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SiteKreator

June 8, 2006 in 3 out of 5 stars, CMS, Hosted software

What is it?

SiteKreator: SiteKreator helps businesses create a web site. It is fully-hosted. SiteKreator has several features, such as blogs, web forms, discussion forums, and mailing lists. Web site information can be tiered through multiple content layers by adding members-only areas and registration forms.

Who makes it?

Ivaylo Lenkov

Why is it the killerest?

SiteKreator helps smaller shops gets a professional website for a modest expense (about the price of typical web hosting).

What could be improved?

Limited templates may turn some off. The pricing model isn't clear without some digging.

How much does it cost?

From free to $95+ per year.

Rating?

EditSite.net

May 4, 2006 in 3 out of 5 stars, CMS, Hosted software

What is it?

editsite.net: A technically impressive, point-and-click, template-driven, hosted website creation tool aimed at moderately tech-savvy individuals or organizations wishing to build and maintain a rich website without worrying about technical details like hosting, programming, FTP and HTML editors.

Who makes it?

Ilkka Huotari

Why is it the killerest?

A solid CMS. It has an impressive hosted editing (WYSIWYG) tool and file management system. Once you get the hang of how it works, you can have a site up and running quickly that is easy to maintain. When logged in, you can even edit your pages in place. Click a bit of text and it toggles to edit mode where you can make and save simple changes.

Features include, calendar, discussion forums, photo albums, blog, a form editor, file archives, slideshows, email, search, simple yet attractive design templates, RSS feeds, and even some juicy AJAX love just for fun.

It works well in all major modern browsers and generates fairly clean code.

This is obviously a labor of love for Ilkka (the creator). He's very responsive to support requests, tries hard to improve based on feedback, and is constantly improving and polishing.

What could be improved?

It's not for complete novices (although motivated novices can pick it up quickly). It's for someone wishing to have fairly powerful control and features (and the learning curve that comes with that power), while still being shielded from the deeper technical details.

How much does it cost?

Free plans, up to $30 per month

Rating?

Reviewed by Carson McComas