Customer Reviews

Perfect Website Creator

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I PURCHASE THIS SOFTWARE FOR $19, IT'S CHEAP I CAN CREATE WEB SITE BUT WHEN PUBLISHING IS THE PROBLEM. THE EXTENSION OF THE FILE IS "VNU", INSTEAD OF HTML, OR ASP. THE BROWSER CANNOT READ THE EXTENSION "VNU", PLUS THE SUPPORT IS NONE.

The other reviewer was right on the money. I bought this software, learned how to use it, (simple enough) and spent time creating a multi-page site only to discover that it is impossible to publish. I tried publishing it through the links on the software but cannot. Of course you discover this only after paying for a site host. Now I have web space and no site to put there. I can build a site using the host supplied software so why did I pay for this? I can't give this any stronger negative feedback, this company are a bunch of thieves!

This is actually CoffeeCup VisualSite Designer 3.0. It is a okay sort of an editor with some okay templates. If you are innovative enough and with some knowledge of DHTML you can create a good looking functional web page. As the other reviwers said, the homepage is saved in a propreitary .vnu format. To make the pages usable, you need to publish HTML using Files->Export option that will create the HTML pages. Hope this helps someone.

This product advertises on the side of the box "edit web pages." But, be warned it does not edit web pages. Instead, all you can do is create these funky vnu files but you cannot, I repeat, cannot open existing html files and edit them. Complete waste of plastic and the unscrupulous Best Buy who I bought it from won't refund my money. Doesn't even deserve one star.

Like a previous review states, this was created by CoffeeCup Software. Unfortunately, this Cosmi-labeled version doesn't offer any updates/upgrades unlike the real deal (VisualSite Designer) sold by CoffeeCup. Between the two, you're better off buying the version that has already made great changes and continues to do so.

This software is not intuitive and comes with no support documentation to help you (other than the "help" within the program itself). If you have some experience using this sort of software, you can find ways to make it work. However, this software would NOT work with the FTP for my web hosting provider (a large, major hosting company). Cosmi's support page readily admits that it doesn't work with all FTP servers, and you may have to download a separate program so that you can upload your web site files. NOT cool, and a big headache. Yes, this is cheap, but if you are doing anything important on the web and need the ease of FTP that works, spend some extra money and get something reliable and reputable.