We have received an overwhelming amount of feedback, suggestions and yes, bug reports. I just want to thank everyone for their contributions. We have not yet been able to reply to each message but please know that your messages are really helping us and that we will try and get back to you as soon as possible.
To make sure that none of this valuable feedback is wasted, we will be publishing a community driven Feature Request List and Product Road Map. You will be able to suggest new features and rate the relative value of the features that are already on the list. We will also publish a list of the known bugs along with their status.
In the meantime, please continue to either post messages to the forum or use the feedback dialog inside SynthaSite.
-Brent
I have to admit, I’ve tried using a number of ‘free’ automated website builders, with a varying degree of success.
I came across Synthasite by accident, and thought that I’d give it a try……and I’m glad that I did.
I’m just putting the finishing touches to a website I’ve built for some serviced offices: http://www.hxrooms.co.uk
I’ve found synthasite to be really easy to use, and providing that you do some simple site planning, it makes constructing a website a breeze (If like me, you can use image editing software, but aren’t a developer).
Nice features with synthasite:
– choice of website templates (easy to tweak)
– easy to make a blog (complete with hosting – cheaper than wordpress or moveable type)
– makes it easy for inserting meta info (keywords, description, titles)
– dead easy to format text for SEO purposes (ie. selecting H1/ H2/H3 etc, and being able to individually select text size/ colour/ format for these)
– easy to put in Google webmaster code
– option to put new pages into menu items (or leave out, and have additional text links – eg at the footer of pages – handy for SEO)
– as it’s accessible by browser, can log onto do updates/ more work with just an internet connection – no desktop software required)
– lots of useful widgets (this is obviously where they make their money – ‘premium widgets’ obviously generate the company an affiliate fee)
So, to summarise – easy to use, nice clean sites, easy to generate a website/ blog/ both, and well worth a try.
Hope this is useful.
Ian