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My Internet Bussiness Page Ver. 1.0- Mysoftware Company (previously Livemarkup)

Found: http://www.mybusinesspage.com/livemark.htm

Overview:

• MS-Windows editor
• stand alone program
• WYSIWYG - Shows text at approximate sizing, colors links, etc..
• NO HTML Checking during loading - Forces proper use during editing of new document.
• Somewhat Stable - continuous disk access slowed system to a crawl. Crashed my system once during loading of HTML files created previously. Found it ran reasonable on a Win95 system, however. I welcome comments from users who have had success using this product.
• 30 day trial, $29 USD
• Score = C (with promise)
• Screen Shot (~31KBytes)
• User Comments

Nice features Found in this package include:

NOTE: An evaluation of this product was not available on Mysoftware's website. These comments refer to Livemarkup 0.95beta.

Nice Display

The display includes some nice functional elements in addition to showing an approximate of what a browser may see. Small boxes next to each element can be selected to indicate what should be acted upon. In addition these boxes represent the logical connection and hierarchy of different lines of text (for example a list has one box to show what is included, and another box indicates each item in the list). Unfortunately, the editor was temperamental with respect to my in-line graphics (displayed only a smilely face instead of graphic).

Right mouse button access to styles

CLicking the right mouse button over a section or selection of text brings up a menu for styles or editing depending on the context. On the downside, this is the only way to access a menu item to create a link, which is a little non-intuitive for a new user.

Missing/Poorly Implemented Features:

Very slow (Dell XPS 486DX2/66 with 8 Meg RAM/20 Meg virtural memory)

The system operated so slowly, that I often waited 20 seconds or more for screen updates. Typing was a chore at a rate of 1 second per character. During every operation the disk drive ran continuously. Perhaps this Beta version is swapping two often used overlays, but it is extremely slow. I welcome comments from other users. This limited my ability to test what the software could do, so I may have missed something. Found that on a Win95 system, the speed was bearable (still DX2/66 with 8Meg RAM); I will test this product more when time allows.

No HTML 3.0 support

From my short look at the package (see above), there seemed to be a lack of HTML 3.0 Tags.

Very poor link dialog

The link dialog is very poor and requires the user to completely type in the URL and has no browsing capability.

Conclusion:

This could have been a very nice editor because it blends the graphical display well with the function of writing HTML. Other amazing features may be present, but I could not get past the performance. The slow performance and lack of a real link dialog will send you back to your trusty text editor with your browser running in the background. This package has promise, so I'll check out the 1.0 version when it arrives.

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