Blogging Tools

Whether you are a blogger or a big media company, SmartLinks bring fun, utility and the social dimension to your pages. Let readers explore. Instantly connect your readers to related information: book reviews, similar movies, stock research, music videos - make the best of the web one-click away. Give readers choice. Everyone has a favourite site: Amazon or Barnes & Noble, Last.FM or Yahoo Music, Netflix or Blockbuster - let the user decide where to go. Bring readers previews. For each link - whether it's a book, movie, music album, and more - automatically get thumbnail images, descriptions and ratings, all without navigating away from your content.

b2evolution is a powerful blog tool you can install on your own website. Includes all the features of traditional blog tools like WordPress, but extends them with evolved features such as file & photo management, advanced skinning, multiple blogs support as well as detailed user permissions. Third party plug-ins support. Free, open-source (GPL), it runs on virtually any webserver featuring PHP+MySQL and it's available in a wide range of languages. b2evolution also generates web pages dynamically from the MySQL database, so no clumsy 'rebuilding' is involved. It also means faster search/display capabilities, and the ability to serve your posts/news in different 'templates' or 'skins' without any hassle.

WordPress started in 2003 with a single bit of code to enhance the typography of everyday writing and with fewer users than you can count on your fingers and toes. Since then it has grown to be the largest self-hosted (and free) blogging tool in the world, used on hundreds of thousands of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day. This is the gear that we use on almost all our blog sites. Easy to use, espcially if you don't know code (requires a little bit of MYSQL setup beforehand, but many webhosts offer pre-configured database access).