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Sandvox is for Mac users who want to create a professional looking website quickly and easily. With Sandvox, you don't need to be a web genius to build a stylish, feature-rich, standards-compliant website that's functional and user friendly. Sandvox's drag and drop interface lets you watch your website take shape and come to life as you build it. And, once finished, you can upload your site to your favorite host.
Whether you're a new website creator or a seasoned professional, you can make use of Sandvox to build the website of your dreams. New users can build a professional
Whether you're a new website creator or a seasoned professional, you can make use of Sandvox to build the website of your dreams. New users can build a professional
What's New
Version 2.5.1:
- Adds new Slide Show page template
- Turning on Gallery for Photo Grids properly updates the Web Editor
- Corrects issue with aligning an Inline object
- Corrects rare issue with saving documents
- Corrects label in the Comments sheet
- Corrects Growl message at end of publishingSANDVOX 2.5:Lion Features
- Supports being a full-screen app
- Documents are automatically saved for you, and previous versions can be browsed
- Upon quitting and relaunching, all windows restore exactly as you left themObjects
- Brand new Slide Show index
- Photo Grid supports displaying captions derived from each page
- Improved compatibility with .m4v files
- Amazon List supports Italian, Chinese, and Spanish stores
- Placeholders:
- Corrects appearance of YouTube when no video has been chosen
- For websites that do not support being embedded within other websites, Sandvox displays a placeholder
- Corrects appearance of Raw HTML placeholdersPublishing
- Once publishing completes, it's easy to let your visitors know using:
- Overhauled publishing engine for speed and reliability
- If added to the home screen on an iPhone or iPad, home pages display their thumbnail as specified in the Page inspector
- Publishing Transcript is more readable and can be included when sending feedbackWelcome Window
- Hit the space bar for a Quick Look preview of selected documents
- Drag a document onto the Welcome Window to open it
- Recent documents can be dragged to other apps (such as Finder); control-click to Show in Finder.Text Editing
- Footers support custom alignment
- Fixes layout issues while dragging inline objects
- Resolves issue when choosing a file to insertDesigns
- Blueprint supports dropdown menus
Version 2.5.1:
- Adds new Slide Show page template
- Turning on Gallery for Photo Grids properly updates the Web Editor
- Corrects issue with aligning an Inline object
- Corrects rare issue with saving documents
- Corrects label in the Comments sheet
- Corrects Growl message at end of publishingSANDVOX 2.5:Lion Features
- Supports being a full-screen app
- Documents are automatically saved for more...
Requirements
- PPC / Intel
- Mac OS X 10.6 or later
- Quartz-Extreme-capable Mac required for some features
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| Type:Development : HTML |
| License:Demo |
| Date:31 Jan 2012 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
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Sandvox is for Mac users who want to create a professional looking website quickly and easily. With Sandvox, you don't need to be a web genius to build a stylish, feature-rich, standards-compliant website that's functional and user friendly. Sandvox's drag and drop interface lets you watch your website take shape and come to life as you build it. And, once finished, you can upload your site to your favorite host.
Whether you're a new website creator or a seasoned professional, you can make use of Sandvox to build the website of your dreams. New users can build a professional looking website in minutes and professional users can build an advanced, multimedia-rich site in no time at all.
Whether you're a new website creator or a seasoned professional, you can make use of Sandvox to build the website of your dreams. New users can build a professional looking website in minutes and professional users can build an advanced, multimedia-rich site in no time at all.
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THEE:LEE reviewed on 03 Feb 2012
DoctorFix reviewed on 21 Jan 2012
Over the years there have been additional worthwhile features added and they've now moved on to version 2 but I've decided to stay behind. Why? Let me count the ways.
Number one is the stability issue. The program will routinely blow up for no reason and you'll have to restart it over and over, again and again, rinse and repeat. And it isn't limited to one machine only. I have a family multi-user license and it happens everywhere. And, NO, I don't run custom this or that add-ons to the system so that's not the problem. It's simply unstable. Fortunately we save often and haven't lost anything but it's irritating as hell.
Secondly, there are pitiful few extra templates available to try and customize. I don't know what the problem is but it seems even fewer are providing them than before. That's not good! As robot would say in Lost In Space, "Warning Will Robinson!".
Thirdly, while creating your site structure is straightforward and easy the one thing that drives me insane is the inability to move simple pages up or down without them taking on a life of their own. You want to go up or down within the hierarchy? Good luck Charly! I suggested years ago that they include little buttons on the page tab to click up or down so you can place them better.... Nope! They added other crap but something that actually makes it easier to use was ignored. And be careful just how big your site gets because it becomes more unstable the bigger it grows.
Now I've thought about Rapidweaver, which has similar functions, but to be honest it's as big a mess or bigger and hasn't really improved in years. You have to buy so many add-ons to make it truly useful that it becomes ridiculously expensive. And the templates are just as old and musty as Sandvox's. Kudos to the developers who extend these platforms but it should be built-in instead of having to be tacked on.
