The Free and Simple Mailing List solution for your Blog
Having an email sign-up form on your site is essential, but some of the solutions are either too complicated or cost money.
Fortunately Google comes to the rescue here with a website they acquired last year. Feedburner.
10 Reasons to use Google Apps for your email accounts
In my opinion Google was the best thing that ever happened to the internet.
With the help of Apple they essentially toppled Microsoft off their perch and created an ever expanding suite of search and discovery tools.
Google Language Translation for your website
Gadgets are a great new feature in Google that gives you access to a wide range of useful applications that can be embedded on your website or on your iGoogle home page.
You do have a gmail account don’t you? If not fix this now by clicking here: http://mail.google.com/mail/signup
To create your language translation gadget visit this link:
http://translate.google.com/translate_tools?hl=en
On this page you can also add one-click translations from with your browser.
Pick the language of your blog or website then copy and paste the resulting code into a text widget in WordPress or in dreamweaver simply paste in the code where you want the Gadget to appear.
Thats it! Refresh your page to see the new Google language translation tool.
How To Add Custom Google Search to your website
Want fast Google powered search on your website?
Creating fast, user defined search adds a service to your website that serves your visitor and you. Create the search engine, copy and paste some code to one of your web pages and then you can edit it later from your gmail account.
Add the credibility and reliability of Google powered search by following these steps (links open in a new window) :
How to configure Gmail with your favorite email client
This guide will show you how to setup your favorite email client to send and receive from your Gmail account.
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Keep in mind that if you use WordPress for your website, the contact form can be configured to send to any email address. This effectively bypasses the need for a domain email account like greatguy@effectiveclassywebsites.com and it means you don’t get any spam. Yay!
Here are some of the benefits of a Gmail account:
