>
> Hello guys,
>
> I bought Metalweb straight away after a short look at it, because I wanted
> to support Amiga programs and Metalweb looked promising. I have mailed the
> authors once or twice about updates, but have seen no motion whatsoever,
> apart from the reply that they would start working on it 'in two weeks'.
> Well, that was two months ago now.
>
> Just learn HTML, it's really simpler than learning all of Metalweb's quirks.
> I originally purchased Metalweb with the purpose of creating my own site and
> possibly a commercial site for a company, but am now using a plain text
> editor.
>
> I have three bachelor's degrees in computer science and 15 years of
> experience (including HTML, Perl/CGI and recently JavaScript), and my
> professional opinion is that Metalweb 4 is an alpha product. It should not
> have been released in it's current state. Anybody who knows anything about
> HTML will tell you the code it generates is simply not up to scratch. It
> crashes way too often - this has nothing to do with other apps, it's just
> crappy programming. After using it for a bit I submitted between 15 and 20
> bug reports, but as you say, nothing happens with them.
>
> If any other folks are interested, I'm willing to collect a list of your
> names and send a few e-mails to the Vapor people that we would like to see
> some action on Metalweb or that we would like to have our money back. I can
> easily argue that the product itself it not worth asking money for in it's
> current state, and we've all seen that nothing is happening to fix it.
>
> > > am not at the computer). But, compared to the cost in time
> > and dollars
> > > to learn HTML (or to have somebody else build the webpage for me), I
> > > think its worth the registration fee.
>
> Believe me, learning HTML takes you less time than learning how to
> circumvent all of Metalwebs bugs, errors and otherwise incorrect behaviour.
> Besides, the time you spend on correcting the bad HTML that Metalweb
> generates is also teaching you HTML. Just get the HTML v3.2 standard from
> the WWW Consortium site (http://www.w3.org) and have a look at it. I now use
> only a text editor.
Is that SHTML, DHTML or HTML? BTW isn't HTML up to 4.0 now (I had read
somewhere it was)
>
> Just edit your text file ending in .html, open a few different browsers and
> load that file as local file. If you save the text file, simply press the
> reload/refresh buttons on the browser. That's only one step away from
> WYSIWIG, but it's perfectly stable and works very fast.
Does that allow you to transfer files to your website without altering
the pathways for the pics (hotlinks, etc.)?
>
> BTW, there are also a few editors that speed up HTML tag insertion by
> allowing you to click on predefined sets. This also reduces the chances of
> typos for tags. I will probably soon have a look at GoldEd 5, which you can
> download for free now.
I can see where that would be helpful, but (I would think) that could
be doen with a Macro key on any editor that takes them. Incedentally
MetalWeb does that as well (for some reason, it just wants to add a
few extra closings on ocassion).
>
> > Where can I get V3.8 from ?
>
> Yep, I'd be interested in v3.8 too, if only just to have a look at.
>
> W.
>
Version 3.8 is also called 4.0pre3 (I think). The GUI was rewritten
between this and the actual 4.0.
For all its faults, MetalWeb still runs smoother than MicroSnore's
Front Page and still allows someone who knows nothing about HTML (like
me) to put together a basic webpage in about 5-10 minutes. I have
altered the first page twice (at the beginning and end of a contest)
and added a secong page to the site (I am currently working on 3 more
pages - as I have the time). If you want to check out my site, its at
http://get.to/t.n.a . Let me know what you think.
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