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This Month’s Site Of The Month brings some very sad news…This will be the last ever Site Of The Month!  But don’t worry, we have come up with a NEW idea to replace Site Of The Month for the forthcoming year.  All will be revealed on 31st January 2009!  As it is the last ever Site Of The Month we have decided to give you a quick reminder of what our Site Of The Month’s have been over the past 12 months:

January: Xpanity

February: Eurosport

March: AllMusic

April: Moonpig

May: Bill Bailey

June: PetrolPrices.com

July: Number Logic

August: MSNBC Spectra Visual Newsreader

September: SU2C

October: Searchme

November: Money Saving Expert

Which website has been your favourite?  Let us know by commenting below!

SU2C (Stand Up To Cancer) is a new project which has really begun to take effect in America.  SU2C’s belief is that scientist’s knowledge of the science of Cancer is now good enough for them to fully focus on practical research.  Which will rapidly lead to more new and more effective treatments.

SU2C’s main fund raiser was a TV show earlier this month.  It was a star studded show and televised on 3 leading US TV Channels in unison.  You can still view the show online and with a line-up like they had I cannot see why you wouldn’t want to.

Do you know of any other exciting projects similar to SU2C?

This month’s site of the month is for our American visitors…although if you like to keep up to date on american news then the MSNBC Spectra Visual Newsreader is perfect for you!  To put it bluntly, the MSNBC Spectra Visual Newsreader is a modern, easy to use, stylish and a personal way to read the news.  You choose what news you would like to know about and the site will bring to you all the latest stories on that topic.  There are over 170 genre’s to choose from varying from American News to the latest on Baseball to politics videos to entertainment news, so there is pretty much something for everyone!  The site is also only at Beta Stage so the newsreader can only get better!

Sadly for those people who don’t have much of an interest in American news the site is based on the goings on in the US, but maybe they’ll make a British version soon!?

The Sudoku craze is continuing to sweep the nation and July’s Site Of The Month really does represent that craze! This months site of the month is Number-Logic.com. The site has daily puzzles for people of a variety of abilities, all you need to do is register and then you’re off. Also you can visit the Sudoku archive to do any puzzles you may have missed. It’s quite a fun little site if you have the time and brain capacity!

Are you a fan of Sudoku? Have you used this site before? Do you like it?

June’s Site Of The Month is ‘petrolprices.com‘. We thought this website might be quite relevant with all the problems with petrol prices in the UK at the moment. The site has many features which are designed to try and help you save money! There is a Petrol Price Checker which helps you to check the cheapest price for petrol in your area, which can be very helpful with the continuous rise in costs. They site also has done investigations into car insurance prices, petrol prices and much more! It also has plenty of details for any of you that may want to purchase a personalised number plate. Finally the site has an interesting blog and Environment section. The environment section has some great facts and articles on green cars.

What do you think of the site? Has it helped you out at all?

May’s site of the month is www.billbailey.co.uk. You may be sitting in your chair thinking what a strange choice this is! Well you’re probably right because the website is pretty random, but also good fun! I’m going to focus talking about the ‘flash’ version of the site, not the html version. On the home page is not like any other home page I’ve ever seen, you must click on various parts of Bill’s head to go to the different sections of the site. There are funny little activities that you have to do to go on to the next sections e.g. to get to the ‘tour’ area you must drop Bill into the coach.

Each section is not only informative but interactive and fun, for example in the ‘studio’ area there are clips from previous gigs, also you can play the piano, where as in the ‘Bunker of Dreams’ you can destroy parts of the room. The site is exciting and interesting if you have 5 minutes to spare!

What do you think of billbailey.co.uk? Do you know of any interactive exciting sites like this? If so, what are they?

March’s Site Of The Month is ‘AllMusic‘. The site has pretty much everything and anything that you could ever want to know about Music. With biographies on thousands if not millions of artists of the past and today. There are also detailed sections on various styles of music with links to famous artists, albums and songs of that genre. Also it shows the different variations of the style, for example, within rock music there are styles such as Indie-Rock and Hard Rock, all with their very own sections showing their style variations. In the biographies of artists you can read articles on the artists/members of the band, listen to some of their tracks, view their influences and much much more!

I can recommend this to anyone, it has something to everyone! I have used this site for help with my GCSE music, checking out various artists, genres, albums etc! It has also lead me to find some of my favourite bands over the past few years. AllMusic also has some sister sites which are ‘AllMovie‘ and ‘AllGame‘.

What do you think of it?

This month’s ‘Site Of The Month’ is ‘EuroSport‘. The site has absolutely everything for any sport fan! There are over 20 different sports sections to look through! Within each section there are many sub-sections too! It can keep you in touch with Sport all over the world with detailed areas to browse over!

There are also a variety of games to play although; I do think Fantasy Tennis does take it too far! The site also includes areas specifically aimed at young people! It’s very interesting and easy to use! It’s well worth a look!

Let us know what you think of the site!

The last day of each month this year we will be writing a short post with our “Site of the Month” suggestion, with a brief explanation of why we like the site so much This can vary from it being a fantastic design to useful content to something just very different!

This month the site is Xpanity, with social networking becoming bigger and bigger on the web these days this is yet another way to communicate with new people while browsing the web. This tool allows you to chat in real time with people viewing the same web page as you.

I have to say we haven’t tried the tool out yet, but plan to soon. It is a interesting idea with lots of potential, if you decide to have a play with it then let us know what you think!

The reason for it being our Site of the Month? The design is great, clean, crisp, colourful and I love the logo! The content (or in this case, the tool) has huge potential and I would certainly say it is different!

If you have any suggestions for our site of the month then let us have them