Sandvox
By Karelia Software
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Description
Website creation for the Mac, that's as easy to use as the Mac.
Sandvox 2 empowers anybody, even non-experts, to create a website with contemporary looks and features, in minutes.
Only Sandvox — winner of an Apple Design Award — features a user experience that lets you combine and spotlight your own drag-and-drop content while automatically creating a modern, feature-rich, standards-compliant website as you go. See your website come alive before your eyes! When ready, just upload your site to your favorite host directly from within Sandvox. It’s that easy.
“Sandvox 2 is an excellent visual website-design tool for individuals and businesses that need to create attractive sites without having to learn the HTML/CSS/JavaScript that goes into it. Its superior user experience and feature set makes Sandvox a worthy alternative to Apple's soon-to-be-obsolete iWeb. EXCELLENT ◼ ◼ ◼ ◼ ½ ” — Mac|Life
TOP FEATURES
• Express yourself by choosing from among dozens of stylish site designs
• Over 20 different, customizable content objects help you build the site of your dreams
• Easily add text, images, or movies
• Super easy blogging, with built-in archiving
• Instantly add connections to Facebook, Twitter and more
• Showcase your images with Photo Grids and lightbox-style Galleries
• Syndicate your blog or podcast and offer easy-to-grab RSS feeds
• Incorporate content from other websites such as weather and news headlines
• Show selected products from Amazon.com
• Feature YouTube videos
• Include a Contact Form for feedback
• Automatically generate a sitemap
• Comment support via Disqus, IntenseDebate and Facebook Comments
• Insert custom features with Raw HTML
“ ★ ★ ★ ★ ” — MacNN · “ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ½ ” — SVMMac · “ ★ ★ ★ ★ ½ ” — Cult of Mac
EVEN MORE POWER
• iMedia Browser — Effortlessly browse your Pictures folder, iPhoto, Aperture, Lightroom, and Flickr. Grab movies from iPhoto and iTunes. Build a podcast. The iMedia Browser puts your resources at your fingertips.
• Raw HTML Objects — Directly place HTML, JavaScript, PHP, or other inserted web code, such as embed codes provided by other sites.
• Advanced Customization — Code injection, custom CSS, built-in jQuery support and a brand new Cocoa plug-in API are available to experienced users and offer even more ways to customize your site.
• Publishing Options — Publish via FTP, SFTP, WebDAV
• Search Engine Optimization — SEO-friendly site structure plus integration with Google Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics
For more information or to watch a video introduction, please visit our website!
“Those who want to quickly create template-based sites packed with features, should give Sandvox 2 a look. ★ ★ ★ ★” — Macworld UK
SUPPORT
We’re always here to help and we’d love to hear from you! If you have feedback or questions, you can reach us by email at support@karelia.com or visit our community forum at karelia.com/forum.
Read our FAQ at karelia.com/faq.
Familiar with iWeb? See our iWeb Transition Guide at karelia.com/iweb.
What's New in Version 2.5.5
Sandvox 2.5 is a major update that brings full Lion support, including full-screen and document autosaving and versioning, and a brand new Slide Show object for great media presentations.
SANDVOX 2.5.5
Publishing
✳ Running the connection test automatically applies any character encoding that the host enforces, rather than asking you to do so
✳ If publishing a site which requires visitors to enter a username and password, Host Setup is able to cope with that by prompting you for those details
✳ Addresses issues during Host Setup
✳ Resolves an issue where some photos failed to publish at full size
✳ Addresses an issue publishing untitled pages
✳ Corrects an issue working with relative document root folders for SFTP connections
✳ Fixes a bug where entering your password while publishing was actually cancelling the publish
✳ Fixes a bug where an RSS badge could cause archives to be generated strangely
Objects
✳ New Photo Grid option: thumbnails can be "Scale to Fit" or "Scale to Fill"
✳ Contact Forms and List of External Links can be reordered in the Inspector again
✳ Resolves an issue where Flash Object Inspector became mis-laid out
✳ Corrects an issue in the Vector designs where some images became non-selectable in Sandvox
✳ Resolves an issue where turning on "Object causes wrap" for images inside of text boxes was sometimes causing saving to fail
Links
✳ Files can be directly chosen in the Link Inspector
✳ Fixes a bug where linking to a URL with the same host and scheme, but differing port number would generate incorrect links
Text Editing
✳ Improved handling of alignment commands, particularly with text that contains line breaks
✳ Fixes a bug where dragging images into a page that contained empty paragraphs often resulted in them being unexpectedly inserted at the top of the page
Document Handling
✳ Improved save performance for sites with large numbers of General Index objects
✳ Addresses an issue importing Sandvox 1 documents that contain large numbers of external images
Other Changes
✳ Updated localizations and help documentation
✳ Pasting a page keeps the original's filename if reasonable
SANDVOX 2.5
Lion Features
✳ Supports being a full-screen app
✳ Documents are automatically saved for you, and previous versions can be browsed
✳ Upon quitting and relaunching, all windows restore exactly as you left them
Objects
✳ Brand new Slide Show index
✳ Photo Grid supports displaying captions derived from each page
✳ Improved compatibility with .m4v files
✳ Amazon List supports Italian, Chinese, and Spanish stores
✳ Placeholders:
✳ Corrects appearance of YouTube when no video has been chosen
✳ For websites that do not support being embedded within other websites, Sandvox displays a placeholder
✳ Corrects appearance of Raw HTML placeholders
Publishing
✳ Once publishing completes, it's easy to let your visitors know using:
✳ Facebook
✳ Twitter
✳ LinkedIn
✳ Email
✳ Overhauled publishing engine for speed and reliability
✳ If added to the home screen on an iPhone or iPad, home pages display their thumbnail as specified in the Page inspector
✳ Publishing Transcript is more readable and can be included when sending feedback
Welcome Window
✳ Hit the space bar for a Quick Look preview of selected documents
✳ Drag a document onto the Welcome Window to open it
✳ Recent documents can be dragged to other apps (such as Finder); control-click to Show in Finder.
Text Editing
✳ Footers support custom alignment
Designs
✳ Blueprint supports dropdown menus
Screenshots
Customer Reviews
Easy-peasy
This is the easiest, most intuitive app I've found for creating web pages. The short tutorial tells you pretty much everything you need to know. In minutes you're up and running. The only hitch I encountered was that my site host, Freeservers, had trouble with the sample page that Sandvox uploads as a test. However, I had no trouble uploading the actual site, so this appears to be a Freeservers-based glitch that is limited to the test page itself. Once you've set up the program to work with your host, publishing changes to your site is amazingly easy and can be done in one click. The templates are attractive and varied, and the app has many advanced features, including embedded video, slideshows, and a blog.
Easy and Powerful ...
I am very impressed with both the ease and quality of Sandvox. The software works as advertised and I was creating a site within a few minutes of purchasing and downloading the software. BTW: My web skills are very limited, so this was a great find. Basically, it provides a way for those who are not web development "experts" to create and publish their sites on the web without the steep learning curve.
Kind of like websites for the rest of us…. Hope you enjoy as much as I have.
- $79.99
- Category: Productivity
- Updated: May 08, 2012
- Version: 2.5.5
- Size: 26.2 MB
- Languages: English, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
- Seller: Karelia Software
- © 2004-2012 Karelia Software
Requirements: OS X 10.6.6 or later
