WebEasy 8 Professional [Old Version]

by Avanquest

Product Features

• Web design software with 500+ professionally designed Web site templates
• Create a Web site with drag-and-drop simplicity; completely customizable
• No programming required with automatically generating HTML code
• Easy-to-use tools for Search Engine Optimization; 85,000+ Web-ready graphics
• Powerful e-commerce tools to build your own Web store

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 1.5 x 7.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B002HGJJL6
• Item model number: 10094
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 28, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,986 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Web Easy Professional 8

Top-Selling Web Design Software for Windows

• Free! 3 months of hosting included
• Create a Web site with drag-and-drop simplicity
• Choose from hundreds of professionally designed Web site templates
• No programming required with automatically generating HTML code
• Easy-to-use tools for Search Engine Optimization
• Free! $50 Google AdWords credit for new accounts

Why choose WebEasy Professional? Build a great website in one hour with WebEasy. WebEasy guides you step-by-step with built-in templates and e-commerce tools--no programming or HTML knowledge are needed. Everything you need to create an impactful website is included in every WebEasy package. In just one click, WebEasy publishes your website in minutes for the world to see.

Features

Select from 500+ Detailed Website Templates

Choose from over 500+ professionally designed website templates for business, club, team, organization, school and home use or create your own completely unique look.

Templates for business Web sites.

Templates for clubs and organizations.

Templates for school and home use.

Begin with Functional Website

WebEasy website templates are custom designed by Website design professionals. Each site includes unique pages and working navigation and links.

No Programming or HTML Knowledge is Needed

WebEasy automatically generates HTML code that works with all popular browsers.

Completely Customizable

Add or delete pages, change links, fonts, images, text and background colors. Edit text right on the page or replace it by pasting in your own.

Intuitive Drag-And-Drop Simplicity

Simply drag your photos, forms, services, objects and animations directly into the layout.

Track and Collect Visitor Information

Insert dynamic forms into your website to collect contact information from visitors and then turn them into customers by sending promotional emails and newsletters.

Get Your Own Personalized Domain Name

Build a professional image and attract customers worldwide with your own personalized domain name (www.KelleysKitchen.com). If you already have a domain name, we can transfer your registration for you. Just call us and we will take care of everything.

Get Personalized Email Addresses

Boost your company image by using email branded with your website address (for example [e-mail]).

Powerful E-Commerce Tools to Build Your Own Web Store

Create an efficient and compelling online store using WebEasy. WebEasy provides everything you need--shopping carts; real-time, secure transaction processing; email capture and more. Accessing these tools requires upgrading to the e-commerce plan which is available within the software.

One-Click Free Web Site Hosting

Publish your website directly from within WebEasy for viewing on the Internet in just minutes! This allows you to test your site and easily make changes and updates.

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Optimize Your Website To Rank High in Search Engines

Web Easy has partnered with Web CEO to bring you the finest tools available to help you promote, maintain and analyze your site. Web CEO will help bring more visitors to your site.

Promote Your Products on eBay

Our eBay Web Page Wizard allows you to generate web pages that are compatible with eBay. Increase your eBay sales with professional-looking pages!

Accept Payments 24/7 through PayPal

Add a PayPal Shopping Cart to your website and ring up sales at your customers' convenience, 24 hours a day. PayPal Shopping Cart lets your customers purchase multiple products and services from your site with a single payment.

Generate Web Page Photo Albums

Use the built-in wizard to select your photos, choose from several photo page themes, insert any descriptions and Web Easy does the rest. Share your favorite memories today!

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Integrate Your Favorite Web Sites & Services

WebEasy integrates your favorite websites and services directly into your own website including MySpace, FaceBook, Picasa, Flickr and Google Maps.

Blog Web Page Wizard

Create a personal blog to share your thoughts and photos with friends and the world.

Create & Host Your Own Podcasts

Create podcasts for music, videos, news and announcements and host them on your website. Web Easy does all the work for you automatically.

85,000+ Web Ready Graphics

WebEasy includes 85,000+ web-ready graphics including buttons, backgrounds, photographs, frames, clip art, photographs, eye-catching animations and much more!

Create a Website in 3 Easy Steps!

Our Helpful Assistant Makes it Easy to Create a Custom Website in One Hour!

Step-by-Step Instructions

WebEasy guides you through each step of your web site design. Our Interactive Tutorial provides a perfect combination of techniques, tips, helpful hints and demonstrations. It's never been easier.

Step 1: Select A Design

Choose one of our professionally designed, industry-specific templates and add other elements like headlines, text and your favorite photographs and graphics.

