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Project seven (PVII) website and email unavailable - does anyone here know why?

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
November 11, 2024
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Hi

It appears that its not possible to contact the well known developer of dreamweaver extensions, project Seven (PVII) as their website says "Err_Connection_refused" and their support email address bounces back. Does anyone on here know if they are no longer in business? (were certainly still active earlier this year)

Thanks

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

MODERATOR NOTE:

For anyone who is interested, PVII Documents are now consolidated to the documentation topic below.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/dreamweaver-discussions/has-anyone-got-the-documentation-for-the-following-extensions-please/td-p/14978613

To avoid further confusion, this duplicate topic has been locked.

Thanks.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

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denniscallan

Inspiring

P7 Manuals for those who have extensions but no help files, ten here, more coming next message

Lana B Cal

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Read through all your conversations and so grateful to find this thread and all the information in it.

I had been emailing with Gerry concerning art gallery magic as recent as October 28 , 2024 and getting feedback from him and then suddenly everything's down and disconnected.

. I'm hoping they get their situation With the administration of North Carolina straightened out and get the site back online

however, I'm also learning from this thread that the technology of Project Seven wasn't going forward With the technology advances.

I never made copies of the extension support PDFs and I'm wondering if there are Project Seven users that I could turn to for help with our gallery magic to begin with

I've been a user of Project Seven since 2013. Am open to suggestions on how to change my direction with software and look forward to transitional support..

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

Am open to suggestions on how to change my direction with software and look forward to transitional support.
By @Lana B Cal

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See my reply from Nov 13.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/dreamweaver-discussions/project-seven-pvii-website-and-email-unavailable-does-anyone-here-know-why/m-p/14979572#M229408

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Hope that helps.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

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denniscallan

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I'm afraid it is true, P7 is gone, without even a courtesy aloha email to their extensive list, just poof.

I've been using them for oaver 10 years with pretty good results, despite major CLS issues. I have tried contacting via email, phone, and website, nothing there, goodby Geri, thanks for your past help, but no thanks for the way you snuck out of town.

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kenny_elvis

Participant

So sad to see PVII down, I have every single extension they made, bought them too lol. Hi Nancy, hope your well, I new you from the outlook express pvii and other fourms years ago. I am surprised Adobe didnt attempt to buy PVII and incorporate their extensions into Dreamweaver. I have been using CS6 until recently as wow it does not work so well on windows 11, but find there is little diffenence in CS6 and the latest version of DW.

linkot7135080

Participant

Belated condolences to Al's family and friends.

P7 was always so helpful, even to those who lacked in technical ability. So now at 82 years of age, I am attempting to maintain an old website. I recently lost my Win10 PC. Now, I'm struggling to being Win11 up to speed. All of my P7 extensions are on c-drive and the website file folder is complete as it was on the old PC. I am able to open html and edit but I'm unable to edit the navigation that uses an extension. If you could help, it will be appreciated. Best wishes

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kramkroy

Participant

I used their extensions for over 20 years. And yes they had not put anything new out in a long long time. Their extensions were second to none. I called their customer service number and got a voicemail that had a short message that did not mention Project Seven. Up until yesterday pvii.com would still pull up their site, but that has gone also. I knew this day was coming, but hoped they would maybe get some "new blood" in there to create some more great stuff.

Are developers not using Dreamweaver anymore? If they are using a different Adobe platform what is it?

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osgood_

Legend

I used their extensions for over 20 years. And yes they had not put anything new out in a long long time. Their extensions were second to none. I called their customer service number and got a voicemail that had a short message that did not mention Project Seven. Up until yesterday pvii.com would still pull up their site, but that has gone also. I knew this day was coming, but hoped they would maybe get some "new blood" in there to create some more great stuff.

By @kramkroy

If you try and access an internal page of the website it says its under construction, however l would assume that's not the case or issue as a similar message would almost certainly appear on the homepage given that PVII have always been and are extremely professional.

The day has most likely passed, everything over time evolves. PVII at the time Dreamweaver was at its height in popularity rode the wave and provided excellent products ie Dreamweaver extensions and an excellent after sales services as well.

Dreamweaver started to lose its way even when Al one of the founders of PVII was still alive. Dreamweaver has been in a slow decline for many years as other options became available to developers. In its heyday the program provided innovative solutions but for some reason, no one really knows, Adobe decided to somewhat abandon future development of Dreamweaver as a result of most probably an oversubscribed sector.

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

I know nothing more than what I observe here:

1. This product community has been in decline for 3 years.

2. Our activity has dropped to less than 40 posts per month.

3. DW extensions are not in big demand.

4. Without new customers to support them, 3rd party extension developers can't survive.

😞

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

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osgood_

Legend

I know nothing more than what I observe here:
1. This product community has been in decline for 3 years.
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By @Nancy OShea

Longer than 3 years, but l get your point. Things have changed to the extent that there are dozens of apps, dozens of bits of software these days for creating websites so everyone who creates web apps have to settle for a smaller piece of the pie which means some will struggle.

The best days are over, it's now just mostly a car crash profession where no one really has any idea what they are supposed to be doing, therefore it's become a lot more of a fractured industry.

BenPleysier

Community Expert

The founder of Project Seven, Al Sparber, sadly passed away on June 13th, 2019. Since then there have been no updates to their extensions.

The only one that is still supplying updated extensions, after the passing of the founder of WebAssist, is DMXzone.

As a side note, Dreamweaver is dying a slow death. Investing in extensions for DW is a waste of money. Try other IDE's like VSCode, or, as I have done, Wappler.

Wappler is the DMXzone-made Dreamweaver replacement and includes the best of their powerful extensions, as well as much more!

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Pat_McAuthor

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Thanks for replying. Yes, I'm aware that Al Sparber passed away. The products definitely have been available for sale as recent as March this year, if not later and Gerry Jacobsen has been providing support, so back to my original question "Does anyone know for definite if project Seven is no longer in business please?"

Thanks

BenPleysier

Community Expert

You can try contacting them directly for support:

Email: support@projectseven.com
Phone: 336-374-4611 (9:00am - 5:00pm Eastern Time U.S.)

Wappler is the DMXzone-made Dreamweaver replacement and includes the best of their powerful extensions, as well as much more!

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