Beseen has a large variety of web page tools for free. Using and customizing the tools are pretty easy. All the details of the tools are e-mailed to you after you enter your information. The look and feel of the tools are friendly and nicely formatted aside from the advertisements. You get what you pay for though. Beseen offers, among other things, a hit counter, site search, quizzes, quick navigation control, 1-for-1 banner ad exchange, guestbook, bulletin board, chat room, and a WWW search engines.

Signing Up
     Signing up for these services are rather a bother because you have to fill out a form for each tool you want. If you plan to use a lot of these tools, be prepare to keep a list of cryptic account numbers and passwords. They e-mail you your account number and password along with all the information you might need for editing the tool.

Editing the Tools
      Depending on the tool, you can go edit or customize them by going to the administration page specified in the e-mail from them. Step-by-step and easy- to-use instructions help you in editing and customizing the tools. The interfaces are very friendly and intuitive. Probably the only technical thing you need to know is some color hex values.

The Ads
      The Internet's commercials. Depending on the type, Beseen usually puts one ad and some Beseen propaganda on the tool. The guestbook, for example, has a banner ad at the top and two Beseen plugs at the bottom while the search engine just has a small link to themselves. I would rate Beseen's use of advertising about average. Mainly because they have a plug for themselves on every tool.

Features
      Beseen's tools have a lot of neat little features incorporated into them. For example, the search engine can be configured to use what they call Quick Links which are icons that go wherever you configure them to. What's more, you get paid for every person that uses the search engine! This is one of the coolest features. Some other cool things include a nicely made Quizlet statistics page, starting out a counter at any number you want, e-mail notification of a guestbook or bulletin board posting, and very cool customizable, chat room.

Summary
      All in all, Beseen offers some pretty good web page tools that are easy to configure and look attractive. On the other hand, it is rather slow when it comes to loading the tools, and somewhat limited when it comes to customizing. Yet it does have a wide selection of tools to choose from.

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