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	<title>Claudio Mendonca &#187; online tools</title>
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		<title>Websites for the masses</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Website design has always been a difficult thing for me in Brazil. For several reasons. The main reason until now, is that most of the brazillian customers are not willing to spend a &#8220;bigger&#8221; amount of money to develop a CMS and the coding behind a dinamic website, that will cost 2.000 to 10.000 Reais [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Website design has always been a difficult thing for me in Brazil. For several reasons. The main reason until now, is that most of the brazillian customers are not willing to spend a &#8220;bigger&#8221; amount of money to develop a CMS and the coding behind a dinamic website, that will cost 2.000 to 10.000 Reais ( 1.000 to 5.000 US$ ). This happens for a reason. In Brazil, thigs does not work as in US, that the web presence of a company is responsible for a good share of the companies income.</p>
<p>Brazillian professionals are known for their skills to get a good technology and make it cheaper, without loosing a lot of it&#8217;s quality. So the idea is:  Not all of our clients need a fully customized website, with a revolutionary layout and navigation methods. In fact, most of them just need an almost standard website, easy to use/update. Most of my clients, would be more than happy to know that I can offer a cheap option, semi-standard website, for less than half the price they would pay for a custom website.</p>
<p>For this kind of option, we can&#8217;t afford to pay coders, so the option is to use some free CMS, like blog tools ( <a href="http://www.wordpress.com" target="_blank">wordpress</a>, for example ) or more complex tools, like <a href="http://www.squarespace.com/" target="_blank">SquareSpace.com</a>. They developed a powerfull tool to create websites, based on templates. The great thing about SquareSpace, is that their templates are very customizable, and they have a good amount of templates at your disposal.</p>
<p>For the hardcore user that knows a bit of coding, you can access the CSS to have control over it directly, or you can control the CSS and some (X)HTML funcions through a graohic interface.</p>
<p>Their interface to create websites, is complex, but doesn&#8217;t get even close to the complexity of codes. An advanced PC user can create his own website with a bit os knowledge of Photoshop and how sites work.</p>
<p>It is a paid service. A very affordable paid service.</p>
<p>Thank God most of my clients aren&#8217;t advanced PC users. <img src='http://www.claudiomendonca.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>If you know other great tools to create websites please put them in the comments section.</p>
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