Browse Web Publishing Reviews

Browse Web Publishing Reviews

Review: iScrapbook 2.1
Scrapbooking program offers high-quality design, easy layouts, and a seemingly unlimited supply of inspiration.
Review: Firefox 3.5
Firefox has evolved into a beautiful, polished program that’s a pleasure to use. Check out version 3.5.
Review: iWeb ’09
iWeb ’09 is an excellent program for anyone wanting a personal Web site to share stories, photos, home movies, videos, podcasts, and blogs. Its improved uploading capabilities, easy-to-use widgets, and more straightforward interface will be worth the price of the upgrade.
Picturesque 2.0.3
While you can use Photoshop or any of a number of other image editors to prepare images for your blog or Web site, few (if any) can perform the most-popular editing tasks with the ease of use or speed of Picturesque.
Highbrow 1.0.1
Highbrow makes it easier to switch between Web browsers; it even lets you choose which browser to use for each URL.
Review: Contribute CS4
For individual users of the standalone product, Contribute CS4 is not a worthy upgrade, due to the lack of compelling new features. Larger companies may benefit from the improved workflow options. But if you are pleased with Contribute CS3, you will probably not find the changes to be worth the upgrade cost.
Review: Fireworks CS4
Adobe Fireworks CS4 includes new features and enhancements that make this a significant upgrade. The new interface is makes it easier to use most tools and controls as well as switch among various Creative Suite products.
Review: Flash CS4 Professional
Graphic designers and illustrators will find in Flash CS4 Professional the environment and interface they have longed for—one that provides access to complex animation generation without recourse to defining keyframes and writing ActionScript.
Review: BBEdit 9.02
Additions to the venerable text editor will thrill long-time users, but hard-core HTML coders could still find some things lacking.
Easy iWeb Publisher 3.0
So what if you want to post an iWeb web site but don't want to pay $100 for MobileMe? This free utility does what its name says: it makes it easy to upload your iWeb site to any server.
Review: Dreamweaver CS4
Dreamweaver CS4 solidly addresses the technologies that Web design professionals use and is a significant upgrade that offers a new set of tools for those who spend a lot of time with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. If you find yourself building more and more Web sites that rely on JavaScript and complex CSS, this upgrade is a must.
Review: Freeway 5 Pro
Freeway 5 Pro (version 5.2) is a good choice for professional designers who do not want to learn HTML and CSS. It will help you build unique sites that are not designed from templates and that meet required accessibility standards. For current users, the iPhone update is just one of a host of high-profile improvements.
Review: QuarkXPress 8
QuarkXPress 8 marks a major change to the user interface of the venerable page-layout and design program for the Mac. At the same time, version 8 offers very little in the way of new features, thus making the interface change its hallmark.
Review: RapidWeaver 4.0
RapidWeaver 4.0 strikes just the right balance between customizability and ease of use. If you find iWeb limiting, Dreamweaver intimidating, and hand coding impossible, give RapidWeaver a try.
Twitterrific 3.1
If you can't quite see the appeal of social networking site Twitter, maybe you should try Iconfactory's Twitterrific.
Review: CSSEdit 2.6
CSSEdit 2.6 fits a very particular niche, but one that’s become larger over time. The program provides assistance to those who need to control style sheets directly, without overstepping its role.
Review: MarsEdit 2
If you like the comfort of composing weblog posts locally and keeping back-up copies, MarsEdit 2 fits the bill. In addition, its media management tool is simpler and more intuitive than many other Web-based options.
Review: iWeb '08 discovers Web 2.0
If you are an organization or small-business looking for iWeb to do anything more than the basics, and particularly if you are not a .Mac customer, you will be disappointed. The blogging feature still lacks some standard features found in other common blog products, but it will do for most personal use.
Coda 1.0.3
If you don’t own any Web development programs yet and are looking to start hand-coding Web sites, Coda is a good first step. Otherwise, wait for subsequent versions before tossing out familiar programs.
Contribute CS3
Contribute CS3 is an appealing and justifiable upgrade for users of Contribute 3 or earlier versions, especially if you want to run the program on an Intel-based Mac. In many ways, Contribute CS3 is the upgrade that Contribute 4 should have been, especially in terms of Intel compatibility.
Fireworks CS3
The new Pages panel, improved integration with other Adobe CS3 products, and the addition of intelligent scaling are reasons enough to upgrade to Fireworks CS3. The ability to create slide shows, create custom colors, and use Photoshop effects are just icing on the cake.
Dreamweaver CS3
With its combination of accurate visual design, excellent CSS tools, and strong site-management features, Dreamweaver continues to be the premier Web-design program. If you’re using an Intel Mac, Dreamweaver CS3 is quite a worthy upgrade.
SiteAssist 3.0
SiteAssist 3.0.3 is a good choice for Dreamweaver designers who need to produce great-looking, functional sites quickly, and for those who lack the technical expertise to produce a full site from scratch.
Interarchy 8.2
Interarchy 8.2 is a powerful and versatile FTP program. The program’s new look may at first throw Interarchy 7 users a curve, but the new interface significantly enhances what is already a first class FTP application.
Contribute 4.0
If you're a designer or IT manager and you want to roll out blogs to your user base while maintaining tight control of the look and operation of your sites, Contribute 4 is a very good choice. But if you own Contribute 3 and you're not interested in the new blogging features, then move along, because there's not much to see here.
VisiStat 4
What VisiStat does, it does very well—with almost no effort on the user’s part. If you want absolute simplicity in Web analytics—and can live without the details VisiStat is missing—you’d be hard-pressed to find a more elegant tool.
MarsEdit 1.1
If you maintain multiple Weblogs and are comfortable with HTML, MarsEdit could be useful. But it’s best suited for experienced bloggers looking for ways to tweak their publishing process.
iWeb 1.0.1
The 1.0.1 update to Apple’s Web-publishing tool changes how most images and photo thumbnails are published, causing us to re-evaluate our rating of the original iWeb.
Freeway 4 Pro
If you are accustomed to tinkering with HTML code in applications like Dreamweaver or GoLive, Freeway 4 Pro could take some getting used to. However, if you are coming from the print world, Freeway Pro will be exactly what you need to realize your vision in the online world.
RapidWeaver 3.2
RapidWeaver 3.2.1 is an excellent program for building personal and small-business Web sites. For more full-featured sites, RapidWeaver greatly expands on what those services offer.