Straightforward but inflexible website designer
If you want to create a website but don't have any web designing experience, then Sandvox may be your answer.
Sandvox uses a WYSIWYG style interface that allows you to drag and drop elements into the site and there are more than 40 original and diverse designs to choose from.
Although Sandvox will feel a little childish for a professional web designer, there is a surprising number of advanced features under the hood which make it suitable for all levels. For instance, you can edit raw HTML to fine-tune the site to your liking and the Professional edition also lets you add e-commerce elements, Flash and Google Webmaster tools.
The designs are a bit limiting but, as mentioned above, you can change them to a large extent by recoding the HTML. Alternatively, you can purchase some third-party designs. However, the biggest drawback of Sandvox is when it comes to publishing to the web. It should be easy to connect to an FTP server but unfortunately Sandvox doesn't make it so despite the detailed guide on how to do so.
In addition, although the drag and drop interface is very easy to use, it can be very inflexible, pushing elements all over the place and becoming quite frustrating at times.
Sandvox is an interesting website designer although its a bit inflexible and doesn't handle FTP connections very well.
Fixes issue launching Sandvox on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
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Fixes issue launching Sandvox on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
User reviews about Sandvox
by Nick Mead
@Do you work for them?.
I can guarantee you that we don't work for them. However, since this review was published, Sandvox has been updated to version 2.0 and is now being re-reviewed. Thanks for highlighting some issues with it by the way.
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by Anonymous
Do you work for them?.
Sadly, I read the Marketing blurb and dived into Sandvox over a year ago. It is easy enough to build a Website with limited flexibility and options. Unfortunately, Sandvox doesn't do what it says on the tin! It doesn't make it easy to connect to FTP files (Filezilla does it 100 times better)And to my horror yesterday, I clicked on a software upgrade they sent me and now my two main sites are 'broken' and I have spent ages trying to FTP things back together... This is a complete disaster. Forget their help desk... You are wasting your time.The software is completely flakey.... ever 10 mins Sandvox quits unexpectedly!!! GreatKick Kick Kick (me kicking myself for buying this useless piece of software More