A terrible application not worth your time - coach_wade

You know, folks, it's rather condescending to assume a problem exists between chair and keyboard when the software is simply not doing what it is advertised and written to do. WYSIWYG software is supposed to place items EXACTLY AS POSITIONED ON THE EDITING PANE. That the text is changed to a different font with different formatting, the graphics are not in the locations you placed them in, and the web page looks nothing at all like the page you painstakingly edited is NOT a problem with the user, it's a problem with the software.

FWIW, I have encountered the exact same things. I tried to create a slapdash five page web site as a joke for a friend. According to Softpress this should have taken minutes. It took FOUR HOURS to place ONE graphic because the caption for the picture kept getting placed a full three inches below the jpeg with no explanation.

This software was so frustrating and difficult to use that I eventually hired a webmaster for my football coaching site-- and this was AFTER Softpress's excellent technical support and customer service staff did everything including upgrading me for free.

I'm sorry, but I still don't recommend this software, and I won't until Softpress makes it do what it is advertised and sold to do: WYSIWYG.

Some of us don't have time to learn HTML. I can learn a scripting language or I can write the content of my website. I prefer to work on CONTENT.

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Saturday, April 28 2007 @ 03:06 PM PDT