I have been looking for a great WYSIWYG HTML/CSS editor for the Mac platform. The best one that provides easy and true drag-n-drop capabilities is, unfortunately, iWeb by Apple Inc. I like the editor in iWeb, but the site management capabilities are lacking. The ability to easily publish to something besides .Mac would also be welcomed as would a template creator piece.
So, when I read about Flux and it’s ability to allow “Drag and drop elements onto your page, move them, and watch your CSS files get updated without touching a key,” I was admittedly excited about the possibilities. Could this be the application that will allow me to make my web page with 1) standard compliant code and 2) true WYSIWYG design abilities that allow me to focus on my creativity? Well, no. I was disappointed. First of all, the application could not even keep up with my typing. I type about 60-80 words per minute but the application lagged extremely. I’m running it on a MacBook, 2GHz Dual Core with 2GB of RAM. iWeb by Apple and Adobe’s Dreamweaver CS3 all work fine with my typing speed.
Other issues: I was lost. This application is not at all intuitive. How do you insert text onto a web page? You would think it would be included in their ‘New Element’ menu, but it’s hidden in the functionality of a new DIV tag. I know what a DIV tag is, but when you’re dealing with an application that is touting drag-n-drop abilities, you also expect some more generic, if not intuitive, commands.
Give this application a try. Maybe it will click with you but for me, it was far from “super!”
If you have ever used NetObject Fusion - that is the application that we need on the Mac platform. Yes, years ago (on the pre-OS X Macs) it was an option. Heck, it may have even started on the Mac, but today it’s a Windows only application. Fusion allows great site design and management and has the WYSIWYG part down great. iWeb is close, but too limited for multi-site publishing.
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