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.
You can find support forms on the NetO site (Corel web site creator X5 is based on NetObjects Fusion 11)
http://forums.netobjects.com/forumdisplay.php?27-NetObjects-Fusion-11-Questions-Problems-and-Troubleshooting
I have run a support web site for the Fusion product for the past 12 years. You can find over 500 step by step tutorials on how to use the product.
Your issue with everything showing up on all pages is a basic mistake made by a lot of new users. This tutorial will explain what you have done and how you can correct the problem
http://www.gotfusion.com/tutorials/tut.cfm?itemID=382
As far as the time needed to build a complete web site. Several years ago I put together a 10 page live web site in 15 minutes as a demonstration of how easy the software is to use, all during an nntp (newsgroup) thread from suggestions made by other online users.
Blaming software for lack of understanding on how it functions ls like blaming your car for running out of gas
Hi Turtle,
as a person who is obviously experienced with this software, what is your opinion of it for people who are not that experienced in creating websites? I am talking about people who are keen to learn and willing to read, of course, but have little experience in web work.
Best regards,Brian.
Corel Web Site Creator X5 (NetObjects Fusion 11) is an HTML generator as opposed to an HTML editor.
The user never sees any HTML code as the product writes it for them.
The entire web site creation process is done within the software's GUI. Most of the mundane tasks such as web site navigation and file organization are handled automatically by the software.
All a use needs to be able to do is; click a few icons, draw boxes, and drag and drop. Whatever the user does in the interface is changed into HTML code by the program.
It is an on screen design program that creates html documents (web pages) from the layout created by the user.
The software is advanced enough that an experienced programmer, like a designer of online dynamic driven (database created) web sites, can insert any code into any location within the HTML document that the program creates. So the software can be used by someone who just found out where the "on button" is located on their computer all the way to people who create websites using dynamic languages like ASP, PHP, and ColdFusion that create web documents from database records stored in products like MySQL or MS Sql server and generate web pages on the fly.
The biggest issue new users have is that they want to make the program more complex than it needs to be. You need to keep reminding yourself that the product does everything for you,
Thanks for the detailed response, Turtle. It sounds very interesting.