Amazon.com Product Description

Be productive with NetObjects Fusion 4.0, a fast, easy way to build Web sites. Create, manage, and update effective sites quickly and efficiently in its WYSIWYG environment. Build and update your site structure with drag-and-drop simplicity. Place page elements precisely where you want them, without ever having to write a line of code. If you want to market to the world, this product is an easy way to turn your business into an e-business. Publishing brochures and product information is a snap. You can add e-commerce functionality and dynamic database access to your site without programming. NetObjects Fusion 4.0 is loaded with new features. With the incremental publish feature, you can save time by republishing only the content you've changed, not the entire site. With the new table tool there's no more cell-by-cell formatting. Now, just select the whole row or column and apply font, color, size, or custom HTML in seconds. With new dynamic database access, you can enable live access to inventory, pricing, and other site-enriching data. Integrate e-mail, address books, and other productivity-enhancing applications on your site. Simple drag-and-drop components connect dynamically to all major application servers. ... Read more

Reviews (3)

Not for those who like control of their coding
I used to use this software up until August of 2002. I am forced to give it only three stars only because of its annoying lack of allowing the user to edit the source code of individual pages. Fusion operates much like a desktop publishing program. Those familiar with this will find no trouble transitioning to Fusion. On the other hand, anybody who has good knowledge of HTML should look elsewhere. I've made the transition from Fusion to Notepad rather smoothly. The software has templates, sure. However, those knowledgeable enough to implement a template outside what is included should find no trouble using a more complicated package.

G. O'Hara

Good Control
A very good program to do WYSIWG. However, it lacks the simplicity of Frontpage on the pubilshing feature and other interactive features such as FORM publishing.

A nice start!
NetObject Fusion may be a great tool for a user that have a little knowledge of web architecture but isn't a programmer. This software provides a gateway for top line web desing it may be too intuitive and you can learnig by doing eassily. ... Read more

Amazon.com Product Description

If you require full control over every design aspect of your shop, ShopFactory Developer is for you. It is also the only ShopFactory version with a license that allows you to build shops for businesses other than your own. With its powerful adjustable templates, ShopFactory Developer gives you full control over every design aspect.

More than 200 predesigned shop themes mean you have highly professional shops up and running in no time. All shop themes can be modified beyond recognition with point-and-click ease. Shop themes are also a great starting point for further customization according to your needs, and demonstrate the extreme design flexibility of ShopFactory Developer.

The Developer tutorial explains how the templates work, how you can modify them to achieve the look you need, and how to create your own shop theme. Once you have altered or created a shop theme for a client, you will never have to touch the design again. ShopFactory will automatically apply your modifications to all your content changes.

ShopFactory allows you to quickly build multi-department stores that make navigation for shop customers easy, allowing them to browse through your departments or use the powerful search function to locate a specific product. Just point and click to add departments, sub-departments, products, and multimedia links to customize the look of a shop. Add many of the other features required for a professional retail outlet, such as product weight, unlimited options and choices, and more.

Before publishing a shop you can preview and test every single function of your shop on your local computer. You can even send and receive test orders with the default payment system. A sophisticated integrated publishing tool makes it easy to publish your shop on the Internet. It will even remember what has already been published, to keep publishing times to a minimum. ... Read more

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IC Verify Version 2.2
This software is in my opinon is over priced and over rated. Our first bad experience came from the licensing of this product. The serial number of our software hadn't been entered into their database so on line activation was not possible and it took repeated calls with 15 minutes or more on hold before that issue was corrected.

After the software was finally up and running we discovered that there are only a tiny number of very limited reports and none of these print out the customer's name. When I contacted IC Verify about this issue I was told that if I wanted the customer's name to also print on a daily report that I would need to enter it twice, once in the Customer Name field and again in the comment field. What I was expecting was a fix and what I got was a work around. What's the point in having a Customer name record if you can report on it?

We have also found many errors in the manual concerning the operation of the software and when we brought this to the attention of the IC Verify customer support team we received only "we are sorry" and no corrective actions or even promises that there would be any corrections so the next unlucky buyer will not be forced to repeat our mistakes.

