<< I have been using a web development app call Wysiwyg Web Builder, which is a drag and drop web builder.  It is reasonably priced and works well for me. http://www.wysiwygwebbuilder.com/index.html >>

I acquired this product recently. It is fantastic. When I get some time after a current EWB project I shall spend more time developing and tailoring it for sure.

That said, more and more I am leaning to returning to writing code in a good IDE. Having used phpDesigner for years and loving it I am inclined to get their latest (albeit dated) version. It's really a great product.

Ideally, once Tim gets the EWB Lite (my name, not his) version going, I shall be using it as the most painful aspect of development to me is Layout and EWB is a boss at that.

Just to add to the Demo/Website requests in a previous post on this thread, here is the link.

       http://pascalnetwork.com/tempdemo/pascalnetwork.html

I also included a link in the Demo and Examples forum to an upcoming Pascal related website I shall be launching in a few months.


Godfrey wrote:
<< I have looked at the EWB sites and none of them are really great looking.  As Tim says EWB is not designed for great looking websites, but rather for web applications. >>

I have noted that myself. Websites do look a bit dull, but web apps are not an issue as business users want functionality, and at this stage EWB does a pretty decent job in this regard. I expect a significant boost as Tim implements some UI enhancements in the future.

Congratulations!

It looks very nice!

Trinione wrote:

Just to add to the Demo/Website requests in a previous post on this thread, here is the link.

       http://pascalnetwork.com/tempdemo/pascalnetwork.html

I also included a link in the Demo and Examples forum to an upcoming Pascal related website I shall be launching in a few months.


Godfrey wrote:
<< I have looked at the EWB sites and none of them are really great looking.  As Tim says EWB is not designed for great looking websites, but rather for web applications. >>

I have noted that myself. Websites do look a bit dull, but web apps are not an issue as business users want functionality, and at this stage EWB does a pretty decent job in this regard. I expect a significant boost as Tim implements some UI enhancements in the future.

Hi

I am just hobby programmer restaurant owner.
Made fully functional ecommerce website for my business using only EWB.


www.texasbrisket.net.

please delay about 5-10 seconds for loading (bug)

Some of the information posted is really solid and viewing some of the web sites built with EWB tends to demonstrate that you still need to have some sort of web site designer which wysiwygwebbuilder provides.  The cost is perfect as well since it helps with any type of budget.

The site that uses it along with EWB was really amazing and the web sites that are using only EWB did show it could be a little bland (no offense).

I would recommend to try out wysiwygwebbuilder to see if it fits your plans, they give a 30 day trial. I have Dreamweaver but if I can use EWB along with wysiwygwebbuilder to build web sites in less time that is a win in my book.

One last comment about phpdesigner, you do know Notepad++ provides most of the features allowing you to edit PHP pages along with limited syntax checking and SQL connections but it is free.  If you do not do a lot of PHP programming you may want to look into that before making a purchase.
Richard Baroniunas
Software Developer and DBA
Richard@Baronsoftware.com

rbaroniunas wrote:
<< One last comment about phpdesigner, you do know Notepad++ provides most of the features allowing you to edit PHP pages along with limited syntax checking and SQL connections but it is free.  If you do not do a lot of PHP programming you may want to look into that before making a purchase. >>

Richard:
I do use Notepad++ as well. Its open practically all the time. However, phpDesigner has a whole lot more than just PHP coding, such as Debugging tools, Code Insight for PHP , HTML5 , CSS3 and JavaScript including jQuery and other popular JavaScript frameworks, Intelligent syntax highlighting, Intuitive way to navigate through projects and a whole lot more. Plus, the cost is very reasonable.

Trinione wrote:

rbaroniunas wrote:
<< One last comment about phpdesigner, you do know Notepad++ provides most of the features allowing you to edit PHP pages along with limited syntax checking and SQL connections but it is free.  If you do not do a lot of PHP programming you may want to look into that before making a purchase. >>

Richard:
I do use Notepad++ as well. Its open practically all the time. However, phpDesigner has a whole lot more than just PHP coding, such as Debugging tools, Code Insight for PHP , HTML5 , CSS3 and JavaScript including jQuery and other popular JavaScript frameworks, Intelligent syntax highlighting, Intuitive way to navigate through projects and a whole lot more. Plus, the cost is very reasonable.

I understand and the key is whether you are working on a lot of PHP code then PHPDesigner is worth it, otherwise Notepad++ is fine to get by.
Richard Baroniunas
Software Developer and DBA
Richard@Baronsoftware.com

IMHO you can produce good looking sites with EWB but like normal web sites you need some design skills.

If I'm designing a website then I use Xara Web Builder Premium: http://www.xara.com/us/web-designer/

Here's are two examples of sites I did using Xara:  

http://www.text-messenger.com/

http://www.wilddesignz.com.au/

There's also another program called Mobirise that you can design nice websites with:

An example:  http://www.cybercom-software.com/referralprogram/

If I'm doing a web app then I of course use EWB.  Here's an example:  http://www.cybercom-software.com/referrals/referralprogram.html

Please don't register though as it is a live site.

= Steve

Steve Gill,

Really nice work and the EWB is pretty good.  It seems that the web designer premium is a yearly charge, is that true ?  It seems to work nicely, www.wysiwygwebbuilder looks to use CMS to store the web site contents into which is fine, does web designer generate HTML / PHP / ETC or is it with embedded templates ?  Can you modify the Templates or are there only options to change the content (such like WordPress) ?
Richard Baroniunas
Software Developer and DBA
Richard@Baronsoftware.com

Godfrey,

<< I have looked at the EWB sites and none of them are really great looking.  As Tim says EWB is not designed for great looking websites, but rather for web applications. >>

That is absolutely *not* what I said.  You added the "great looking" part.  EWB, as it ships, has a perfectly good looking set of control interfaces that are modeled after Windows 8/10.

However, EWB isn't going to do the design work for a web application for you.  If you don't have good design skills, then *nothing* you use is going to help you because you're not going to get the layout/spacing correct.  IOW, short of the tool you're using putting the whole thing together for you because it's using a canned layout where you just fill-in-the-blanks, you're going to need to know what you're doing when building a web application *or* web site, or it's going to look like crap.  That means investing the time to learn some design skills and how to properly build such an application.

Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com