Is NetObjects Fusion 8 any good? I found it and the screenshots look
good. It also has built-in E-Commerce and thats what I am focusing on.
I am building a website with an online store for a local country store.
Thanks so much,


Jeremy Weiser

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


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Is NetObjects Fusion 8 any good? I found it and the screenshots look
good. It also has built-in E-Commerce and thats what I am focusing on.
I am building a website with an online store for a local country store.
Thanks so much,


Jeremy Weiser

Jeremy Weiser wrote:



Is NetObjects Fusion 8 any good? I found it and the screenshots look
good. It also has built-in E-Commerce and thats what I am focusing on.
I am building a website with an online store for a local country store.

http://groups-beta.google.com/groups...hl=en&lr=&ie=U
TF-8&sa=N&tab=wg This is a google
search page to which I'm directing you. Tom
Work at your leisure!

wrote:
Is NetObjects Fusion 8 any good? I found it and the screenshots look
good. It also has built-in E-Commerce and thats what I am focusing on.
I am building a website with an online store for a local country store.
Thanks so much,


Jeremy Weiser

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. g

....Kevin
--
Kevin Miller
http://www.alaska.net/~atftb
Juneau, Alaska

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

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says...
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 16:45:25 -0500, mike nelson wrote:

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


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

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

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says...
On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 20:45:44 +0000, Bill Rubenstein wrote:

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


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.