BLOND  Running a small business I do not have the luxury of being able to outsource my web, brochure, manual, leaflet design to someone else. I have to keep a careful eye on cost.

Some years ago I was lucky enough to find Stone Designs Create. I first rebuilt my company web-site then moved on to leaflets to promote my products. After this brochures and technical manuals. Today I am designing a logo. Create is also great for doing homework.

Being able to do all this in one program means only one user interface to learn.

Free upgrades, the important part here is upgrades, not only is Create ready to use the latest version of OSX when it is released. It is kept up to date and new features/requests are added. Take the latest version 13 updated to use CSS and output XHTML 1.0 to the web. All I had to do was open the site I had originally built in Create and output the web files as XHTML 1.0. Andrew Stones attention to detail made it simple for me to do and Creates new features keep my site up to date with the latest web thinking. Andrew is totally in tune with his client base, how they are using his software and what they wish to achieve through a thriving forum where you can quickly get answers and share ideas. Couple this with a quality manual included which is continually kept up to date. Free would be worthless without the above but in this case free is a bonus. This total product support allows me to concentrate on what I need to do to make my business work.

Create has allowed me to communicate with my customers far more eloquently improving my business. Yes I can honestly say Create is part of my business success, thank you Andrew.  
(Version 13.0)

T  Everything looks great, except the Info inspector. Why does it have to be that big? There's so much unused space. Look at how Apple does the inspector in Pages and Keynote. It's so much smaller, and much nicer looking! Come on, how much time does one need to change that inspector to something with Mac aesthetic excellence?  
(Version 12.3.6)

ANONYMOUS  Create is a great vector graphics application. There is a significant learning curve, but once you get started learning how to use it, even a rank amateur like me can create decent-looking graphics. It's also highly affordable!  
(Version 12.3.6)

NCIANCA  Create is truly a gem and highly useful program for a variety of design/production tasks. Linkback support just makes it even more utilitarian especially as more and more programs start to adopt support for Linkback. [off topic] Now all we need to ditch Adobe is a bitmap editor...would love to see (a reasonably priced) Tiffany reappear.  
(Version 12.3.4)

STARTYGER  With the Additional Linkback Project support... this just became even better in terms of workflow.... wow. now... if Seashore, Teal, EasyFrame..etc.. join in.... or...TIFFany.... (heh) We'll be in for an even greater ride than what we hoped with Tiger...

Nice.   
(Version 12.3.3)

DAVID  Hugely useful, very versatile app. Really demonstrates the power of object-orientation! The UI could use some improvements, though.  
(Version 12.2.2)

ANONYMOUS  Keeps improving with each (free, no less) update, no fooling. Give it a spin and see for yourself. Page layout, vector drawing, easy websites, and more.  
(Version 12.2.1)

ROB C  Create is fantastic, and above all my favourite app. features include:

• Create WYSIWYG web pages

• Produce professional leaflets, books and flyers using the DTP tools.

• Powerful vector based drawing tools rivalled only by colossuses like Freehand and Illustrator (which aren't anywhere near as nice to use)

• Drag and drop philosophy for blends, patterns and effects makes for a very consistent and easy to use app.

• Export to many formats e.g. PDF, TIFF, EPS etc

• Customisable toolbars

• Aqua look and feel - on a par with the OmniGroup ;-)

Above all, the only tool you'll need for content creation.  
(Version 12.1)

ANCIENTYGER  Create is one of the powerhouses of the Cocoa app world. As it continues to mature, expect to see it become a favorite of desktop publishers.  
(Version 11.4.1)

NCIANCA  This is a great program that I find very intuitive to use. You have to break out of doing some things the "Adobe" way and it's well worth it. A lot of power packaged in a way that isn't overwhelming and it's cocoa native.  
(Version 11.11)