Built for the cloud, Siteforce is a revolutionary content management system (CMS) that deploys instantly and allows marketers to add pages without burdening IT.

My first time seeing SiteForce in action was in Dreamforce 2011 in San Francisco. It was amazingly easy. In fact, it was so easy that I don’t really know what to write about in this blog post.

You can pretty much build a website by drag and drop. The site designed will be published to the cloud. Everything will be pixel-perfect.

As the site is in the cloud, you don’t really need to worry about website downtime. Force.com guarantees 99.99% uptime. With the integrated content delivery network that Force.com provides, the performance of your SiteForce site will not be affected, no matter how fast your traffic grows.

Give it a try.

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Install Contao with your PHP & MySQL enabled web server, and you will be able to build a professional website in a few minutes, without the knowledge of HTML & CSS & PHP.  The website designed will have a high security standard.  It will also be search engine friendly with the built-in SEO features.  Accessibility has also been accounted for – you do not need to pay any extra effort.

All page layouts, CSS styles, site structure can be defined in the easy-to-use admin interface, and again, you do not need to know any coding to use these functions.

You can also define different user rights for different people.

Extra modules are available for free, and they are professionally created.

The fastest way to know this system is to try their online demo.  At the bottom of the Contao website, live websites using the Contao core are featured randomly.  You will be amazed of what you can do with Contao.

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Not many people know how to write iPhone apps, though.  Especially if you are not technically minded at the first place.  The good news is that there is now a plugin/theme that can transform your blog iphone-ready in a short time – WPTouch.

WPtouch is a mobile theme for your WordPress website – more than just a plugin. It automatically transforms your WordPress blog into an mobile-ready blog when viewd from an iPhone, iPod Touch, Android, or BlackBerry Storm touch mobile device.

You can easily install WPTouch under ‘Plugins’ – ‘Add New’.  Just search for WPTouch and click ‘Install’.

Once installed WPTouch allows you to customize your site including:

• Setting up a new icon for the blog
• Change site titles
• Exclude categories
• Font alignment
• Contents of the header
• Push notifications
• Style & Color
• Add Adsense code
• Add Analytics code

Using WPTouch also increases your website’s load time on mobile devices.

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Recently they have released a new theme named UBD Money Theme.  The good news is that it is free!

You can have a look at the theme and download it here.

The UBD Money Theme has a clean design.  It is a 2-column theme based in green and grey.  You can change the color if you want, but it is a theme ready to be used immediately once uploaded.

It also utilizes some of the newest theme technologies, such as Twitter integration, Facebook Connect integration, automatic image resizing and one click logo uploading, just to name a few features.

Full feature list can be viewed here.

You can’t beat it when it is Free!  Download now.

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How does your website look on iPhone?  Do you have to specifically design a different website for iPhone?  The answer is yes.  But it is not easy.

InterSquash now has provided you a free service to ‘iphonize’ your website.  If you are not technically savvy, you can just use the simple version, which you only need to RSS feed and website title to generate the site.  If you want more option, you can go premium, which is still free, and customize the look and add a logo to the site.

My ‘iphonized’ site is located here: http://intersquash.com/feed/b1c2f8a6

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To fix this, all you have to do is to include these code in the CSS file of the current theme:

img.centered {
display: block;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}

img.alignright {
padding: 4px;
margin: 0 0 2px 7px;
display: inline;
}

img.alignleft {
padding: 4px;
margin: 0 7px 2px 0;
display: inline;
}

.alignright {
float: right;
}
.alignleft {
float: left;
}

This has been changed since WordPress 2.5.

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The New WebProNews Tools has been launched and it contains 11 tools.  These include:

• Submitter Bot
• Twellow
• Domain Ranking & More
• Whois Lookup
• Get IP
• Spliced – YouTube Splicer
• Free Niche Website Content
• Wipee To Do List Maker
• IM Junky
• Resize Image
• Mobile Site Builder

Not all tools are useful for me, however it might be useful for you!  I especially appreciate the Mobile Site Builder.  Now you can build a site friendly to iPhones with it.

Give it a try, you will love it.

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However, it is always recommended to make this 404 page useful. This way you would be able to keep your potential client when they fail to reach a page.

The Google Webmaster Central blog has announced that an ‘enhanced 404 page’ can be created in the webmaster tools. Once created, a widget can be placed on your customized 404 page. The page would then display something like this:

It contains:

• A link to the parent sub-directory
• A link to the sitemap
• A Google Search box

To obtain the widget, go to ‘Enhance 404 Pages’ section in webmaster tools, and a Javascript would be generated.  Copy and paste the code and you are done.  Remember to return a 404 code.

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What exactly are included in this free, yet powerful package?

1. Free website with hosting (FREE FROM MS!!!)
2. Free domain name for the first year. After this year it becomes $14.95 per year (that’s a double of GoDaddy)
3. Online contact manager
4. Document manager
5. Workspaces
6. Project Manager

In my eyes, this is pretty much the whole MS Office suite packed online, for free!

If you want to expand your business, you can also consider these optional packages:

1. E-Commerce
2. Email Marketing
3. Search Marketing
4. More storage / users / tools

See more information or signup here: http://www.officelive.com

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And guess what, it is free!

The Google App Engine applications are easy to build and maintain.  You do not need to maintain your own server or hosting, as Google generously provides 500MB space for free.  All you have to do is to upload the application, and it would be done.  You can use a free domain name from appspot.com, or your own domain.   You can also choose to share the finished application with the world or limit it to just yourself.

Did I mention free?  Same as most of the other Google applications, having an account is free.  The bandwidth should allow you do serve about 5 million page views a month, according to Google.

At this stage only free accounts are available.  However, in the near future, you would probably be able to purchase more disk space.

Other features include (but not limited to):

• Sandbox – The sandbox isolates your application in its own secure, reliable environment that is independent of the hardware, operating system and physical location of the web server.
• Python Runtime Environment – The App Engine only supports Python at the moment.  It is running Python 2.5.2.
• Datastore – App Engine provides a powerful distributed data storage service that features a query engine and transactions. Just as the distributed web server grows with your traffic, the distributed datastore grows with your data.
• Google Accounts – You can of course associate your application with your Google account.
• URL & Fetch Service – Applications can access resources on the Internet, such as web services or other data, using App Engine’s URL fetch service.

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