Namo WebEditor Suite 2006

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• 8 stars

  Great value for performance, easy to use

  by jwanderson on May 19, 2006

  Pros: Easy site organization/reorganization, automatic nav. bar creation and maintenance, use of editable themes to easily control visuals

  Cons: Occasional need to edit html.

  Summary: The official Cnet review didn't mention the main factors I bought NAMO for:
  1) Themes are editable and applicable to pages as desired. These control most of the visual
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  Summary: The official Cnet review didn't mention the main factors I bought NAMO for:
  1) Themes are editable and applicable to pages as desired. These control most of the visual appearance of a page very easily and seamlessly.
  2)The Site Editor allows you to easily insert, delete, and rearrange the pages (drag and drop) and completely takes care of all the Navigation Bar changes for you. In addition it's really easy to change nav bars appearance with the Themes and the nav. bar type by right click + editing their properties.
  
  I find the wysiwyg editor view a lot like Microsoft Word to use, but of course somewhat more to deal with. Tables, and other features will seem very familiar.
  
  I've been using Webeditor for about three years and have upgraded to each new version. I tried Microsoft Front Page first since I already had it in Office. Webeditor was much easier, seemed more capable, and puts out more standard code. The Webeditor new site Wizard seemed to take quite a while to work through, but it was really instrumental in getting my first site up easily and really quickly considering the overall time spent. I've had several other people switch to Webeditor at my suggestion and none have gone back.
  
  MS Word files have a lot of extraneous word processor stuff if you try to paste a full .doc file. Be sure to accept all changes before you paste to Webeditor. You are much better off to copy and past from an open .doc file. Or, usually even better, in Word do a File + Save As: Webpage, then close the Word file and reopen the resulting html file, then copy and past that. The latter technique usually give the cleanest transfer, especially if using footnotes or other advanced Word features. Webeditor has some Tools to help clean up extraneous stuff from MS Word files, but be sure to save your page before using them. You're still best off to paste in the cleanest file you can.
  Note that these are MS Word issues that would affect any html editor. Extraneous unrecognized code shows up as gold icons with a ? in the Webeditor wysiwyg editor. They're also easy to manually delete or use Find and Replace.
  
  Once in a while the wysiwyg editor gets confused a little, probably due to my incorrect editing techniques, and some minor editing of HTML is required. Adding special html, php, etc is very easy using the tabbed windows to change viewing modes. One small peculiarity is that Webeditor doesn't add the .htm or .html file extension automatically when inserting a new page, perhaps because there are choices.
  
  Overall, the program works very well and is much more capable than I am. I have created and maintain three websites, with 6 to 16 pages. I think it could easily handle much larger sites.

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  7 out of 8 users found this user opinion helpful.

• 9 stars

  Best Web Product - bar none

  by CoreyBstn on July 3, 2006

  Pros: Easy to use, easy to understand, great features

  Cons: Phone support -not that I really needed it!

  Summary: I have been using this quiet product for years now and always go with their newest product. I have been in a pich and needed to to create better than ...

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  Summary: I have been using this quiet product for years now and always go with their newest product. I have been in a pich and needed to to create better than average sites in a pinch. This product has allowed that to happen---error free.
  C-Net's review pales and makes it sound like this program is just one step above "freeware" and Front Page. I threw out Go Live, Dreamweaver, and a bunch of other here-today-gone-tomorrow products, and my replacement has been WebEditor and will continue to be so.
  The first reviewer mentioned support being weak, I will concede that their phone support lacks a solid backbone. I have not had to use the phone support for WebEditor, but for some of their other products and they are all tied into the same support line.
  The user forums are where I get most help/advice, but that is usually my preference for any product I own (users tend to take products to the limit and are much more creative).
  I always manage to discover something new with each release and this is no disappointment at all.
  I HIGHLY recommend this over any other web developement product...bar none!

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  4 out of 4 users found this user opinion helpful.

• 3 stars

  A real stinker

  by solus2sail on January 28, 2007

  Pros: I can't think of a thing.

