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Summary: Perfect for Business Professional Needing to Build Web Site
Review: After playing around with Microsoft's Front Page and looking at many other options, I tried NetObjects Fusion MX and have been blown away by how easy it was to create a professional, highly functional Web site without having HTML knowledge/experience nor being a programmer nor a Web designer.When I bought this program a month ago, I'd not had any HTML training or experience. I'm not a designer or graphic artist. And I'm not a programmer/techie. I'm a former corporate exec who recently started my own business and am working with a limited budget for the first time, so I decided to pull together my company's initial Web site on my own. In just a couple of days of working with NetObjects Fusion, I produced what could be arguably called a decent Web site, with virtually no problems or challenges. It really was as easy as the promotional literature claims. I used one of the styles that comes packaged with the software, inserted text, pictures and pages with simple dragging and dropping and ended up with a great site. I could customize the look/feel extensively using commands similar to Microsoft Word, not having to insert HTML tags. I even doubted that it would be easy to actually get the stuff I created "pushed" to the Web, but was pleasantly surprised when it worked beautifully on my first try, in only a minute and with only two clicks of the mouse. One of the coolest features is the tightly integrated "components" available from third-party vendors. I've now used several of them to add a response form that sends an immediate response back to the submitter, a customer registration form that not only sends a response but also stores the data in an Excel file for me to download and import into my customer database, a form that enables a user to browse their computer and choose a file to send to me, pop-up windows, a scrolling window within the page for a user agreement and more. As I've played around and bought an HTML reference book, I also found it easy to add more tricky things like HTML code inserted in my page for a newsletter sign up form and a "refer a friend" feature. A buddy who is a hard-core programmer tells me that the code generated by the program adds stuff that isn't necessary, but for me that hasn't caused any challenges or problems since I'm not a programmer and the resulting site is great. I haven't found anything not to like about this package and have been amazingly productive with it. Because I had the benefit of playing with Front Page first, I can honestly say that if you're like me--a non-programmer, non-designer needing to build a professional, highly functional Web site quickly--THIS is the much better choice of program. And I have a powerful site, with real customers visiting and interacting everyday...
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Summary: All-around great rapid web site development tool
Review: After working with several other tools... I became frustrated with how long it took to get a web site put together, and how hard it was to maintain the site when changes were needed. That's when I tried NetObjects Fusion version 3, and I have kept with the current version ever since. I am not aware of another tool that uses database technology to manage and then assemble the elements of a site like Fusion does. Features like site styles, page master borders, automatic site navigation, and external link management make this a truly time-saving tool. Changing the entire look and feel of a site is a matter of a few mouse clicks. Rearranging pages in the site structure is drag and drop. If another web site you link to changes addresses, you only update that address in one place (Asset view) no matter how many pages in the site use that link. This is not to say there are no problems with NetObjects Fusion: but it's not hard to work around most of them. The product is just as easy to use as it claims to be -- as long as you read the fine manual . You really don't have to know any HTML to use Fusion. But sooner or later you will encounter a problem that will be most easily solved if can learn enough HTML to troubleshoot the code that NetObjects Fusion creates. For the price of this product, you get power that products priced at double, triple or more don't give you....
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Summary: So Far NetObjects Has Worked with Windows XP
Review: Before i wanted to buy NetObjects i had installed the trial version to see if it would work with Windows XP. Well sofare i have not had any problems. I have been using MS Windows Front Page 2002 and found that NetObjects is a much better software. I look forward to using it. I would rate this top of the line.
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Summary: NetObjectsFusion
Review: Did (NOT) receive this item yet. Please check shipping schedule. No confirmation of purchase was received at my e-mail. Thank you Ken Feinstein (3/16/02)
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Summary: Perfect for small business/personal use
Review: Fast, easy and efficient, this is a sure winner for most people who do not make web sites for a living. If you just want a pretty, well laid out and functional site and do not want to spend lot's of time learning a complex web authoring tool NOF cannot be beat by anything out there. I can do it all from html directly in notepad to Macromedia Studio, but I just love the speed with which I can develop, set up and publish a site with NOF. Three years ago I did a small but quite nice site in only 24 hours - and it's still up(!). NOF has it's limitations. You can make a site look like millions - but do not expect to be able to publish advanced and interactive content with ease. Here NOF quickly runs into trouble and you may as well grit your teeth for another more advanced package. But than again - if you want to splash Flash all over your site - then why even think of anything else than the original Macromedia package? So, if you believe content is everything (and that's pretty much the case everywhere) NOF will allow you present your message very efficiently - so you can concentrate on your real work and expertise. And by the way - don't forget that Fusion 7 is just out now.
