It’s a very useful utility.

I came across Synthasite by accident, and thought that I’d give it a try……and I’m glad that I did.

I’m just putting the finishing touches to a website I’ve built for some serviced offices: http://www.hxrooms.co.uk

I’ve found synthasite to be really easy to use, and providing that you do some simple site planning, it makes constructing a website a breeze (If like me, you can use image editing software, but aren’t a developer).

Nice features with synthasite:
- choice of website templates (easy to tweak)

- easy to make a blog (complete with hosting – cheaper than wordpress or moveable type)

- makes it easy for inserting meta info (keywords, description, titles)

- dead easy to format text for SEO purposes (ie. selecting H1/ H2/H3 etc, and being able to individually select text size/ colour/ format for these)

- easy to put in Google webmaster code

- option to put new pages into menu items (or leave out, and have additional text links – eg at the footer of pages – handy for SEO)

- as it’s accessible by browser, can log onto do updates/ more work with just an internet connection – no desktop software required)

- lots of useful widgets (this is obviously where they make their money – ‘premium widgets’ obviously generate the company an affiliate fee)

So, to summarise – easy to use, nice clean sites, easy to generate a website/ blog/ both, and well worth a try.

Hope this is useful.

Ian

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The best part of it is that it’s really easy to use… if you can click a mouse, you can use this tool to build a website with it.

Doesn’t cost all that much, easy to use and customizable.

Hash: It’s absolutely possible to construct affiliate websites with it, and we’re busy integrating Synthasite into various affiliate networks as part of the offering, to make it easier to add affiliates links to your site, and product feeds etc.

Each one of these tools specializes in different elements. Synthasite.com seems specialized in comparison-shopping, SiteKreator combines design, template branding, popular site elements, and customization, Squarespace is focuses on blogging, etc. Each tool has its target audience who will value its features as it relates to their market.

Tools like FrontPage, Dreamweaver, Drupal, etc are much better in the hands of the developers who can build sites for businesses or individuals. But what if a small business wants to design, build and manage his own web site?

Yes – the CMS have been around for years, but they tend to be expensive and the open source alternatives require a lot of customization, integration from a developer. Also not all of them scale well.

I expect to see in the future more alternatives for self-serve web design, and as such, a variety of options and competition is good for the users (maybe not so good for Michael, as he has to profile them all).

And yes — the quality of HTML generated by most online site design/building tools is not great, but this will improve over time (I remember the first optimizing C compiler generated really crappy code compared to what I could write directly in Assembler). But I think that’s a small problem for now, compared with the advantages you are getting from being able to fully manage your design and content without learning HTML/JS and without hiring a web designer.

Lenkov
SiteKreator