is a simple matter of including a JavaScript in your site template (similar to integrating Google Analytics or Google Webmaster Tools). The tool is being utilized in sites such as BuySellAds.com and Savings.com.

8. Verio

Used by over 250,000 companies in 146 countries, Verio is one of the largest hosting providers for sites, applications and SaaS. They were named the Best Hosting Company of 2008 by HostingReviews.com. They have many hosting services such as small business website hosting, Microsoft Exchange email hosting, domain name registration and management services, dedicated servers on Linux or Windows, and more.

9. Shutterstock

Shutterstock is one of the biggest stock image sites with over 12 million royalty-free photos. They have monthly subscription plans or the option for on-demand subscriptions to their images (such as 5 high-resolution photos for $49). They have over 240,000 photographers contributing stock photos to their marketplace, and they add close to 80,000 new photos per week!

10. Top 25 Web Hosts

TopHosts.com is a complete web hosting resource, providing site owners tools and information about the hosting industry. Founded in 1997, TopHosts.com has been around for a quite a while! They provide a forum as a venue to bring people together to discuss web hosting, as well as a Top 25 Web Hosts list that highlights top-notch hosting providers in various categories (such as Best Customer Support and Best Shared Host).

11. Remote Tiger, Inc.

Remote Tiger, Inc. is a creative agency offering several professional services including web design, web application development, mobile application development, and more. They cater to over 200 clients worldwide, from small businesses to publicly traded companies. They have headquarters at Washington, D.C. and 65 developers at hand.

12. SiteGrinder 3

SiteGrinder 3 is a website development platform plugin for Photoshop. For web designers that have difficultly in coding and deploying websites, SiteGrinder 3 is a tool you may want to check out. You can expand SiteGrinder 3 through addons, including a Commerce add-on for building e-commerce-enabled websites.

13. PSD to HTML

PSD to HTML offers Photoshop file to HTML/CSS template conversions for web designers wanting to focus on just design and have someone else deal with all the coding. Their packages are reasonably priced, starting from $149. And we all know how much of a pain making HTML email templates are. Why subject yourself to all that frustration when you can have PSD to HTML code it up for you?

14. Formstack

Formstack is a hosted web form app for developing contact forms, surveys, and more. What’s so great about Formstack is that they have integrated solutions for accepting payments, which makes the service awesome for receiving online payments, donations and managing event registrations. They have a slick form builder that can get you up and running in minutes, theming and embedding features so that you can seamlessly integrate your web forms into your existing site, the ability to brand the app so that you can provide it as a service to your own clients, and more.

15. ThemeForest

ThemeForest is one of the web’s leading marketplaces for site templates and CMS themes. They offer close to 3,000 site templates and themes (starting from $1 each) for static HTML sites, HTML emails, WordPress, Joomla, Magento, and more. They also have a tumblr blog that covers topics in web design and web development.

16. Site24x7

Site24x7 is an application for monitoring your website and web servers. It logs, records, and watches out for website uptime issues, website performance issues, DNS records, and much more. Site24x7 has an iPhone version so that you can keep yourself clued in to the status of your web properties even when you’re located remotely. Developers will gain access to their API for creating custom tools and apps that utilize Site24x7′s service.

17. WORKetc

Worketc is an all-in-one app solution for project-based work. It’s a customer relationship management (CRM) system, it can handle your billings, sales, support, and can manage your project and timelines. If you’re sick and tired of juggling a myriad of apps to run your business, Worketc gives you an integrated solution.

18. eConnect

eConnect is a web-based application for creating, managing, and sending email campaigns. It has an intuitive interface that gives you features such as reporting and analytics, the ability to create subscription web forms, and an API for making your own tools and apps. It has possible integration with other applications and services such as Salesforce. To get started, you can request for a personalized live demo of their product.

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About the Author

Jacob Gube is the Founder and Chief Editor of Six Revisions. He’s also a web developer/designer who specializes in front-end development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and also a book author. If you’d like to connect with him, head on over to the contact page and follow him on Twitter: @sixrevisions.

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Due to a server migration this morning, some of you trying to go to Six Revisions and our sister site, Design Instruct, may not have been able to access the sites. We’re happy to announce that we’re back up and that the server move went flawlessly.

Reason for Downtime

During a routine inspection and maintenance of our web server, our host found an issue with the hardware our sites were on. As a preventative measure to avoid catastrophic failure, they had the foresight to move our sites – along with other sites on the faulty hardware – before it failed, which might have resulted in data loss and extended downtime.

Because of the massive amount of data our sites have accumulated over the past two plus years, the move took longer than average-sized sites. As a result, if you were visiting the site early morning Eastern Standard Time today, you might have had issues accessing any web page on Six Revisions or Design Instruct for a few hours.

We’re Back!

After some preliminary testing, it’s safe to say that we’re fully operational again. With that said, if you continue to experience issues accessing any web page on the site, we’d like to hear about them, so contact us or send us a tweet at @sixrevisions.

Happy reading and thank you for your continual support!

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