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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.
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