Wedding Window is a way to build a website that is tailored specifically for your wedding.  These websites can prove to be not only fun to build, but actually help you plan and manage your wedding as well as communicate with friends and family and even create a budget.  Along with giving you a chance to build a website about your wedding, there are also a number of planning tools as well as an easy-to-use shop to help you get supplies.

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The Design People Inc. is the owner of agentimage.com which was founded in 1999. They claim to be one of the industry leaders when it comes to website design for real estate agents, brokers and companies. Agent Image promise to provide tools that will help generate leads for their real estate clients while also making it easier for the public to buy or sell a home. They offer the basic tools one would expect from such a company including statistics tracking, email marketing and search engine placement.

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Tabsite is a Facebook fan creation service which is a little different to most on the market. Unlike many other sites of this nature, Tabsite enables you to create a vertical sub-tab system which can be placed on the fan page of your Facebook account. This system allows you to customize with specific header and footer designs on each tab. Tabsite also have a range of features that can be found in its competitors including the ability to insert videos on YouTube, an RSS feed and a Twitter feed. Tabsite’s interface is not as easy to use as other sites and there is a certain learning curve involved.

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Damntheradio is a DIY Facebook fan page that focuses on musicians though it can be used by anyone who runs a business and is looking to branch out online. The site promises to enable you to give your fans the incentives and tools to convert their friends into fans of yours too. Damntheradio has a number of famous clients including Dave Matthews Band, Lil John, Linkin Park and Warner Bros. FanBridge completed a first acquisition of Damntheradio in January 2011 in a deal worth a reported $2 million. FanBridge are aiming to add to the 90 million fans they already have via email alone and see this Facebook fan page creation site as a means of doing so.

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vSites is vFlyer’s website builder and content management system for small to medium sized businesses. vFlyer began in 2006 as an online marketing service for real estate agents, service providers, and other professionals who lacked an Internet marketing department of their own; the service provides tools to effectively market listings and services online. With vSites, vFlyer expanded  its offering to small business websites. vSites allows you to easily create a professional-looking website using one of their 130+ professionally-designed templates. Not that creative? You can have the professional staff at vFlyer create your website for you.

You start off by first selecting a template theme, then choosing a business category and adding your business information, and you have a website. It’s that easy. Once your website is created, you can go through and customize it. Change any text or add additional text to fully customize the website and upload your business logo. You can add videos and photos and display them either through a photo gallery or slideshow.

If you are already a customer of vFlyer and utilizing the marketing services, you can easily integrate your flyers into your website. This is an outstanding feature for real estate agents, or any business with merchandise to list. When you are done customizing your website, you can purchase a domain from vFlyer or publish your website with an existing domain. Once your domain is purchased, it only takes about 10 minutes for your website to be live on the web.

vFlyer customer support is available to you through email or by telephone. They also offer free online training.
There are multiple packages for vMarketing, which is the online marketing and advertising service, starting at $129.50/year or $12.95/month.

vSites packages begin at $120/year or $12/month for the Starter package, which includes 15 pages and 1 GB of storage, and 1 free domain name. The next package is the Plus package for $180/year or $18/month. This package includes 50 pages, 5 GB of storage, and 1 free domain name. The Premium package runs $340/year or $34/month and includes 100 pages, 10 GB of storage, and 1 free domain name. All of the packages include the tools to build and maintain your website. The website is search engine optimized and includes analytics so that you can monitor your website traffic.

If you are interested in purchasing both the vMarketing and vSites services, there are 3 bundled packages that run from $199.50 a year to $599.50 a year. vFlyer does offer a 30 day money back guarantee on their service. There is no refund for domain purchases.

If you are interested in creating and managing your own business website, vFlyer website builder offers all the tools and support needed. vFlyer’s vMarketing and vSites are both great tools to help you advertise and market your business.

Plebu is a website builder that aims to keep the process of creating a website as simple as possible. The company reminds clients that the website is being created for the customer, not the company. Plebu vows to help your business create a website that is the ultimate user friendly experience which they believe will help your business flourish. They are of the opinion that a website shouldn’t have superfluous features in a bid to look different. Simplicity is the key to success and they aim to provide a website building solution that makes the creation of the site as easy as possible.

Prices
When it comes to their pricelist, Plebu certainly maintain their simplistic approach. Unlike other websites, there are no separate plans. Everyone who uses their website builder gets the same features. The only difference occurs if you decide to pay monthly ($12 a month) or annually ($120 a year which works out at $10 a month). Plebu also offers you a 30 day free trial. This is impressive because many companies offer between 10-14 days.

