Learn from my mistake, Corel Website Creator is one of the worst website authoring programs on the market. It is a rebranded form of Net Fusions. While Net Fusions might be a functioning software program, Web Site Creator is not. It is so bad, the not even Corel knows how to operate. Note there is no tech support avaliable. There are no forums on how to use it, it seems as if it just doesn't exist, yet they'll sale it to with Corel Draw X5 Ultimate or as a standalone for $199.99
What they won't do is provide tech support, again, they don't know how to use it. The 1100+ page manual is only a pdf file, THAT CAN NOT BE SEARCHED. The help files are written by Microsoft and are therefore useless. When I complaint about the difficulty it was advised to buy the Net Fusions 11 book to learn how to operate it. Been there have the book and it just doesn't work. Maybe Corel made enough changes to make it useless. When I delete this god awful software, the book goes into the recycle bin.
I have now wasted 16 hours over the weekend on trying to set up a site. I though I had my index page all ready to go only to find out the everything on my index page is on every page I have in my outline. They do not have masterpages as real website authoring software does, it's master borders, what ever the hell those are.
So search the forums, you'll only find this one, and there isn't much on it, because the program is not worth it. But something else, Web-Pagemaker a $50.00 program that hasn't had an update for over a year is better then Corel Website Creator, save yourselve some money, time and hairloss, buy that and not corel.
This is from Corels own page for CWC:
Easily create websites and design web pages with Corel® Website Creator™ X5. Its drag-and-drop functionality and seamless integration with XHTML, CSS, JavaScript and XML combine to make website creation easier. Simply drag and place text, graphics and multimedia elements on your web pages-no coding knowledge required! Use the Timeline Editor to create and manage stunning visual effects. Soon you'll create web pages and build stunning websites like a pro
Create web pages quickly and easily-without HTML or web coding.
So is this not misleading??? It seems as if you want to just bash the hell out of me for stating what I clearly stated was my own personal and biased opinion. If it makes you feel better then go ahead. Otherwise, you seem to miss the point that you are refering me to Net Fusions, help files, which is not Corel. Therefore you are telling me to seek help someplace other than Corel. You also want to assume, I have only 16 hours with this software. Not true, I've have spend approx 30 hours to learn how to use this software and so far have learned only that Corel doesn't know how to use it nor do they offer any support. In fact, the manager for this software himself ( i'm assuming it's was actully him, as it the e-mail was from his e-mail address) is the one that advised me to purchase the Net Fusions 11 book as he admited that Corel doesn't have any support for the software.
As far as how many hours I've spent designing websites, I'd guess I have only a couple hundred hours. It's not my full time job, I do it to get a site up and running and if those I do it for want something done by someone with more experiance, then so be it. I am however doing one for our homebased business, so maybe you can understand why the number of hours I've spent and accomplishing nothing is so bothersome. As far as your assumption that I turned my nose up at your advise, how the hell do you think you are??? I have not turned my nose up at it. I haven't had time to view the site. I plan to, but I believe we are on opposite sides of the planets, so think before you accuse. Your statement of click a few icons and do some drag and drops is what I'd expect to hear from somebody that is intent on selling thier services, it says nothing about how to setup the page, which I have obviously done wrong as I'm getting everything on all my pages. As far as making the program more confusing that it needs to be. How can I make something that is offered with no support, an online only manual, help files that are useless. Also have you even looked at the manual for this software. If it is such a great and powerfull HTML generator, why is so much time, spent on telling you how to do your own coding???????????
As far as snow, I personally love it. It's the cold I don't like, but I don't hold that against the snow. I know for there to be snow, there has to be cold. I accept that. With software, I know i'm not a guru at using it. I do expect to be able to make something positive happen and expand from there. This is not the case with Corel Web site Creator.
The description of the product you posted seems spot on to me.
I don't think anyone has bashed you in this thread so far.
All I tried to do was point you where you could get some help. I am sorry that you feel that you do not want to take advantage of the resources that are available for this product but that is your decision. You only listed one problem (content showing up on all pages) and I gave you a link to a resource that would resolve this one issue. Here is the link again if you want to resolve this problem: http://www.gotfusion.com/tutorials/tut.cfm?itemID=382
The suggestion that you purchase a book on the software was a very good suggestion.
If you want a tutorial on how to start a web site with the product you can go over this tutorial: http://www.gotfusion.com/tutorials/tut.cfm?itemID=4069 Understand that this tutorial is VERY BASIC and does not cover everything you can do but it will get you started.
I think if you work with the product a little longer you will enjoy what you can do with it. As with any new software product it takes a little while before the light bulb goes off and it all falls into place.
so this statement
"Blaming software for lack of understanding on how it functions ls like blaming your car for running out of gas"
and this one
"You were offered a resource and turned your nose up at it. The only person that's going to hurt is you."
along with the assumptions that I have only "16hours" experiance with the software are not personal attacks. The seem pretty personal to me.
What everyone here seems to be missing is the fact that COREL can not and does not offer any type of tech support. All information is being directed to Net Objects, the author of this software. Net Objects will not offer any support, COREL does not offer any support, so why should I purchase software from Corel they can't support. I've had this software for several months and even now, they don't offer any support. Therefore my opinion not to purchase it is legitimate. I will view the links that were provided, thanks for taking the time to provide them. But, I should not have to go to a site other than one operated by Corel for assistance with software they sell under thier own name!!!! This is my point of frustration.
Scott GO said:so this statement "Blaming software for lack of understanding on how it functions ls like blaming your car for running out of gas"
If you took this analogy as a person attack I apologize.
As far as assuming you had spend 16 hours with the product I got this impression from the statements you made in your original post.
Scott GO said:I have now wasted 16 hours over the weekend on trying to set up a site.
There are resources available that will help you use this product. You should take advantage of all available resources regardless of where they come from.
As I previously stated, I cannot speak for Corel regarding their support of this product. User to user support is a valuable resource and one you should take advantage of.
As I reply, I am using the user provided assitance. It does make understanding how the program is set up better understood. I still have questions, but will figure them out by use of manuals, referances and other means. But again, I should be able to get these answers via Corel.
For the first time I have made some progress in website creator. Thanks to the assistance of the provided links, Thanks Turtle, the site is a great help. The problem I'm having now is that when I preview my page the center scrolls. I have tried the "fixed page layout" as gotfusion.com site indicates, but this did not make any difference in the middle scrolling. The master borders are stationary. How do I go about setting the page to scroll as a whole page?
Thanks
Scott
It sounds like you have frames enabled.
Can you set up a test remote profile, upload and post a URL to the test pages? See this page for how to create a remote test profile http://www.gotfusion.com/tutorials/tut.cfm?itemID=4071