I was really surprised at this software. I expected a much better product that what I received. ... Read more

Features

• Choose your favorite audio tracks from multiple discs and combine them onto one audio
• Make your own backup CDs and folders, with complete directory trees
• Create cool labels and inserts, adding your own clip art images

Features

• SMS Text Messaging - Get notified of new web orders on your Cell Phone
• Order to Fax - Send web orders directly to your fax machine
• CDCatalog - Easily make a CD of you website to market your customer base off-line. When “add to cart” button is clicked, they’re live!
• Our Fill in the Blanks Interface requires ZERO programming skills to quickly build your website
• Showcase Unlimited Products - With up to 5 sub-categories deep

Amazon.com Product Description

E-business in a Box offers a custom-designed Web site, complete with anonline shopping system designed to accommodate your products and business.Included with this development solution are 12 months of Web site hosting by CIHost and one year of domain name registration. And there are no setup fees. Yourcredit card transactions--including processing and authorizing--are conducted inCI Host's secure environment. After 12 months, you can continue to host your Website with CI Host or transfer your site to another hosting company. You own thedesign once you host your site with CI Host for 12 months.

With a custom-designed administration area for your shopping system, you canquickly add, modify, and delete products from your catalog. You can add newmarketing promotions and products to your virtual storefront within a fewminutes. Also included is a two-hour initial consultation with CI Host's designteam, 10 stock images for your Web site, and a customized form for userinquiries, such as order status.

A customized CD-ROM contains all the files and graphics you'll need for your Website. You'll also receive a merchant account that enables you to take Visa,MasterCard, and American Express credit cards through your Web site. ... Read more

Reviews (1)

CI Host did not fulfill their contract with our Company
Our saga is long and drawn out. We purchased "E-Business in a Box" on 4-19-02 and were supposed to be up and running in 7 to 10 days. Our store finally became functional on 9-12-02 although there had not been any customization of the store as their sales information stated was to be provided. The entire store was an out-of-the-box, here-ya-go, you-figure-it-out setup.

Our main problem, we later found out, is the turnover rate of the employees at CI Host. Our original web designer that we met left CI Host and for some reason our account was put in the "done" pile. Nearly everyone we talked to would be gone within the month so our complaints never got addressed properly. Once we finally got someone to listen to us and try to address our problems, our lawyer sent them a letter at our request to cover our butts to indicate that they were not fulfilling their contract. At that point, all work stopped dead in it's tracks and our web site sat there for the last 5 months of our original 12 month hosting contract.

To top it off, when the year contract was up, they sent us a renewal e-mail which I replied to stating that we were not renewing with them. They took $300 out of our checking account anyway and we are currently trying to get that money back. ... Read more

Product Description

Everything you need to:

• Create impressive websites
• Manage your e-commerce stores
• Promote your websites

Features

• Design your own Websites with ease, adding creative touches and uploading to the Web
• Premium Web Store Builder sets up single or multiple online storefronts - you'll be open for business in no time
• Increase your site's visibility with Professional Website Promoter

Amazon.com Product Description

ShopFactory Professional is designed to make shop building as easy as possible. No programming skills are required. Virtually anything can be achieved with point-and-click commands and powerful yet easy-to-use wizards. And shops will run on any server--without any installation requirements.

ShopFactory Professional features 150 predesigned shop themes to help you customize your store to fit your needs and style. ShopFactory quickly allows you to build multi-department stores that make navigation easy for your customers, allowing them to browse through your departments or use the powerful search function to locate a specific product.

Just point and click to add departments, sub-departments, products, and multimedia links, or to customize the look of your shop front. Add other features required for a professional retail outlet, including product weight, unlimited options and choices, and more. Easily adjustable shop templates allow you to select and modify the look of your shop with point-and-click ease.

Easily define unlimited tax and shipping regions, or use the integrated UPS shipping calculator access (U.S. only). Sophisticated discount structures allow just about any discount method you may need. Before publishing your shop, you can preview and test every single function of your shop on your local computer. You can even send and receive test orders with the default payment system. The integrated publishing tool makes it easy to then publish your shop on the Internet. ... Read more

Reviews (2)

