Archive for January, 2007

New Personal Wedding Website Service Offers Fantastic Advantages for Those Planning That Big Day

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

Personal wedding websites are quickly becoming “must have” items for couples planning their big day. WedShare.com can help any couple build and manage their own wedding website, packed with useful and easy to use features that can save time and money for all parties concerned

San Jose, California (IPRWIRE) Tue, Jan. 30th, 2007 — WedShare.com (www.wedshare.com) is pleased to announce their new wedding website service, providing unique, yet easy to use features that allow couples to plan, manage, and showcase their engagement, ceremony, and honeymoon. This remarkable service is a must-have for anyone planning a marriage. Couples not only receive their own Internet space to showcase their event, but they are also given a myriad of other useful tools and services to assist in the creating and managing of the site and the many details associated with their wedding.

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Create a Wedding Website Easily and Quickly

Friday, January 19th, 2007

Would you like to create a wedding website that will amaze and please your family and friends? At one time, this was a fairly complicated endeavor for most couples. In addition to having to know the coding language, they also had to know about graphic design and how to upload and maintain the files and pages, as well as handle a host of other issues. For many couples this was simply too much work and it took too much time.

Of course, if they had the money they could hire someone to create a wedding website for them, but that often cost too much for the average working couple and did not address the issue of who would maintain the site once it was up and running.

It is no wonder that so few couples were able to take advantage of this great idea. But that has all changed now. With advances in technology and with online companies who specialize in these types of projects, just about anyone can afford a fantastic site to showcase their happy event.

One reason the prices have come down so much is that couples can now do much of the fine-tuning work themselves. Generally, a service will allow the couple to pick out the templates that they want to use, which saves the couple from having to hire a designer. These services also provide intuitive tools to easily customize the templates to fit their individual taste and personality. The couples get end results that are both professional and uniquely theirs…in minutes!

In addition to the main pages, many of these service companies will also have templates that cover the vast majority of special needs for couples planning to marry. These might include such things as guest books, invitations, map pages containing directions to locations, gift registry pages, and even photo galleries for still photos and multimedia files.

Because the majority of the hard work has already been done, the couple simply uploads what they want to share with others and can modify the pages as they see fit. It has become a very easy and simple process. In fact, it has never been easier to create a wedding website as it is today.

Still, couples should make an effort to work with a reliable and honest company. One of the best in the industry is WedShare.com. They have put together an entire suite of tools and features that allow couples to easily and quickly set up their sites and allows for customization of pages through the use of easy to understand tools. They offer a complete package, including your own domain name and powerful planning tools, and their prices are extremely competitive. Visit www.wedshare.com and take a look at the free 14 day trial offer, which lets you to create a wedding website using their full compliment of tools for two weeks before deciding if they are the best choice for you.

Finding the Best Online Engagement Website

Friday, January 19th, 2007

Are you planning to get married soon? Have you ever considered using an engagement website to keep everyone in the know? It’s a great idea and it is not as hard as it once was to get one of the sites up and running and looking awesome to boot.

It was only a few years ago that many couples dismissed the idea of having an engagement website because of the enormous amount of time and energy (not to mention money) that it took to get one on the Internet. Unless they had advanced knowledge of HTML, they had to hire a professional designer to set up the pages and get the graphics properly set. Then there was the cost of finding an affordable web hosting provider. And if that wasn’t enough, there was the issue of who would maintain and update the site as schedules and events were planned and executed. All in all, it was a messy idea and many couples simply looked the other way when the subject was brought up.

Can’t really blame them, can you? Who has that kind of time and who wants to learn complicated coding languages and graphic art skills in their spare time? And with a wedding looming, who even has spare time!

Well, that has all changed now. Today, any couple can easily and quickly set up and maintain an engagement website. There are online companies today who do nothing but help happy couples create and maintain attractive, useful sites dedicated to their special event and all the things that surround it.

The very best companies will offer you a variety of quality, professional designs and themes. Quality should be stressed over quantity here. This is a fast and easy way to get your site started. These companies will also allow you to easily and completely customize your pages so that you can give each one its own unique feel and style. You maintain full control and can make updates and changes anytime; you can even change color schemes and themes, modifying the entire look and feel of your site with a single click!

A few of these better companies will even allow you to use their service for free for a specified amount of time. This can be a huge benefit in that it allows you to try the service before you actually have to pay for it. A side note: make sure that the free offer you sign up for includes access to all of their tools and features. You should shy away from companies that only allow you to use a few of their tools. This will not help you. You need to use all of the tools so you can decide if the service is right for you or not. And there should be no extra charge for this.

One of the very best places to look for an engagement website is at www.wedshare.com, where you can find a complete package that includes professional designs, an intuitive sitebuilder, and a variety of powerful planning tools. WedShare.com has worked hard putting this site together and it is a good starting point for anyone wishing to set up their own special event website.

How to Select a Personal Wedding Website

Friday, January 19th, 2007

Many couples who are planning to get married in the near future are eagerly searching for their very own personal wedding website. And why not? These sites can be fun and exciting, as well as very helpful not only for the couple in question but also for family and friends who want to keep abreast of all the events and latest news.

A well-crafted personal wedding website can offer the happy couple a lifetime of cherished memories they can share with everyone. Unlike a photo album which is somewhat restrictive in who gets to see it and who does not, an online space dedicated to the wonderful event can be viewed by all the family and friends, whenever they choose to visit.

Time and distance are no longer a consideration. Anyone with a computer and an Internet connection can visit the site and enjoy the memories and photos of the wondrous event regardless of where they may be.