Features
Plebu offers the basic website builder tools that can be found in any one of 100 similar sites. It helps you use the power of social networking as it enables you to quickly and easily import videos and photos from sites like Facebook and Twitter. This allows you to create galleries in the blink of an eye. You also have the option to personalize these galleries with a number of attractive layouts on offer.

The WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) method of creating a website is very evident when you’re using Plebu. What this means is that you’re able to see what your website looks like while you edit it. This is significant because older website builders were frustrating as they forced you to flip back and forth through the pages on your site to make sure that all changes were made correctly.

The ease of use is also shown in the drag and drop feature which sees the navigation page built for you as soon as create a new page. The simple process of dragging and dropping re-orders the pages. You can create logos which will help transform your business into a brand. Plebu enables you to choose the color, font and size of the logo to give it a realistic appearance. Like all website builders designed for businesses, Plebu offers you tools like Google Analytics and other SEO options to promote your business, get it seen on search engines and find out more about your audience so you can alter your marketing campaign as necessary.

Verdict
There is a lot to admire about Plebu, especially its simplicity. It delivers what it promises and ensures that the process of creating a website isn’t a complex one. However, there is nothing about Plebu that is really original. This is not a slight against the site but one wonders how it can realistically stand up against the myriad of other website builder options. As there is only one package, there is no mystery and if Plebu doesn’t deliver what your business needs, there are no upgrades to be had. It’s a solid website builder overall but lack of distinguishing features will hinder its progress.

Realestatesites.com is a website builder which has been created by Properties Online. This is a company who are dedicated to helping real estate professionals grow their business. The organization itself was founded in 2001 and their website builder is currently responsible for creating the website of over 20,000 real estate agents worldwide. Realestatesites.com is dedicated to helping their clients expand their business through increased traffic and leads. They pledge to create tailor-made sites in contrast to their rivals who they say create websites-by-numbers.

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Hyperstreet is a web builder that was created by individuals who have more than a decade in the IT industry. They also offer web hosting services and are currently overseeing more than 250,000 domains online. They claim to have developed online solutions for individuals, small businesses and large corporations alike. They proudly display the fact that they have more than 15,000 templates for users to choose from as well as their professional website hosting service which is available from as little as $5.95 a month. With so many different facets of the company, one wonders if they can produce a web building service of the highest quality.

Pricing
As a web building service is only one part of Hyperstreet’s expertise, perhaps they are intent on keeping things simple by having one package only. All the services provided by Hyperstreet web builder cost you $9.95 a month or else you can get value by paying $14.95 for three months. Like other sites of this nature, Hyperstreet state that your website will look like it was designed by a pro and you need no programming knowledge to achieve this. There is also a 10 day free trial and you can immediately sign up for this on the Hyperstreet website. In addition, the company offers a 30 day money back guarantee if you’re not satisfied with their services.

Features
Those who purchase Hyperstreet web builder will find that they have the capacity to create up to 70 pages. You can also get a web hosting account with a maximum of 50 email accounts included in the domain name package. You can use internet statistics to track the actions of visitors to your website though the site does not mention if they use Google Analytics or an alternative solution. There are actually just over 900 different templates but when all the combinations are considered, there are actually 15,000 unique template options.

Uploading your own files and photos is easy as is the creation of custom forms. There is even an in-built content generator which contains content created by a professional copywriter. This generator can be altered so that it’s specific to a particular industry which means you can tailor it to suit your business. Commencing work on your site is as easy as logging in and typing/adding photos etc. There is one-click publishing which allows you to show the internet your hard work at the click of a button. Hyperstreet web builder also supports E-commerce which is essential if you’re trying to sell goods online. Finally, there is online customer support which is extremely useful in case of an emergency.

Verdict
Fears about whether or not Hyperstreet had the ability to create a high quality web builder while also concentrating on other aspects of their business appear to be unfounded. They offer all the classic features one associates with companies who specialize in website builders. However, there are no additional features once you purchased the package so there is no way to expand on what you already have. If this is not an issue for you, Hyperstreet looks to be a good investment at a reasonable price. Those with eyes on expanding their business would be better served looking for other sites with more features.

Viper Sitebuilder specializes in the creation of easy to use flash websites. The pages created by the tools you’re given are ideal for personal use or if you need an eye-catching website. The company claims that it’s an innovative design tool and utilizes the now-common point and click method of creating a website. Like the rest of the new breed of website builders, you don’t need to have programming skill to get the best out of Viper. It’s a relatively new site and is targeting users in America, the United Kingdom, the European Union and Australia.

