Customer Reviews

Web Page Construction Kit 7.0 Deluxe

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I tried this product and luckily I was able to return it. When I first ran this program I must have stared at the screen for five minutes trying to figure out what to do first - not very intuitive in my opinion.

The drag and drop is atrocious - it's not exactly what I would call WYSIWYG. I dropped a small graphic onto the page editor and the graphic expanded to fill the whole page. Placing text is just as bad. When I think of WYSIWYG, i expect the graphic, or text, to stay right where I placed it. Not so - everytime I placed another object on the screen everything else shifted.

After reaching my max frustration level, I decided to consult the manual. I discovered that it is necessary to work with tables and frames to get a decent layout. What a pain in the a$$ (wallet)!

Try Web Easy by V-Com. It's much easier to use.

I cannot believe that a software company this big has such poor customer service. If you do buy a product from them make sure you keep your original tracking/order confirmation number or you will get no help at all. Their software customer service dept. cannot cross reference names with order numbers or vice versa, (AND THIS IS A SOFTWARE CORPORATION). The girl that I spoke with was no help, her supervisor doesnt have a name or extension and the order proccessing dept. cannot be reached at any time. I cannot believe that they are actually trying to sell merchandise.
Well they dont have any more of my business!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am an experienced author and well acquainted with publishing on paper. I found on producing my own website with no previous knowledge of HTML that this programme served extremely well for the type of site I needed, mainly text orientated, easily upgraded and edited, with a swift built-in ftp and very few problems. I found it relatively easy to fit in images. The manual had all the usual problems of manuals written by writers from the IT world and lacked an accurate structure but with patience and an expectation of not everything being obvious at first glance, I soon became accustomed to it. I did not require advanced animations etc so cannot estimate how good it might be for these but I rate it as the best of the web builders for beginners I have seen, far better than Microsoft's "front page". I have not yet seen version 7.0 but hope to buy it when it is available here in the U.K.

I think these people are either being totally unfair or just dont know how to use this software. I purchased this back at version 4.0 and i honestly think it blows frontpage and many other editors out of the water. This software handle's tables like a champ, the best i've ever seen. i admit i was a bit taken back by the software when i first started using it, but give yourself time to actually learn how to use it and you'll see it's an EXELLENT tool. For the person that stated "everytime I placed another object on the screen everything else shifted"... yeah, thats going to happen with any html editor unless you USE tables. It can't be avoided. Again... take the time to learn how to use this software and it will be your best friend!

I purchased this software in hopes that it would enable me to build a professional-looking Web site without getting bogged down in html coding. It's OK for simple text, but that's about as far as it goes. The manual is impenetrable and seems to have no bearing on the way the software actually works. I could not even find one of the program's most critical components -- a graphics editor that allegedly enables you to place images in a Web page by "dragging and dropping" them. I don't know if it failed to install with the rest of the program or if it's just hidden away in some obscure corner of it. The images and fills that come with this program are very limited and amateurish. Fuggedaboutdit!