  Cons: Doesn't deliver, No support.

  Summary: Web Editor 06 is a sharp looking package that falls far short of what is promised.
  Editing may be WYSIWYG but publishing same is another matter.
  I have read many
  
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  Summary: Web Editor 06 is a sharp looking package that falls far short of what is promised.
  Editing may be WYSIWYG but publishing same is another matter.
  I have read many posts to the forums and apparently I am not alone.
  While not a beginner, I have read the help files supplied with the program but found few answers to guide me.
  There is no on-line support available and user telephone support is not an option.
  I created a web site using the site manager feature but when published, many of the pages created were nowhere to be found.
  Creating and uploading a single page is likewise a frustrating effort.
  While WebEditor looks great when loaded, in practical use it falls far short of expectations.
  Even a feedback letter is returned "I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses (choiss-hosting@namo.com).
  This is a permanent error; I've given up".
  My personal advice, spend your hard earned money on a more reliable program.

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  2 out of 2 users found this user opinion helpful.

• 2 stars

  No tech support for a product that doesn't work

  by K.Gimnig on July 25, 2006

  Pros: Lots of features. Very WYSIWYG

  Cons: No tech support, holes in the manual, Help commands don't do what they say they will

  Summary: Namo may have a great product if only I could use it. Their tech support is non-existent. The product is billed as an easy WYSIWYG program ideal for first time ...

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  Summary: Namo may have a great product if only I could use it. Their tech support is non-existent. The product is billed as an easy WYSIWYG program ideal for first time web editors. That's me. I'm proficient on basic computer use and have used Netscape's composer successfully in the past, but I don't know HTML and have never used a higher end editing program.
  
  The manual looks pretty good at first. It is annoying to read through 4 sentences explaining what a cursor is, but it does suggest that they are starting from the beginning for first time users. The problem is two-fold. First, they skip steps. There is great information on setting up your site tree and great information on laying out pages, but nothing on how to get from your site tree to the screan that will lay out the pages. Lots of omissions like that. Maybe a more experienced editor could figure it out. Secondly, the program doesn't do what it says it will do. Again with the site tree, the Help menu says if you click on one of the pages listed on your site tree, it will open the page. Sounds great, but it doesn't happen.
  
  The real problem is tech support - there isn't any. There is a phone number in the manual that is not working. On the web site, the support page has a picture of three smiling people in head-sets - this is a cruel joke. There are no phone numbers unless you count the one for South Korea. They have a forum for questions that are supposed to get answered by their support people. I've been waiting for an answer for 5 days. Nothing. Furthermore they don't even tell you where to look for an answer - will they email it or do you have to go back on the site and check in? I've tried both. I also emailed their sales and PR people since those were the only direct emails available - nothing.
  
  Bottom line - I think this could be a great progam if they worked on the kinks, fixed the manual, and had good tech support. As it is, I'm just grateful that the store where I bought it is going to let me exchange the open box.

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  1 out of 1 users found this user opinion helpful.

• 2 stars

  Little to no support and crashes all of the time.

  by greendr on June 29, 2006

  Pros: I can't say much positive because I give up.

  Cons: Their support group must not know English or they don't understand their own product.

  Summary: After buying the product I was able to get a new web page up. Updating it became a problem. I have spent 3 days at this. Responses were "not enough ...

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  Summary: After buying the product I was able to get a new web page up. Updating it became a problem. I have spent 3 days at this. Responses were "not enough information" or wrong information because they didn't understand. They don't seem to have a phone or at least no one speaks English at it. No tutorials so I would expect more support to be available. I give up on this software. I suspect the positive reviews are experts or employess because I don't see it. What good is it if their manual is hard to read, little to no support and it continually crashes. I'm just counting this up as a learning experience. A tutorial and a phone number would be a huge improvement.

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  1 out of 1 users found this user opinion helpful.

• 4 stars

  good WYSIWYG, but it crashes and they don't support it.

  by jaebaeli on September 24, 2012

  Pros: Good that it's WYSIWYG, and has many helpful features.

