It backs up all your files and makes it easy to restore them selectively or all at once. Memeo Instant Backup comes with the GoFlex drive, but you can also get it for $30 on its own at. The control screen is a “dashboard” that makes “driving” much easier. What impressed us much more than speed was the Memeo software on the drive. While our files are backing up, we do other things on the computer. But what if you don’t care about speed? We don’t.

The new Seagate GoFlex portable hard drive is fast,but you need the new USB 3.0 connection to get full speed. There’s a free trial of the $49 Xara Web Designer 6 at. The latter is offering free Web hosting for a year. You can preview your newly designed website on your own computer, but if you want to publish it for the world to see, you’ll need to sign up at a Web-hosting site, such as or.

It was easy to put in text and pictures, in addition to widgets like PayPal buttons and movie players. Nothing we designed looked amateurish, even after trying six templates. You start by going to the “File” menu and choosing from a gallery of templates. Video tutorials take you clearly along for each step of the way. To add text, draw a box or a line and whatever text you paste there will be automatically sized to fit under that line or in that box. To add pictures, select any picture from your files and drag it onto the site. To change the overall color scheme, choose “Edit theme color” and pick a color. You can change the color of any part by selecting from a color bar at the bottom of the screen and dragging that color to where you want it. To change the size, pull to enlarge, push to shrink. A pale green heading for “News” might look wrong in size or shape as more categories are added. All that is old news now, because Xara’s new Web Designer 6 makes it super-easy to create a professional-looking site.įor example, one of the most common and annoying problems with website design is changing the length, size and color of the parts. Joy still uses Microsoft’s Expression Web for her women’s organization, and Wordpress for our On Computers website.

LITTLE ROCK - We made our first website 13 years ago, using Microsoft’s FrontPage.

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