WebPlus X2 Website Maker

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WebPlus X2 Website Maker

Manufacturer: Serif
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WebPlus X2 is Serif's outstanding Vista certified web design solution, packed with everything an organization needs to design fully-featured and professional-looking sites--with no need to learn or program any HTML! With smart Web gadgets including forums and site search hosted for free by Serif, integrated e-commerce with partners including PayPal, support for engaging YouTube, podcast and RSS content, plus video and Shockwave Flash animations, WebPlus X2 is the perfect answer for in-house web design. WebPlus helps at every stage, whether starting with a professional business template, designing from scratch, automatically fixing design issues, or publishing to the Web, it's never been easier to achieve fantastic results, fast.

The all-in-one solution for professional quality web design. Click to enlarge.

Get your inspiration from a wide range of customizable professional templates. Click to enlarge.

Easily set up a secure online store at the touch of a button. Click to enlarge.

Embed your favorite YouTube clips, podcasts and vidcasts for the ultimate interactivity. Click to enlarge.

The All-in-One Solution for Professional Quality Web Design.

Fast web design for all
Fantastic Web design with no need to learn HTML! WebPlus gives you complete control in a DTP-style design interface with easy layout capabilities.

Customizable professional templates
Don't be daunted by designing a site--with professionally-produced templates to choose from, there's plenty to inspire you or help achieve speedy results.

In-house graphic design
Add design pizzazz with great Web graphics--everything from instant shapes to attractive fills, transparencies and special effects, plus 3D artwork, warping and image adjustments.

Sell! Sell! Sell!
Add fully-featured e-commerce carts and buttons using well-known partners PayPal, Mal's and RomanCart. A wizard makes the task easy and safe--no fuss, complication, or setup cost!

Interest your viewers
Entice and engage visitors with amazing and unrivalled interactive Web gadgets including forums, blogs, mailing lists, live surveys and polls, feedback forms, site search, active hit counters and even messaging with shoutboxes.

Show off your favorite media
Make sites even more interactive with exciting podcasts and vidcasts, giving them the power subscribe to updates using iTunes. Also embed YouTube videos straight in your site!

Safe surfing
Secure areas of your site with user logins, password-protected pages--and CAPTCHA signup security to stop unwanted automatons from invading and harvesting details.

Optimize your site
Easily preview, publish and maintain your WebPlus site, now with enhanced search engine optimization and visitor analytics to help you get the best from your site online.

Bonus: 12 months of free web hosting and sub domains

Getting your site online is hassle-free, thanks to 12 months of free web hosting included with every purchase of WebPlus X2. With WebPlus X2 you get a full professional hosting package, including:

10 GB web space
100 GB per month bandwidth
100 unique email addresses
Host up to 16 separate websites
24/7 customer support

WebPlus X2 is Serif's outstanding Vista certified web design marvel. Award-winning, versatile, powerful and easy-to-use, it is perfect for making engaging, professional-looking sites.
With smart web gadgets, integrated e-commerce with partners including PayPal, support for YouTube, podcasts and Flash content, plus easy design and on-screen help, WebPlus X2 is ideal for any business or organization looking to create its own website.
Don't be daunted by designing a site--with 30 professionally-designed templates to choose from, there's plenty to inspire you or help achieve speedy results.
WebPlus X2 provides an easy approach to web design, with integrated e-commerce wizards, support for engaging YouTube content, podcasts and Flash animations--and all with no need to learn HTML.
Serif's online web resource not only offers new visitor analytics to give you detailed information about the usage of your site, we've also improved search engine optimisation for WebPlus X2 so your site can rank higher with services like Google.

Easy to Use

Review Date: May 11, 2009

Reviewer: Caribbean Girlie, New Jersey

I haven't completed using it however; so far it has been easy to use. I am replacing Front Page and was hesitant to learn a new program but my host server no longer is compatible with Front Page. I had no choice but to change and I am glad I picked this software, it even copied my existing web-site to a folder in the program; so I can make my changes without building a whole new site. I am going to use it to build a new site and see which web-site design I like better. For now, I am using it for changes to my already existing web-site.

best for the money

Review Date: September 29, 2009

Reviewer: Piotr Zupinski, Chicago, USA

I bought this software as a replacement for Microsoft FrontPage. I am experienced with html, Java and asp (I used to build web sites but have not stayed in touch with the latest technologies.) I needed something simple to manage my family website which has grown to be quite large. I saw bad reviews about this software so I downloaded the trial version from CNET.COM. After using the demo for 4 weeks, I have to say that it exceeded my expectations. It did not picked up where FrontPage left off, but that gave me opportunity to update the look and feel of my site ( it was needed) with very little effort. I have seen some reviews comparing this software to Dreamweaver - they are missing a point since the later costs $377 on Amazon at the time of this review. This is a great software for the money and if you have any doubts, try the fully functional demo and see if it will work for you.

