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Name: Your Tribute
Quick Pitch: Your Tribute helps you celebrate life’s significant events online.
Genius Idea: Your Tribute offers free hosting and customized design templates for those who would like to create a commemorative website quickly and effortlessly. It’s perfect for those who are savvy enough to upload digital photos or send e-invitations but don’t want to expend the effort to learn a platform like WordPress.
Your Tribute offers customized templates for six different event types: anniversaries, graduations, weddings, births, birthdays and memorials. Anyone can create a free site with separate tabs for a story, guestbook, virtual gifts, photos and videos, an event calendar and additional “notes” pages. You can also pull address book information from your e-mail accounts and social networks and send online invitations with Facebook integration.
There is, of course, a premium option (the site has to make money somehow). For a one-time fee of $50, anyone who visits the page can upload unlimited, full-size photos and videos, and Your Tribute guarantees that the site will remain online “for life.” We may design tribute or event pages to serve a temporary purpose, but it might be nice for a child to be able to visit his site to read guestbook comments and browse photos when he’s older (it’s also amusing to think how archaic the site would look in 20 years — remember GeoCities?).
So while we aren’t necessarily recommending Your Tribute as the next must-have tool for our digitally fluent readers, we think it’s certainly a resource you could recommend to your mother, for example, when she tells you she wants to create a website to celebrate your son’s graduation. For those who want to create pages for weddings specifically, we would instead recommend mywedding.com or The Knot’s wedding web page builder; the former allows you to order matching wedding invitations from premiere stationary companies, while the latter allows users to share their gift registries, among other, more customizable options.
What do you think of Your Tribute? Would you recommend the platform to create a quick commemorative site, or would you suggest something else?
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