SiteSpinner Pro

by Virtual Mechanics

Product Features

• MOBILE WEBSITE DESIGN - SiteSpinner Pro is the only visual design tool that enables you to create web pages for mobile devices. With options for combined or separate layouts, you can create unique designs for different devices and have them published as a single web page. Not interested in designing separate desktop and Mobile layouts? No problem. Using SiteSpinner Pro's advanced Combined Layout function pages are automatically optimized for all devices.
• ADVANCED FUNCTIONALITY - Ready to spice up your site? SiteSpinner Pro includes advanced features that enable you to build Interactive Animation, including an Action Editor, Behaviour Editor, Key-Frame animator and more. When you are done, publish your page to HTML, DHTML, or SVG. SiteSpinner Pro was designed to conform to W3C industry standards for desktop and mobile development and publishes pages that can be viewed on all major desktop and mobile web browsers.
• REAL PREVIEW for different devices - we partnered with Opera Software to incorporate advanced browser technology into SiteSpinner Pro that enables you to directly Preview your web pages as you are building them, right in the work-window. Not only can you view your desktop designed page, but you can also preview what your page will look like on different mobile devices and at different resolutions.
• PUBLISH EASILY - with SiteSpinner Pro you decide how your pages are published to your webhost. Use Relative or Absolute paths, or use the automated Gather function to quickly and easily 'gather-up' all your images and other attached objects and transfer them to your webhost for you. SiteSpinner Pro publishes to any standard webhost you wish to use, quickly and easily.
• SOPHISTICATED WEBSITE DESIGN - No HTML coding required. Visual, drag-and-drop editing means you can move anything, anywhere with your mouse. Resize, skew, and rotate objects. Align objects by position, size. Pages can be 'centered' with the click of a button. Objects can be set to Relative Sizing and Relative Positioning, resulting in dynamic objects and pages. Import your images, add shading, transparency mapping. Adjust brightness, contrast and more. With SiteSpinner Pro you have full control.

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.1 ounces
• ASIN: B001PIAUEW
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 13, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #604 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #2 in Software > Web Development > e-Commerce
  • #27 in Software > Utilities
  • #39 in Software > Web Development > Internet Utilities

Product Description

Professional Websites made easy. Design expert sites and mobile content without having to code HTML. SiteSpinner Pro's sophisticated visual development environment makes creating web and mobile content as easy as drag-and-drop. Click, place and move any object in the SiteSpinner work-window using your mouse to position and size it on the page, exactly where you want it.

With SiteSpinner Pro you can design and preview web pages as they'll look using standard mobile device resolutions. This enables you to create a website for desktop and laptop browsers, and then design a separate layout for mobile devices, ensuring that content looks good on any device.

SiteSpinner Pro's industry-standards use of CSS enables pixel precision WYSIWYG design that enables you to position text, graphics, and rich media exactly where you want it. Additional layout enhancements including relative sizing and positioning of objects - the content moves and/or scales to fit the page. Graphics functions include image rotation/skewing/layering/transparency. A built-in word processor, advanced layout options, and integrated graphics capabilities make it easy to build professional web and mobile sites without having to learn HTML.

In addition SiteSpinner Pro includes advanced features to build Interactive Animation, including an Action Editor, Behavior Editor, and Key Frame Animator. SiteSpinner Pro supports publishing to HTML, DHTML, or SVG.

Once you are ready to put your content live SiteSpinner Pro enables you to export your pages using Relative or Absolute linking. Or use the advanced Gather function to automatically upload all files for you.

Quality supported software since 1998. Today large organizations and small business make use of SiteSpinner Pro to quickly create content for the web and for mobile devices. With full online support, extensive help documentation and active Community Forums, anyone can build a professional web and mobile website with SiteSpinner Pro.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great program for beginners and experienced users, March 20, 2010

By 

Ron L. Williams - See all my reviews
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This review is from: SiteSpinner Pro (CD-ROM)

I have used Web Easy 6 and upgraded to 7 when it came out. Although that program was ok, the instruction as well as help from the company is non-existant. If it wasnt for the forums set up for the users, I would have had a heck of time getting my site done.

