Location: Stromness, Orkney, Scotland
What kind of websites were you planning to build?
I chose Sandvox to help me quickly produce a replacement for our personal website that had been online for over 7 years and was looking a little dog-eared around the edges. Now we have a website that allows us to showcase our remote Island life off the North East tip of Scotland.
How did you hear about Sandvox?
I placed a Google search for a Mac product that could improve on IWeb and quickly found Sandvox which appears to be IWeb on steroids!!
What made you decide to get Sandvox?
I built a website in IWeb for our vacation last year to upload a blog each day as we cruised from Budapest to Amsterdam. I liked some of its concepts but found it limiting when I considered using it for our main website.
I also have HTML coding skills I was looking for something that would enable me to exploit multimedia on the site and quickly integrate these aspects across my pages. Coding it all myself, would have meant a further learning curve getting to grips with HTML 5. A daunting prospect!
I choose Sandvox because it provided the shortcuts that enabled me to concentrate on content rather than coding. That said it also gave me the opportunity to do some customization. So the site does use some of my own page code thanks to the flexibility of Sandvox..
Now that you have Sandvox, what do you like about it?
Ease of use. Quality and stability of code. Internet street wise in terms of all the features one looks for when embedding content. Ability to customize many features of the layout. Comprehensive comments in the style sheet pages and well constructed CCS code.
What would be a good way to search for a program like Sandvox?
Mac OS X Snow Leopard Web Site Building Software
Tim and Jenny's Orkney Website
“Integrated code from Webcam 7 camera management software into a webpage that enabled one of the IP Cams to produce a live video feed of Stromness Harbour. Integrated Javascript weather forecast and link into page.”
