Godaddy web designer

[behzad]

Just tried godaddy web builder and it is amazing. It has so much more than what Xara is offering. Anyone else tried it?

[gwpriester]

My web designing days are over. But it makes sense for GoDaddy to offer something like this.

[behzad]

Oh dear friend, mine too. If I do make a small site, I might use theirs since it includes hosting and SSL. I have downscaled big time after the death of my parents. Still some freelance money is useful. I joined this site only 2 years after you Gary.

[Egg Bramhill]

Behzad, the TG server was reset in Aug 2000. So all folks who were members prior to that date had their join date reset to Aug 2000. Gary has been a TG member far longer than that, it was once hosted by iu/s or similar, I can't remember now, so long ago

[behzad]

Wow, and we are still together here. So nice. I am getting goosebumps

[Daniel]

It's kind of sad that there's none of the i/us forum content archived in the Wayback Machine, but lots of Xara's old webpages are covered. I remember laughing back then, that the Windows 98 Show closes at 5pm every day, "except on Friday 13 when it closes at 4:30pm, possibly for superstitious reasons" and at a later show, buying a post-Corel version of Xara where they used an old style credit card imprinter: I still have the receipt for that somewhere, over 20 years later... while today's thermal printed receipts are rarely legible after 20 weeks.

[gwpriester]

i/us was started (and ended) by Chris Dickman and Arlan Bartch who was a former VP Marketing for Corel Corp. Arlan came up with the Xara Xone concept.

When they shut down, I asked Kate Moire at Xara if she would sponsor the Xara Xone and Xara did. I think I did the Xara Xone for around 20 years then retired.

[Egg Bramhill]

And sadly missed Gary. Many of us cut our Xara teeth completing your excellent tutorials

[behzad]

[Acorn]

Just tried godaddy web builder and it is amazing. It has so much more than what Xara is offering. Anyone else tried it?

behzad, I have not tried GoDaddy but have used the reportedly better Wix equivalent.
I may be missing the point as you were totally opposed to a Xara subscription model but GoDaddy/Wix are pure subscription.
They are also very specifically domain-centric. So if you build a site for a client you need to purchase a Premium subscription for that, regardless of what you have developed with in your subscription.

A Xara design doesn't have these constraints; you just need somewhere to publish. So only annual hosting with no other costs.

Designing with these is a totally different mindset. If the design is required Marketing, Payments & e-Commerce then they are the way to develop.

Acorn