Monday, September 3, 2007

Host Monster and Page Wizard

Host Monster is my hosting provider, and their rates are very reasonable. For HTML 'tards like me, they also offer the horrible Page Wizard to help you construct your web pabes. Sadly, Page Wizard is better than a lot of WYSIWYG page design programs out there, and I can tell you that I find it heinous. I can't wait until I can afford to try Dream Weaver.

What's wrong with Page Wizard, you may ask?

The main things are:

It doesn't support Javascript

You can't import web pages you've already designed elsewhere

Limited fonts

For fuck's sake, get some new templates already! Not everyone is interested in business templates.

At times when you want to change the font, it resists. You have to cut the text out of the "insert text" box, then delete the text box and start fresh with a new one.

I don't know that any of the other hosting provider's WYSIWYG designer offerings are any better. Hostmonster has been pretty good to me. The one time I did have to call them I got someone who actually spoke English, was able to answer my questions and resolve my issues quickly, and didn't call me "sir." Click the link at the bottom and check them out.

A word to the wise: If you encounter anything that tries to suck you into paying for service with the hosting provider Midphase, run away very, very fast. Their crappy service has its tech support routed to India, where they hire people who do not have very good command of the English language and you will never get your question answered. It is also impossible to cancel your service. Midphase sucks, do not use it! My experience with them when I was attempting to do affiliate marketing was horrible.


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