Important remarks on ShopFactory
I own a e-commerce site created with ShopFactory ver. 5 and would like to express my experience with this tool.
ShopFactory will do if you have a small e-commerce site but when you need to insert a lot of products and images (I have over 1700 products and 4000 images in 4 languages) ShopFactory becomes hell.
What you need to know about ShopFactory and they don't tell:
1) ShopFactory does not create a database driven website. Instead it creates html-files. Not necessary bad, however if you edit one single word (e.g. mistyping) in a department, ShopFactory recreates the whole site in all languages. This means that it will need to upload all files (in my case over 8000) because the new created files have a date stamp which is more recent than the ones on the web, although their content did not changed. The build in file transfer utility can't even do this job because it has not a timeout prevention build in. So I needed to buy a good and fast FTP software that uploads at night. You can imagine that the whole process is time-consuming.
2) If you add pictures, ShopFactory will remember the complete path. You don't tell ShopFactory the path of the folder you put your images in, no, ShopFactory will use the complete path including the driveletter. This means that ShopFactory is not verry suitable to use on a network and does not allow you to move your images to another location (e.g.:if you would like to reorganise your system) unless you agree to relink all your images.(in my case over 4000) Can you imagine how time-consuming this is ?
3) ShopFactory comes loaded with bugs. For example: you are able to change the language file to your own needs. Excellent, but when you do this within ShopFactory your customers won't be able to buy any products anymore because they can't give their addresses. The input form is simply not generated anymore. So you need to edit the language files with notepad or another editor to prevent this from happening. ShopFactory's helpdesk didn't tell me this, another user did.
4) Concerning postal prices to other countries, ShopFactory let you multiply the postal prices with a number given by you. However since this is dependent on the weight which not always follows the same structure as the local post , you are not able to calculate the right shipping prices for export. Now, there's a way to work around this problem, but ShopFacory's helpdesk did not told me, another user did.
5) This brings me to ShopFactory's helpdesk. Either they don't want to help or they don't know how to help, fact is that you can't count on their service. I've reported problems several times where they told me that it was the first time they heard about it and probably the problem would be on my computer, where later I could read in some older forums they have online that the bugs were reported years ago and several times. In the mean time they've released a new version without fixing the bugs.

My advise: If you're happy with a small site, ShopFacory will do. If you want to create a professional site with lots of products and images, don't buy ShopFactory unless you're willing to accept above mentioned disadvantages and bugs. I my case I'm still using ShopFactory until I can find a way to move to another software without the need of reinput all the products and images. (Months of work went into it already.)
I hope I've informed you with this.

I love it, I was up and running in under an hour.
I have to admit I cheated a little, I registered my domain name ($12/year) found a host, and set up a (free) paypal account. I can take credit cards and online drafts from checking right away. The Page looks professional, and has everything I could ask for. Watch out for the back ends. There are a half dozen plug in modules that aren't include in the base software, some usefull, some not. But if you want them you pay extra. They do things like import products from a database (you have to type them in manually w/ the base software, (so if you have a large selection, you need it,) support multiple simultaneous languages, and add 3d graphics. You don't need any of these, but if you want them you have to pay extra. I haven't yet, but I'm thinking seriously about that import wizard. ... Read more

Reviews (7)

Hard to implement, poor support, give this a miss...
I bought StoreFront 6.0 directly from LaGarde. I found it difficult to implement. Support staff were largely inexperienced. They could never get the e-mail confirmation feature to work. Some of our customer orders would get "lost" between PayPal and the StoreFront software. Quantities can not be changed (we sell some products by the kilogram, others by the dozen). The list of states is not connected to pull-down list of countries, so U.K. customers need to search through all the U.S. states and Canadian provinces to find their U.K. county. I have requested a refund under their 30 day "no excuses" guarantee and am still waiting. I recommend Actinic e-commerce software instead: I had our store up and running with Actinic in a few hours. Battled with StoreFront for over five weeks, and it never worked.

StoreFront made selling online easy
Building an online store with this software was a heck of a lot easier than I expected. Integrates beautifully and logically with FrontPage. I had products for sale, taking credit cards, shipping (with realtime rate quotes) through UPS in no time. I saved a lot of time over downloading and integrating scripts.

This is a real time saver.

Very Poor Support.
I bought this software directly from 'Lagarde'. Their sales people convinced me and I found the features very attractive. But how good the features are if there is no support. A very poor support department is unable to handle after sales support.At the time of this writing my webstore is down for last 25 days due to some error in their application. They have neither done any thing nor they have any answer on when it will be fixed. Now I am stuck and suggest that if you want to build a good business, do not use this company and their software as your technology base. Look somewhere else.

Oops, we forgot to mention...
After you read all the reviews and read the site info, you think that this is a can't miss product. Well it all started out when I purchased this product straight from the publisher... After completing the checkout, I realized that I didn't get asked about shipping. A few minutes later I received and email with a link telling me where I could download this software. The bundle is an 11Mb file.

