SJ Namo WebEditor 6 Suite
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| Rating 3.0/5 from 28 reviews |
| MINUS 10 STARS MIGHT RATE THIS ONE |
| Rating: 1/5 (4 out of 4 think this is helpful) 2005-10-24 |
| BIG SIGH. Bought Namo WebEditor6 just 2 days ago. Seemed to run fine. Then voila. Problem after problem. Too many to list and so frustrated now I just want to chuck it. This thing crash and burns more than Zeros in TORA! TORA! TORA! Words won't wrap or just the opposite. Theyruntogetherlikethis. The java buttons tend to replace eachother so your links are all messed up. A waste of money...and FrontPage is wayyy too expensive. So, I thought I'd try NAMO. How messed up could it be? I thought. Well, I'll tell ya that you don't want to know. Save your money. Even the manuals print is kind of shoddy. This thing is a POS. Nice box though. |
| Namo is Lamo - Bugs Bugs & MORE Bugs |
| Rating: 1/5 (5 out of 5 think this is helpful) 2005-10-22 |
| Amazon should allow us to vote ZERO stars. Please do NOT purchase this software. While it has many desireable features at an affordable price it is not worth the money. It is a simple program to master but it has a great deal of software problems that NAMO acknowledges but refuses to do anything about. Customer service with NAMO is non-existant. WebEditor crashes -- a lot. I checked the NAMO site forum (...) and found that many users have multiple complaints of bugs with this software. For example, paragraphs often don't wrap and have to be totally reconstructed in another software and cut and pasted back into the editor. It removes spacing and spontaneously changes line spacing. While I have never crashed when working strictly in the HTML mode, the program constantly crashes and loses data while working in the WYSIWYG editor mode -- and WYSI NOT What you get. What you see in the "preview" is rarely what you see once your site is published. Columns shift, spacing disappears, etc. When you are in a table, if you try to block highlight a paragraph including the font tag of the previous paragraph and hit delete you will crash your software program every single time. Not good for when you are moving things around or cutting and pasting. Another problem with the software is that for no apparent reason users get a "cannot read memory" error specifically linked to the NAMO software (it even asks if you wish to debug NAMO WE 6.0) Ha. Another funny is thing is that when you go to the NAMO site to try and email a complaint they have bugs in their own website! What you might save in time (easy to learn) and money you will more than pay for in countless hours of frustration and lost data. Trust me, you will end up tossing NAMO out and going out and ubying something else instead. |
| It's OK But It's Not Perfect |
| Rating: 3/5 (8 out of 8 think this is helpful) 2005-09-24 |
| I have used Namo WebEditor for two or three years, starting with version 5, then 5.5, then 6. The reviews here seem to be either raves or trashes. Namo is a good product but it has deficiencies. I found no bugs in versions 5 and 5.5 but 6 had a few, particularly in loading pages made with 5 or 5.5. I installed the patch and have had few problems since. I keep 5.5 on the machine if I need it. There are a few things that don't work well so I've been thinking of buying Dreamweaver. I would have by now if (1) it were reasonably priced, and (2) it were not so difficult to learn. The other programs in the Namo suite are buggy or of little value. Posts on the Namo website forum repeatedly trash the product support. I've not had to use it but I've had bad experiences with support from Dell, Microsoft and other companies. Does anyone have good support any more? Some of Namo Web Editor's plusses: (1) There are four viewing modes; Dreamweaver has three. To preview in DW you must save, open a browser and load the file in that. In Namo you can preview by clicking a tab. (2) There are built-in scripts (javascript) that are easy to use. Some don't work right. (3) There are many sample pages that you can modify and use. I think the designs are awful. (4) There is a fair collection of clip art, photos, graphics and other items that can be used in your pages. The buttons can be edited for color, text, size, etc. (5) Namo's window can be sized to the most common screen settings (eg. 600 X 800 etc.) so you can easily know how much of the page won't be seen by people who set screen resolution for large displays. I have not found above items 2, 4 and 5 in my uses of Dreamweaver. I don't think they are available in Dreamweaver. I have made many pages with Namo, accept its shortcomings, and have no problems with it. Maybe I've been lucky as far as the bugs are concerned. A new version (Web Editor 2006) is shipping and is being roundly trashed in the forums on the Namo website. Apparently it is not much different from version 6, and has several bugs. I will continue using and enjoying Namo 6 (with 5.5 on standby) until I have learned more about Dreamweaver and can buy a leftover prior version at a reasonable price. I've downloaded Dreamweaver's 30-day trial three times and am only now starting to feel comfortable with it. It does have a good tutorial but there is a lot to learn. If you are considering buying Namo, look at Dreamweaver and Netobjects Fusion 8 as well. Trial versions are available from all three (go to the respective website). Dreamweaver is the most complex and most difficult to learn; Fusion is probably the easiest to learn, by far, but Namo may do more. If Namo installs properly, works well and you can learn it, it will do a great job for you. If you are a beginner, get "HTML for Dummies" along with whatever program you get. |
