Synthasite is a browser based Ajax website creator with an extra collaboration enabling feature. It is a mix between a wiki creators like PBwiki and MindTouch and website creators Weebly, Sampa and SiteKreator. Synthasite lets you create your own website with WYSIWYG editing and drag and drop multimedia features. It offers a “digg this” button for your articles and videos, a flickr search button and a YouTube embedder. There are also drag and drop HTML and plain text fields, labels and images. Synthasite also offers file management, component libraries, template libraries and hosting. The collaborative elements to come will feature chat capabilities, shared page editing, invitations and shared components with the larger community in addition to admins.

Building Free Websites with SynthaSite

In order to really use the tools that SynthaSite has to offer, you should plan your content in terms of who your target audience will be. Considering who you want to speak to will guide you in deciding what you should say. All you have to do to use SynthaSite is register. Once you have registered you have access to the site manager, a service that will guide you through the entire process of building a free website.

Synthasite is based in San Francisco and is experimenting with using Amazon’s EC2 to for resizable computing capacity.

Links

• Synthasite
• Sharealink’s Synthasite Test Site