Microsoft Project is, in my humble opinion, one of the most powerful project and task management applications available for PCs.

The problem is that most learners/practitioners/administrators/manages can’t usually afford the Office package that includes Microsoft Project. The majority of home computer users will have the standard office package, such as the 2007 Home and Student edition which has Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote.

Project management software could help learners tremendously with managing their time between coursework, projects, social events and everything else life dishes out upon a vibrant and busy learner.

Let me present a free and creative online project management tool called Gantter.

When visiting the Gantter website, you will find yourself staring at what looks like Microsoft Project. The website itself is the application, and once there, users can instantly start creating their own project management file.

Users can create Microsoft Project compatible files for any project that they are working on. Gantter lets them save those files (or even PDF exports) onto a USB flash drive. Later, when they want to make changes to their project, they just go to any computer, pop in their USB drive and visit Gantter, where they can open that file and modify it however they wish.

It doesn’t matter whether the computer they’re using has MS Project or not. And if users already use MS Project at work? Even better – now they can take their work anywhere with them and edit those MS Project files remotely, whether working on a computer at a Cafe, a library or anywhere else.

If you are already familiar with Microsoft Project, just visit http://gantter.com/ and off you go!

If you need some help, it can be found at http://gantter.com/about.html.