Coming across the website

I came across this wedding website since Colbert leave a message here. It is really interesting that Colbert read my another post on the wedding blog of Fione and Harrace, and he is a friend of this couple. This is the world of internet! It makes the world become so small.

Wedding tips from the site

I found that their wedding website does not only share their happiness but also a lot of tips which may be helpful for all brides and grooms to be. You can find ideas for wedding photo, food and even love poems from their wedding blog.

Let’s visit this wedding blog today: http://www.probloggerwedding.com/

Graphics for your wedding invitation

You may want to put some graphics in your wedding website or wedding invitation. Unless you are a illustartor yourself, it is not easy to “draw” the images in your website or invitation.

Paid or free services

In this case I will suggest you to search for some wedding cliparts. Some website will charge you a small fee (something like USD29 per month) and you can download the cliparts without any limit.

You can also find some websites which offer free wedding cliparts. Of course the quality will not be as high as the cliparts from a paid site but it will be good enough if do not want to spend any extra on wedding cliparts.

Examples of wedding clipart websites

Below are some websites which provide these free resources:

http://www.webweaver.nu/clipart/wedding.shtml
http://www.myfreeclipart.com/index.php
http://www.presentationhelper.co.uk/free_wedding_clip_art.htm
http://www.cksinfo.com/xx17.htm
http://www.webweaver.nu/clipart/wedding2.shtml

Source of image: http://www.webweaver.nu/clipart/wedding2.shtml

Many couples find that to prepare a wedding map is a headache. Even though you plan to hire a designer to design the map for you, you may still need to find the map in a wrong style and not clear enough to show all the information to your guests.

Use Wedding Mapper to make your own wedding map

With Wedding Mapper, you can create your own wedding map in just a minute. You can mark all the necessary information such as ceremony, reception and hotel location on the map. You can even mark the points of attraction around the area. what is good about this wedding map is that you can put the map into your wedding website!

And you can even find the wedding vendors near your wedding location. Its user-friendly interface let you create your wedding map with just only a few clicks! Try this out today!

Image source from: Wedding Mapper

Send out your wedding photos via email

With lots of wedding photos, it takes you lots of time to select, print and send to relatives and friends. If you are planning to send the wedding photos to your friends and relatives online. This funny website may help. You can add fun to your wedding photos and make it a slide show to put on your wedding website.

Creating the slide show

In a few minutes you can create a slide show out of your wedding photos. There are also plenty of effects for your to choose and combine to make you own special slide show. I am sure that it will be an interesting and special one. Your friends and relatives will certainly be impressed by what you have done.

Try this out from www.slide.com

How I found this website

Personally I do not know Fione and Harrace. In fact I came across their wedding website when I was surfing on the web today.

Insight from this website

I think their wedding website is quite good and interesting, they have put nearly everything about their wedding on the web. What is good about this website is that Fione shares her feeling and emotions in the blog. And there are also some advices. You should be able to find some insight from this wedding website.

Congratulations and thanks to the couple

You can even find the videos and photos of the reception of the couple. Here I would like to congratulate the couple and also thank their website which is very inspiring.

Source of Photos: http://www.9wedding.com/

After deciding to get married, many couples would open a wedding blog to record the process of their wedding preparation. It is a good way to share the happiness among friends and relatives. To share the happiness and every single detail with them.

Your Big day count up down for your wedding website

I was talking about a wedding count down widget the other day. This time I am going to introduce you a count up down counter which you can put on your website or blog. It would count how many days, hours and second till you big day and count up the sweet moment after your wedding too.

The counter with a clear outlook which gives the reader a very clear information of how long till your wedding and how long you two have been getting married.

Count up down counter from http://blog-apart.com/COUNT/index.html

I have been reading different articles about wedding website. In fact, the number one advantage of creating a wedding website is that you may be able to save money on items such as save the date card, or directional map card when you order your wedding stationery.

Besides, it is also good to put your photos and tell your guests the whole proccess of your wedding planning. You can really share your ups and downs when planning for your Big Day. Your guests can also get the latest news about your wedding.

Creating your website free of charge

In fact you can create a wedding website which is totally free of charge. One of such services is Wedding Announcer. Some of my friends back in Hong Kong would rather use the services by Wedding Announcer than the free services in Hong Kong. What is good about their service is that there are also wedding planning tools such as RSVP and mailing list for your free website.

Your website should be an excellent one when it is used with the services by SmileBox I metioned a few days before.

A sample wedding website can be found from: http://pm1202.weddingannouncer.com/
You can start creating your website via: http://www.weddingannouncer.com/

When I was reading a wedding blog from Hong Kong today I find this website http://www.smilebox.com/. The owner of the blog has created a really interesting Save-the-date Ecard.

Create the wedding ecard yourself

I think this is quite a good use of the free services provided by the website. Though I am a wedding invitation designer myself, I sometimes advise my clients to use email to send their save the date notes instead of making a physical card if they only need a small quantity of cards. It is because that will help them to save some money on the wedding stationeries.

It should be also good to make a slide show as an graphical introduction of your wedding website.

When you enter the website of Smilebox, you can click “OCCASIONS” and you will find some themes for wedding. Let’s start explore it http://www.smilebox.com/.

Thanks to the advance in internet technology and open source softwares, you can now develop your own wedding website yourself without any difficulty. Nearly no knowledge in HTML and programming will be needed. The user interface for setting up the site is extremely user friendly that my grandma in her eighties can also master the website. Although it is relatively easy to make a wedding website, you may still follow some steps to make it come true.

1 Register a domain and get it hosted

The very first thing you need to do is to register the domain name of your site. You can search for the availability of a domain name and register even from Yahoo! The only thing you need to decide is to think of options of domain names that you like.

In fact many hosting companies can register the domain name for you. In this case you will not need to register it separately from the domain registrar. Since you will need to host your site anyway, it does you no harm to have the hosting company to register the domain name for you.

When we talk about the hosting issue, hosting companies usually offer different hosting plans. The price can range from USD5 to a few hundred a month (this price is usually for a dedicated server). For a normal wedding website, a hosting plan with 2G of disk space and 20G of traffic will be more than enough.

2 Select the software

The second step in developing your wedding website is to select the software you are going to use. Many hosting companies provide user friendly interface to install these softwares. You can ask if they provide such services beforehand. If you have the programming skills to make a website, you may not need any of these softwares. If this is the case, however, I will suppose that you have already skipped this article!

One of the most convenient software for a wedding website is indeed a blog. Most people are accustomed to read blogs and it is not surprised for a couple to have a wedding blog. WordPress will be one of the choices if you go for the option of wedding blog. What is good about WordPress is that it is easy to use and you can have plenty of options on design templates.

Besides, you can also make use of some content management systems (CMS) for your wedding website. Mambo and PhpNuke will be good options for a CMS. Unlike a blog, the structure of a content management system is normally more sophisticated. You can have more options to organize your messages to your friends and relatives.

3 Maintain your wedding site

Webmasters will agree that maintaining a website is not an easy task. This is also true for a wedding website. You need to firstly take some time to familiarize yourself with the software you choose. Then you can start write your messages and upload the contents to the website.

Certainly you will upload some photos to your website. You should bear in mind that although the internet connection is quite fast nowadays, you should not upload photos which are too large in file sizes. For a normal jpg image, a file size of 100k will be good enough. However, you have to remind both yourself and the users of your website that these photos are meant to be used on the internet and their resolutions are not high enough for printing since the resolution needed for displaying on a monitor is only 72 dpi.

With these three steps, you should be able to set up your own wedding website without any difficulty. So please do not wait and act now to start your own wedding website today.