Archive for September, 2007

It’s been a while but here’s another review for you. Plugoo is a service that provides an instant messenger directly on your website without having to give out your MSN/Yahoo/AIM address to a complete stranger. Plugoo supports MSN, AIM, Yahoo!, Google Talk, ICQ, and even Jabber which is an amazing selection for the service.

It’s incredibly easy to setup your first Plugoo and took me about two minutes which included account activation and customizing the look of my Plugoo. Customizing your Plugoo includes the following options:

• Title
• Colors and Text Sizes
• User Authenticating
• Messages can be sent to your mailbox when offline

Not the biggest selection of customizations but more than enough for more of us to be happy with. I’ve setup a Plugoo for testing purposes here so if you want to leave me message feel free to.

Messages go through pretty quick and any tests that I did it took no longer than 15 seconds after I first initiated the conversation.

Spruz is a brand new web site creation system that is one of the most enhanced, in depth, and feature rich system I have ever seen while still keeping it simple for new users.  New users go through a simple wizard that helps get you off your feet and create your first web site.  Like any other system you have pre-built templates, but in Spruz’s case they provide you with about 100 so you have plenty of choices.

Site’s can be edited from a link directly on the site, so there isn’t any need to load a separate web site to change your own.  Advanced users can customize the CSS of their sites further in a simple editor.

Other advanced features include being able to edit your site’s properties easily, a file manager for easy uploads, and custom scripting to several different several sections in your web site, so you can make the site your own.

Here is the absolute kicker - You can include such things as a forum,shopping cart!, and full FTP access to your files.  If you’re interested in running a web site but aren’t sure where to start and don’t have the patients to learn HTML, then you probably shouldn’t have a web site (kidding), you can check out Spruz for yourself and get all the features you’ll ever need.