Move Over SiteBuilder Here comes Plus
September 28, 2011 at 5:36 pm 34 comments
Change is something that either makes us giddy with anticipation or sends us off screaming and pulling out our hair. It’s also the one constant in life … the one thing we can count on to happen. And so it seems that change is looming on the horizon in regards to the desktop SiteBuilder from Homestead/Intuit.
In recent conversations with various Tech Support staff and responses to Help Tickets it has become clear that Intuit is transitioning away from the (beloved) desktop version of SiteBuilder. Many of you are already familiar with SiteBuilder Lite, the rather watered down version of SB that allows limited online editing – SiteBuilder Plus, the replacement for the (did I mention beloved?) desktop version will operate much the same as Lite, only it will be a full-blown editor.
Here are some of the known’s about Plus:
• All files are stored/accessed online. With Plus files will no longer on be individual computers.
• You have to be online to work on sites with Plus – Heaven help those of us with iffy/slow internet connections. Good news though for Mac users who will now be able to use SiteBuilder.
• Access will only be available by logging in to your account via the Intuit site, going to your website section and choosing Plus from the drop-down. Gone will be the days of just clicking on a desktop icon to launch SiteBuilder. Currently the two choices under Edit are Download SiteBuilder or SiteBuilder Lite, unless you are already using Plus.
• Currently the old (yes, beloved) SiteBuilder desktop version is receiving updates, but not upgrades – meaning technical tweaks are still happening, but any new bells and whistles aren’t. This has been the case for quite some time. So essentially those of us who use SiteBuilder desktop have been paying for a program that isn’t being upgraded and we’ve never been informed there was an alternative.
• New clients and website designers who sign up new clients should know that they will automatically be put on Plus unless they are using IE7 in which case they get the Intuit version of SiteBuilder. To avoid this you can phone in and ask to be put on SiteBuilder desktop version – but that may only be a temporary thing as the change to seems to be inevitable.
Many of the changes we’ve been seeing of late I’m sure are somehow tied into the switch to Plus. Transitioning all the old Homestead accounts to Intuit, for instance, and I’m sure there are more to come. Currently there are about 4 versions of SiteBuilder. The Intuit version, the Homestead version, SiteBuilder Lite (online only), SiteBuilder Plus (online only) and the .net version of SiteBuilder that many people had to download in order to use SB in Win 7 and Vista. Combining all those accounts ‘under one roof’ has to be a huge job and getting everyone moved to Plus an even bigger one.
As I stated earlier there are a lot of unanswered questions and a lot of conflicting answers – the only thing for sure is that Plus is already in place and being sold to consumers. Whether or not the desktop version will be totally eliminated at some point remains to be verified. So far the response from tech support is Yes and No depending on which Tech you get or who answers the Help Ticket.
What are your thoughts about the possibility of losing the desktop version of SiteBuilder?
See the follow-up post regarding SB and Plus.
Entry filed under: SiteBuilder Program, Webmaster Tools, Website Design. Tags: Homestead, Homestead SiteBuilder Plus, Homestead users, Homestead Webmaster, Intuit Site Builder Plus, Intuit Websites by Homestead, site builder, SiteBuilder, SiteBuilder Plus, Website Design.
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Sid | December 13, 2011 at 5:57 pm
Used Sitebuilder plus and hate it. In order to edit Text no longer can we see the graphics, making placement difficult. Only one page at a time where before we could open several and just click back and forth to go between pages. This is only two of many problems with plus.
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Desktop Sitebuilder Big Fan | December 17, 2011 at 11:06 am
Leave desktop sitebuilder alone. I’ve personally worked 1000′s of hours on sitebuilder making lots of websites. I went in to look at sitebuilder plus and even though has some easy to use features, desktop sitebuilder is still my choice. Just give people options…they can keep desktop sitebuilder or move to sitebuilder plus…just leave desktop sitebuilder as it is.
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Mark | February 7, 2012 at 3:26 pm
I first found out about Plus when I had a problem with the desktop Sitebuilder. The tech (who knew little, I might add) told me the problem I was having with images could only be solved by switching to Plus, which can be done ONLY by not using the desktop. I took a look at it while on the phone with the tech and immediately decided against it. Once again, a company taking a good product and deciding we don’t need it anymore. Change is not always good.
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Dee | March 9, 2012 at 12:48 am
I LOVE my desktop Sitebuilder!! Please, Please do not take it away!
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Steve | March 25, 2012 at 1:20 pm
Why don’t companies like Intuit listen to their customers? I have “desktop” Sitebuilder, and am delighted. Why not have two versions that are both downloadable; Sitebuilder PC and Sitebuilder MAC? That’s all. Then offer upgrades that are true improvements. I guess that would be too simple.