Cons -
1-Importing large websites does not work very well. When I tried importing my site, the navigation structure did not import but layout was correct for most of the pages.
2-Rendering takes a bit too long for my taste but you one can setup unattended updates with ease.
3-Blogs, e-commerce and other "smart objects" are hosted from Sherif website and have bandwith limits. There is very little customization allowed by Serif to those objects.
4-Learning curve was not bad, but some of the options are in awkward places
5-Adding custom HTML / Java is not as straight forward as it could be. Some of my custom HTML did not show correctly in WebStudio but shown correctly in the browser.

Pros -
1-Rock solid performance no crashes or any problems whatsoever ( Vista 32bit with Quad Core Intel processor )
2-I was blown away with the level of control over everything on the page. Good old FrontPage does not come even close. I felt like working in power point.
3-Way better than any other inexpensive WYSIWYG editors you can get. After I created my site I got the same results in Explorer, Chrome and Firefox. No problems or issues with the layout or navigation others claimed to had.
4-Very easy to modify templates included with the software.
5-Built-in flesh picture presentations are sweet.

The Best Design Software I've Ever Used

Review Date: October 3, 2008

Reviewer: Meg's Bazaar, Arizona, USA

This is by far some of the best web design software I have ever used. It is self explanitory, easy to use, and has great design options. I have only been playing around with the software for an hour and I have already developed a basic webpage for my business. You can design you're own from scratch or use one of their design templates, which you can completely edit and customize. I have been playing with their templates and they are really cool. If you want to develop an awesome website with the latest and neatest design features, I highly recommend this software. It isn't often you actually get what you pay for, in this instance you get about 10 times more with this software!

Great Product

Review Date: March 31, 2009

Reviewer: Karin Singleton, Raleigh, NC

I purchased this software because of the good reviews by other customers. I had anticipated that it would be easier than it was, but that was really an error on my part. I had no idea what is involved in building a website. Mercifully, it came with a real paper manual for which I was grateful.
While I was not up and running in an hour, I had a neat website up within the span of 2 weeks, and most of that time was spent on the content of the site rather than the technology.
I feel I made a good purchase and will continue to learn about the software as I am improving my website. It has a lot of options.

Enormously powerful and easy to use... when you learn it.

Review Date: January 1, 2009

Reviewer: Mort, Florida

I'm thrilled with this program, but it's not for everyone. Maybe this review can help you decide.

First off, I had absolutely no experience with website design, graphics, or desktop publishing. Zero. But I wanted the power to create my own business website without being limited to a template and to be able to update it anytime I want. And I was willing to invest time.

WebPlusX2 provides all the power I want, limited only by my own artistic vision. But it's been a heck of a learning curve for me, to be honest. I've spent many, many hours working on my site. But that includes Internet research on design advice, search engine optimization, finding other sites that could inspire my designs, etc. But most of my time has been changing and tweaking my site. Again, all this was new to me. The software itself is not very hard to learn.

I'm happy to say that I'm ecstatic with the results. My site looks completely professional and it is EXACTLY what I wanted.

Now that I know how to use the software, I can create future sites in FAR less time. So, if you already have experience with this type of thing, you'll make fast progress. But if the whole graphics/web design field is new to you, expect to make a large investment of time. (Though I'm sure it's less time than other software products with the same level of power.)

The manual is excellent, as are the tutorials. There is a very good user forum on Serif's website. There were a few times that I got stuck, and I got instant response on the forum.

I ended up buying several Serif softwares (PagePlusX3, DrawPlusX2 and PhotoPluxX2). The reason is that I wanted to create my own logos and DrawPlus has more power for graphics. And - this is important - I learned that when you create a logo in DrawPlus or use a photo, it looks a lot better if you use PhotoPlus to resize it to the exact size you want and export/convert it using PhotoPlus because it has a better algorithm. If you do that, the logos and photos look even more clear and sharp on the Web. But I'm a bit of a perfectionist.

By the way, Serif offers fantastic deals on the other software when you call them to register WebPlus. I now have powerful Web, Photo, Desktop Publishing and Graphics software for around a couple hundred bucks total! Amazing.

In summary, this is not a "create your website tonight" type of package. It's meant to be much much much more. If you are willing to invest the time, you will be very happy. I'm extremely proud of what I've accomplished. And I'm the master of my website's destiny rather than depending on anyone else for it.

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