NetObjects Fusion 8

Netobjects had a reputation of producing really ugly html because they used nested within nested within nested tables for layout...that would also make site maintenance and revision a real bear.

Mike

TF-8&sa=N&tab=wg This is a google search page to which I'm directing you. Tom Work at your leisure!

No. I've found NetObjects doesn't turn worth a hoot. Virtually impossible to get a clean cut on, with lots of tear-out and the end grain checking is abysmal.

...Kevin

NOF may well be an appropriate tool if the OPs goal is to get a nice-looking page up quickly and then get back to the business of turning.

All of the auto-generated pages make for bloated code, NOF is no exception. That said, most folks who turn to NOF, CoffeeCup, FrontPage, Dreamweaver (ad nauseum) are not likely to hand code a page and will be doing 100% of their maintenance using the original auto-generator.

In that case, the site layout tools in NOF are a real boon and the table nesting (bad ugly, I agree!) is a non-issue.

The real 'hang up' that I see with NOF is that it requires site hosts to purchase additional server software. IIRC, the NOF server product only runs on IIS by Microsoft and that is trouble looking for a place to land because IIS is an especially poor host OS for an e-commerce site.

One option the OP might do well to consider is that of hiring a web monkey to create an initial site while he acquires the skills to edit it himself at a local college or high school night school program.

Bill

I agree.

Another way to pick up some HTML knowledge -- there are plenty of beginner tutorials on HTML

-- google 'tutorial html' and you will find plenty. Many are very basic but they will get you going. Then there are plenty of sites which have some pretty good docmentation to use as reference material as you hand code html.

Whether this will work for you our not depends on your ability to learn from written material. If you can do that it will be much faster than going to a class.

NEVER do business with any web hosting site which is running on a Microsoft product. If it ain't Linux based, it is guaranteed to be trouble. Most of the stable hosts out there are running Linux with the Apache web server which is the defacto standard -- it just keeps on ticking and ticking...

Bill

Woo hoo! Another Tux-head! :-))))))))))))

I wasn't going to be so hard-line with the guy but Microsoft servers have scheduled downtimes. Linux does not. Linux only goes down for hardware failures or hardware/operating system upgrades. There is no other reason to 'bounce' a Linux server. The server uptime below represents how long it has been since the local electric company experienced a major outage in my neighborhood. Linux just keeps on running until it runs out of juice. The desktop got hardware added yesterday.

Bill

I would assume that, for the purposes of this thread, the term "Linux" refers to Unix and BSD operating systems as well. BSD dominates the top 50 list of stable machines in the Netcraft survey. There have been NO MSFT machines on that list for quite some time.

Yep -- I really should have said **nix or something like that but didn't want to confuse.

Pray for us -- if there were a **nix version of Quicken and/or QuickBooks I and a lot of other people would kiss Microsoft goodbye. I almost think that M is paying Intuit big bucks so that they won't do a linux version. All other applications can be found with good quality and low cost (most no cost) under linux. OpenOffice may not be quite as mature as the MS office products but it works just fine and it is free. BTW, I'm using it as my office suite under Windows xp.

Bill

I use Quicken 98 (it just happens to be the version I already owned) under Crossover Office on Fedora Core 2. Works fine. GNU Cash would probably also work just fine if I were to take a little time to learn how to use it.

I'm sending you a screen shot directly to the email address above.

Bill