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

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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

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    Nancy OShea
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    November 17, 2024

    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
    Inspiring
    November 17, 2024

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

    Lana B Cal
    Participating Frequently
    November 17, 2024

    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
    Community Expert
    November 17, 2024
    quote

    Am open to suggestions on how to change my direction with software and look forward to transitional support.

    By @Lana B Cal

    ===========

    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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    -- Notepad++ (free) - https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
    -- Nova (Mac only, formerly called Coda) - https://nova.app/
    -- Pinegrow - https://pinegrow.com/
    -- Sublime Text - http://www.sublimetext.com/
    -- Visual Studio Code (free) - https://code.visualstudio.com/
    -- Wappler ~ Visual Web App Builder - https://wappler.io/
    ==========
    ONLINE SITE BUILDERS:
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    -- Webflow - https://webflow.com
    -- Wix - https://www.wix.com/
    -- WordPress (open source) - https://wordpress.org/

    Hope that helps.

     

    Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
    Inspiring
    November 14, 2024

    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.

    Participant
    November 15, 2024

    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
    November 15, 2024

    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

    Participant
    November 12, 2024

    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?  

    Nancy OShea
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    November 13, 2024
    quoteAre developers not using Dreamweaver anymore?  If they are using a different Adobe platform what is it?  
    By @kramkroy

     

    ===============

    1. Serious developers use tools that are in ACTIVE development.  DW is static.  It's been in minimal maintenance status since 2021.

     

    2.  BUSINESS 2 BUSINESS OR BUSINESS 2 CUSTOMERS: 

    Adobe Experience Manager

    https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager

     

    Adobe Commerce (formerly Magento)

    https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/commerce-admin/start/about

     

    CONSUMER PRODUCTS:

    Adobe Portfolio -- A free website builder for showcasing creative work online.

    https://help.myportfolio.com/hc/en-us/articles/360035996893-What-is-Adobe-Portfolio

     

    Behance -- A free social media platform for sharing work online.

    https://help.behance.net/hc/en-us/articles/204483894-Guide-Intro-to-Behance

     

    Adobe Express -- Online content creation tools for social media marketers.

    https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/creative-cloud-enterprise-learn/cce-learning-hub/expressoverview/overview-express

     

    Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
    Nancy OShea
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    November 11, 2024

    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
    Legend
    November 12, 2024
    quote

    I know nothing more than what I observe here: 

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

    😞

     

     


    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
    Community Expert
    November 11, 2024

    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!
    Pat_Mc작성자
    Participating Frequently
    November 11, 2024

    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
    Community Expert
    November 11, 2024

    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!