Review: Webeasy 6 Professional web design software

With a trend towards ever more sophisticated websites, Webeasy 6 Professional is designed to create sites quickly but without sacrificing advanced tools such as ecommerce.

Webeasy 6 supports a wide range of web formats including CSS for consistent formatting and dynamic HTML, which offers all sorts of effects including moving text.

Getting started is easy thanks to the well written tutorials and large selection of templates covering various websites from business through to more personal versions.

The tutorials cover the basics as well as more advanced topics such as search engine ranking.

In the design view, object properties (text, shapes and multimedia etc.) are placed down the left hand side of the screen, while the bottom is devoted to a browser for clip art and objects.

Using this layout, it's easy to drag anything from pictures to hit counters direct onto your page. All of the scripts can be edited, which lets more experienced users tailor the design further.

One of the best ways to encourage visitors to you site is to create RSS feeds. With this in mind, Webeasy 6 includes full support for RSS and will automatically generate feeds from your main website.

The CD also has 30,000 items of media that can be used. With another 55,000 available online, you won't go short of clipart and the like.

The ecommerce wizard supports a variety of payments services such as the ever popular Paypal. However, it was disappointing to find these wizards don't provide any way of categorising products and services, so it ends up becoming a long list.

It should be borne in mind that Javascript does not always make for the most accessible websites and you should think carefully about how it is used.

Some of this content will be blocked by Internet Explorer so it should be used with care.

On the whole, Webeasy 6 Professional is a solid web design package, with the relatively low price hinting at its target audience.

System requirements:
Pentium 500 MHz
256MB of Ram
170MB disk space

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