Sandvox is a powerful and easy-to-use website creation tool, for Mac OS X from Karelia Software the developer of Watson.
Instant Gratification
Sandvox makes Web site creation elegant, intuitive and fun. It's the Macintosh way - the way it should be: drag and drop content, watch your site take shape as you create it, and publish. Sandvox makes it easy to keep in touch via the Web with friends, family and customers.
Express Yourself
Sandvox will help you be more creative on the Web. Parents, share your experiences in bringing up baby. Small business owners, show your customers your latest products and services.
Photographers, share your libraries with the world. Authors, publish your stories. Families, keep your friends up to date with more than just a holiday letter.
Here are some key features of "Sandvox":
· Live, Rich Text Editing: No Preview Necessary.
· Drag and Drop Website Assembly.
· Stylish Designs (Two dozen so far!).
· Build and Publish Your Own Weblog.
· Innovative Pagelets Provide Micro-content on Your Pages.
· Share Your Photos Online.
· Make Yourself Heard: Publish Your Audio as a Podcast.
· Publish Your Site on Any Provider - or On Your Own Mac.
· Raw HTML and Advanced Features (Pro Version).
Limitations:
· This demo will only export or publish the home page of each project you will create using it.
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
New Features:
· Sandvox now uses dashes instead of underscores for page title separators, to help with SEO. (It also better coalesces multiple punctuation marks.) This only affects newly created automatically generated file names, and only pages, not media.
· Updated Help documents
· Updated to latest Sparkle
· Contact form now uses correct HTML5 email type, which will help with iPhone email input
Bug Fixes:
· Fixed an issue where a custom banner would not show up in a document with an apostrophe in its file name.
· Memory cleanups
· Fixed a problem where text within tags was getting output HMTL-escaped, and it shouldn't be!
· Fixed an issue where trying to loading a missing media file into the WebView when it did not need scaling would fail.
· Tweak to the contact element that will only allow safari to resize textarea's vertically
· We are now able to read firefox cookie file (for help with loading registration code) even if Firefox is running
· We have updated to a newer version of Sparkle
· iMedia browser works around known bug in Apple iPhoto of slideshows with ampersand in the file path.
· iMedia browser: improved parsing of aperture libraries on external volumes
· Improved display compatibility with JS-Kit/Echo commenting system
· Fix links to home page from archive pages
· Fix problem linking to external page with funny characters in its URL
· Fixed a problem where editing an existing link to a local page would instead remove the link
· Work around invalid extensible property archives by resetting to nil and logging
· Better parsing of charset from string data