SoftQuad Hot Metal PRO 6.0

When I first started toying with web page construction about a year ago, a friend gave me a CD which contained Softquad's "Hot Metal Light 3" to get me in the swing for making web pages. As the name suggested, the light version did not have everything, so when I saw a computer magazine with a trial version of HotMetal Pro6, I bought the mag (it was the only program on the disk that worked - typical computer mag!) and put it through the motions. Hot Metal Pro 6 was straight forward to use for knocking up some basic web pages, I can't fault it for that. However, if anyone is serious like making web pages, I would suggest using Windows Notepad ...  Read the complete review

I started to play around with my free web space about a year ago, using first Word as my source of software for designing my pages. As always, I soon outgrew that and tried using my Microsoft FrontPage that I found lurking in one of my folders, now whether it was just me or not, I do not know, but I could not get to grips with that at all. After trying numerous other free web design programmes from various magazines, I realised I needed something that was going to do what I wanted now, but also have other tricks up its sleeve when I got a little more accustomed to it, as I hate buying software that seems o.k. at first then I find boring me to death after a ...  Read the complete review

Having been using Softquad's HoTMetaL Pro software professionally since way back on version 3, I thought that it was about time that I expressed my opinions on version 6 of the product here on DooYoo! First of all, the bad news is that it is highly possible that version 6.0 of HoTMetaL may well turn out to be the final edition. This is because the developers (SoftQuad) have recently been taken over by Corel, so the future of all of their products is uncertain at the moment. Don't let that worrying news put you off investing in HoTMetaL though - it's a wonderful HTML editor and despite it's age it remains a serious low-budget alternative ...  Read the complete review

Want to build a professional site with everything without any experience. Difficult unless you buy this product. If you are serious about a good looking site that gets the job done then you would volunteer to pay more once you get to grips with this tool. What is more is that if you can't really be bothered to understand the HTML then you can let the site maker put one together in five minutes! Just add your graphics and some content and you could be making one per day ...  Read the complete review