After downloading the software and installing it....oh wait, it doesn't install. This product doesn't work with Windows XP Home edition. You only find that out after some careful reading on LaGarde's website under product support. You would think that this is something that you might want to know before you get this far.

It just so happened that I had a copy of XP Pro as well. So I tried to install in under XP Pro. Nope....same errors. I used LaGarde's online chat technical support. Their advice was to go out and get the web extension from Microsoft for FrontPage. Did that and installed them. Still can't install StoreFront. At this point I sent an email asking for a refund under their 30 day money back guarantee. I am still waiting for my refund.

Flawed product - not fully upgradeable
We operate two web stores, one with over 1000 individual products, and used StoreFront 2000 Merchandiser Edition because we needed inventory tracking. We upgraded to the StoreFront 5.0 Advanced Edition. This requires that we update our database using a StoreFront provided utility program.

We've been using StoreFront because it had the features we needed at a competitive price. Prior to this upgrade, we've been satisfied with their product.

The Product Manager in StoreFront 5.0 is unable to read our inventory information in the converted file (a MS Access file). This is forcing us to manually re-enter inventory info on over 1000 items.

How hard can it be for programmers to read one database and write the info into another database? All their Product Manager needs to do is read their own database and transfer the quantities to the new database. ...
This is our third upgrade of their product and we feel they're providing inadequate support for existing customers. We'll shop around next time. ... Read more

Amazon.com Product Description

ShopFactory Light has been designed to make online shop building as easy as possible. ShopFactory Light supports one shop department with up to 50 products. No programming skills are required, and virtually anything can be achieved with point-and-click commands and easy-to-use but very powerful wizards.

Just point and click to add products and multimedia links, to customize the look of your shop front, or to add many of the other features required for a professional retail outlet. You can also easily define unlimited tax and shipping regions so the shop can automatically calculate tax and shipping costs for your customers.

Before publishing your shop, you can preview and test every single function on your local computer. You can even send and receive test orders from your own computer. A sophisticated integrated publishing program makes it easy to then move your shop onto the Internet. Your shop will run on any server, without any server-side installation requirements. Just publish and start accepting orders. ... Read more

Reviews (5)

affordable ecommerce
i ordered the software last month and so far i'm happy with my purchase. i didn't need a high-tech ecommerce solution, just something that was easy to use and affordable and i have no major complaints about the software. my product line changes often so its very convenient to be able to change my products with a few clicks. the templates are nice looking. i'd reccommend this software to any body who needs a quality shopping cart and does not have enough money to get a custom solution. its a good price for anyone who wants to sell on line.

good value for money
i bought the estore builder a week ago, and I'm pretty happy with it, it's easy enough to use and i think its good value considering the cost of ecommerce solutions. The templates are nice and it is easy to use, my only complaint is the product is not integrated with fedex or ups so you need to charge a flat rate on shipping or a percentage of the product's weight, i've worked around that problem, so my only other complaint is that the images must be below 75kb, i called their tech support line and although they were helpful they weren't able to fix that problem without some custom work at a higher cost. besides this, overall i am happy with this product and it is good value for money

Fabricated Reviews on This Item
This item has been listed on Amazon since June, 2003. Yet the only two reviews of product - both of which just happen to be glowing - each came out on the same day?!?

Sounds like the company is trying to deceptively promote itself. Buyer beware.

Great product! I'm really pleased with it.
I'm not usually compelled to write reviews for things that I buy on Amazon but WOW, this product is awesome and super affordable! I asked a local web team how much it would be to put my business online and they wanted $5,000 ! But with the estorebuilder I've got a better solution for only $249 and no monthly fees or maintenance! The shipping was really quick too! I had the box a mere 3 days after I ordered it! The payment gateway is a totally awesome feature and the templates are top-class. If you want to save money and time building a website then this product is for you!

THE ESTOREBUILDER IS AWESOME!
I bought the eStoreBuilder last week cause I was looking for an inexpensive way to put my business online and I am so pleased with it! The estorebuilder is so easy to use it's incredible. You can add and change your products with one click with no programming experience. I had my store live online in less than 2 hours! Their customer service is awesome too, really friendly and efficient. In my opinion, even if you already have a website you could benefit from this cause you don't have to pay to hire a web designer every time you want to change your products. Plus it comes with an integrated payment gateway which is so helpful for a small business owner like me cause I can now accept credit cards! All I can say is if you don't have this product BUY IT NOW! Trust me, you won't regret it. Five Stars ***** ... Read more