So what to do? I guess I'm going to push or drag my wife to a Wordpress based blogging system and I'll unfortunately have to be Mr. Tech Support once again because this sand box is just too small.
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Szeoli reviewed on 11 Dec 2011
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It's too bad that Macs and OS X don't get the kind of legacy support that PCs & Windows do.
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Apple doesn't support PPC for the App Store, current iLife, Logic, FCP, 10.6 Snow Leopard, etc…I've even heard that OS 10.8 will drop support for 32 bit Intel Macs. That is not very good legacy support.
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Anon-Bud reviewed on 10 Dec 2011
I've been using SV for about a year with my website [check out my MU profile to find where my website is] and have had a good experience with it. I especially like the Google diagnostics.
It just keeps getting better, IMO.
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Something a little more robust than iWeb would be nice, but iWeb is very adequate for a slapdash page. If another host site will sufficiently support iWeb may be at issue once Apple moves exclusively to iCloud methodology.
I have RapidWeaver, but that seems about the same as iWeb & a platform meant to sell pre-fab layouts as much as a "roll-your-own."
Frankly, the site you directed to could have been made using a simple blogger page, or iWeb, thus at first glance I don't see anything which recommends Sandvox specifically, over those options.
Can you elaborate?
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I didn't use a blogger page because I wanted complete control over all elements of design and wanted to host my own site and have my own files locally stored. Also I didn't like what these type of sites offered.
I used iWeb for a number of years and couldn't get it to do anywhere near what SV allows me to do.
I will admit that my site is not very complex. I have only begun to scratch the surface with SV, but, so far, I am really quite pleased with it.
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Vinkri reviewed on 26 Nov 2011
I am an average Rapidweaver user and wanted to find an alternative.
Let's roll:
Designs: lots of them... but all the same. Either designers are underpaid or they hired my little sister to do these: they are BASIC and, dare I say, UGLY.
that's not to say that RW's themes are all beautiful, but at least they have noticeable differences between them.
Ease of use: TWO great features compared to Rapidweaver:
1/you see your website develop as you fill it with text, images...
2/flexibility with pagelets and embedded pages is a real benefit. RW has only the sidebar to compete and is knocked out by Sandvox, on this...
That being said, inspector is confusing, personalization options are almost inexistent, modification of theme requires skills you'll find only in MIT.
Maybe it's very easy after all... but it's not INTUITIVE as Rapidweaver is. And I don't want to read a documentation that I found confusing and of average quality (same as RW, by the way... but the software is intuitive enough for you to find by yourself within 1 or 2 tries)
Stability: well, maybe it's me, but the software is crashing when I'm doing very complicated stuff, like deleting a textbox or checking a box inside the Inspector...
In brief, for very very very basic use, it's OK, but very very very much overpriced.
But if you want to do "more", then you need to understand the logic of the application. And I found it so bloring and so bad, that I didn't have the courage to do it.
Guess I'll stick to Rapidweaver and the Stacks plugin.
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SandVox is still... 32-bit. It does not know anything about the new Lion Stuff like Fullscreen, Versions and so on--it's even a bit worse.
This is another Money-Making-Product like RapidWeaver or RealBasic (Studio4Dummies) which does not fulfill it's great promises. HTML5-Media Player? You have to buy it for another 7 bucks. Drag a mp4-Podcast Episode on it and it says: this can only be played with QuickTime and not with IE...
Tables? Not with this app. Sophisticated Plug-In's? Nothing there to buy. Just silly overpriced dumb eye-washing junk. Ayyyyyy.
It has some nice templates also the photo-site is very nice but the template browser brings the app to a crash and therefore the app-code has some flaws which gives me the impression the people working on this app are not real professionals. Sorry2u. I have very high expectations for an app that costs more than 5 bucks--silly me but that's just the way it is. Sorry again.
Can't recommend it. iWeb does the job better and cheaper and you won't feel cheated all the time--
BTW: I purchased this app via AppStore for 48 CHF (half price) but after two weeks I was so frustrated I decided I don't wanna use this anymore and deleted everything related to this app and wrote a mail to the AppStore-Supoort which was so kind and gave me the money back, probably because of the crashing-thing. Nice!!!! Txs Apple.
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Also, not sure what realstudio has anything to do here. As far as I know that is a tool to code and not to make websites.
About Rapidweaver:
For novices this is by far the best app to make websites. You complain Sandvox has no plugins? Well, RW has tons of that. So whats the big deal about RW being bad?
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To have Plug-Ins and stuff is a nice touch but is misused by SandVox, RapidWeaver and RealStudio. The lack of functionality is a calculated thing and after paying for the app you start to pay for plug-ins and stuff which is kinda crazy because all the apps costs very much ... ... ... it's just another way to milk the cow.
Muuhh :)
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Welshmac reviewed on 10 Nov 2011
For full disclosure, here is the site that I have created - www.crossingthethreshold.net
I love Wales - I try to visit Colwyn Bay in north wales to pick up new brass rubbiing facsimiles.
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Like you, I love Wales....and miss it....
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GrafxArt reviewed on 25 Oct 2011
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