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kemifa.com…

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

As I look at the examples of websites that you have built using Synthasite, do you foresee users primarily using it as an affiliate website generator?

1. Write Word documents
2. Build websites from scratch using a component architecture
3. Use templates to build websites for beginners, etc.
4. Integrate multiple API’s for mashups (we built http://www.meetpersonals.com using Synthasite as well, mashing up Yahoo Maps & Personals).
5. Affiliate Website
6. Merchant Store builder
7. Anything else you can think of…

The important thing in building Synthasite, was building a scalable web application platform, and then building applications on top of it as we saw the market evolve. If we wanted to just build a site builder, we woudn’t have bothered with the underlying AJAX architecture, but now that that’s built, we feel that we’ve only begun to scratch the surface of opportunities for our technology - but we believe that Synthasite is probably the lowest hanging fruit at this stage, given it’s ability to integrate into 3rd party webservices and make those complicated API’s available to web developers in a drag and drop environment - that what’s we believe our core value proposition is at this stage.

Once we launch Synthasite into Open Beta, and in fact, even from feedback from the Closed Beta, we will being to align it more with market needs, but until then, we’re making sure that the platform is stable and scalable and that all our Beta testers are happy. I look forward to welcoming many of you into the program within the next few weeks! Thanks for all your comments thus far!

I never heard of Joomla, but will check that out.

or

‘we thought we’d create affiiate template sites then realised that wasn’t the big idea, we spent a lot on it so it’s got to do something - I know, lets make out its Dreamweaver for web 2.0′