Recession-proof Web Publishing: 7 handy tools

So, you dodged the last round of layoffs. The company that employees you still exists. Great! You still need a bitchin’, modern Website, whether or not there’s a budget for such a thing.

Don’t worry, you needn’t sell a lung to buy a shiny new enterprise CMS or dip into the kids’ college fund to pay a developer to code something from scratch. There are plenty of free (sometimes “freemium”) tools, plug-ins and products out there.

In this series, we’ll look at seven of the most useful and easy-to-use.

As with any Web-publishing technology, knowing your way around code (or having access to a front-end developer) will enable you to take the fullest advantage of each of them, but none of them require it.

So let’s get started…

»Part One: Publishing video with Blip.tv

»Part Two: Stupid-easy Web forms with Wufoo

»Part Three: Turn your PDF’s into interactive Flash books with Issuu

» Part Four: Launch a mobile version of your Website in minutes with Mofuse

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