  Cons: It crashes too often and there is absolutely no support for the product which is inexcusable once you've purchased it.

  Summary: if you can find another program like it that has support, i'd suggest you don't go with this one

  Summary: if you can find another program like it that has support, i'd suggest you don't go with this one

• 6 stars

  Does not work as promised.

  by sneaksnoise on December 22, 2009

  Pros: Doesn't crash much. Plenty of useful coding, graphics, and site management tools. Database wizard is a big plus.

  Cons: Many features don't work properly. Navbars generate extra spaces when oriented vertically, and aren't flexible with regard to site structure. This program is like a Greek tragedy; it starts out full of promise, but you end up screaming into a pillow.

  Summary: Note: this review applies to the 2006 (and earlier) version of Namo. I can't be sure whether the company has since improved the product, so you may want to ...

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  Summary: Note: this review applies to the 2006 (and earlier) version of Namo. I can't be sure whether the company has since improved the product, so you may want to download a trial version and determine for yourself whether it meets your needs.
  
  Namo promises full CSS support, but you can't lay out pages using external style sheets. Even if you try creating your own, Namo can't render the pages in WYSIWYG view.
  
  Navbars are awful - the program is apparently designed so that you can customize navigation buttons with regard to site structure, but forget about it. All your pages have to be on the same level or some won't be visible among the navigation buttons, even if you use flyout menus. It's not supposed to be like that, but no amount of tweaking of options and hierarchical structures can make navigation work right. "Custom Site Structure" is a joke.
  
  Also, Namo rewrites code it doesn't like, even when you set the program options to "preserve existing HTML". It can butcher your pages, so be prepared to create backups. To that end, it generates a ton of ".bak" files that clutter up your folders, even when you tell it not to.
  
  This software seems like its individual features came from different sources, so they don't mesh well. For example, if you use the code optimization tools, they can wreck pages that Namo itself generated, especially anything you created with the Database Wizard.
  
  So many things about this program seem great until you try to use them. You get about 80% of the way to what you want, then you hit a dead end. You end up having to do so many things manually - to work around the program's shortcomings - that you'd be better off using Notepad or a basic HTML editor.
  
  On the plus side, it's very inexpensive and comes with a fair amount of clip art and graphics tools. Plus, the Database Wizard helped me enormously when I had to create user-updatable online meeting schedules and a member directory for a Toastmasters club I belong to (it writes PHP, ASP, and JSP for you). However, here's another example of how you get 80% of the way to what you want and then hit a snag: I could not find a way to create a "Delete Record" function with the Database Wizard. I wanted club officers to be able to delete member records and outdated agendas, but Namo offered no way to create pages to do that. Very frustrating.
  
  Anyway, if you want a full-featured desktop WYSIWYG editor, get Dreamweaver or Microsoft Expression. Don't think you're going to get something for nothing (or nearly so) with this product. This verions of Namo's only good if you code the 1990s way, with nested tables and font tags. Time you waste here is time you can invest in learning much more valuable skills, such as XHTML, CSS, Dreamweaver, and / or such CMSs as Wordpress, Joomla! and Drupal (Content-Management Systems [CMSs] are the future of Web design anyway).

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• 1 stars

  This app SUCKS!!!

  by TigerHeli on March 28, 2009

  Pros: Nice, easy to use WYSIWYG editor

  Cons: Re-writes code, deletes/disables database connections if code generated by the app via any wizards are modified by the user.

  Summary: I have been using this program for the past month. I think that this product SUCKS!!! It is nice for a WYSIWYG HTML editor, but the product description is deceiving ...