• Pick from 500+ designs created for business, school and home use.
• Templates include ready-to-use images and industry-specific text.
• Easily create your own website look using the website assistant.

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Step 2: Customize Your Design

Customize your website with your choice of photos, clip art, sound files and image effects. Use your own imported files or choose from our extensive library.

• Drop in your own graphics, or use our free library of 85,000 images.
• Easily add your own logo or just type in your business name.
• Edit text, colors, images, fonts, and links.

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Step 3: Publish Your Website

Publish your web site to the Internet in one click. Web Easy automatically previews the final version and creates the HTML code for you.

• Publish your site directly from within Web Easy.
• Make changes to your site anytime and republish.
• Get domain name and email addresses
• Even launch an e-commerce business

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New Features in WebEasy 8

WebEasy Hosting Solution: WebEasy now offers an easy way to publish a your WebEasy website directly from within the software. Get your first 3 months of hosting free with your upgrade!

300+ additional, brand-new, ready-to-use website templates perfect for home, school, organization and business use have been added.

Includes iPhone and Smartphone optimized website templates.

Compatibility with Internet Explorer 8, Firefox 3.5, Google Chrome, Safari 4 and more.

More than 30+ new photo effects includes flares, stencils, graduations and more.

With WebEasy 8, you can now add web services to your WebEasy website:

• Picasa--Show a Picasa public album or selected picture
• PhotoBucket--Show a PhotoBucket album, selected public picture or slideshows
• Flickr--Show a photo album, photo and the public contact info of a user or specific photo from a Flickr blog
• MySpace--Show a public photo album, photo or slideshow
• FaceBook--Show a public photo album or photo, or public contacts
• Google Maps--Show a map with a local address
• Google Calendar--Show a shared calendar
• Google adsense--Add and modify the settings of a Google adsense

Product Description

Create a great website has never been easier. WebEasy includes everything you need in a one box to create your ideal website with built-in templates and e-commerce tools. Drag-and-drop simplicity and automatically HTML code generation, create the website you want without any programming or technical skills required.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

71 of 72 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars An update on my earlier review, April 18, 2010

By 

M. Demers (Vancouver, BC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: WebEasy 8 Professional [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

I bought this software after reading product reviews as I currently use an online WYSIWYG web company that I'm not happy with and I wanted to have more control over my site design. Having now worked with WebEasy Pro 8 over the past two weeks here are my observations:

1. The manual is useless, so unless you're already familiar with graphics programs you will probably find the product frustrating -- I AM graphics savvy and I'm finding I have to dig and dig around the program to achieve what I want (I`m designing from scratch, not using a template). However, if you stick to the templates you'll probably have an easier time of it.

2. When using a Flash video, unless you have it set to looping, it will not freeze on your final frame; it switches to some god-awful image from one of the software's videos. This is a bug in the WebEasy software as this does not happen with a Windows Media File (but that had others issues).

3. The company's email help is slow and WAAAAY longer than their stated time of a 48-hour turnaround (if they answer at all: easy questions are answered promptly, more complicated ones appear to be ignored). It's better to phone BUT they don't publish the number on their website; you have to call their sales department first and then the number is given in their automated answer.

4. There is no easy and immediate way to replicate items from page to page except by copying and pasting. For example, if you create a website header with a website menu, it would be great if you could simply tell the program to repeat the items, including their links, on all pages or selected pages. No can do. I suspect you have to create your own style sheet to do that, which just complicates what really should be an obvious option.

5. The program does not distinguish between website background and page background. This distinction is important: the website background is an image or color which tiles to fill the viewer`s web browser, regardless of size; page background is fixed. So one way of eliminating that annoying box around your webpage is to have the website background and page background the same color BUT this only works in WebEasy if you use solid colors: if you set your background to a gradient or one of their stock patterns, it only fills the webpage: it doesn`t tile. This also means that you can`t create your own cool website background on which your page will sit. So if that is your wish, look elsewhere.

6. Despite their marketing suggestion to the contrary, you CAN NOT embed photo galleries in your webpage. What the program does is create separate webpages of galleries which you must then link to your site by creating a folder in your index. And how do you do that? The manual doesn't tell you and neither does their help file; you'll have to call them and hope they can explain it, or have someone who knows CSS adjust the code for you (which is possible in WebEasy if you know how). Also note that their web gallery is really AWFUL: it looks terrible and all the thumbnails are squished into the same TINY square format which renders them useless and ugly, and many of the thumbnails were corrupted, presenting as pixellated garbage. So if web galleries are your aim, you will need to look elsewhere, like Photoshop or Lightroom or Flash, or even something like Firestarter by Coffee Cup, or look into WebPlus X4 which may have a better web gallery module and the linking code already embedded (I can't speak directly to the latter; I'm simply reiterating what I've read). Note that ALL these web gallery modules and programs create Flash-style galleries that must be linked, not embedded, to your webpage; AND Flash galleries cannot be "read" by search engines. So if you want your pictures to be searchable by title or content, Flash is not an option. Also, the fight between Apple and Adobe over Flash abilities may result in your galleries (or any Flash content) being unreadable on an iPhone or iPad (though in my opinion Apple is unlikely to win this since so many existing websites use Flash modules and Apple may simply lose their customers over the frustration).

