SynthaSite, an AJAX-based webpage editor that lets users create websites by dragging-and-dropping, has relaunched with a new interface that it hopes will make the site more appealing to casual web designers. While most of the feature set will stay the same, the company believes that the new interface will expose users to features that were hidden in confusing menus in the last iteration of the site.
One of the most useful features of SynthaSite is its integration with Picnik, an online image editing site. Users can easily manipulate the images they’ve uploaded to SynthaSite using Picnik’s browser-based editor, with the changes seamlessly reflected in their SynthaSite library.
We originally wrote about SynthaSite in September 2006. A year later, the site made the bold (and somewhat bizarre) move of giving away some of its stock away to users, prompting Michael to question if it was becoming desperate. The site later raised $5 million, allaying these concerns. SynthaSite sees competition from a number of other WYSIWYG designers, including Wix and Weebly.
Looks like Wordpress templates without all the useful plugins.
I know, templates can be boring. However, with webepags, you can build your own web page without knowing a lick of html or using templates either. Webepags also allows you to build your own custom database to submit data from web forms to it as well without any scripting.
So, try it out. Go to http://www.webepags.com
I’ve played around with Wix and it was nice. Isn’t this very similar?
And the above link (webepags) seems like just trying to get some traffic.
Keep eye on http://www.edicy.com
May fail, may be a “great success”.
Some Skype co-founders involved.
Synthasite is somehow good to use, but new version seems some bugs while editing html, it can only show about 33 lines and if you want to insert more lines, it disappears! 0_0
Nusushika: thank you so much for the feedback. Your very specific description of the bug with the HTML edior was most helpful. We will look into this right away!
Doesn’t work at all. FF3. Lost 2 Minutes of my life, won’t wast another 2…
I have six Synthasite sites and plan more. I have been a client through multiple versions and the latest version is yummy.
This company has made it possible for people like me, who are light on programming skills, to build lovely sites easily and quickly. It is possible that competitors offer comparable products, though an article rating them that I read gave Synthasite five stars and others less. Others often have stifling restrictions or require ads.
For me, the deal was sealed when I discovered Synthasite’s outstanding customer support. No company has tolerated so many questions from a relentless question-asker like me so graciously.
As they add features and polish the product they are building a real web 3.0 phenomenon. I think this is going to be a big part of the internet’s future. It is incredibly liberating not to have to wrestle with a programmer to get the design I want.
I am posting links to a couple of my Synthasite sites so that you can verify I am a real person. Obviously I welcome all traffic but since I see self-promoting posts in this thread I want you to know my identity. You can follow links on any site to get to my others if you want the full tour. I’ll start you with my comics:
http://scratchinpost.synthasite.com/
http://redmenace.synthasite.com/
Recently a young lady who used Synthasite to build a site about teens who self-harm wrote to me. She felt frustrated because “her Synthasite site did not look as good as mine.” I looked at her site and it was a remarkable work for someone who I think is quite young. I recently read a book on self-harm and found her site to be informed and valuable. The devil was in the details: my designer side offered her tips on font choices, colors, balance, etc. that I think will help her shine. Tools like Synthasite can help us all make some shabby-looking sites, but the user community and tutorials are providing remedies. The reason I tell you this is because my sites looked poor at first, but some now look quite nice. Synthasite and similar tools force us to develop our eye as designers and not to indefinitely delegate design to pre-packaged templates. I think this is a good thing.
http://www.sauropol.com is another do-it-yourself-website site which uses similar approach to user interface as synthasite
lot of thanks please send information to my email edress…
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Thanks. superb.
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