SiteSpinner

by Virtual Mechanics

Product Features

• The easiest website design program available. Quickly and effortlessly create professional looking websites without having to know any HTML or coding. SiteSpinner is a completely visual, drag-and-drop website creation tool. Click, place and move any object in the SiteSpinner work-window using your mouse, and position it on the page exactly where you want it. SiteSpinner truly is 100 percent WYSIWYG - What You See I What You Get.
• The all-in-one editor. Web Pages, Graphics, Search Engine Optimization. With SiteSpinner there is no need for separate programs to perform different tasks. Quickly and easily create special effects such as mouse-over effects; add foreign objects to your site such as Flash and PDF files. Build Tables, Forums and Frames. SiteSpinner also includes an Image Editor so you can adjust your photos and even create graphics for your website right in the work-window.
• One-click publishing. Once you have designed your new website, SiteSpinner takes the frustration out of publishing it to the web. Uploading is made easy - simply click the Publish function and the SiteSpinner Publisher takes care of uploading all your pages and images to your webhost and ensures that all your links are working. What's more, if you do not already have a web host, you get a year of free webhosting with SiteSpinner.
• Search Engine Friendly Websites. SiteSpinner is one of the few visual website creation tools to produce industry-standards compliant HTML websites. The sophisticated HTML web pages created by SiteSpinner ensures that your web pages are easily indexed by all major Search Engines. What is more, SiteSpinner includes professional Search Engine Optimization software to ensure your site gets top rankings.
• With SiteSpinner you get unlimited online Support. We don't disappear once you make your purchase - we're here to help you when you need us. SiteSpinner includes extensive online Web Help, Interactive Tutorials, a full PDF User Guide, and busy Community Forums - all at no extra charge. People have been creating professional websites with SiteSpinner since 1998, including many loyal customers still using it to this day. We are always here to help ensure your website is a success.

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.1 ounces
• ASIN: B000AOJOUI
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 3, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (102 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #351 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #2 in Software > Web Development > Web Page Editors > WYSIWYG
  • #70 in Software > Graphics

Product Description

Incredibly Easy to Use - SiteSpinner makes it simple for anyone to design and publish professional looking websites quickly and easily. Truly uncomplicated drag-and-drop design lets you position text, graphics, Foreign Objects such as Flash files, exactly where you want them.

The 'Everything You Need Website Design Suite' - SiteSpinner is an all-in-one website creation package - easy enough for beginners, but with powerful features that you can grow into. SiteSpinner's advanced graphical work-window enables precision drag-and-drop layout, including the ability to easily 'center' a website with the click of a button. With the built-in word processor and spell-checker, integrated image editing and graphics creation capabilities it's easy to build professional looking websites without having to know any HTML.

Industry Standards Compliant, Search Engine Optimized Web Pages - SiteSpinner's advanced functions enable you to create customer feedback Forms, Frames, Special Effects such mouse-over effects, drop-down navigation menus and more. Don't want to start from scratch? SiteSpinner comes with a number of quality Templates to help you get started quickly. Once your site is done, the built-in Publisher uploads your website with a single click - your files are automatically published to your webhost.

Free Webhosting - Take advantage of a year of free webhosting with SiteSpinner. Already have a webhost? No problem. SiteSpinner publishes to all standard webhosts. What's more, if you are not ready to use the free year provided with SiteSpinner you can do so at a later time.

Customer Support is always here when you need it - we do not disappear. Our Community Forums are an active and lively mix of new users and Gurus with many years' experience and who are always willing to help out. SiteSpinner comes with advanced Tutorials, Online Help and a printable PDF manual. SiteSpinner also comes with unlimited, direct online support.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

143 of 147 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The first legitimate WYSIWYG webpage builder, November 12, 2005

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ShadySprings (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews

This review is from: SiteSpinner (CD-ROM)

I've been designing and implementing websites for 7 years. Half for work, and half for fun. I am an electrical engineer and have been using Frontpage, GoLive, Dreamweaver, notepad, you name it. I've gotten pretty good at figuring out how to manipulate tables, javascript, alignment, clear GIF's for spacing, etc. HOWEVER, these programs have never been truly what you see is what you get for me. And my webpages always looked differently in Netscape, Safari, Explorer, Opera, Firefly, etc. Really different.
But now with SiteSpinner, everything that took me 7 years to learn and figure out, I learned with SiteSpinner in under a few days. The message boards are great with employees? and people who give real answers that work.
Also, I've even stopped using tables for alignment now because it's so easy to just drag and drop images and text anywhere you want. Then you can control positioning of objects by clicking below.
Bottom line: If you are a beginner wanting to make professional webpages, you gotta get this. For people like me that are pretty experienced, you still gotta get this. I am finishing up a completely overhauled company website now that I budgeted 2 months to do. 4 days so far, and 2 more days to finish.

60 of 60 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I'm a loyal SiteSpinner Fan! Great product, esp. for the money!, July 2, 2006

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Michelle L. Gilbert (Cleveland Heights, OH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: SiteSpinner (CD-ROM)

I can't say enough about SiteSpinner! I used it to create a web site for my "side business". (Not sure if review-writing rules preclude me from saying this, but go to [...] to see SiteSpinner in action) I'm a busy person, running two businesses, so I don't have a whole lot of time to do site design. However, I still wanted it to look great. As a total web design novice going into this, I thought this was out of my reach.

I've tried just about everything out there... all the big names (can I mention them here? I'm sure you know what they are). SiteSpinner was the ONLY application I found that enabled me to get up and running quickly and create a good looking and functional web site that would attract and retain customers. SiteSpinner is incredibly user-friendly and has all the tools I need, in such an affordable package, to carry me forward as I enhance both my business AND my web site.

I haven't found anything that I wanted to do but couldn't with this application. Also, their support forum is phenomenal. Everything is WYSIWYG, drag and drop, and I'm able to upload to my ISP's server from within the program. Comes with templates if you're design impaired ;-) or start from scratch. You can create drop down menus, float over text and have it change color (though it takes practice and a little study to do these kinds of things), fun tricks like that... I could go on... I just love this product.

EDIT, May 2009: I have gotten many inquiries about my current web site as a result of this review. Thank you, I'm flattered! But I thought that I should let everyone know that I am not using SiteSpinner anymore... this decision had nothing to do with the product, it is still as wonderful as ever! Rather, I decided to take HTML and CSS courses myself so that I could understand in-depth what is going on and so I could have more control over the CSS, for example. Thus, my current web site is completely hand-coded. I still believe SiteSpinner is about the best thing out there for people who want a great site fast.

55 of 58 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best WYSIWYG package there is, June 16, 2006

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Martinus H. Boulonois (Alicante, Spain) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: SiteSpinner (CD-ROM)

This is the best WYSIWYG web editor I have used. I purchased and used for 2 years Frontpage, but it is not a real wysiwyg editor.
Then I used another one, which was terrible (I will not give you the name, because I hate to even mention that name)
The I purchased Sitespinner, which was perfect.
I wrote a simple site and had it running in less then 2 hours.
You will be able to design very sophisticated web sites in next to no time. It has very good tutorials along with an excellent support forum where you can learn as much as you want.
Why spend more money on other more expensive programs?
This is all you need.

This program is a bargain for the price they charge. After 2 years I got a message that there was a new upgrade, which I could donwload for free.

Highly recommended