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At a glance
Cons
Our Verdict
A WYSIWYG Website builder needs a polished interface, a solid set of tools, and a flexible canvas. Without those basic features, you may as well code your pages by hand. Ambiera’s WebsitePainter 1.4.1 lets you create Web pages without knowing HTML, but its missing features and limitations stand in the way of getting the job done easily.
Some hits, some misses
WebsitePainter’s single window is built around a tabbed workspace. Beside it, resizable panes contain a Toolset with elements you can add to your pages, a Properties editor to customize them, and a directory of all pages in your site for quick access. Twelve simple templates are included to get you started, but each contains only a few pages, and they look humdrum compared to offerings in applications like iWeb () or RapidWeaver (). You can design and save your own pages as templates, however.
Whether you edit a template or start a site from scratch, you can easily add elements like text boxes, shapes, YouTube videos, or even forms and checkboxes by selecting the element, then clicking inside your page. A hyperlink editor turns objects into links and lets you customize and reuse URL styles. For more interesting page designs, you can contain multiple objects in div elements and position them in dynamically sized layouts. WebsitePainter supports a wide range of widgets that can add HTML, JavaScript, and PHP code to your pages. You can also add additional code to the body or header of your pages (to add Google Analytics to your site, say), but you can’t freely edit your pages’ code as an alternative method of designing a site.
Design difficulties
Editing and positioning objects can be frustrating because WebsitePainter doesn’t take full advantage of the Mac’s easy to use interface conventions. Common commands like Group, Duplicate, and Select All are missing or inconsistently used, and other features don’t work as you’d expect—some selected objects can’t be deleted with the Delete key, for example (though mileage may vary depending on which keyboard you’re using). QuickTime movies added to your site appear cropped at first, and must be manually resized to display at the proper dimensions. There are no guidelines or auto-align features to help you position multiple objects precisely with the cursor.
Editing an object’s properties can be similarly clunky. Some settings can be changed by choosing from drop-down menus of preset options, like different border designs for text boxes. That’s fine, but too many properties require you to edit cryptic text fields to make changes, like the photo slideshow’s default transition time of “250” (I had to contact the developer to learn that the time is measured in milliseconds). Experienced users will be able to figure these things out, but lack of clear labeling and consistent tools needlessly complicates the design process.
Preview and publishing shortcomings
WebsitePainter’s window doesn’t display live previews of dynamic objects like movies or code widgets, so it can take trial and error to properly size and place them on your page. Previewing your work in a browser is just a click away, but pages only open automatically in your Mac’s default browser. To test pages in other browsers, you must open them yourself.
Uploading has its own limitations. When your site is finished, it can be sent directly from the application to an FTP site, but not your iDisk. MobileMe subscribers must first export their site to a local disk, and then mount their iDisks and copy the files manually, to post sites.
Macworld’s buying advice
Despite a straightforward approach and some handy features, WebsitePainter 1.4.1 feels too much like a rough draft to recommend. Other Web design programs strike a better balance between power and simplicity without quite so many sacrifices.
[Adam Berenstain is a freelance writer in upstate New York.]
[prMac.com] Vienna, Austria - Ambiera today is pleased to announce the release and immediate availability of WebsitePainter 1.2 for Macintosh and Windows, the editor for creating professional websites. WebsitePainter is a Web Editor for creating professional looking Websites, without HTML knowledge and programming. With a few clicks it is possible to create webpages with elements like Web 2.0 buttons, gradients, round borders, hover effects, transparencies, continuous text and more. It includes a great variety of templates and supports important Web standards such as HTML, CSS, PHP and ASP.This new release adds new features such as:
* An improved HTML code editor
* A new browser window for selecting specific elements in a page
* Possibility to to select files as hyperlink targets
* Improved scrolling and faster image rendering
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* Enhanced unicode file support
WebsitePainter has built-in support for dynamic HTML content, for example to create a dynamic SlideShow with a list of images which will fade in and out at an adjustable speed. The editor supports pixel perfect layouting, allowing to place all elements of the Website exactly where they should be, by simply clicking and moving them. But as opposed to other website editors, Website painter does not only support absolute layouting of websites, but is also able to create dynamically sized elements.
WebsitePainter is not limited to creating HTML pages, it can also be used to create PHP, ASP and other pages. Additionally, one has full control over the generated HTML code with the integrated HTML editor, which makes it possible to add styles, JavaScript code and additional attributes to any html tag in the site. WebsitePainter supports Unicode, meaning it is possible to create Websites in any language, be it English, German, Korean, Chinese, Russian or Japanese.WebsitePainter For Mac
System Requirements:* Mac OS X 10.4.1 or later
* 7 MB of space on your hard disk
Pricing and Availability:
WebsitePainter 1.2 is available at 39 Euro for a single license and at 99 Euro for a company wide license. For existing users, an update to this new version is free. For more information please visit Ambiera online.