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Chris Bywater | June 13, 2012 at 2:37 pm
I loved my old sitebuilder, have done everything to get it back, but they act like I’m asking for a kidney! Why are they making it so difficult. I don’t like my head in the clouds!
Get different answers and solutions from every tech, finally gave up
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Michael | September 2, 2012 at 10:57 pm
I have used desk top sitebuilder for years, in fact I liked the older version better then the newer version of the desktop sitebuilder. I definaltely wish the older version was available because I would use that that one. I have tried using sitebuilder plus many times just to see how it was and it stinks, It does not have many of the elements in the desktop sitebuilder I use all the time, it is definately user unfriendly, freezes up quickly, takes forever to build a web page, you can only see one page at a time where as in the desktop sitebuilder you can have as many as 10 or more pages available at the top at any one time where you cannot with plus, whenit loads the picture files you have published in web sites it takes forever for them to load and when they do finally load they are distorted. I hate sitebuilder plus and who ever designed it should be fired inmy opinion, it is enough to keep new customers away. If youwant my opinion from someone whohas used sitebuilder for over 12 years leave the desktop sitebuilder up and alone in fact bring back the older version of sitebuilder before you screwed the desktop sitebuilder up when you updated it to the present version … get rid of sitebuilder plus, no one I know likes it or wil even use it unless they are having aproblems with their desk top sitebuilder and then complain about using it when their DP sitebuilder is not working …. I have been paying for the desktop sitebuilder and want to continue using it but right now it is having problems, like not publishing pages saying my hard drive is full, saying cannot download files because my hard drive may be full and Ihave at least 90 GB of free space …
Homestead had something great, far better thenany other web site building program on the internet and they screwed it up … fix it and get it back running great againor I am leaving Homestead after all these years of enjoying building web site withhomestead, I refuse to use sitebuilder plus … .
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sjhwd | September 3, 2012 at 12:34 am
Michael thank you for adding your thoughts about SiteBuilder Plus. I’m wondering if the message you get about the hard drive being full is the same one I get from time to time on client sites. If I close that message then SB-desk top finishes loading with no issues. There’s a file in File Manager associated with that message – it’s a temp file and isn’t something I’ve uploaded so has to be coming in from the server side of things – I’ve no idea what it is, but wonder if it might be the cause of some sites having difficulty publishing pages, etc. with desktop version.
I have a client who was having issues and phoned Tech Support – not fully understanding things he ended up getting switched over to Plus. When I phoned Support to get it switched back the person I got said that we could use both. So ok fine except when I tried working on his site in desk top version it was all haywire so I called Support back and this time the tech I got said that they strongly recommend you not try to use both. Yet, the other day I was looking for some information and ran across a posting in the Help Section about how to retain the elements from reg SB that are no longer available in SB Plus. (Side note for those of you unfamiliar with Plus, they eliminated many of the graphic elements that were offered and used by customers in desktop SB). This post says that if your elements aren’t showing up then you should go to the desktop version and publish from there. Now which is it folks?! Either we CAN use both versions or we CAN’T.
Intuit has really dropped the ball on so many levels with SiteBuilder. It truly is sad because as you said, SiteBuilder used to be the best builder out there in terms of ease of use and good Tech Support.
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Michael | September 3, 2012 at 11:16 pm
This is going to be long ………Yes when I try toload a site to edit it I get pop ups that say cannot finish loading file or cannot load file, then when you click onit it contiues to load the file each time you click on it until it looks as if it is loaded … When I try to publish a page in any of the sites I have built for clients it says a error occured when trying to load this file then at the bottom it says upgrade … upgraded just tosee what would happen and the same happened each time. went back to the other sitebuilder program I had ….. Now here is a interesting problems ….. Before I could not use any of the 4 computers I use to build web pages, each one of them got the same messages and pop ups … took out a computer I have not used for a year or more and hooked it up and used it to get on sitebuilder. I could use sitebuilder without any problems none at all … So … I uninstalled sitebuilder from my laptop which has windows 7. I used sitebuilder on windows 7 a lot without anyproblems except for not being able to see the page after it waspublished which was no big problems I just went to the page onthe interenet in the published web site tosee if it published and it always did .. so I did use the desk top sitebuilder with windows 7 ….. Now I can’t, got the same messages that came up on every other computer. Now, I uninstalled site builder from my laptop and re installed it and tried touse it. It loaded OK, no problems or pop ups but when I try to publish a page it freezes up on that page … Once I just left it on the frozen page to see if it would publish, left it on screen for over an hour and when I cme back to it it was still a frozen screen … A few of the sites I built published OK, no problems on the lap top some I could not publish anything … So i went to being able to use windows 7 on my laptop with no problems but the one mentioned to my screen freezing up when trying to publish a web page in many of the sites I built. I also allowed a Homestead tech take control of my computer so he could see what was going on, he tried everything he could he knew of I guess and did not sovle the problems. He then poaded my sitebuilder on his coputer using my homestead ID and password and when he tried to publish a page he got the same message, when he tried to download the sites he got the same pop ups as I did on my computers o his computer at homestead ……. when I talked to a homestead tech on the phone and online in a chat window they said it is my computer so I took my computer to a computer shop , one that knows what they are doing, (EXPERTS in computer technology) …. paid $85.00 to find out there was nothing wrong with my computer. So after talking to a tech online, a tech on the phone and allowing a tech to take control of my coputer no one has been able to figure out what the problems is ….. Below is a link to a page I published with sitebuilder PLUS, it took forever to publish this page with PLUS, a real headache … it has screen shots of the pop ups when trying to download a site to edit and trying to publish a page … with other information about the problems discussed with techs …
http://renaissancesep.homestead.com/Homestead_Error_Page.html?_=1346735272812 ……..