When Web Easy 8 came out, I decided to look for something else. I was not impressed with the previous WE upgrades. I read other reviews from other sites and decided on SiteSpinner Pro. As with any new program of this type, there is always a learning curve. If you are not willing to look thru tutorials and scour the internet to learn, you may want to go with a site that offers templates where all you do is replace text and pics and your done. That being said, I have found this software to be extremely good and am I'm very happy with it.

STRONG POINTS
It's truly 'what you see is what you get'. I like the fact that where I place an object is where it shows up in my browser. It has a built in Opera browser which is nice since I use internet explorer. So I get to see my design in 2 different browsers to make sure things will look good. Working with text, pics, objects, shapes is a breeze. It's easy to manipulate things and get the results you want. I just recently messed around with adding audio and video and it was easy also. Most everything is built in: want to add your own Javacode? click the code box and type it in. Want to add an mp3? click the multimedia button, choose song, browse to find it and your done. It's just as easy to make a mouseover too!

There is a very strong forum too with lots of help from other users as well as company staff. A few of the users have their own websites dedicated to SiteSpinner for help. Very handy. You can use it to build site for mobile phones (although I have not used this feature yet but sounds interesting). I also really like the eyedropper in the pic & text boxes that allows you to get a color from anywhere (even outside of the program!). It also has a built in animation tool for objects/text to do animations on your page.

WEAK POINTS
It doesnt have an option to give pics or text a drop shadow. There are ways around this but would be nice if built into the program. There are many tutorials with the program that are very good; however, a few of the advanced features lack examples to follow to learn how to use. Other than that i have not found too many things I dont like at this point.

OVERALL
The thing to remember, there is no perfect software out there and all of them will have the high and low points and their own learning curves. I think that Virtual Mechanics is on the right track with this. They seem to also take note of what users would like to see in their forums and try to implement it into their next update. If you dont want to take the time to learn Dreamweaver or spend the money, this is a great alternative and worth your time. I can't give anything a '5' since that means there would be nothing to improve. There is always room for improvement or more features.

You can check out my 1st website I've done with this program here: [...]

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Your website will look like it does in the program Amazing Drag and Drop., January 26, 2010

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Bill (WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: SiteSpinner Pro (CD-ROM)

I was using Dreamweaver CS4 but the learning curve was very high to put up a basic website. I love using Sitespinner Pro. It is very easy to use and as I learn more about web disign and SEO I have found the program to support my new learning well. In short if you want to learn web design buy Dreamweaver, If you want to put up a site pretty fast then get Sitespinner or sitespinner pro.

The only negative is for every site you have, you have to change the FTP password and file folder and information for each and every site so it is clunky in that regard. If you don't you will over write you site, or upload site A over site B. IF you are not aware of this you can get pretty messed up.

In other words if you have more then one site, be careful to change the FTP information every time or you will over write you online site. What I have been doing is designing my site with sitespinner then saving it to file on my HD and then uploading it using dreamweaver because it will remember the FTP information for each site. If Sitespinner did this 5 starts all the way.
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Love it but better handling of FTP information for multiple sites must be better. Despite this, would be working much harder to build sites without Sitespinner Pro.

PS. Not like Dreamweaver, Sitespinner pro has been great in WYSIWYG across every browser I have tested it with. Dreamweaver is not Firefix and Explorer, and Crome and so on all looking exactly the same. Sitespinner has been great across browsers. It has always looked like the page on the program for every browser I have tried. Very well done 10 stars for that.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars SiteSpinner Pro Comments, September 3, 2009

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EMA (CA,USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: SiteSpinner Pro (CD-ROM)

I like the program becuase it allows me to be creative. I can make very professional looking web pages, or very simple pages. It allows me to add as many graphics as I would like and more. The only problem with the program is that it does not come with easy to follow instructions, and it is difficult to find how to use some of the advanced features. I think that more tutorials and videos on how sertain features work would make this an out standing porgram.