But how does one go about getting a personal wedding website? While it is certainly true that you could create your own from scratch, you should first consider the challenges you will be faced with before going that route. At the very minimum you will need to know how to code your pages using HTML and perhaps CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). You will also need to know about graphics and how to best present them on the pages. This will involve sizing, resizing, cropping, etc. and that alone can be a very daunting task for many people. Then there is the issue of the special pages that you may want to have on your site. Things like gift registry, guest books, schedule of events, photo galleries, and such. These types of pages often require special coding and that, too, can prove to be too much for the average couple who simply want a great looking, feature-rich personal wedding website in as little time as possible.

There is another way, a much easier and faster process that will almost certainly fit anyone’s needs, budget, and timeframe. That process is to sign up with an established online company that specializes in this type of hosting and design and let them do the hard work for you. Many of these companies will allow you to select from a wide array of professional, pre-designed templates and then customize the templates to fit your individual personality and style. This is a great way to get a head start on your project, as it requires no advanced coding knowledge on your part. In general, you simply choose the elements you want to use and then add to the template those personal touches that you want to include on the pages. Nothing could be easier. You maintain the control of your website, make changes and updates anytime at your own pace, and can even take advantage of special features like online RSVPS, gift registries, budget managers, and more.

One such company that offers a wonderful selection of templates and customizing tools is WedShare.com. They have assembled an entire package of useful and easy to use tools that can get you up and running in no time flat. Visit www.wedshare.com today to learn more.

Finding the Best Free Wedding Website

Friday, January 19th, 2007

If you are like many people, you probably want to see what you are getting before you actually have to pay for it. Few people would hand over the cash to buy a car without first seeing and test driving it. The same should be true for locating a free wedding website. Why pay for something you have not yet had an opportunity to use?

Not too long ago finding a rich-featured free wedding website beyond the flimsy, advertisement-ridden, single-page giveaways was something of a challenge. There were a few online, but many of them restricted your ability to do any real work once you signed up with them. To get to the good tools you had to go ahead and pay for the service which actually defeated the purpose of “try before you buy.” It is not like that anymore, thankfully, and you have some good options these days that you did not have in the past.

Even so, you still need to do some research and homework before signing up with someone. By investing a few minutes now, you can save a lot of time and hassle later.

When you begin looking for a free wedding website, make sure you deal with a professional, quality service driven by the quality of its features, not advertisements. You can often tell this about a company by simply visiting their site and looking at the various tools and features they offer you. Take a few moments and see if they offer a variety of professional, attractive designs and themes. Look for quality over quantity here. Make sure they offer you the ability to quickly and easily customize your selected templates in order to make them unique and personal. Can you create an unlimited number of pages and post as many photos and video clips as you like? And how about additional wedding planning tools and features: online RSVPs, guest managers, budget trackers, and so forth should be available and integrated into the website itself.

It is also a good idea to see if they offer special presentation applications such as Flash graphics or background music. Will you get your own domain name free of charge? How about your own email addresses at your website? Comparing the features of one service to another while keeping in mind what’s important to you will help you determine the best service for your needs.

Most importantly, find out if the services you are looking at will allow you to use all of their tools and features in the free wedding website offer. If they only allow you access to a few features or tools, you may want to look elsewhere. You need to know what the tools are, how easy they are to use, and what your page will look like, and you deserve to know all of that before you sign up with them.

A very good place to begin your quest is with WedShare.com. At www.wedshare.com, they have put together what might be the very best package on the Internet today. They offer you full access to their services for 14 days, which is plenty of time to see if they are the right fit for your needs. Best of all, they let you use all of their tools and features as part of the trial. Visit today to learn more.

Planning a Great Wedding Website

Friday, January 19th, 2007

Planning and creating a wedding website used to be a challenge. For many people the first requirement was to learn HTML or at least learn how to use an HTML editor such as Front Page or Dreamweaver. That alone was enough to derail many hopeful (yet non-professional) wedding website designers. Once the coding language was learned, there was the added task of learning how to size, resize, upload, and manipulate photos. Some of the most important and meaningful aspects of even having this type of Internet space is being able to share photos with family and friends. This is especially important for those individuals who for whatever reason are not able to attend the ceremony and the other events such as the reception or bridal shower.

For those who managed to learn coding and graphics, there was still the problem of finding a good Internet hosting provider. It was easy enough to find space on the Internet, but the space was usually completely empty until you put something in it, and that meant designing all sorts of pages and photo galleries. Many of these pages would serve special purposes (if the person had enough training to actually code them properly). Some of these special pages might be dedicated to such things as guest books, gift registry, important news on upcoming events, schedule changes, maps and directions for out of town guests, so forth.

All in all, designing a wedding website was a lot of work and there was no guarantee that the pages or the site as a whole would work properly or have the unique look and feel that the happy couple wanted to present. In other words, the entire time-consuming process could fall short of the couple’s initial vision and end up being rather costly as well.

But times have changed and there are now a few online wedding website companies that can be a huge help for couples planning to tie the knot and wanting to showcase the special event on the Internet. However, finding the perfect company to work with can be a bit tricky.

When you begin searching for such a service, keep in mind that you want to work with a company that offers you all of the important tools and features you will need in order to complete your project in an easy and timely manner. You want to work with a service that has already done the hard work for you. An example of this would be a service that offers quality, professional, pre-designed templates. This gives you a starting point so that you can quickly create your website without time-consuming coding sessions or graphics design skills. You also want to avoid the cookie cutter companies by finding one that will allow you to fully customize your templates in order to give your pages the look that is uniquely yours.

How easy it the service to use? Your wedding website should be a planning tool, not another planning burden. You don’t want to spend hours trying to figure out how your wedding website service works.

A great place to start is with WedShare.com at www.wedshare.com, where you can find an incredible array of useful and affordable features.