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March 21, 2007

Mr Site Takeaway Website

Takeaway Website removes the pain from designing and publishing a site. In truth there's little design involved - you simply choose from large selections of templates and colours. It's not worth buying the boxed version, as Takeaway Website is browser based. Confusingly the box contains only useful web utilities such as Firefox and an OnSpeed trial. Simply purchase your activation code from MrSite.co.uk and you can begin.

You’ll be asked to key in your preferred domain name, and then the program finds and registers it for you. Our site (www.pcadvisortestsite.com) was online within minutes, although it can take a day or so.

The creative process begins immediately. You select from the myriad colour and template options. As ever with designing websites, the biggest danger is over-complication. Fortunately, there are sufficient designs and colour schemes to create a simple, elegant site. You don't have to worry about building a structure for your site, Mr Site does this for you. Create a home page and subsequent pages will link from it. This is a touch limiting, but Takeaway Website is aimed at individuals and businesses who need a good-looking site quickly. Such people will have few complaints.

Inputting text is a cinch. There’s a choice of input panes - the more 'complicated' one has a Word-like toolbar across the top. Inputting links and images is simple, just like using any content-management system.

As with any browser-based tool you'll struggle to upload images if your web connection's flaky. Oh, and it's a good idea to crop and prepare images before uploading, as the ability to edit within the program is limited. Excellent, easy-to-add back-end extras include guestbooks, photo libraries, MP3 downloads and blogs.

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Mr Site Takeaway Website scored:
8.3 out of 10

The 2 most helpful reviews based on 11 reviews:

Mel, Bradford

10
Good Points
Easy to use, even for a beginner! my site looks very professional with very little time spent creating it I can change the content at any time Its created lots of business for me
Bad Points
havnt found any yet!!!
Confirmed purchase on 19 Jul 2008

Confirmed purchaser

8
Good Points
Has everything you need to start a decent website. I was particularly impressed with the ability to have paypal and therefore quickly and easily set up a shop. At this price, quite frankly you can't go wrong, as it is domain host, web builder etc all in one.
Bad Points
some knowledge of web building is helpful. You have to upgrade to the pro to get search optimisation, which is really annoying, because who buys a website builder, and then don't expect to be seen. Having said that the meta tags are working quite well so far. The help is a little basic, which brings me back to the first point.
Confirmed purchase on 28 Dec 2008

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