The giveaway for BaseKit, a web-based and easy-to-use website builder, which was announced last week has ended today.

Winners are selected and announced below. In case this is the 1st time you are hearing about this application, here is a short re-introduction:

What is BaseKit?

It is a web-based website builder and CMS application that eases creating a website for users on every level.

With a slick interface, drag 'n' drops and a true WYSIWYG editor (that allows viewing the actual output while editing), working with BaseKit is pretty straightforward with an almost "no" learning curve.

100+ templates (personal and business websites) are already ready-to-use with each having lots of ready-to-use color variations. Simply, start with th eone that best suits the needs and customize it completely if needed.

There are several widgets provided including easily placing a Google Maps map, in-site search, sitemap, image carousel or commenting into any page with a click.

Also, a form builder exists for creating custom forms and collecting information. And, social widgets make sure the website is connected with your social profiles with the ability to display Twitter timeline, Flickr photos or RSS feeds (there are "Tweet This" and Facebook "Like" buttons too).

The winners

Thanks so much to everyone joining the giveaway. Here are the winners of 3 Business Packages with 1 year term:

• Dennis (comment #395234)
• mai (comment #395444)
• Deniz (comment #395686)

Congratulations.

BaseKit, a powerful yet easy-to-use application for building websites online, is giving away 3 Business Packages (1 year term) to WRD readers.

In order to find out more about the stuff in the package and to join this giveaway, make sure you check the bottom of this article.

What is BaseKit?

Creating websites over the web is not something new. But, if you used such tools in the past, you should have experienced that there are usually too many limits forcing users to build websites in a fixed way.

BaseKit comes with a better approach that is flexible on every level and allows users to customize every part of the website but still keeping everything integrated. And, making it simpler for many.

There are 100+ templates (personal and business websites) to choose from with each having lots of ready-to-use color variations which functions as a base for the website and it can be customized/improved as you wish.

The websites are created with a slick drag 'n' drop interface which functions as a true WYSIWYG editor, things look exactly as the output, no surprises.

BaseKit has an impressive set of widgets that can be inserted into web pages. Besides inserting text, images and video, it is possible to place a Google Maps map, in-site search, sitemap, image carousel or commenting into any page with a click.

That's not all, a form builder helps creating any type of custom forms and collecting information. And, social widgets make sure the website is connected with your social profiles with the ability to display Twitter timeline, Flickr photos or RSS feeds (there are "Tweet This" and Facebook "Like" buttons too).

If you need further customization, it lets you to insert site-wide or page-specific scripts and edit the whole HTML-CSS.

BaseKit is an all-in-one package for creating a website meaning it handles hosting and domain management (optional) for you.

Also, one account can control many websites (which is great for web agencies or people with multiple websites) and multiple users can work on the same account. And, it has a multilanguage interface that supports various languages by default.

How to win the licenses?

BaseKit is giving away 3 Business Packages ($168 value/each) which includes:

• Unlimited access to our website builder
• Amazon S3 Hosting
• 1 Free Domain
• E-commerce (Google Check-Out) integration
• £30 Google Adwords voucher
• Premium Support

In order to get a chance to win one of them, simply comment to this article and winners will be selected randomly with the query below on 19 September 2011 (a week later):

SELECT * FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_post_id=2459 AND comment_approved=1 AND comment_type='' GROUP BY comment_author_email ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 3

Good luck!

MobilyMap is a jQuery plugin that can create a Google Maps-like, draggable interface from any image.

It is possible to add location-based markers and display information when any of these markers are clicked.

The map can be positioned how you prefer (like top, bottom-right, etc.) or by defining an exact location.

Map data is mentioned within HTML elements like: <div class="point" id="p-900-130"> which will assign a marker to the specified point.

The plugin has callback functions including onMarkerClick, onPopupClose and onMapLoad to better interact on every level.

CartoView is an open source and free JavaScript framework for creating online maps quickly.

It is integrated with Google Maps, Google Earth + OpenLayers and enables you to take control of the maps in means of function and presentation.

With the help of its modular architecture, the functionality can be improved without touching the core and there are already extension created like the ones for Flickr, FourSquare, Youtube and more.

The framework is well-documented and supported with examples.

gMap is a lightweight (2kb) jQuery plugin for easily integrating Google Maps into any website.

It can embed a map with a tiny function like:

$("#map").gMap();

and can be customized further with settings like:

• latitude/longitude
• default zoom level
• markers, their positions, info to display as a pop-up, custom marker images
• mapping controls on/off
• & more..

Thematic maps are very useful when describing statistical data about places. The data, simply, becomes much easier to understand.

Cartographer is a JavaScript library for creating thematic maps on Google Maps which supports custom styling.

It is only a one JavaScript file that relies on the powerful Raphael.js vector-graphics library.

It supports 3 visualizing types:

• Chloropleth (color coded regions)
• Pie charts
• Point clusters

The areas on maps are mentioned as latitudes or regions (depending on the type) which means no hacking or manual calculations.

Every visualization type comes with different options like colors, opacity, stroke & more.

P.S. The library is currently on alpha state but pretty solid.

Mapeed.AddressChooser is a Javascript script for creating an address form with a twist: it displays the address mentioned in Google Maps (can be used with another map provider by creating  your mapping proxy) in real-time.

The script adds a behavior on HTML form, & doesn’t generate HTML markup.

It can also be plugged on any existing forms.

You can focus the map to the user’s city/country with the IP used (if mapping provider supports).

Mapeed.AddressChooser is well documented & has a nice demo with script.aculo.us autocomplete.

Smoot is a tool, developed with xajax and Pear::DB for creating diagrams of icons and links between them.

Features include Google Maps and Google Earth integration, configurable tool palettes, and automated palette generation from a Google local query.

Smoot builds relations between objects with mouse clicks and the result can be stored easily. This nice tool can be a starting or an inspiration point for many projects like "online heritage services", "online diagram services" and much more.