Burlington, Massachusetts - (Website Hosting Directory) - October 5, 2006 - Shared web hosting services firm, BizLand, invites web site designers and developers, as well as small business owners, to its ''Best Practices of Web Design with Web 2.now,'' at the Hilton Boston Back Bay Hotel, 40 Dalton Street, Boston, MA 02115, on October 18 and 19, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:45. p.m.

Hosted by the non-profit World Organization of Webmasters (WOW) and designed to teach the facts and real-world applications behind some of the latest in web technologies including XForms, CSS 3.0 and Web 2.now, the event promises to explain the relevance of the new web technologies, placing them in the context of the industry's best practices.

BizLand, a shared web hosting provider, hosts thousands of web sites across the nation and specializes in flexible and powerful reseller programs designed to fit the needs of web site designers and developers and small businesses.

BizLand's Eric Rayleonard and WOW Executive Director, Bill Cullifer, will be available to discuss the latest in web design tools and strategies. The interactive conference is designed to provide attendees with tips and tricks for designing, building and monetizing web sites for small business. It will also include workshops and presentations by David Leip, IBM's Chief Innovation Officer for ibm.com, and David Shrimpton, PhD. Director of Learning and Teaching for the Computing Laboratory at the University of Kent in the U.K.

BizLand provides shared-hosting services and related products, including e-mail, domains and online stores to more than 600 resellers and 20,000 hosting customers worldwide. The company is based in Burlington, Mass. The World Organization of Webmasters (WOW) is a non profit professional association dedicated to the support of individuals and organizations who create, manage or market web sites on the Internet. WOW is based in Folsom, Calif.

To learn more about the two day conference, please visit: www.joinwow.org/community/events/websummit10.