Category Archives: Web designer tools

Adobe Edge Animate 1.0 review

Adobe Edge Animate 1.0 full review Edge Animate’s interface will be familiar to anyone with experience of time-based multimedia. There’s a WebKit-based Stage area for assembling/creating graphics (SVG, JPG, PNG and GIF file formats) and text elements and previewing animation and HTML, and there’s a Timeline and a Properties panel, all presented in the usual…

Jimdo Pro review – Macworld UK

You don’t need to pay anything to have your website hosted, provided you’re happy for it to carry ads. Jimdo has a free version, but we’re looking at the Pro product, which has extras such as a proper domain name, email address, newsletter and site statistics. Jimdo was keen for us to mention that 1&1 uses an outdated version of…

Jimdo Pro review – Macworld UK

You don’t need to pay anything to have your website hosted, provided you’re happy for it to carry ads. Jimdo has a free version, but we’re looking at the Pro product, which has extras such as a proper domain name, email address, newsletter and site statistics. Jimdo was keen for us to mention that 1&1 uses an outdated version of…

1&1 MyWebsite Personal review – Macworld UK

1&1 claims its sites are quick to set up, and include standard text, which can speed the establishment of a web presence. There are two offerings, for personal and business sites; we look at the Personal version here. The site designs are neatly divided into categories. Having signed up though, we were presented with 300 templates categorised under less helpful…

Moonfruit Standard review – Macworld UK

Moonfruit Standard full review Moonfruit has a free entry-level offering and a range of other packages. The Standard product sits above Free and Lite variants, and should suit most personal and entry-level commercial uses. In many ways, this is how an online web-design application should look. It’s polished and slick, but still has nearly all…

WordPress review – Macworld UK

WordPress full review WordPress is probably the best known of all the blogging tools. Setting up a basic blog is free, and this includes taking advantage of the professionally designed templates and hosting. For $99 (£63.85) a year, you also get your own domain name, 10GB rather than 3GB of web space, the removal of…

WordPress review – Macworld UK

WordPress full review WordPress is probably the best known of all the blogging tools. Setting up a basic blog is free, and this includes taking advantage of the professionally designed templates and hosting. For $99 (£63.85) a year, you also get your own domain name, 10GB rather than 3GB of web space, the removal of…

Motion Composer 1.6 review: The easy way to create web animations

If you’re tasked with creating animated advertising banners or interactive web elements for your website, the prospect of having to get to grips with HTML5 and/or Flash can be a daunting one. Fortunately that’s where MotionComposer 1.6 comes in, with a system that supports images, objects, video and sounds and wraps it up with animation…

Sketch 2 review: Vector drawing package that’s designed to export to bitmap

Sketch belongs to an extremely small sub-set of vector drawing packages that are designed to export to bitmap. This best-of-both-worlds approach makes Sketch an effective tool for web graphics creation. It’s also aimed at icon creators and application interface designers.  For us, it’s been a source of surprise that there aren’t more of these tools.…

Softpress Freeway Pro 6 review – Comprehensive web design solution for OS X

Freeway Pro is a comprehensive webpage design software package for OS X. It has always taken a visual route to web design, with a page layout approach that’s more akin to Adobe InDesign than Adobe Dreamweaver.  It’s not so much a web editor as a site creator, only generating the underlying W3C-compliant code for the…