If you read the Collegian today, you might have seen the article about the group of Penn State graduate entrepreneurs that have garnered a lot of attention in the Web 2.0 department. Weebly, their drag and drop web design tool, allows you to create a multitude of beautiful features for a sleek website over the internet, all using drag and drop techniques.

It is a little slow, but it is in its infancy stages and has recieved funding from several big names, like the Y Combinator Program. It is very efficient, and if you don't mind the loading times, almost zero skill is required to do the site. It can be registered as a sub-domain of weebly.com or you can purchase a domain name at a discount without having to leave the site itself.

I have been utilizing the site for two reasons. First, to create the engine to share our Dance Party. I invite you to visit the Dance Party Website at your leisure. It is the skeleton from which we can display all the information we'd ever need in a clean format. Any suggestions for the site please send me a comment via the "Contact us" tab. As a general aside, I would love to know how we arranged to have sign-ups for the contest. I could link to it from the dance party site. If I could receive that url that would be swag.

The other thing is I am building the continuation of my blog. I might just buy a years worth of a dot com for it. I seem to have fallen in love with blogging and don't think having a real audience would hurt... A little patience, and you could get a lot out of this useful tool. I highly recommend reading the help files off of the website in conjunction with your first build. They definitely help.

We should support PSU grads... Especially when they are doing something so helpful to the future of user generated content!

NOTE:: until a conflict is resolved, the wesite is really here. If you go to http://istdanceparty.weebly.com, you get an old homepage. The new one is http://istdanceparty.weebly.com/index.html.