Tuesday, September 07, 2010
Features
On the iPad
Okay, we've spent the last several months exploring and developing things on the iPad tablet platform. While we don't want to sound like an Apple commercial, and we don't want to add needless volume to the noisy hype surrounding this new technology, and we don't want to sound like we've totally gone off our rocker, we do want to express our opinion...
izotz!prototype : Prototyping Large Websites
Very often the things that take the longest in any website project are creating pages, filling them with content, and organizing (then reorganizing over and over) the website architecture. Prototype is a tool designed to make that part of the process much quicker and easier, and enable non technical users to work together.
izotz!click - Building Online Marketing Campaigns
Online tools to help you build landing pages and marketing websites, split-test page performance, and create powerful online marketing campaigns.
Building Flash Websites
The Flash Website Builder module lets you create an instant flash website out of the static webpages in your izotz universe.
Wizard Module - Create Multi-step Pages to Display Info or Collect Data
Wizards have long been a powerful tool in guiding viewers through pages of information. If you are collecting info, a wizard can break a long form into user friendly steps. The Wizard Module lets you do all this.
Web Tracker Tools - Get More Out of Your Websites
Let your users tell you how you need to make your website better. The Web Tracker tool gives you real time feedback on how your visitors are using your websites. Use this information to fine tune your pages.
Want To Earn Commissions Selling Websites?
If you want to provide website building services from within your website, add this module and enable people to sign up with izotz, and collect a commission for every sign up.
Making Landing Pages
An important part of having your website work harder for you is making stand alone webpages that support your online marketing efforts. The Stand Alone Static Webpage Module can really help you do this.
Integrating Other Web Stuff Into Your izotz Universe
Most people have some kind of web presence. Some already have online stores, photo galleries, or other online things. It's not hard to integrate other websites into your izotz universe.
Why Would You Need More Than One Website?
It's hard enough to build and maintain one website, who in there right mind wants two? Or three? Or a dozen? If you really want to make the web work hard for you...
Are You Looking For the Competitive Edge in Your Business
The izotz tools are powered by a backend technology called the izotz!IMS Internet Management System. This powerful system can drive a lot of different business models, with the izotz web building tools being just one.
Are You Into Online Games?
There are lots and lots of people out there publishing online games, many of them in the Flash format. This module lets you create pages for those games, and allows you to build your own gaming website.
Make Your Own Online Email Forms
Email forms are a staple of nearly all websites. The Email Forms module lets you easily create custom email forms, collect information from users or send information out to people, and store that information in data files.
Using the Mailing List Module
Combine the Mailing List module with the Broadcast Email tool and you have a very easy way to communicate with people who sign up for one of your mailing lists.
The ISP Webmaster Module
This module will allow you to create multiple independent izotz websites. Whether you are a web designer, and ISP, or someone like the IT guy at a school district, if you need to make a lot of websites, all for different people, this module is for you. Make a BUSINESS doing izotz websites.
Using Stand Alone Webpages
All izotz modules can run as stand alone webpages. Learn how this feature can really help you use your content in ways you might not have thought about.
Create Your Own Social Network
Social networks are a fun and useful way for a varied group of people to connect, share, and interact. The new izotz Social Network module allows you to create your own private social network quickly and easily.
Getting izotz onto Facebook
The izotz app on Facebook allows you to add izotz websites and web projects to your Facebook page.
The Tao of iZotz
At first glance iZotz probably looks like one of the zillion website building tools that flood the internet highways. And on the surface it certainly is. Here's a little bit of the iZotz philosophy.
iZotz as Add-on
You can use iZotz to build a big website. But you can also use it to build add-ons to your current website. You don't need to abandon everything you already have to leverage iZotz modules into your web presence.
Using the Photo Gallery Module for Breaking News
One of the best things about the internet is how it can be so immediate. Say it, see it, post it, and everyone gets to share in it. And the Photo Gallery module can help you do that.
Building Projects Offline
When building a new project, new pages for a website, or performing a major website overhaul, use these strategies to help you make the transition from stage to live.
iZotz For Beginners
Putting things on the web using iZotz can be really easy. As your needs evolve, it can get more complicated. This introduction will give you a foundation which will make things easier for you.
The Disposable Website
Thinking about the web differently. Maybe it doesn't have to be so permanent.
Project Management Website Template
A disposable website that enables a team of people to collaborate on projects. Perfect for contractors, software developers, event planners, lawyers, or any other group of people who might need to communicate while working on a project.
iZotz Mobile iPhone
iZotz Mobile gives you complete access to your iZotz administrator through your iPhone.
WIKI
WIKI is that cool little thing you see at the bottom of many webpages that allows you to post comments about the content on a webpage. You can enable WIKI in many iZotz modules.
When to Get Another iZotz Account
You can build as many websites and pages as you want under your iZotz membership, so why would you need more than one account?
Messaging
The Messaging module allows you to create messaging applications that allow website members to send non-email messages to website adminstrators, a select list of people, or each other.
Quick Prototypes
Whether or not you are building an iZotz project, iZotz can help you shorten development time on any website project. Use iZotz to prototype your projects.
eStore
Designed to be easy to run, the eStore template lets you create online stores to sell either electronic products or hard goods, and includes a shopping cart, online payment processing, order manager, and a "specials" page.
Schedules and Calendars
The new schedule templates let you build personal and shared calendars, work schedulers, appointment managers, and all kinds of other date related projects.
Create an Online Newspaper
The Newspaper template makes it a snap to create and maintain online newspapers, magazines, newsletters, and when used with a little creative thought...highly adaptible standalone websites.
Creating a Custom Administration Page
Use custom administration pages to limit administration options, reduce training, and make administrating projects painless.
Using Friendly URL Names
When you create a new iZotz project, it gets assigned a randomly generated ID number. This ID number is then used in a URL to reach your project on the web. Using the Friendly URL Name tool you can create user friendly URL names and replace those random ID's, making it much easier to remember your project URL's.
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The Tao of iZotz
Where we come from

