WebPlus X2 Website Maker

WebPlus X2 Website Maker

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26 new, starting at $19.76

8 used, starting at $19.76

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Editorial Reviews

WebPlus X2 makes it quick and painless to produce professional-looking sites featuring interactive forums and blogs, polished animated photo galleries, podcasts and cool YouTube videos, Flash animations, secure password-protected pages, easy e-commerce sites with partners including PayPal, and much more, with handy on-screen help to guide you every step of the way.

Whether a novice or a seasoned designer, a hobbyist or commercial manager, WebPlus has something to offer everyone, resulting in amazing websites without the headaches - and without breaking the bank.

WebPlus X2 is Serif's outstanding Vista certified web design solution, packed with everything an organization needs to design fully-featured and professional-looking sites--with no need to learn or program any HTML! With smart Web gadgets including forums and site search hosted for free by Serif, integrated e-commerce with partners including PayPal, support for engaging YouTube, podcast and RSS content, plus video and Shockwave Flash animations, WebPlus X2 is the perfect answer for in-house web design. WebPlus helps at every stage, whether starting with a professional business template, designing from scratch, automatically fixing design issues, or publishing to the Web, it's never been easier to achieve fantastic results, fast.

The all-in-one solution for professional quality web design. Click to enlarge.

Get your inspiration from a wide range of customizable professional templates. Click to enlarge.

Easily set up a secure online store at the touch of a button. Click to enlarge.

Embed your favorite YouTube clips, podcasts and vidcasts for the ultimate interactivity. Click to enlarge.

The All-in-One Solution for Professional Quality Web Design.

Fast web design for all
Fantastic Web design with no need to learn HTML! WebPlus gives you complete control in a DTP-style design interface with easy layout capabilities.

Customizable professional templates
Don't be daunted by designing a site--with professionally-produced templates to choose from, there's plenty to inspire you or help achieve speedy results.

In-house graphic design
Add design pizzazz with great Web graphics--everything from instant shapes to attractive fills, transparencies and special effects, plus 3D artwork, warping and image adjustments.

Sell! Sell! Sell!
Add fully-featured e-commerce carts and buttons using well-known partners PayPal, Mal's and RomanCart. A wizard makes the task easy and safe--no fuss, complication, or setup cost!

Interest your viewers
Entice and engage visitors with amazing and unrivalled interactive Web gadgets including forums, blogs, mailing lists, live surveys and polls, feedback forms, site search, active hit counters and even messaging with shoutboxes.

Show off your favorite media
Make sites even more interactive with exciting podcasts and vidcasts, giving them the power subscribe to updates using iTunes. Also embed YouTube videos straight in your site!

Safe surfing
Secure areas of your site with user logins, password-protected pages--and CAPTCHA signup security to stop unwanted automatons from invading and harvesting details.

Optimize your site
Easily preview, publish and maintain your WebPlus site, now with enhanced search engine optimization and visitor analytics to help you get the best from your site online.

Bonus: 12 months of free web hosting and sub domains

Getting your site online is hassle-free, thanks to 12 months of free web hosting included with every purchase of WebPlus X2. With WebPlus X2 you get a full professional hosting package, including:

  • 10 GB web space
  • 100 GB per month bandwidth
  • 100 unique email addresses
  • Host up to 16 separate websites
  • 24/7 customer support

Customer Reviews

Great

Reviewed by Jeffery L. Voyles, 2010-01-25

I've read some negative reviews on this and it could be that I'm not savvy enough about website design yet to be aware of the flows referenced. One person wrote that their tech savvy friend told him that the site he created wouldn't be picked up by search engines because it contained scripts that the spiders would like. Well, I don't know anything about that. What I do know is that this software far exceeded my expectations both in the tools it provides and the ease with which it is to learn these tools. The book it comes with is straight forward and simple. Admittedly there was a few places where I made mistakes and had to carefully re-read the instructions to get it right but many of the features in this can be learned in just a couple of minutes. Well worth the money I spent.

It was great for the price

Reviewed by Jeremy R. Gleason, 2010-01-15

This is my first Serif product. I am a teacher and have little experience with web design at all. I was using a trial version of dreamweaver and created a pretty basic site using the same colors I am using with X2. However, X2 was WAAAAAAY easier to use with about 4-5 hours total of messing around with it I was able to create a pretty good website. If you want to see it is not finished but it is "[...]" at least to see what the basic stuff can be done. I need to remind all of you that I am no expert here and am self taught since Tuesday!

What I like about WebPlus X2
1) It is a lot easier to use than Dreamweaver
2) the FTP upload makes getting the site on there really simple! I was using filezilla, but realized that X2 uploads everything the way it should be.
3) There is a lot of freedom to create your site without tables, which I liked
4) Cloning pages or creating new ones based on a previous format was nice! I didn't see that in Dreamweaver, but I didn't need to look for it in X2 either!
5) Premade buttons, forms, etc...
6) No HTML needed, but it there if you choose to add it

What I don't like
1) It can be a bit bland at times, and tedious
2) The linking process was easier in Dreamweaver in my opinion
3) There are A LOT more files that are needed to be uploaded relative to dreamweaver
4) I didn't like their templates (even though there are a ton)


I know it is like comparing apples to oranges between X2 and Dreamweaver, but it seems that Dreamweaver is just too complicated for a basic user. X2 does a great job developing the learning curve quickly to get at least a basic site online.

WebPlus X2 Website Maker

Reviewed by Angela S. Wenk, 2009-12-14

Great product; however like everything else, you have to get used to the layout of the software and spend some time reading the instruction manual. Otherwise, the application is great.

Great app with limitations

Reviewed by gypsea, 2009-11-23

I purchased this for my personal website. After using Front Page for several years, this app is a breeze. It does have a couple of frustrating limitations:
Photo galleries are limited to 64 images
You can place captions on photos, but are limited to font size and caption placement
When creating a sub page, the navigation links on that sub page spread across the navigation area, making the font very large in some cases it just doesn't look right. For example:
Home page: index.htm
Pages: Pages 1-6
Page 2 has sub pages 2.1 and 2.2
When you click on page 2.1 sub page to view, the navigation links (options to select other pages) will show: Page 2.1, Page 2.2, and Page 2, and Home, spread across the entire navigation area (master page determines overall layout of your navigation area)
On the plus side: page hyperlinks are automatically created (or removed) as you build your site. Easy to edit the hierarchy of the pages by simply dragging to new location, master pages easy to edit and apply to all or select pages within website

refund rip off

Reviewed by N. Milligan, 2009-11-17

Returning to second on accidentally ordered cost over half the cost of the product. Had I known the cost I would have shopped locally