NetObjects Fusion 11 review

However, these days NetObjects is increasingly keen to stress its coding credentials. In practice, this largely boils down to providing HTML and CSS Inspector panels in Page view and a separate Code view of your page with colour-coding and code-hinting.

Sadly, the claims are misleading and misguided. The coding capabilities add greatly to the perceived complexity of the program - throwing away its greatest asset - but really don't add much in terms of useful control.

All in all, NetObjects Fusion 11 is a mixed bag. The need for a simple, code-free web-authoring package for quickly producing professional-looking websites is greater than ever. Moreover, with the demise of FrontPage, NetObjects Fusion should be thriving. Sadly, over the years, it hasn't built on its original strengths, but obscured them.

Author: Tom Arah