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Summary: Another useless product for useless people
Review: Hmmm, NOF, I thought they went out of business; amazing, and amusing, how so many people support bloated wastes of CPU cycles. I tried NOF version one back in '97 (maybe it was '98, I forget); I uninstalled it after about 20 minutes. It made pointlessly bloated and redundant, highly incorrect, and completely standards-non-compliant code. I'm sure they've perfected the process by now. Homesite's good if you need pretty colors to keep things straight (if you know what you're doing, you shouldn't need it). Try using notepad (or, if you're on a unix, try pico), you can't go wrong; that is unless you have no idea what you're doing, in which case you might've chosen the wrong profession. #ifndef USERHAPPY
#define USERHAPPY
if (os == windows)
{
install(linux); // have a nice day :)
}
#endif
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Summary: This product is great
Review: I have been using Net Objects Fusion, first the 5.0 and now MX to make websits for the last year. I don't find the pages slow to load at all. I made 11 websites that are all up for the Philippine Web Awards this 2001. It's easy and fun to use and I cannot say enough about this product. I have tried Dreamwever, FrontPage among many other software packages to develop websites, and for someone who doesn't want to bother learning HTML, this is great! Diana Pollard ...
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Summary: A very nice tool!
Review: I read about this product on zdnet and decided from the reviews that it was the best bang for the buck. I purchased it from Amazon based on what I have read, and I have not been disappointed. Almost anyone can create a web page and have it ready to put on the web in no time at all. There are advanced features that allow the user to grow as well. The only problem I've seen with this product relates to publishing it for upload to the web. For example, changing text on a page also changes the file names for buttons. The effect of this is that every time the page is updated almost all of the files associated with the page have to be re-uploaded. This is no problem at all for someone with FTP access to a hosting server, but for people who are using something like geocities it creates a problem. Since with geocities, and others like it, uploads are taken file by file and can only be done with up to 20 files at a time. The result is that updates to a page within Netobjects may cause the user to spend a ton of time deleting and uploading files to the web. If you want to create attractive web pages with no programming experience and don't mind spending a little more time uploading all of the files needed to the web, this product is for you.
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Summary: NetObjects is the ideal Web authoring tool
Review: I start to learn HTML since HTML 2.0, and it makes me to be very familiar with HTML coding. Till now, I've experienced many tools including Notepad, Vi (Unix's editor, like window's Notepad), CMed, HotDog, Homesite, Netscape's composer, Frontpage, Dream weaver.
My first experience with NetObject starting from NetObject 4.0, then, I was impressive how productivity it is, although it's still not perfect at that time. I feel satisfied & comfortable with this kind of WYSIWYG tools since the NetObjects MX was born.
For NetObjects MX, I would like to share my opinions here, 1. NetObjects MX is not only the best tool for beginners, also inlcuding sophisticated guys. If you assume it is designed for beginners only, you are wrong. NetObjects MX provide many flexible ways to access your HTML coding. If you do know what is HTML, and you are willing to spend time to learn NetObjects MX, you'll find there is no "limitation". 2. Yes, NetObjects produces large HTML files, however it won't sacrifice website download speed too much. The real problem to slow down your website download speed mostly come from the large graphics & multimedia files. 3. Compared with Frontpage & Dreamweaver, NetObjects provides a effective way to increase your productivity with much lower cost. So, I have to say "thank you" to NetObjects, which is a ideal tool. and it's so happy to hear NetObjects Phoenix is coming soon.
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Summary: Nice Webcreator,.. but uploader??
Review: I think that NetObject did a great job in making a program that's easy handling, and very very good to make a nice website and to learn more and more from the program untill your a skilled webmaker. But there is one major problem i have with Netobject Fusion 4.0; i finally made a very nice site; and i desperatly want to get in on the net (for example a project for school)and i have a free webspaceprovider like geocities; fill in the user ID and my password (in the Publish Area) as remote host i fill in ftp.geocities.com; so everything must be correctly filled in; so i expect it to work but of cours it doesn't and that is why i'm disapointed in NetobjectsFusion Greetings from a also disapointed Dutch Boy !!!!
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