At first glance iZotz probably looks like one of the zillion website building tools that flood the internet highways. And on the surface it certainly is. You can use iZotz to quickly and easily build a website. And you don’t need to know how to write HTML or code a database to do it.

iZotz was born of two fundamental ideas that when blended together…then combined with a whole lot of creative thinking…and finally written out in code end up with the iZotz you see today.

The first idea was that “it just shouldn’t be so hard to put things on the web.” Lots of people have ideas for lots of things they want to put on the web, but the process of translating those ideas into something you can see in a web browser is notoriously complicated and often quite expensive. We at iZotz felt that it just shouldn’t be so hard to do.

And secondly, these days there are tools, many of them online, that will help you put things on the web. If you need to put something online, and if what you want to do if fairly simple, you’ve got a plethora of options for getting it done. The problem comes when what you want to do is either extremely simple, or extremely complex. There are lots of online website building tools that will put a nice ten page website online…often with a few modules that will let you collect email, run a blog, or do some other common web tasks. But what if all you want to do is put up a single webpage advertising an upcoming community event? You don’t need a big website. You don’t want to create anything permanent. And you don’t want to spend a lot of time doing it. All you need is a simple single webpage. Or maybe a single online photo gallery. Or maybe an online calendar for your social group. You want to put something small…and maybe temporary…on the web without a lot of muss and fuss.

Or, your ideas have grown big and complex. Maybe you need more than a single website. Maybe you need a website for each department in your company, and each website needs to share some content, but have their own unique content as well. Maybe your website needs to have multiple appearances…targeting different audiences. Maybe you need something that is easily and constantly updated. Maybe you need a high degree of customization in function modules, or need modules that nobody has. None of these needs fit easily into many of the current online website tools.  So you end up spending thousands of dollars, maybe hundreds of thousands, on custom websites.

Out of all this came the second idea…”not only shouldn’t it be easier, but you should be able to make the web do what you want. And…you shouldn’t need to be a programmer to do it.” In other words…customization is king. Have it your way. Hold the pickles.

Combine those two ideas together, and you’ve got the Tao of iZotz:

It shouldn’t be so hard to put things on the web. You should be able to do what you want on the web. And you shouldn’t have to be a programmer to do it.

That’s what drives everything we do at iZotz.

iZotz is an Organic Living Being.

Our favorite words are “wouldn’t it be nice if we could…”

When we hear those words spoken about something on the web, we start thinking about whether or not we could actually make it happen. If you look at iZotz today, it’s different than it was a month ago. And in a month from now it will be different than it is today. Hopefully, it will be more capable, and enable you to do things on the web that you can’t today. Or, maybe it will let you do things easier than you can today. So the second part of the Tao of iZotz is that we never stop evolving. iZotz is an organic living being. What you can’t do today becomes our challenge, and maybe tomorrow you can.  Tools get better, features get better, everything gets easier. And like an organic being, this change is ongoing. If we can make a change for the better, you’ll see it tomorrow. If we come up with a new tool…you’ll see it tomorrow. The web is immediate. Change on the web can be instantaneous. And so is iZotz.

So if you have a thought that goes like “wouldn’t it be nice if we could…”, SEND IT TO US. We live for that stuff. Who knows, you might see it in a new feature or tool on iZotz tomorrow.

And that’s the Tao of iZotz. We want to see just how easy…yet capable…we can make it to put things on the web.

 

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