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WebPlus X2 makes it quick and painless to produce professional-looking sites featuring interactive forums and blogs, polished animated photo galleries, podcasts and cool YouTube videos, Flash animations, secure password-protected pages, easy e-commerce sites with partners including PayPal, and much more, with handy on-screen help to guide you every step of the way.

Whether a novice or a seasoned designer, a hobbyist or commercial manager, WebPlus has something to offer everyone, resulting in amazing websites without the headaches - and without breaking the bank.

Serif Internet Design Suite is Serif's affordable web design powerhouse. The Suite contains the award-winning, user-friendly products: WebPlus 10 for easy, flexible, and powerful website design: PhotoPlus 9 for image fixing, resizing and adjustments; and Photo Objects for instant royalty-free artwork. Combining advanced layout, graphics and web tools with excellent usability, this suite is the easiest way for everyone to get online without having to learn or use any HTML or other programming code. Whether you are new to web design or an experienced designer who wants fast results, you'll find Internet Design Suite 2009 easy to use and packed with powerful features allowing you to create outstanding, fully-functional and engaging websites for your hobby, family, school project, club, or business. The award-winning programs for the Suite offer impressive functionality and value-for-money so stunning sites can be made by anyone. With Serif Internet Design Suite you can: Design impressive fully-functional sites without using HTML Draw and create your own logos and web graphics with built-in tools Easily design, publish, and maintain your site using this one software product Use ready-designed templates Access helpful tutorials and wizards for web design novices Include e-commerce in your website Create easy, dynamic, and stylish site navigation Make multimedia sites including photo galleries, music and video Keep everyone up to date with a cool new Blog Box Contents: Serif internet Design Suite DVD WebPlus 10 User Guide

With the explosive growth of the Web, more and more consumers are interested in creating their own Web pages and Web sites. This easy-to-use 3-CD set gives users the knowledge they need to design and publish Web pages and graphics with twelve comprehensive training courses on Web Design Fundamentals, HTML Fundamentals, HTML Advanced, Photoshop CS2 and CS, FrontPage 2003 and 2002, Dreamweaver 8 and MX 2004, Publisher 2003 and Flash 8 and MX 2004.

Start your Internet business in a snap. You no longer have to learn HTML or be a programmer to create an attractive, user-friendly Web site. Use the VersaCheck Web Commerce Store-Front Wizard to enter your company logos, products, product pictures and images, and product weight information. Customers can now see their orders calculated automatically, including freight charges, and then issue payments via electronic checks or credit card. Upon checkout, your customers may pay securely via credit card or check (draft). Print checks instantly at your desktop, based on bank and account details entered by your customers at checkout. VersaCheck Web Commerce prints fully bankable drafts from Mips VersaCheck blank check stock. Bank-accepted legal wording required for drafts is printed in place of the account holder's signature. Save 50 percent to 80 percent on processing fees by accepting checks (drafts) instead of payment by credit card.

NetObjects Fusion 5.0 provides a what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSWYG) interface, good for building business Web sites without HTML expertise. A great tool that makes the process quick and easy, NetObjects includes a variety of predefined styles, with graphics for banners, buttons, horizontal lines, and navigation bars. (Unfortunately, as usual with such predefined styles, most are too garish for business use.)<P> A warning before continuing: in testing this product, it crashed twice, the second crash resulting in a significant loss of data. Most frustrating, the company provided no option for phone support, and the online support was woefully inadequate.

But if you are new to Web publishing, NetObjects Fusion is still a very good tool to get you started. The crashes we encountered came in testing some Javascript features, which can easily be left out of simple Web sites. The program also comes with literature for a whole host of add-in products that make creating your first Web site even easier. If you are an experienced Web developer, you may want to look at Allaire's Homesite 4.0, but for beginners looking for a robust Web authoring tool, NetObjects Fusion is a strong choice for business application. --Rob Frankland

Bling! It transforms eBay product shots and boosts web sales. Designed for everyone from the computer-phobic to the experienced web designer, Bling! It sets the new standard for web product shots. Quickly replace everyday backgrounds with professional ones, add effects and optimize the shot for auction sites such as eBay and Amazon. Result: users are experiencing:

iSale 5 offers all Mac users a way to flexibly create and manage their online eBay auctions. The Template Editor allows each of the 222 templates, included with iSale, to be easily edited to fit the user's needs.