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Laura Sczarek, DigitalDay Cleveland Web Design
Laura Sczarek at DigitalDay, cleveland based web design and interactive marketing agency
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Serif WebPlus X5
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- Design websites from scratch with drag-and-drop simplicity – no HTML knowledge required – or use beautiful templates that are easy to customize.
- Design and photo editing tools are built-in – no need for other software.
- Comprehensive e-commerce with step-by-step setup wizards.
- No limits – create as many sites, pages, and store items as you like and use management tools help with SEO and maintaining sites.
- 6-months free hosting, web address, and email to get you started.
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WebPlus X5 is the ultimate website design software, ideal for small businesses, organizations and home users. Drag-and-drop simplicity, an intuitive interface,and powerful tools help you design sites easily, even if you’ve never done it before. Everything you need to create a professional-quality website is in this one box. Serif WebPlus X5–Professional-Quality Web Sites Made Easy WebPlus X5 is the ultimate web-site design software for small businesses, organizations, and home users. You don
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Web Design question by Damarco: What’s the best web design software to build an online music store?
I’m looking for software that has more bang for the buck. I need web design software that has the following; 1) Search Engine Optimization 2) Database Shopping Cart 3) Import/Export databases 4) Web Storefront Software tools 5) Retail, Wholesale at once. Please let me know? Thanks!
Web Design best answer:
Answer by j k
There is none.
All you need is notepad.
SEO needs no special software – in fact, if you do try to automate it any, you may find yourself banned from search engines.
For the rest, there are individual software packages.
And you need knowledge. If there were such software available, you would still need to know what you’re doing.
You need to Marry with Serif if you purchase their product,
First understand the following is my opinion based on my failed attempt to use Serif WebPlus X5. I wanted a product to replace my old FrontPage. When testing Serif “free advance software” it did everything I wanted a package to do.
Before purchasing the product I asked if the product is one hundred percent stand-alone for development on my PC (does not require any interface to Serif). I was assured that it was. I develop off-line in a remote area of Thailand and only go on-line when I am ready to upload a site. I also told them BEFORE I purchased I wanted a product that had no requirement for me to be “married” to the product developer!
When reading about the features and functions Serif advertises the ability add code for log-in and counters (etc) – they call this “Smart Objects”, code that results in data needing to be retained. I asked the same person in customer service, that assured me the product did not require any interface to Serif to develop and use, if the product had these capabilities which I was assured that it did.
If you use a “Smart Object” you have to go on-line with Serif to register it – that is register the html page you develop! Why, because they keep the data on their server!! You cannot keep you own data on your own selected host! You cannot control your own data, you cannot maintain your own data – the data you collect is at Serif! You need to go to Serif for YOUR data! They also say if your usage is too high you need to purchase additional storage from them! You CANNOT develop code or host your internet site without being attached to Serif if you use a “Smart Object”. Let me repeat; No counters, No commerce, No “anything” that results in data being stored without a “marriage” to Serif! No using all of the awesome capabilities advertised about the product without being MARRIED to Serif.
Then, when asked for a refund the answer was NO – I waited more than 7 days to ask for it! 7 Days! Why not just give the taillight guarantee (when you can no longer see my taillights the guarantee is over). Who can review all the products features in 7 days?
They “lie” (in my opinion this is the right word as it is the only word I know that describes not telling a truth) about their capabilities and when caught tell me that I SHOULD PURCHASE the “Smart Object” feature and function FROM SOME ONE ELSE, features that were advertised with no statement about needing to be on-line with Serif to develop and host your developed site. Features I thought I paid for when purchasing their product!
The Serif product is really an awesome product and will be perfect for you IF you want to be married to a development company and have them CONTROL YOU and to CONTROL YOUR DEVELOPMENT by making you be on-line with them in order to develop and host your sites. Why would a company develop such an awesome product and then ruin it by thinking that it is good marketing to CONTROL their customers!
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I have quite a bit of HTML and site building experience using site creation utilities. Because of this experience, I am not satisfied with the contratints of verizon or network solutions standard web site solutions and authoring tools. Serif offers more control for those of us in the gap between novices and professionals.
After you purchase any Serif product, if you chose to register, you will receive sales calls to cross sell you on the rest of the Serif suite of products. If you plan to go the Serif route, get Page Plus and Photo Plus. The funny thing is, Web Plus provides a better graphics editor than either Page Plus or Draw Plus. So, when I want to create an object, I make it in Web Plus then transfer to Photo Plus to make a .jpg. Basic functionality available in one, such as the ability to fill in a background using similar clicks and commands, should be available and work the same in all three.
I could live with the quirks, especially for the price.
What I cannot live with is support that tells me to read the manual or go on line to find the answer after I have already checked the manual and searched the knowledgebase and found no answers. Especially for a function that worked previousely. Pay close attention to the Serif suport policy.
I purchased four products out of the suite and paid for the upgrades to the next version of each. For this, I expect a vendor to toss me a bone and help with some support. I am now looking for another software package to fill my needs.
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