- No HTML skills required – WebEasy does the coding for you.
- 135+ Web Site Templates with drag-and-drop simplicity – includes 85,000+ Web-ready graphics
- eBay® Web Page Wizard and Photo Web Page Wizard
- Drag & Drop Search Features, flash creation tools, search engine optimization tools, and e-commerce tools to create your own web store
- Host Video & Audio Podcasts
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.Amazon.com
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#1 by ComputerGuy on April 6, 2010 - 4:05 am
I’m a former computer science teacher and Ivy League graduate. I’ve hand-coded html. I’m not a dummy; my IQ has been tested over 140. After battling this software to create a simple Web site for my father, I felt compelled to write this review. This is truly awful software, and I’ll tell you exactly why.
First, look closer at all the five-star reviews here for this product. And ask yourself: Isn’t it weird that a product whose ratings are almost 50% one-star also gets so many five-star ratings? Read ‘em carefully. I did. Some of them sound like they were written by people in Avanquest’s marketing department. Seriously. Check the sentence cadence, word choice, chirpy-sounding language. Hmm.
Now, on to why this is a terrible product. I could go on and on, but to be fair: this software is probably perfectly adequate if you have a Web site that neatly fits one of their many templates. Essentially, all you do is sub in your text for the text in the templates and voila! You’re off and waterskiiing. This product is HEAVILY TEMPLATED and that’s its chief selling point.
For everyone else here are the two main problems I found, and they’re big:
1. The templates are VERY INFLEXIBLE. The product steers you into choosing a template and so I picked one that I thought worked. I modified the pages within the template group as best as I could. And then I tried to adjust page lengths within the grouping, because each page has a different length. And guess what? YOU CAN’T! When you change one page length, the lengths adjust for every page within that group. ?!?! That looked hideous but I had to go with it. Also I tried to widen the page — seemed simple enough. I was fine with widening all the pages in the group, no problem there. But when I widened the page, the design fell apart. Instead of just logically expanding the sides of the design, it made the appearance lopsided with an extra strip of color tossed in. Don’t even bother trying to visualize. Just trust me. Looks like crap!
2. WYS ISN’T WYG. This is very important to know early on with this product! I wasted hours early on, in the design mode, getting the look of the page right only to find it all screwed up when I went to preview it. I was trying to figure out what the h*** was going on, then finally realized it. The templates OVERWRITE any changes you make when you publish, but they allow you to make those changes in design mode, so WYS looks fine in design but WYG on the published site is awful. Example: if the text size is too small in templated text, and you enlarge it, then you publish it … it’s the same small size! Because the template locks it in with a certain style, size etc. that you can’t edit though this isn’t apparent until you publish.
There’s a LOT MORE I could go into but suffice it to say: don’t take this product even if someone else pays YOU $50 for it.
Rating: 1 / 5
#2 by Mark Worthington on April 6, 2010 - 4:47 am
First of all, I should admit that I have never made a website before and only did it after the company I hired sucked!!
I chose this software after a very long search and after reading many different reviews. I knew that there would be a learning curve and quickly discovered that having an artistic touch is necessary. At least the ability to be creative. Browsing other sites and taking notes helped.
Right out of the box, I was creating web pages. The booklet that comes with it is short and easy. The built in assistants and tutorials are great. I worked on my website for about a week and probably spent a total of about 10 hours learning and creating my site and I think it turned out fantastic!!
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I’ve had to contact the support team several times and used their online instant messaging. They were always very helpful and steered me through to answer my questions. I’m sure they must get tired of hearing stupid questions from newbies like me, but they never acted like it.
Again I mention that I’ve never created a website before so I may not know what I”m missing but a lot of my clients have mentioned the professionalism and ease of use of my site.
And for the money…it can’t be beat.
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by Phil See on April 6, 2010 - 5:23 am
I find it hard to believe that anyone would have a problem with this software unless they are running it on crappy Equipment. I’ve been a computer tech for 13 years and have used Web Easy since it was version 5. I’m currently using version 7. To me this is THE best software available for building websites from scratch. I’m also an artist so I don’t care to use other people’s work / templates and I use my own photography in my sites. Web Easy works fabulously on decent equipment, even for Ivy Leaguers
I’m not a professional website designer but Google my name and you’ll see a site I did with Web Easy.
Rating: 5 / 5
#4 by EYCP36 on April 6, 2010 - 7:43 am
I bought this product to enhance my ebay listings, I have not try it for anything else. what I can tell you is that it only gives 4 templates you can use on ebay, and I havent been able to use them because is very complicated and hard to save. Pretty much you waste a lot of time for nothing. I would not mind spending my time for something that is going to work but this product does not seem to work. Customer service really does not help, and you have to enter the serial number every single time you use the product. I seen many people have not have a problem with it but I dont recommend taking a chance with this product you will not only waste money but also time.
Rating: 1 / 5
#5 by Nancy on April 6, 2010 - 8:36 am
I was amazed I was able to create 2 web sites that were about 5 pages each in an hour and a half without ever looking at the included manual! The templates are well designed and appealing. It’s obvious that forethought was given to the psychology of color used in creating them. It is very easy to customize the templates by creating rollovers, repositioning and changing the color of text and even creating animated elements. While looking though the menus I found that if I knew HTML or Javascript I could have incorporated my own code. I was relieved to see the included clip art, images and photos are cool and fun. It is also easy to incorporate your own graphics & photos and WebEasy did a pretty good job of optimizing them for me. I was also able to easily preview my sites in my browser and make some necessary corrections before they would be posted.
Since I have absolutely no experience with building web sites and consider myself a total newbie I was really impressed WebEasy made it so easy, intuitive and quick.
Rating: 5 / 5