What you can get for the Web designers in your family when you are looking to buy gifts? How about techie gifts? If you or someone you know is designing their own personal Web site, or want to, then they might need a few techie gifts to help them get started or advance their site to a new level. Or they may just be looking for some cool techie gadgets to help them have some fun.
Webcams
A webcams makes a great techie gift for people with Web sites or people who want to do video chats. Video chats remind me of that cartoon "The Jetsons" where people would talk to each other over video phones.Some webcams can also be used for taking pictures, like a camera, or videos, like a video camera. Some will even to time lapse photography. Or you can set them up to come on when there's motion in the room. This is great for when you're not home but you want to see what goes on at your house when you're not there.
Digital Cameras and Accessories
Digital cameras are a great techie gift for people who like to keep a photo albumn online or for those who have a personal Web site where they add a lot of pictures.Some photo albumn sites let you upload your photos straight from your digital camera to the online photo albumn. Even if you don't have that kind of site, it's still easier to upload photos using a digital camera then it is to have to scan your photos with a scanner and then upload them.
Portable File Storage Drives
If you know someone who needs to backup their Web site or take their photos, music or other files back and forth with them to add to their Web site then one of these little portable file storage devices may be just the techie gift they want. Some of them double as MP3 player so not only can you store your music to take with you but you can listen to it too.For years people have been storing photos and other files on floppy disks or on CD's to take with them when they go on visits. Now you can put them on these little devices, put them in your pocket on on a keychain and take them with you everywhere.
Scanners and Photo Scanners Under $100
You need to get your photos, documents and other things online so you can put them on your Web site or email them to friends. You need a scanner or a photo scanner. Here are some cool scanners and photo scanners you can buy for under $100.Web Site Design Editors / Creators
These are a couple of the top programs that people use when they want to create high quality Web sites. Web design editors or HTML editors make good techie gifts because they are what it takes when you want to build your own Web site. They come with all sorts of tools to help you as you build and publish your Web site to the Internet.Web Design and HTML Books
Books have always been considered to be one of the best ways for people to learn things. These Web site building books are for Web designers at every level from beginner to the more advanced designer and are a really great techie gift. There are even Web design books for kids.Learn the basics of HTML and how to design a Web site. Not just how to get started with a Web site but how to design your pages so people reading your site will be really impressed. Or you can get books about JavaScript, CSS or another kind of Web programming so you can build fun things or more advanced things into your Web site.