IT Geeks

Cape Town,Yola Inc., one of the nation’s largest free website builders, today announced it had surpassed 3 million users, tripling its user base since January ‘09 by helping small and medium businesses create, host and grow professional, customized websites. Yola’s easy-to-use, drag-and-drop technology enables its users to create websites that feature the latest, most popular business-oriented widgets such as Google Maps, PayPal, Skype, and YouTube. Because Yola’s users can build and host their websites inexpensively, the company estimates it has saved its users a total of $120 million while enabling their sites to draw in a total of 28 million global impressions per month and 9 million global visits per month.

“Thanks to Yola, my company’s website is professional instead of stale,” said Patrina Ozurumba, the owner of Next Steps Career Solutions based in New York, NY. “I used the simple and free template just before getting serious press on CNNMoney.com. With the new site I was able to put my business’s best foot forward.”

“Yola gave me control over my website while saving me time and money,” said Ling Hou, owner of the San Francisco-based tutoring service Ling Ming Mandarin. “Before Yola, I was spending too much time and money working with a web designer. With Yola’s easy-to-use and professional site builder I make my vision happen. I am thrilled to have a service like this.”

“I absolutely adore Yola — they’re a teacher’s best friend!” said Kelly Geigner, a public school teacher in Bloomington, IL who created the site Teacher Tracks. “I use the service and its various widgets to share educational resources that I have created and identified with my students and colleagues. I’m so glad to have Yola as a teaching resource. I encourage everyone to give it a try and I think you’ll love it as much as I do!”

“There are many things I love about Yola,” said Meghann Bush of MKB Designs based in Baltimore. “The design tutorials are invaluable for learning how to build a site. Also, Yola is constantly trying to bring new features, new information and exciting programs to the users.”

“The Web is the phone directory of the 21st century,” said Vinny Lingham, CEO of Yola. “If you want your customers to find you, you have to be online, and you have to look good. Through Yola’s website-building and hosting tools we are able to make sure every business can effectively do business on the Web.”