Customer Reviews

Fusion 7.5 Full

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I purchased this product a few years ago, at a very good price. It is excellent for those with limited experience with HTML, and allows the quick production of decent looking web pages and consistently styled websites. And I thoroughly appreciate the products ability to generate appropriate navagational links for each page in the site structure.

These strengths also lead to designer weaknesses. The web design industry has moved away from strict HTML coding for both structure and presentation, and moved to XHTML (for structure) and CSS (for presentation). Designers who rely too heavily on Fusion's HTML formatting of presentation run the risk of creating much more work in the future, that could be saved through the proper use of CSS. (A good book on better coding practices is "Web Standards Solutions" by Dan Cederholm, and should be consulted once the initial flurry of design work is done, to truly appreciate the wisdom of separating presentation from structure.)

Since I haven't used more than 30% of Fusion 7.5's full abilities, much more remains to be discovered. Their current (version 10 ?) and future products may have all of these issues addressed and improved upon.