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The Site Rubix website builder allows you to:
- Build a site with absolutely no HTML skills (is a WYSIWYG HTML editor)
- Build a professional looking website in less than 5 minutes
- Get paid to develop professional looking websites for other people
- Duplicate existing pages and full sites with a click of the button
- Add video, images, instant screenshots, or content in seconds
Overall, this professional website builder has all the features of a CMS, but is faster and easier to replicate for multiple web hosts.
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Joomla! CMS is a variation on a common theme in content management today: The "Content Management System". A CMS is a web-based interface for creating integrated websites in a logical, easy way. Like Site Rubix, Joomla! is a WYSIWYG HTML editor. However, I found it very difficult to figure out, even as a web design professional. The learning curve is quite high, and the system uses a logic that's hard to understand. The system does allow you to import cool design templates, or create them yourself. The process for doing so is a bit complex, however, and oftentimes provides undesirable results. My overall analysis of this product is that it is of decent quality, but that it could use some improvements. Version 1.5 will be coming out sometime this year, so things could change. And it is free of charge. You decide if the headaches are worth your time or not.
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Bluefish and Nvu are both free, open source applications that attempt to address the web design problem in two very different ways. Bluefish is a HTML editor for experts. It has some useful generators for tables, CSS, and whatnot, but is inherently designed for experts that know how to code in web languages like HTML. Other options exist, but are all designed for the expert professional, not the average internet marketer. Conversely, Nvu is a WYSIWYG HTML editor styled after Netscape Composer, Dreamweaver, and Microsoft FrontPage. It is standards compliant, produces quality code, and is relatively easy to use, but doesn't prodive an easy way to perform advanced multimedia features well, and doesn't make file uploading or replication very easy.
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