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  Summary: I have been using this program for the past month. I think that this product SUCKS!!! It is nice for a WYSIWYG HTML editor, but the product description is deceiving - you can't create and edit graphics within the program as I thought it was capable based on the program description. My main issue with this program is the fact that this program will re-write your code. It will undo any editing that you do within the program including deleting any database connections and logic that were originally built by the program via any of the wizards. In addition, the program will crash for no apparent reason. In fact, I ran a database wizard for creating a table based on a database, the app crashed. THIS IS FRUSTRATING!!!!! I expect that I can run a wizard to create a connection to a database and be able to edit the code and the program not touch the code. Also, when using a database wizard, there is no way to customize the layout of the query displayed on the website using the wizard - this requires editing the code directly. Again, when making this change the program will either revert the code back to the way the wizard designed the query layout or delete the db connection and any loops and variable assignments created by the wizard. I recommend EVERYONE STAY AWAY FROM THIS PRODUCT! In fact I am looking for a new program today to use instead of this crappy product!

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• 2 stars

  Namo Web Editor Support is Nonexistent!

  by mholtby on November 12, 2008

  Pros: Generally easy to use.

  Cons: Support is so bad you should not buy this product unless you can hire a web developer when you run into a ditch.

  Summary: Namo?s support is a hoax. I have encountered support people who don?t know the software, who put me on hold and never get back to me, promise to ...

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  Summary: Namo?s support is a hoax. I have encountered support people who don?t know the software, who put me on hold and never get back to me, promise to call back and don?t, promise to email me instructions and don?t. I have never received any follow-through with their promises, but rather a dodge to get me off the phone.
  
  Here is the history:
  
  Early-September: 1st contact with the Support Center asking for help.
  
  Sept. 27th: I get a response which says, ?First, we would like to apologize for the late response and for any inconvenience.? I scroll through other people?s inquiries and repeatedly find this same response. Namo asks for an email with more information ? which I send the same day. I get no reply. I send three more emails with no response from Namo.
  
  Finally, on October 14th I talk to Avikwee, one of Namo?s Support staff. He tells me he will look into my problem and call me back in ten minutes. I never hear from him again.
  
  Two days later I talk to Jay, another Namo Support staff. He advises me to reload my Namo software, which I do and get no change in my problem. In a second call he tells me to send a file of my website for the tech staff to analyze and fix, which I do within thirty minutes. I never hear from Jay or the tech staff again.
  
  I send two more emails but get no response. On October 28th I talk to Jake, with Namo?s Support staff. He tells me I need to clean up the site?s registry. There is no reference to doing this procedure in my manual. He takes my email address and says he?ll send me instructions as to how to do this. I never get the instructions from him. I send another email requesting the registry cleanup instructions. I get no response.
  
  On November 10th I call again and talk to Jeffrey with Namo?s Support staff. I tell him I want him to send me email instructions as to how to clean up the registry. He takes my email address. I ask him a specific question about the procedure. He obviously doesn?t know the software, and asks if he can put me on hold for two minutes. He never gets back to me, and never sends me the email.
  
  Before this I was considering buying the latest version of Namo, but now that I know the Support is one where there is little wait on their phone line, but you get staff who don?t know the program, and never follow through, I will look for an alternative to Namo. Its absolutely inexcusable for a problem to go unaddressed two months!!

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• 9 stars

  Love this suite cause it's sweet!

  by robbgior on April 6, 2008

  Pros: canvas(img editing) has lots of options, very efficient, well thought out, intuitive, great help file

  Cons: find and replace

  Summary: I never write reviews, but felt compelled to write this one cause I love this program. I have been looking for a html dev tool for a long time, and ...

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  Summary: I never write reviews, but felt compelled to write this one cause I love this program. I have been looking for a html dev tool for a long time, and can't afford D weaver or F page, but the free ones and cheap ones seemed so basic or didn't work well in vista or didn't have wysiwyg or i didn't like the layout or the way it published, and i love this program. every time i think it's missing something that i want, i find with a little more searching which button to use or where to find the option. The main problem I found so far is that I wanted to be able to do global find and replace to edit multiple pages at once - and though it has this option, it won't ignore white space and is a little buggy in the dialog box so I couldn't get it to replace more than a word of code. Though I am a still a beginner to web development, I think this is a great product to begin with, so that you don't feel limited with the other cheap options and don't have to pay $400. I don't know why I like it so much - I just like the way it works and feels and was surprised others didn't like it as much as I did.

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