7. Another bug in the software is that Jpegs, when reduced in size to around 150 pixels or smaller, sometimes don't present properly when you check the page in your web browser. I found that I had to switch those images to the PNG format to fix the problem.

8. Another bug is that your page size sometimes arbitrarily changes. Meaning, for example, that I set the page size to 1500 pixels long but every once in awhile the program cuts off the bottom. I check my page size, it still says I have 1500 pixels, but I have to reset it to get my pixels back. Not sure if that's going to happen once the site is live. I hope not or I'm going to be seriously, seriously annoyed.

In summary, the program is "buggy," I`m not entirely happy, and the product is certainly not as easy as they make out: you will need to make good use of the Help tabs to get into the deeper details, you will need to play around A LOT before you`ll feel comfortable with the program, and you will have to be savvy enough to work around the bugs if you encounter them.

45 of 54 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Easy? It's anything but easy!!!!, January 18, 2010

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S. Fox "regular guy" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: WebEasy 8 Professional [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

I purchased this software based on reviews and the fact that it had a template I wanted to use. It took three weeks to create a website that is functionally limited. If you try to create a simple, single page HTML website without any add-ons you probably can do it in a day or two. If you want any dynamic content you will have problems making it work.

If you follow the user's guide you will have all sorts of problems. First, the guide leaves alot out. Second, some of it is just plain incorrect. Need help? Try their chat line first. These folks don't know much at all about their product. If the answer isn't on their script they ask you to call their "senior techs". Once you find out that they don't know much more (after waiting a half hour on hold) they transfer you to the company that created the software. Be prepared to wait for at least 45 minutes before you get to speak with someone. The first time I tried my phone died from the wait. They will listen to your problems, then tell you that the software has bugs and you can't do what you want.

I wanted six simple things. First, I wanted to be able to link a button to a pdf document. We got there, but the process took about 20 minutes of renaming files and changing code. The manual says this is a simple link. It isn't. Second, I wanted to be able to click anywhere on a button to go to a link or popup. You will want to place text on a button (of course you want to name your links), but you cannot click on the text to get the button to do anything. You can only click where there isn't any text. Solution? Nope. It's a software bug. Third, I wanted popup menus to display a solid background. Can you do this? Nope, another software bug. If your popup box overlaps your page text, both the page and popup text bleed through the box. Fourth, I wanted to select 11 point tfonts as labels on graphics on some parts of my site. 12 point was too large and 10 point was too small. Too bad. You cannot select an odd sized font. Fifth, I tried to place links on pictures that were on the template. You can create the links and review them, but when you build the site the links won't be there. You have to delete the picture, then paste it back in. Another software bug. The sixth problem drove me nuts. To build a multi-page site you start with a template. I built a total of 18 pages off of my template. If you need to make changes you should be able to make them on the template, then they should automatically apply to your other pages. The don't - another software bug. When I discovered that the links on the pictures didn't work, I had to change every single page, including rebuilding all of the links. Changing the template only affects the template.

All together, I spent three weeks creating my site, sifting through the ommissions and incorrect information in the manual, talking with suppport people who don't know their product, and finally getting the site on-line. Now that I know that I cannot use some of my popups (because of the text bleed through) and some other problems my site looks unprofessional and is unusable. I will have to purchase new software and start from scratch.

Web easy is anything but easy. If you are looking for web site creation software and you want a build a dynamic HTML site, my best advise is to look elsewhere.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Stay Away, February 2, 2010

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Program Reviewer - See all my reviews

This review is from: WebEasy 8 Professional [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

This is a terrible product. It uses the term template but in reality, a template is just a collection of individual pages that look the same. If you change the design or layout of your base "template" you have to edit each and every page. The only way you can create a navigation bar is by creating a separate frame outside the main page. Looks ridiculous. The "help" screens are standard tech head thoughtless screens. For example, "click on AutoLinks if you want to use AutoLinks" with absolutely no information about what AutoLinks does.