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Website Building Software => Software not specifically listed => Topic started by: Ed on March 01, 2007, 10:03:40 AM

Title: Website Maker software.
Post by: hidden on March 01, 2007, 10:03:40 AM

??? Does anyone know of Website Maker (http://site.magix.net/index.php?35623)?

It is the web development software of Magix, the new owner of Xara.

Title: Re: Website Maker software.
Post by: hidden on March 01, 2007, 03:03:49 PM

It looks interesting, but I could not find any trial download. Did I miss something?
Rick

Title: Re: Website Maker software.
Post by: hidden on March 01, 2007, 11:06:40 PM

I looked too  :surrender: & didn't find one - nor even screen shots - I forgot to look for support information specifically.

Title: Re: Website Maker software.
Post by: hidden on March 02, 2007, 12:10:22 AM

I found trial downloads for many of their products but not that one.
 :(

Title: Re: Website Maker software.
Post by: hidden on March 02, 2007, 01:29:31 AM

I sent them an enquiry about a trial download. Let's see.
Rick

Title: Re: Website Maker software.
Post by: hidden on March 02, 2007, 06:42:11 AM

I got the answer. Website Maker is an online tool. No use to us. If you want to try it, you can do a sample website here: http://www.magix-website.com (http://www.magix-website.com)
Rick

Title: Re: Website Maker software.
Post by: hidden on March 02, 2007, 02:22:48 PM

aha! And I saw nothing that would indicate that otherwise when I was looking at the site. I might not have read every single line of information but they should make that clear right away.

Title: Re: Website Maker software.
Post by: hidden on March 02, 2007, 05:31:24 PM

BLECH.... :yuck:  Not for us...

Title: Re: Website Maker software.
Post by: hidden on March 03, 2007, 06:27:35 AM

Thanks for the investigative journalism.

 :ss-shocked: It does'nt even give one a hint that it is an on-line service. In fact the system requirements show that you need 300MB of hard disk free space.

Stay away.  :)

Title: Re: Website Maker software.
Post by: hidden on March 03, 2007, 10:08:58 PM

Good to know!

Title: Re: Website Maker software.
Post by: hidden on March 12, 2007, 07:58:45 PM

I have used Magix products. It is a German company and the one that I have is not very user friendly. Every time I have asked a question, their response has been that their software is not at fault, i am and they do not give any help to steer me in the correct direction. Nevver have been so critial of any software company as this one.

Title: Re: Website Maker software.
Post by: hidden on March 12, 2007, 09:05:51 PM

I am VERY sorry to hear that....and concerned.  They just bought out XARA (I love the vector program Xara Xtreme Pro) and their support area has been highly responsive. Maybe they will just allow XARA to basically run as is and just keep the profits... :luck:

Title: Re: Website Maker software.
Post by: hidden on March 16, 2007, 03:19:10 AM

 :agree: :luck:

Title: Re: Website Maker software.
Post by: hidden on June 02, 2007, 11:09:55 AM

One hint to its being online:

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Web address & 250 MB storage space included

(I checked it out, even after the previous posts, because I'm not necessarily averse to trying an online editor - but I don't want one that's tied to a specific host, which this one does seem to be.)
 

Title: Re: Website Maker software.
Post by: hidden on June 02, 2007, 12:35:47 PM

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I'm not necessarily averse to trying an online editor

All that I have seen are hosted editors.  In other words, you can edit the files that are maintained on that host with the supplied editor.  If you copy your html pages and put them on another site, you would not be able to use that original editor to modify the site.  Nasty limitation.  If service goes down, prices go up, or other problems happen, you have no recourse.  No way to move the site.

I have never seen online editor that will allow you to open your own chosen site files from ANY host.
Ex:  hosted editor on xzy.com that allows you to load in/edit pages hosted on different company's server like my favorite host totalchoicehosting.com (http://www.totalchoicehosting.com).   A service like that might be interesting but I don't know that it exists.

You can use editors built into browsers if you don't mind HTML editing...but that moves you away from the CSB type building.