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

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

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Rating: 4 / 5