Prices
Viper has four different packages available.

- Lite: This is the cheapest package at $9.95 a month (or $99.95 a year) and allows you to use one site with a monthly bandwidth of 10GB and a maximum storage space allowance of 500MB. One thing that is noticeable with Viper is the fact that all offers provide you with virtually the same options such as membership tools, widget library, customer support, free of ads and Google Adsense amongst other things. The main difference lies in storage space, number of sites, ecommerce tools and bandwidth because all packages offer unlimited pages.
- Standard: This costs $14.95 a month (or $139.99 a year) and gives you five sites, 20GB of monthly bandwidth and 1GB of storage space.
- Plus: If you’re willing to pay $19.95 a month (or $204.95 a year), you get to create a maximum of 10 sites and have 60GB of monthly bandwidth and 5GB of storage space.
- Max: The most expensive package is $25.95 a month (or $269.95 a year) and you receive 10GB storage space, 60GB monthly bandwidth and are allowed create an unlimited amount of sites.

What Viper Does
No one can say that Viper doesn’t help you create your website. The site itself is extremely helpful and offers video and written instructions designed to help you create and edit your site. The site is remarkably easy to use in any case so you don’t really need the assistance but it is more than welcome. Viper has all the energy and attitude of a new company and they are aiming to get noticed amid the hundreds of website builders out there.

There is no doubt that once you purchase the standard package, you have enough tools to create a fabulous website. The only thing missing from the Lite package is the e-Commerce tools which are necessary if you wish to sell your company’s products and services. Presumably, the Lite package is only for personal use. Viper seems to have pretty much everything that its rivals has including media tools such as videos and flash, image tools to create slideshows and a message forum to interact with your customers. It also provides you with a number of SEO tools such as Google Analytics and tags.

Verdict
The site itself doesn’t betray much in the way of information so prospective customers may be confused when they arrive on the site. The fact that there is no money back guarantee or free trial could hurt it as visitors could elect to utilize the free trial offered by a competitor. Also, you get little for your extra money besides more storage space, bandwidth and sites. Really, Viper need to offer extra features with their expensive packages. Otherwise, this seems to be a lively website builder which may help Viper become better known internationally.

BuildYourSite is a website design platform that was created to make building a website simple.  There are a growing number of these types of services available, so can be difficult to choose the right one.  Fortunately, at BuildYourSite.com you can do a full test drive using all of their tools before deciding whether or not to make a purchase.  This alone makes it much easier to decide whether or not the specific platform is one that you feel comfortable with.  This review of BuildYourSite.com will give you a better idea of what to expect when using this website creation platform.

An Overview of BuildYourSite

There are several features which is become standard with these types of services and BuildYourSite.com has them all.  When you sign up, you will get a free domain name, monthly web hosting, and more than 4000 industry based web designs to help you get started.  There are currently three different price points to choose from.  The starter package is $9.95 per month and will allow you to build websites with up to 10 pages.  The professional package is $16.95 per month and will allow you to create up to 50 pages and also includes SEO website promotion tools and spam/virus filtering.  The final option is the e-commerce package at $24.95 per month.  It allows for you to create an unlimited number of pages and also includes an advanced shopping cart system and also allows you to use the MyWebBackup Cloud to back up all of your files from your PC.

Benefits of Using BuildYourSite.com

1.    Web Application Library
The web application library allows you to integrate a variety of different functions in your website without needing to upload any additional software.  These applications will allow you to add and manage forums, blogs, surveys, web chat, galleries, and several other functions.  All of the templates that you can use to build your website have already been designed to easily allow for the integration of any application found in the library.

2.    Comprehensive Shopping Cart
Compared to similar services, the shopping cart included with the e-commerce package seems to be of a fairly high quality.  It will allow you to add products by simply typing in the details and add images which will be automatically integrated in your website.  A merchant plan is also included with the account which will allow you to accept payments from every major credit card, PayPal, and Google Checkout.  Using this shopping cart, all of your transactions will be protected with a 1024 bit SSL encryption as well as third-party verification from TrustGuard.

Limitations of BuildYourSite.com

The primary limitation is that some of the pre-built templates only allow for a certain amount of customization.  For example, some of them only have a handful of color palettes to choose from.  If you are looking to build a website quickly, then this may not matter as much.

Review of BuildYourSite.com

Overall, this website building service has all of the standard features that you would expect.  It also has an exceptional e-commerce solution and an easy method to customize and add functionality to websites.  While it may not offer the flexibility that more danced website designers may want, it can definitely meet the needs of most webmasters.