Promised a lot but was Difficult to use for a Novice (Mr Site)

Member Name: eyedo6789

Product:	Mr Site
Date:	03/03/09 (110 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Has a lot of features but missing some obvious ones in my opinion.

Disadvantages: Too complex for a complete novice to easily use.

(I paid £29.99 for it new. This allows one year's usage including web space. If you want to carry on using it thereafter the charge is an ongoing £2.90 per month)

I am a complete web site building novice so was attracted to the Mr Site Takeaway Web Site.

Initially I was very optimistic about creating a web site customised to my own needs and it being easy but when I got into the nitty gritty in my opinion I found that what I could do regarding text formatting and inserting banner ads was very restrictive.

For example I was told by the 0870 prefix calls charged for help line that there was no way of getting text to scroll or be animated using the software but maybe I could get it to do this if I inserted my own HTML code. This was no use to me because I know nothing about HTML.

Similarly banner advertising in some forms of code could go on my page but in others couldn't.

The instruction manual didn't cover everything that the software could do and some things that were covered were explained too vaguely so I had to phone the help line. I spent about £15 on help line calls over a 10 day period.

I also had an issue with the time it was taking to "publish" my web site after uploading any changes. I had a 60 page web site and it took over 2 1/2 minutes each time purely because of the number of pages I had.

In the end I gave up trying to make a web site using Mr Site because I found it too time consuming, too restrictive for my needs and that the help line was costing me too much money in phone charges.

The software may well be suitable for many people but as a total Web Site building novice I found it cumbersome and not easy to use at all.

This review is also posted on www.ciao.co.uk
under my user name bella6789

Summary: A cost effective option but only if you know what you are doing.

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