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Doodlekit: Easy web page creation and hosting

Doodlekit
There are plenty of services out there that let you create a blog or web sit and host it online for free. But if you want to create pages with features like forums, shopping carts, or forms, you probably have to shell out some money.

Doodlekit is a new service that offers all of those features and more for free. The service is aimed at web design novices but has features that could make it attractive to more advanced users as well. For example, you can create an attractive web site by choosing a template and color scheme. But you can also edit your CSS sheet and make other changes to your page's structure.

Click the add-ons button, and you have the option of building a form, discussion forum, PayPal shopping cart, file uploader, or advertising into your pages. You'll need a paid account to access some of those features.

The basic free accounts include advertising, but you don't get to share any of the revenue generated. If you want to make money from your site you'll need to upgrade to a paid account. Subscribers also get the ability to create a larger number of sub-pages, more online storage space, higher bandwidth limits, and more advanced features. Paid accounts range from $15 to $50 a month.

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Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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