Re: Website software

**"* M* <B*@verizon.net>**

I have to warn people about using the easy website-making software provided 
on hosting sites. It is better to buy a program and learn it. Which one? Who 
knows!!

About eight years ago I signed up with Hostway and used their quick and easy 
no html interface and put up whatever words and pictures I wanted. All was 
well for two years until they decided to update their program. I rebuilt my 
site and that was good for another two years. Then they took down that 
site-builder program too, replacing it with a version that would not even 
let me make a site with the same page names-- a sure way to lose your Google 
traffic. Tech support advised me to use my own software.

In May 2006 I bought Adobe CreativeSuite2 which was expensive but includes 
professional versions of Photoshop, Acrobat, InDesign, and more, including 
GoLive, their program for making websites. I use most of the other programs 
in the suite. Now there's CreativeSuite4 out there.

I'm not so bad at these things but I couldn't make head or tail of GoLive 
until I bought a "For Dummies" book and locked myself into my office for 
three days of the Fourth of July weekend.

Eventually my California programmer son Al came home for a visit and looked 
things over. His verdict was that Adobe's GoLive was a good program but had 
stupidly hidden all its power and tools in a complicated way.

I don't like GoLive but I still use it and do my site without too much pain. 
I received a notice from Adobe that GoLive has been replaced with something 
else.

I still use Hostway. They still offer some kind of easy site builder but it 
too will eventually be replaced, leaving its users stranded -- but not me. 
Never again.

Betty Mackey
www.mackeybooks.com

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