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Other Software Tools for Website Design

Article Summary: More software to include in your website design.

There are many free software that can add more functionality and control to you website. During the initial website design process, you might like to add other features such as payment processing systems, voip voice tags, video, audio and slide show scripts generator software to improve the sites overall appeal. Adding more functionality means giving you more control over your website, and allows you to fully realize the full benefits of the internet. Here are some simple software that can be easily incorporated into your website design:

Audio Recorders

Audio editing software allows you to record voice and other sounds. If you are familiar with ESL tutoring, you know how picky some ESL students can be when it comes to choosing a teacher with the right pronunciation and accent to teach them. Adding a voice recording to a web page allows potential students to listen to your voice and accent.

Microsoft Sound Recorder

The Microsoft Sound Recorder software is a crude but effective way to record (for a maximum of 60 seconds), mix, play and insert sound links into your documents. It most versions of Window.

Audacity

Audacity is a very popular and free software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.

SwiffRec

SwiffRec is a free software that allows you to record your voice and have it posted to a web page. A visitor to your site only needs to push the "play" button to listen to your voice recording.

HotRecorder

HotRecorder is an advanced VOIP software that allows you to record, convert, play and store voice communications using VOIP (Voice Over the Internet Protocol). This software is a paid service but allows you to test it for a limited period. HotRecorder works with Skype, Google Talk, Net2Phone, Yahoo! Messenger, FireFly and many other voip providers.

Slide show Generators

A slide show generator is a software that allows you to link photographs and generate scripts that you can than post to your website. A few good personalized pictures in a slide show can communicate your services more effectively than a thousand written words. Just add a smiling picture of yourself, a few pictures of your students and within minutes a slide show generator can easily organize your photographs and generate complete HTML codes for website.

ANVSOFT Flash Slide Show Maker

Anvsoft is an easy to use tool which quickly turns your digital photographs into a Macromedia Flash file format. You can than use this file to post it up on your own website.

JAlbum

JAlbum is a popular software that allows can create photo galleries, thumbnails and generate HTML pages that you can publish as a gallery or slide show.

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