Very silly but equally handy! PlaceKitten.com serves up pictures of kittens to use as placeholders in your designs or code

Submitted by Tobias Eigen on 2 March, 2011 - 16:15

My friend @theresac shared this resource yesterday and I just had to try it immediately. It is a lighthearted and fun way to provide a really helpful service to website designers, who always need pictures of various sizes to place in pages they are working on.

I love the idea, and will add placekitten.com to the Useful Tools and Resources for Web hosting wiki.

Web experts: what website solution do you recommend to organizations in Africa?

Submitted by Tobias Eigen on 10 January, 2010 - 14:35

Happy New Year! I received an inquiry from a longtime Kabissa member organization in Somalia that is interested in upgrading their institutional website from Microsoft Frontpage. It newly being 2010, now is a great time to explore the options. From their email: 

What we need is changing our website from FrontPage to PHP if its suitable for you and hope you will respond positively.

We really so tired to work FrontPage and the country is not so good and it will not easy to you to stay one place because you moved place to place at some times.

Spruce up your Google Site with a template!

Submitted by Tobias Eigen on 17 November, 2009 - 09:55

I learned today via Tech Crunch that Google Sites Become Prettier With Templates, and had a poke around in Kabissa's own Google Sites account. I found that, indeed, it is now possible to choose from a range of attractive and apparently thoughtfully designed website templates. This includes the depicted "NGO template" tailored for organizations that typically want to display the same kind of info on an impactful site.

Ethical webhosting from GreenNet

Submitted by Sharif Fanselow on 5 May, 2009 - 19:26

Dear Kabissa users!

GreenNet logo

I am writing from GreenNet, an ethical not-for-profit ISP and web site host and developer based in the UK for the last 20 odd years. We are a collective operating with the purpose of supporting  and connecting people and groups who work for peace, the environment, gender equality and human rights since 1986.  Because our services are Internet based it doesn't really matter where you are our services can work for you, we have members through Africa, Asia, Europe and south America already. 

Free and Easy Website Creator: Weebly

Submitted by Munir Squires on 30 April, 2009 - 23:43

If you're hosting a site on Kabissa and don't want to pay for a website hosted commercially, Weebly may be the perfect solution for you. These are its main attractions:

  • No coding required (easy to use!)
  • Custom domain (your-organisation.org)
  • Flexible (can include a blog, photos, maps, videos, etc.)
Every organisation can use a website. Some organisations (such as Kabissa) need complex, interactive websites for which they hire multiple IT specialists. For small organisations that simply want to have a way to have their information online, hiring an IT specialist is usually out of the question. For all of you, Weebly can help! 

User login

Forgot password?