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Category: Software
List Price: £34.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (33 reviews)
Sales Rank: 21
Platforms: Windows Xp, Mac Os X
Media: CD-ROM
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 1.9 x 5.2 x 7.8
EAN: 4020628996956
ASIN: B000I59YJU
Release Date: October 6, 2006
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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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Product Description
Meet Mr Site, who genuinely offers a takeaway solution to the thorny problem of updating and refreshing your internet web presence. Don't have one? What's a presence? Goodness me. Don't you know what year it is? Well sit down and we'll tell you a story... Mr Site is, in short, one helluva guy. He's not only got it upstairs in the brains department, but delivers real results on the ground, too, making his legendary website-in-a-box among the most innovative we've yet witnessed. In short, Mr Site will help you design and build a professional looking website in next to no time for next to no money. Golly. It works a little like this: buy box and go online. Enter code in box to access simple step-by-step process. Then develop your very own customised and professionally designed dot.com website with cutting edge features including jukebox, shopping cart, media player and the like. In no time at all. For no extra cost at all. No geeks. No guys called Zak. No expensive calls to helpdesks in San Francisco or Mumbai. The process of 'design', often shrouded in great secrecy by web agencies who deploy smoke and mirrors to keep mere mortals in the dark, is very simple with Mr Site. Simply choose and register a name, select from hundreds of professional site designs, insert your photos, music and copy (that's text to you and me) and hey presto. Then all you need to worry about is keeping it fresh and updated (to keep visitors coming back) and signing up for a ?2.50/month subscription after your first 12 months is up. And everybody lived happily ever after.
Manufacturer's Description
The Takeaway Website gives you everything you need to get a professionally designed dot com website online (e.g.It doesn't matter if it's a website for your business, your breakthrough single, your local art club or even for your sister's wedding photos, you can create it. You could even turn that hobby of yours into a thriving business with the Mr Site shopping cart. How? It's all in the box, it's jargon free and seriously easy to use.With Mr Site you can have your own piece of the internet in just four simple steps. 1) Enter the code in the Takeaway Website box at the Mr Site website. 2) Pick your website name. 3) Choose from hundreds of professional website designs, then customize and make yours unique. 4) Insert your photos, music, videos and text and you're done. No technical knowledge is required and the Mr Site Team is there to guide you step by step, by phone or email. WEBSITE DESIGN Created by some of the UKs leading Web Designers, select a professional design for your website from the hundreds available. Each one can be easily customized. Add your own company logo, background or header, change fonts and colour schemes and make your design totally unique. You can change and update your website as many times as you like. EXTRA INFORMATION . Choose your own dot com Stake your claim on your name. Choose from a .com, .co.uk, .info, .net, .org, .biz, .org.uk or .me.uk name and Mr Site will register it in your name. Already have one of the above names? You can use it with Mr Site. . Secure Shopping Cart Make money selling whatever you want online and take credit/debit card payments with a secure shopping cart from PayPal, the world's leading online payment provider. . Support Get help from the Mr Site Team should you need it by phone or email. . Hosting Mr Site has reserved your plot in cyberspace ready for your website. This is called your "hosting" and includes a huge 150Mb web space for your website and email inbox. When your website is ready, Mr Site will get it up on the internet for you. Nerd Alert! Upload your own designs onto your web space using FTP. [;] Nerd Alert! You will get a huge 2BG bandwidth per month. This simply means you can have a whole lot of visitors to your website each month. [;] Nerd Alert! Insert flash movies or use your own HTML on your web pages if you want to. [;] Get more web space and bandwidth if you need it. [:] Renew in a year if you want to with no hidden costs. Current renewal fee just A2.90 a month. [;] There is no fiddly software to load onto your computer as Mr Site is browser based. This means that all your website creation work is done whilst you are connected to the internet at the Mr Site website.
Box Contents
CD Rom
PDF Manual
Activation Card
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| Customer Reviews: Read 28 more reviews...
WOW - I created a professional looking website homemagic4u July 30, 2008
In todays world we don't really expect to get much for our money especially if someone tells you that you can create a professional website all under 100 pounds sterling. However, this is exactly what you get from Mr Site - I created my website homemagic4u using Mr Site that left me shocked of how similar in contrast and professionalism it was with other MAJOR online retailers that spend thousands and you don't have to take my word for it as the Mr Site directory is living proof of its popularity which continually adds new sites everyday.Mr Site (PC/Mac)
 Poor customer experience June 19, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have to say that I was initially recommended this product by a 3rd party and for the purposes that it was needed for seemed to make sense.
I created the site that I needed, wasn't the easiest user experience I have to say.
The issues started when I tried to edit the pages that I had created. Mr Site support was not particularly helpful and to be honest were at times quite patronising and full of excuses. The main problem was that although the site was up, attempting to edit the pages was impossible because the content was blank. This happeded on more than one occassion.
After 12 months of to-ing an fro-ing with them, my patience with the inflexibility of the product, the lack of proper customer service etc led me to move to another hosting partner who seemed to exhibit the sort of professionalism that you would expect from people taking your money.
We are currently in the process of attempting to rectify our final issue with Mr Site relating to a secondary domain transfer. Their support guys are uncommunicative, unhelpful and do not deliver on the promises that they make.
Do the best that you can and steer well clear of these guys.
THE DISAPPEARING FILES May 8, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
i was not very happy with this site,my files and photos kept appearing and then disappearing for no reason at all.i was not given a reason for this,
needless to say it was my fault.
i did not even manage to finish my site because of this problem which kept occuring.i have asked for my money back,we,ll see if that is forthcoming.
yours
graham.
 Arghhh! May 6, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This has to be the most infuriating software I've ever used. I have to warn you that this program is filled with bugs, if you want to do anything other than simple blogging or like me, are indecisive and will want to change the background regularily, be warned! Sometimes fonts dont work, currently some of my text refuses to change size for no reason at all and if you EVER edit ANY of the text on a gallery page that is not part of the gallery, say the introduction explaining what the gallery is of, then it forgets all your pictures have titles and they disappear. You have the option of showing pictures in three types of ways, one is plain ugly and of the other two one won't allow any text to be under your images. There also isn't a spellcheck, which seems like an obvious thing to have to me?
These I promise are just a few of the most annoying problems with what is a really good idea. I have emailed their own program bug catcher but have recieved nothing but the crudest of responses... "have you tried changing the size of the font?".. Of course I have. I have built websites before from scratch in much more complex programs than this, these aren't my stupid mistakes and I'm not alone in finding them.
Arghhhh!
 Cheap - but limited April 21, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
If you're looking for something that doesn't cost the earth but delivers a decent looking website then this is the package for you. I've only rated it 3 stars as functionality is limited.
Firstly, you have to have a menu down the side of your page, this shows on every page you have on your site. I wanted a different menu on one page but you can't do this - also you can't have a sub-menu on a sub-menu.
Also, if you decide you want your pages in a different order the 'shuffle' functionality is a nightmare. I'm still not 100% sure how it works and spent most of a day shuffling pages around. When I eventually got the pages in the sort of order I wanted I found that the hyperlinks in them weren't carried over - so basically the hyperlinks now pointed to the wrong pages. Very frustrating.
Additionally, the header creation page always locks up on me, both on my Mac and my PC.
The email package is OK, not great functionality and not much space but it does the job. At the end of the day you can forward emails onto your own mail package and they have a tutorial to show you how to do this.
All that said I've still managed to create a semi professional looking site and it is easy to understand. The book that accompanies the pack and the tutorials on YouTube are helpful. If you're new to creating websites and you want something cheap and easy then I would recommend this.
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