Comments on: Beware upgradeware

By: Legacy 7

Legacy 7 — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:18:34 +0000

Please, the original poster is correct, Netobjects is a nightmare. I made a ‘go to menu’ to click on internal links. One minute it works and when I upload it again after making changes to another page, the menu doesn’t work anymore. I would go back and redo the go to list again and upload with no prevail. The bottom line, you can’t defend the company with too many consistent users that have expressed their like problems both on here and other websites that I’ve looked at where the problems are the same. And what sucks is, I will save my work just in case the program will crash. I was working, saved my work and accidentally unplugged my computer yesterday, everything that I had done, was gone.

I use other software, Dreamweaver, Flash, Swishmax and when I save my work just in case a crash happens, the work is still there. Netobjects suck big time, regardless that it’s a easy program to use. Dreamweaver has changed a lot and is alot easier to use. I just picked up CS4, so far so good.

They need to do a inspection on software from these types of companies before they release them to the public. Netobject is what Ford Motoes was for many year to the consumer with crappy cars.

By: Hugh O'Regan

Hugh O'Regan — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 17:59:30 +0000

Andy,

You know that has happened to me once or twice in the past. However, right now I cannot
reproduce it on the 30 row test table I just created. You told me that this happened on
versions 8 and 10 for you. And I am using version 9 so I am not sure I can help.

One of the reasons why I stick with NOF is that it has a dedicated user group which does
a tremendous job of supporting each other. The group is free and open to all. I am sure that
they will be able to help you.

NOF Usergroups may be found at:
http://netobjects.com/html/newsgroups.html

I will bet that someone will step forward and provide a solution. These are not NOF employees
only users who have stuck with the product.

Hugh

By: Andy Brice

Andy Brice — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 19:25:58 +0000

Hugh,

Have you found the problem where clicking in a table scrolls to the top of the table (even if its a huge table)? If so, do you know a workaround?

By: Hugh O'Regan

Hugh O'Regan — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 18:33:54 +0000

hmmmmmm. My website address did not display in my last message.
Maybe I violated some rule about URL’s I apologize if I did.

If you want to see a NOF site, google me with: “votf san francisco”
the title is Voice of the Faithful Northern California. Here is the
URL again if you don’t see it do the google.

http://www.votf-sf.org

By: Hugh O'Regan

Hugh O'Regan — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 18:23:39 +0000

I ran across your email message because I was looking for a free Version 9 On NetObjects Fusion.
I have a paid version but was looking for another copy for a non-profit organization in San Francisco which does not have a lot of cash on-hand. Here is my reply, and no I am not a shill
for NetObjects….. just a user.

I love this product, in my opinion it is the most underrated WYSIWUG Web editor out there. I started with Version 2 and have upgraded to
4, 6,7, and 9. I have not upgraded to 10 so I cannot comment. (I do not upgrade unless I need the new features, that is an old lesson that
I have learned.

I did experience bugs in NOF in the early versions but they were always corrected in the versions bug fixes. In my opinion there is not a product out there that will allow the user to create and maintain a small, medium or large sized website as easily as NOF.

Learning the product is deceptively simple and I also learned that
with NOF using tables helps tremendously.

Here is one of my web sites which I used NOF to create and maintain.

Hugh O’Regan

By: Andy Brice

Andy Brice — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 08:46:25 +0000

Sergey,

I have fixed the link now. Thanks.

By: Sergey Kornilov

Sergey Kornilov — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 04:42:26 +0000

Andy,

the “contact me with a quote” link is incorrect.

By: Brit

Brit — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 02:34:49 +0000

I bought NetObjects back when it was in version 4. When a new version came out, I was hoping that it would be more powerful and more stable than the last version, so I upgraded. I found the newer version to be just as unstable and have all kinds of quirks. If I remember correctly, I didn’t think it was any worse or better than the previous version, but I was pretty irritated that I had spent money on an upgrade and gotten nothing better than my previous version. I decided that I wasn’t ever going to upgrade NetObjects again. A while later, I got the NetObject 8 with 1and1 as well. It really isn’t any better than NetObjects 4 in my opinion. Further, NetObjects 8 has some quirky behavior where the items appear in dramatically different positions on the webpage than they do in the editor (which is infuriating). It seems like the NetObjects team is changing stuff, but I wouldn’t really call it “improvements”. It seems like a lot of lateral movement back and forth – maybe then underlying source code is a complete lemon, and they can’t change anything without accidentally breaking something.

By: Beware of Upgradeware

Beware of Upgradeware — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 22:45:48 +0000

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