WebEasy Professional 5.0 :: Education by Design Store

Customer Reviews

Truly terrible and deceptive software

2008-06-07
I am a professional software and web developer with more than 15 years working in the field. I recently helped a friend with a site built with Web Easy Professional 5.0, which is a WYSIWYG HTML-generating software that saves your site in a proprietary data file. I was truly horrified by the quality of the HTML and other code generated by this software; its broken code does not validate and is not browser compatible. [For the web savvy: it places every element in an absolutely positioned div with invalid inline CSS values.] The user interface is one of the worse I've ever seen. For example, the link colors can only be set when you "build" your site in the Build dialog box. What the?? There is an "Advanced" button in that dialog box that hides the option of setting the Author, Keywords and "Internet Search Engine Description" from the user. And they have these fields populated with VCOM marketing keywords!!! What user that responds to software with "Easy" in the title is going to click on a button labeled "Advanced"? Every site built with this terrible program is helping VCOM gain better search engine rankings while its own search ranking suffers. My poor friend had been abused and lied to by VCOM tech support on many occasions. They do everything to lock you into their system, which uses strange terminology which literally mis-educates you about many things. From even a cursory look, I found blatantly incorrect claims in the software's text and help. And yes, the software "recommends" all users "publish" using their iEasySite hosting service (that's where they really make their money, of course). I found the username and FTP information wass essentially hidden from the user. I suspect this company could be fairly sued; they clearly designed their system to exploit technically unaware people. I sincerely hope you have not been conned by the manipulative company who produces this excuse for software. I can't go on, but it's really that bad...

Don't waste your money

2007-02-06
These people should not be allowed to advertise their product using the word "easy". Yes, their web site design is fairly easy once you catch on to it, but don't expect the manual to be of much help. It assumes you are an expert to begin with and doesn't define terms very well, so plan on doing a lot of guessing and experimenting. The really hard part is getting your site published. After several unsuccessful tries (WebEasy congratulates me and says my site has been published successfully, but when I go to look at it, it says the site has not been uploaded properly) and after an e-mail from their "help desk" that started out by saying "What you should try is...", I gave up. I needed help from them. I can try things myself. I don't need their experts guessing at what might work.

I finally decided the frustration wasn't worth it and got another program. In good conscience, I could never recommend WebEasy to anyone.

Customer Supprt -What Support!!

2007-01-14
Be ready to get advice via email and google. You wont be able to talk to a live person EVER!! V-Com (owners) will not let you talk to anyone over the phone regarding any of their software.

Good for a beginner

2006-08-29
When I first started writing, I wanted to create a website. Now many people said I should go with a professional but I just wanted to do it myself. After comparing price and what it could do(at the time I didn't know what I wanted) I bought it.

Now keep in mind that I had absolutely no experience in working with webpages and no programming background at all except a small amount of basic on my old commodore 64.

I had pages up and running in a few hours. But there were a few things that annoyed me.

First of all, every page had to be the same size. Don't know if that's the way it is with all programs, but it's just annoying.

Secondly, I wanted to add programs for download but am unable to.

Also, everytime I changed the graphics even small, then the page is all screwed up on Aol. Don't know why, but after awhile it straightens itself out. Received limited help from Aol about it.

All in all, I do like it but if you want more versatility, look for another one.

Simple and Effective

2006-08-18
This is a simple and effective program for a first-timer (and I am definitely one of those) to use to create a website. Once you have your pages made, you can 'build' your site and then use any text editor to edit the pages as needs be. [...].

Just as bad as Web Easy 6.0, possibly worse...

2006-03-15
With Web Easy Professional is a complete Web design studio that gives you a great-looking Website in no time!

I love it.

2006-02-01
I didn't have time to learn html and didn't want to. Bought Webeditor which is an absolute joke. Then bought Webeasy 5.0. No, it's not perfect but it gets the job done for what I need and was VERY easy to figure out. Check out my website that I built with it at: www.naturesfinestimages.com

This is a strong product - confused by all the bad reviews

2005-09-16
I love this product. It is a very powerful tool and is so much better than fumbling around with DreamWeaver. While I'm not a mind reader, I feel that some of the bad reviews are from folks that thought it would be super EASY as in you snap you fingers and your website magically appears. You do have to read the manual and the instructions, but with taking a little time to learn you have a lot of functions at your disposal that are very easy to use. I have to admit that I haven't tried to access the HTML code yet, but my understanding is that you can't do this which I could see becoming frustrating. If they added that feature into the next version this product would be perfect. Nevertheless, I gave it 5 stars because as of yet there hasn't been anything that I've wanted to do that I couldn't do yet.

Program is more complicated then learning HTML

2005-07-19
By the time you figure this program out you could have learned HML. I`m other word it not a very good easy to understand format where you can just start using it right away. I gave up wasting my time on it. . I have seen a few hosting services that have easy to understand templates that are very well formatted and easy to manipulate, but you really got to look around unfortunately. Maybe I'll just serch simple html code "basic easy html...

Sucky Program

2005-04-04
I think that this "web easy 5" software sucks, the link thing did not work either, it kept opening it up in new windows! It really sucks, I am getting web editor 6.0!