| I will give it one star because there isnt anything lower than this. |
| Rating: 1/5 (3 out of 5 think this is helpful) 2005-08-12 |
| This is not worth your money. I should have done more research on this before buying this. Honestly, sometimes I feel like tearing my hair out with frustration. I will give it one star because there isnt anything lower than this. Its not very user friendly, it retains the properties of the latest page that you worked on and there are some properties, I havnt figured out how to change yet. Take for example, images in the editor windows started showing up as and empty box with an X in the corner, instead of an image. It started after I tried to use one of their templates to play arround. I do not know how to change this back. Its frustrating because even though, it shows up as a image on the preview window, it doesnt do so on the editing window. They do not have any tech support number to call. The templates are medicore or of lower quality. Frankly,I have seen share wares do a lot of what you can do with this. |
| SJ Namo WebEditor 6 Suite |
| Rating: 2/5 (6 out of 6 think this is helpful) 2005-07-11 |
| When I first started using this program I thought it was great but when I had trouble with the text wrap, I couldn't fix it. There were large spaces between words and when I tried to pull the words together they all bunched up with no spaces. Everytime I deleted them and started over the same problem came up. When I tried to publish, it just wouldn't do it and when I finally did get it to publish, it published only parts of the website with blank places on the pages. The spell checker did not catch all of the misspelled words either. There is no on line support for this program and it is full of bugs. I uninstalled it and purchased FrontPage 2003 and have had no more problems. I do not recommend this program. It does have lots of nice Themes but they will not publish. The price is right but the product is not. |
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Product Description
WebEditor 6 Suite is an all-in-one tool you need to easily create and manage personal and professional Web sites. Beginners and advanced users alike will appreciate WebEditor's design and script templates, site resource management features, integrated graphics features, and more. Namo WebEditor 6 Suite is the updated and much upgraded version of Namo WebEditor 5.5 which not only provides you all the benefits and features that Namo WebEditor 5.5 had, but has added greater value to its software. In addition to the Namo WebCanvas 1.1, the vector-based Web graphic drawing tools in version 5.5, Namo WebEditor 6 Suite now features Namo WebBoard, a community builder tool which will set up any number of forums through a simple Windows application on your desktop. Touch-up and manipulate images with tools such as Namo Capture, Gif Animator, and Image Slicer Create Photo Albums with automatic thumbnails / Add video and audio Build the site tree easily with the improved site map and nodes Instantly upload selected files to your Web server with the Quick Publish command System Requirements - Microsoft Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP; Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or newer, Netscape 6.2 or newer, 800x600 (1,024x768 recommended), 256-color display or better recommended, 64 MB of RAM (128 MB of RAM or higher recommended), Microsoft Personal Web Server or Internet Information Server required for preview of database-driven documents, Hard disk space - Namo WebEditor - 48 MB Min, 135 MB complete;Namo WebCanvas - 17 MB Min, 190 MB complete; Namo WebBoard - 30 MB Min, 30 MB complete; Namo Utilities - 3 MB Min, 3 MB complete; 4x CD-ROM drive or fasterFeatures:
- Powerful JavaScript actions and events; wizard for database-driven pages
- Easily create and manage personal and professional Web sites
- Drag-and-drop site layout; integrated graphics features
- Design and script templates; instant report generation
- Full WYSIWYG editing environment; dynamic navigation bars and trees
- Easily create and manage personal and professional Web sites
- Drag-and-drop site layout; integrated graphics features
- Design and script templates; instant report generation
- Full WYSIWYG editing environment; dynamic navigation bars and trees
- Powerful JavaScript actions and events; wizard for database-driven pages