Serif WebPlus Essentials Software

It’s cheap, worth a look. For me not so good. You’ll have to make up your own mind.

I have used this product before about 10 years ago. It is very easy to use and it gives you many features and the flexibility to design your site however you want. It had its own FTP and comes with a manual.

I fully admit, that I have been having a lot of problems with this product. Now, I’m not going to blame the software exactly. I have NO EXPERIENCE, none, either with setting up a blog, or creating a small site for a page or two, or making a bulletin board. In fact, most of my computer experience has been on MACS. WEBPLUS installs fine, tho i had to install it twice. (IT has a program that pulls your first attempt out of your computer, if you made a mistake somewhere along the way.) It was after the instillation, that I got lost. After much playing around, I was able to get a painting I made onto the first page, and some writing on it for a “HOME PAGE”, but lost the work cos I didnt know how to save it. The PAINT program isnt intuitive, as much as you might think. Moving images, music, etc from your computer’s HD, into the WEBPLUS program, takes quite a bit of time, trial and error, at least from my experience. Finally, after a LOT of effort, i just got too frustrated and quit.

IF you have little or no experience setting up a website prior to this, or a blog, etc, you could be getting in over your head. I think someone who understands computer programming on some level, along with prior experience making web sites, along with knowledge of paint, word, and blog programs, should have the proper foundation to pursue a WEBPLUS selfmade website. Consider having the proper experience, as important as having the compatable hardward to run the software. If you have little or no experience buidling websites, you might want to find someone to walk you thru this, so you’re not overwhelmed. The programmers of WEBPLUS assume a certain amount of knowledge on the part of anyone downloading this product. For example, you need to understand web site “HIRARCHIES”, like the HOME PAGE branches into your main themes, which also branch off, etc. (And thats the FIRST step!) There are books around about web site design, that a total newbie might study, before they buy this program. YOU HAVE ONE YEAR AFTER PURCHASE OF PRODUCT TO USE THE VOUCHER CODE BEFORE IT BECOMES OBSOLETE. SO HAVE YOURSELF EDUCATED BEFORE YOU BUY THIS PROGRAM. If you spend a lot of time figuring out how to use this program after you buy it, you’ll use up all your time WEBPLUS gives you for posting your website on the net. BOTTOM LINE, if you have prior website experience, this seems to be a good website program. Its only because the advertising around this product infers that creating a website with WEBPLUS is VERY EASY, that I took off a couple of stars. I would have appreciated a better tutorial program, maybe even an instruction manuel, instead of being told that everything is intuitive. The video I saw on the program’s home page, zipped thru some of the program’s assets, without explaing how to navigate to and from those assets. A PHYSICAL manuel of some type would have helped, so you wouldnt need to keep searching thru topics lurking behind the program’s help button.