BDKENNEDY1  The dev team has no way to test this old technology themselves and users aren't willing to test it for bugs, so they dropped it.

The dev team is not a brick and mortar building with 100 employees and unlimited resources. The dev team is several software developers donating their spare time from their homes to keep this software going.

No one is going to spend dozens of hours writing and testing code that 4 people are going to use.  
(Version 0.9.3)

BDKENNEDY1  And I forgot to mention the price doubled.  
(Version 3.0)

BDKENNEDY1  After a year it seems the developer has come around to redesign his web site and support forums. Unfortunately, all previous comments were erased with the old support forums.

I can't, in my right mind pay for an upgrade to 3.0 knowing the developers past history with no support.  
(Version 3.0)

BDKENNEDY1  That GUI is horrendous. I don't see this app going on my Mac. GUI's like that belong on Windows.  
(Version 5.5.2)

BDKENNEDY1  This program definitely has potential, but it's going to be a while. The fact that the developers are responsive will definitely push this program into the mainstream, but it seems from using the software that the program is suffering from its rapid growth.

The GUI is a mess - different shades of grey everywhere, text with blurred shading that makes it hard to read, black and grey stripped panes and basically controls scattered everywhere.

Creating a navigation bar is not intuitive at all and has to be updated for every page.

I have high hopes for this software in the future, but I can see that the GUI is created by developers and not designers - similar to Freeway Pro.

While an excellent price, I do not pay to beta test software. I pay to use it.  
(Version 2.27)

BDKENNEDY1  Technically, you can create a web site from scratch. You CAN NOT create a web site from scratch with this product without downloading and using the developer tools and learning them. There are other programs available that allow you to create custom themes and they cost money - as much as $100.  
(Version 4.2.3)

BDKENNEDY1  As useless as the others said it was. Doesn't tell you where it places the torrent file. Searched Spotlight for it and couldn't find it.  
(Version 1.0)

BDKENNEDY1  There's really no excuse to pay for this app when there are free ones out there that are better.

If it were rock solid, yeah I can see paying for it but it has never been rock solid and seems more like an occasional hobby for the developer.  
(Version 1.1v53)

BDKENNEDY1  Warning: You cannot create torrents with this app.

Yes, that's right. It's a torrent program that can't create torrents. You will have to keep another app on your computer if you to create torrents.  
(Version 0.9.1.2)

BDKENNEDY1  The best FTP program out there and I've tried all of them.  
(Version 1.7b1)

BDKENNEDY1  Raise your hands if you are sick and tired of evaluating WYSIWYG web software and coming up empty-handed.

If you want to create a web site from a blank slate, you're out of luck. RapidWeaver forces you to use one of the included themes to which you can customize to your hearts desire. How hard would it have been it allow the user to use a blank page?

Many of the cool plugins cost money on top of the cost of RW and still don't allow me to do what I want.

I am extremely frustrated...

Goldfish Pro: Has WYSIWYG down pat, excellent user interface but no support from the developer.

Freeway Pro: Most developed but buggy and clunky, overly-complicated interface.

RapidWeaver: Best most professional user interface but can't create a site from scratch.

Will someone please buy these 3 companies, combine the software and give us a single, excellent WYSIWYG program without having to install 1700 plugins? For god's sake why is this so difficult?  
(Version 4.2.1)

BDKENNEDY1  Skybluecanvas isn't even in the same league as Rapidweaver, it's not even the same kind of program.

Skybluecanvas is coding only with no user interface. Rapidweaver is more like WYSIWYG.  
(Version 4.2.1)

BDKENNEDY1  No support will be Goldfish's downfall.

I've used Freeway Pro and Rapidweaver and Goldfish Pro is very promising. There's not much I haven't been able to do with it. I've been able to produce a professional looking web site with custom HTML and it's the closest to a WYSIWYG program I've used yet. Think of iWeb the way it's supposed to be.

Goldfish will not succeed because there is absolutely no support from the developer who has apparently written this software as a hobby. The help is minimal and the user forums are a ghost town of previous users that have given up on getting any help or updates.

This developer needs to sell this program to a company that will support and update it. I do not recommend buying it until this developer decides he wants to take this project seriously.  
(Version 2.3)

BDKENNEDY1  Oh, and I forgot. It plasters a watermark over the whole thing.  
(Version 2.0.2)

BDKENNEDY1  I had higher hopes for this program, but this OS X program doesn't support even Apple's own .m4v extension, which is their default container.  
(Version 2.0.2)

BDKENNEDY1  This used to be my favorite weather program. After giving up on this years ago, I decided to come back and see what's new. To my surprise the long-awaited 2.0 still isn't here. Instead it's only received minor bug fixes since 2003.

What a shame.  
(Version 1.4.8)

BDKENNEDY1  Oh for heavens sake. I forgot the most glaring omission of all! There's no Undo. That's right, no undo. If you make a mistake, you're screwed.  
(Version 5.3.1)

BDKENNEDY1  I've been using FW Pro for 6 months and there is plenty, PLENTY of room for improvement.

While it's the best WYSIWYG web building software for the Mac (haven't tried Goldfish yet) the interface is clunky and unintuitive. Many user interface elements don't make sense such as how menu items are grouped, populating lists in a drop down box, including PHP files and I've spent hours upon hours trying to figure things out such as adding a form or editing the header.

Placing objects that must be aligned perfectly is difficult between the Master page and individual pages and sometimes FW doesn't update the changes between the two, causing me to just give up on what the problem was instead or wasting anymore time and start the whole site over again.

My biggest problem is how it handles your graphic files. Under certain situations when you have a graphic on your Master page, FW will import the same graphic for as many individual pages you have. That means when you build your site it will include the same file several times into the build, causing your FW file to balloon in size and then it takes 10 times longer to build.

The GUI is clunky and looks and feels like it was ported over from the OS 9 days even though it wasn't. It suffers from redraw problems and overall the program should probably be rewritten from scratch.

I got my site finished and doing what I want it do do eventually, but I still keep a lookout for something better. This program has been around long enough where it should be trim, tight and intuitive.  
(Version 5.3.1)

BDKENNEDY1  Written by the same person? Not likely. Written by employees or companies with a vested interest in the company? Yes.  
(Version 1.5.4)

BDKENNEDY1  I don't know what happened with this version, but it decodes my FLAC files to Apple Lossless 3 times slower than the previous version.

I know this because I had just used the previous version on the same files 5 minutes before I updated the software.

Also, one of the files didn't encode. This may not seem like a big deal, but if you're encoding a lot of files and aren't watching the screen, you could wind up with a lost song.  
(Version 20080313a)

BDKENNEDY1  I've lived long enough to see it all. The next version of MacTheRipper will need to be activated over the internet.

MacTheRipper was the defacto standard for ripping DVD's on your Mac. Now they have implemented a license protection scheme for their software that phone's home when you connect to the internet.

That's right folks. The developers are so full of themselves that they are protecting their own software that pirates DVD's.

They ask you to donate money to support them even though they haven't had an official release in almost 2 years. Instead, donate your money to DVD2OneX. At least they come out with regular updates.  
(Version 2.6.6)

BDKENNEDY1  Move on to WeatherPop, this is dead. It hasn't been updated in 1 1/2 years and the code hasn't kept up with the changing code from sites such as Weather.com. The developers don't seem too enthusiastic about releasing a new version.  
(Version 1.4.4)

BDKENNEDY1  Don't bother with the garbage developer. I bought version 1.0 for my G5. I followed the instructions to the letter and was never able to get the program running. I never received replies to my e-mails, never received a refund and never received the free upgrade to version 1.2 that was advertised on the web site.  
(Version 2.0.1)