"....creating pages as a sequence of building blocks"
That's the way I learned with Dreamweaver way back in the 90's. What was interesting then-to-now was what the professor teaching it at Tech did next. Everything was command line, or darn near it back then, install your operating system and create your own batch and sys files, etc. You put a few HTML lines down then looked at what you did, then adjusted it and back and forth. The professor pulls up this GUI that looked a lot like Muse pages do strung out together. He started dragging links between them hooking them together. All of our jaws dropped, it was like showing a cave man a cigarette lighter. He didn't know what all the fuss was, it was something he used every day...something they created for themselves as an in-house tool. No telling what kind of amazing things are in the skunk works of universities today that they don't even give a thought to. It was years before you saw anything similar in the marketplace.
I looked at Wordpress a long time ago, it works like that, building pages up one at a time. I looked at it because everyone who's opinion I valued said that was what you need to learn. I'm wondering if you just have to give up on the pure graphical interface for a few years and grind it out the old fashion way. Of course, I don't have 500 customers to keep up with (nor want them) so I can imagine the pain some folks here are feeling.
I see some folks are giving Wappler a test...with exactly the results I thought. My experience is that version 1's aren't version 1's, they are just an expansion of beta testers. Inside the software industry I used to hear the word come down to us salesman/trainers "just sell it, we'll worry about fixing it later". it is just to much a part of the culture, get as much market share first is the priority, pins in the map. I used to grit my teeth over that for a long time. So, like i originally said, go on what is real, in your hand today, promises are just so much air. Vaporware is more the rule than exception, we'll see how that one pans out...but not me, my beta testing days are over, I'm over that. Give me something with some time behind it, heck might even suck it up a grind out Wordpress just because it's too big to worry about going away tomorrow like Muse. All these other outfits are pretty new and that makes me nervous.
Greenskin - Microsofts Surface Pro's aren't going away, they really are good, had one then made the mistake of "upgrading" to SurfaceBook, typing on it now. It has a VERY serious design flaw. Great components and at first appearance seem very cool but, you cough up your couple grand and suddenly you find that cool looking hinge a real hassle. Unhooking and flipping your screen is a hassle and it won't stand in an angle, like Surface Pro, if you want to sketch. You have to keep it away from your friends because they see that hinge and think it is like the Yoga and want to just crank it back. The screen as a tablet is really too big, it is really clumsy to hold, not like the Surface Pro that is the size of a letter pad we're used to working on. The REAL BAD part is that, when closed, the hinge holds the bottom edge of the screen up and the top edge is the only point touching the front of the computer frame so there is a gap...see where this is going? the thin computers now will have an inherent amount of flex, you have that glass screen levered against itself and at the front edge it has the finger pull that creates two sharp edges along the thin line that now supports that thin, flexible screen. That just amplifies the design flaw and you get...wait for it...a nice crack across your screen one inch down from the top, edge to edge that just grows in different directions. You don't dare flip it around because the stress on it when you unhook it from the frame and you can't really sketch on it anymore. Look online, a lot of people have cracked screens. Cost to fix? $700.00 or, you can bring it in and trade it for a refurb for a mere $350. I had the person at the Microsoft store say "we haven't seen them coming back". Right, maybe not and there is a reason; why would you pay $700 (or even $350) to repair something that just has the same design flaw and will just break again? I'm very careful with my machines, and so are a lot of others that are angry about that one. So I have a $2000 machine with the functionality of a $500 machine. happy happy. Asus Zenbooks, Lenovo carbon fiber X1's and even the Yoga are better convertibles. Better machines, better specs, lot more machine, less money. We pay for our education one way or another but pay we do.
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So when I heard that Adobe and MS were getting together I knew the tide would turn for Adobe's loyal users and they have started with Muse & BC!
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