Do-It-Yourself Web Site

Dave Andrews

You can create and publish a World Wide Web site in minutes with DeltaPoint's QuickSite , an end-user Web creation and management package for Windows. The program's point-and-click interface, plus helpful Wizards that guide you through the process of creating your site, insulate you from having to know Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). Yet by using QuickSite, you can create a site with consistent menus, flags notifying Web surfers of new features, buttons for submitting E-mail, and forms that you typically find in other robust Web sites.

QuickSite, which runs on Windows 3.x and 95, provides prebuilt site structures and templates that you can easily modify by inserting tables (see the screen), forms, or new pages. As you go through the page-creation process, you can sele ct backgrounds, graphics, lines, bullets, and other formatting styles. Throughou t the process, you type in the words that you want to appear on your page. As you create other pages, QuickSite automatically establishes and maintains links.

QuickSite's Publishing tool should appeal to developers who want to create sites for numerous clients. When you've finished your site, you can publish it and send it to an Internet service provider.

QuickSite offers a wide array of features, but it's not for everyone: Although it includes an order-submission form, it doesn't support secure transactions. A self-documenting feature and an open database API that lets other Web users dynamically update your Web site via HTML forms are features reserved for a professional version ($295), which is slated to ship later this quarter. Nevertheless, QuickSite's capabilities and ease of use are impressive, and, at only $99, this program is quite a bargain.

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WHERE TO FIND

QuickSite.......................$99

DeltaPoint, Inc.
Monterey, CA
Phone:    (800) 446-6955 or (408) 648-4000
Fax:      (408) 648-4020
Internet: 
http://www.deltapoint.com

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QuickSite for Instant WWW Sites

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