Instead they ve dusted it down and thrown in some modern features such as support for CSS, forms, applets, JavaScript, ActiveX, embedded files and layering. The problems are twofold. To begin with, such features are generally far too advanced for the target audience. Far worse is the appallingly complex and obscure interface which even hardened HTML coders would find baffling. In other words the majority of Print Office users shouldn t be using Web Designer in the first place and those that try are virtually doomed to fail.
Web Designer throws away ease of use in the hunt for unnecessary power.
Web functionality is undoubtedly a good move, but this should have been done by expanding the main Print Office application s existing HTML capabilities, or providing another Photo House-style module, rather than by a return to the bad old days of gratuitous bundling. Sadly the inclusion of the misguided Web Designer isn t just disappointing in its own right, it takes the edge off the suite as a whole. Please get in contact to let me know what you think about a particular piece or the site in general. If you've found the site useful please remember to bookmark it and to tell others.