Website building software

[Robert_Meixner]

Does anyone have a suggestion for a Mac friendly web editing software package specifically for jewelry websites? I have received via orchid about Jewelspan, but don't know anything

about it.

http://www.ganoksin.com/gnkurl/jewelspan

Thanks. Rob

Rob Meixner
robmeixner.com

[Eric_Sparre]

I am the Jewelspan founder and managing director and responding to Rob Meixner's query. I would like to invite Rob to take a closer look or, better, a free trial with a jewelspan website and the tools that allow our members to manage and customize their websites.

Jewelspan sites have all the features that a jeweler needs - unlimited images (with muliple image views of individual pieces), pages, galleries, ecommerce functions including an integrated cart, full stats, and almost unlimited design capabilities. At the moment, the cost is US$99 for a year..

We have been doing this for over 13 years with Artspan.com, so we know what are doing. All Jewelry sites can also have their work show in our Jewelspan and Artspan Shop results. There is NO commission on work sold to buyers who go directly to the individual website.

Click here for full info
http://www.ganoksin.com/gnkurl/jewelspan

thanks!

Eric

Eric Sparre
Managing Director
Artspan LLC (Artspan.com and Jewelspan.com)

[Lund_Christopher]

Quick glance,

Jewelspan looks more like a hosting service catered towards jewelers. Kind of like Etsy, but jeweler specific.

If your looking to host your own site, probably best to look elswhere. If not, I don't see any issues with it, but then again, I don't know much more about it.

I picked up "Rapid Weaver" in a bundle not too long ago. Not jewelry specific but Easy working on a Mac.

Here is it by itself.

http://www.ganoksin.com/gnkurl/ep80bq

The software sells for $80, but the bundle I got it in cost $50. You will see it now and again in such bundles. Funny thing though, to get real good use out of it, you do have to buy add-ons. Which is why I waited for a bundle to come up.

Cheers
Chris Lund

[Robert_Meixner]

Does anyone use Wordpress for their website? Does it allow you to easily insert pictures and add simple text? How is it hosted? I need to move to a new web editor and hosting site and hope that Orchid readers can help me make this decision. Thanks. Rob

Rob Meixner
robmeixner.com

[alberic]

Hi gang,

I meant to hop in on this thread earlier, but got tied up.

For the Mac crowd who misses iWeb, I've had very good luck with RapidWeaver.

I actually have DreamWeaver as part of my Adobe bundle, and don't bother with the learning curve. RapidWeaver does everything I need, without the brick-wall learning curve.

FWIW,
Brian

[Lisa_Van_Herik1]

I have a few wordpress blogs and have my own hosting account at GoDaddy. Wordpress has many free themes (the structure and look) but they also have many, many themes that can be purchased so I'd look for one that's specifically for pix........or you can probably get one of the many Wordpress plug-ins or add-ons that enables pix.

Lisa Van Herik
wovenwirestudio.com

[John_Donivan]

Does anyone use Wordpress for their website?

You just can't beat Dreamweaver. State of the art website design software.

[Elaine_Luther1]

Does anyone use Wordpress for their website? Does it allow you to
easily insert pictures and add simple text? How is it hosted?

Yes, yes, self hosted.

Elaine
CreativeTextureTools.com

[jkofoed]

I'll be facing that problem eventually. I've been using GoLive 6 for years now and it's pretty instinctive by this time, but my current Mac is the last I can use it with. It won't work with any newer operating system and I've been looking around for an eventual replacement.

The cost of Dreamweaver sticks in my craw, and anyway Adobe has gone over to that stupid cloud system where you have to rent all their software, so older versions of Adobe software will soon be like prized antiques. I've been doing some research on the web, and I just downloaded KompoZer, which has some very good reviews and seems promising at first look. Alberic's recommendation of RapidWeaver is also something I will look into.

Janet Kofoed

[Steve.Mashburn1]

If you're familiar with photoshop, there is a plug in called Site Grinder made expressly for website building.

the "layers" bit in photoshop make pages...

shapes you draw or images can be used as buttons (that have button properties.... etc..) I understand they even have E commerce now, though they did not when i built one.

I've used it and found it pretty easy to get through.

steve

[Elliot_Nesterman]

I've had problems with Kompozer. It seems fine with pages built from scratch in Kompozer, but when importing pages built with DreamWeaver it generally corrupted them. So be careful.

Elliot Nesterman

[R_Langbert]

Look at Web Studio 5.0 It worked for me.

Richard Langbert
rlangbert.com