Opinions are like... noses. Everyone has one, but some are bigger than others.
I respectfully disagree with SOME of the webworks bashing. - It's true that Webworks has the worst support...on the planet. In fact, I wouldn't even call it support. Example, if you have trouble installing webworks, expect to pay for a support case to get help. What? Yes, you heard me correctly. And their installation instructions are lousy and obviously missing key information: specifically, no mention of the fact that your install will fail if you have multiple versions of frame on your machine, something I assume is pretty common with Frame users. - the user guide is more like a functional specification than a user guide; it tells you about every function the program has, it just doesn't tell you how you might use them in the REAL world. - They have a Draconian licensing structure. A real PIA. - Webworks is a company I love to hate. If there were anything better and easier to use, I'd buy it in a minute. Which leads to my disagreement. I don't think you can beat epublisher pro for ease-of-use. If you need to convert a frame doc AND you want to have a single source for content, and you have one day, epub will get you there quite nicely. There is no doubt that webworks software is a little quirky, but I've used it since 1998 and epub is a great improvement and VERY easy to use. Example: I had a project with an engineering firm that wanted to convert a large suite of documents to html format, several thousand pages in all. Also, they wanted to be able to maintain this on their own once I got everything set up. On the one hand, I could save them a LOT of money up front by buying Mif2go, and I downloaded it and spent several days reading and scratching my head. Sure, it would work. But imagine it's 1986 and you are in a computer store looking at computers. One the hand, you have DOS with it's blinking cursor waiting for instructions from you. If only you knew what those instructions were. On the other hand, you have a Mac Plus, it's friendly face and graphic interface inviting you to experiment. Both computers will pretty much do what you want, the big difference being ease of use and cost. Macs were easier to use and cost a LOT more (I'm not trying to start a windows v mac battle here: I use both and think they are now pretty even on ease of use). So, if you are a techie, the kind of person who likes UNIX command line, perl script, and is familiar with java scripts and code, you can probably get mif2go to do what you want, but it will take TIME and time = $. If you are in a big hurry, or prefer a program that will give you great conversions, from scratch, in about 3 hours, epublisher is a better bet. Money = Saved Time. For the engineering firm, I chose epublisher pro. If figured the days or weeks it would take us to figure out mif2go would offset the cost of webworks publisher. I don't even consider Robo Help as it's not really a single source solution and I've ALWAYS hated the program's interface. I don't even like the name ;) ------ Pat Fortino writenowdesign.com >>>>>>>>>>|<<<<<<<<<<<< - Website Design - Joomla Website Design - Ecommerce Websites - Technical Writing Get Firefox, a Safer, Faster, and Better Browser _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