a brief rundown,
cannot use sitebuilder with woindows 7 any longer, freezes up when trying to publish a page
hooked up an old computer with sitebuilder on it and tried to use the old sitebuilder, it worked without problems .. this eliminates a problem with any files in any web site built.
cannot use site builder on any of the other 3 computers I have
Your thoughts on all this, all opinions are welcome and wanted to help try and solve this problems
Cannot type anything else in this box, it willnot allow me to, keeps moving to the top .. guess ithas a limit
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sjhwd | September 4, 2012 at 8:03 am
I imagine your frustration level is over the top after going through all that and wish I had an answer to why this happens.
I know that SB and Win 7 do not play nice together for many users – but others have no problems. That says to me that it could well be a conflict between SB and something on certain computers – a setting, or ??? BUT I have quite a few client sites on my computer and have had issues with some of them not working correctly, yet the majority are problem free. In one instance I had problems with a client’s site, but things were just fine when he made any edits on his computer.
Sometimes the VM (Virtual Machine) can be the issue. Did any of the techs have you download/install it?
Be sure to post if you find or get any solutions as I know there are others out there in the same boat.
Regards …
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E.F. Altheimer-Fain | November 1, 2012 at 6:45 am
I want my desktop SiteBuilder. Sure, it has problems, but with some dedicated fixes and updates, it could be can excellence desktop program. Don’t abandon a good desktop program! Make it better!
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Norman Thorpe | November 9, 2012 at 3:38 am
cant use sitebuilder on my i mac its a nightmare and have to use my laptop windows 7
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sjhwd | November 9, 2012 at 6:28 am
Regular SiteBuilder has never been Mac compatible, but SiteBuilder Lite is supposed to be useable with Macs although it lacks the bells and whistles of regular SB. SB Plus is purported to be Mac compatible, but is an online only editor so you no longer have the desktop version. Check with Tech Support about using Plus with a Mac.
Homestead: 1-800-710-1998
Intuit: 1-800-428-3170
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0800-232-1536
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E.F. Altheimer-Fain | November 11, 2012 at 4:15 am
Not interested in Sitebuilder online. Prefer and will keep the desktop version of Sitebuiler in spite of its hangups.
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E.F. Altheimer-Fain | November 11, 2012 at 4:17 am
Not interested in Sitebuilder online. Prefer and will keep the desktop version of Sitebuiler in spite of its hangups. Would techs to work more on updating the desktop version.
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Ruth Drollinger | November 11, 2012 at 6:06 pm
I joined Homestead in the early days back in the late 90′s. Justin’s business plan and easy website creation company REALLY WORK. Leave it to some CEO of the big company Intuit who bought him out to change everything so they can justify their executive position and make changes. BIG BUSINESS CEO’s and GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRATS make things WORSE not BETTER!!! The fact that they have so many complaints and do nothing about it is proof if you ask me!!!
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sjhwd | November 11, 2012 at 6:55 pm
Thanks for stopping by Ruth. Couldn’t agree more about Intuit taking SiteBuilder down the drain. Frustrating!
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Mark Adams | November 11, 2012 at 6:58 pm
Add me to the long list of those they continue to ignore.
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sjhwd | November 11, 2012 at 7:17 pm
Mark they say the squeaky wheel gets greased, so keep squeaking – don’t give up/give in
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Mike | November 11, 2012 at 8:58 pm
I have been using the desktop version of sitebuilder for many many years. During those years I have seen some changes that made sitebuilder one of the best web building programs on the internet. Now ….. with this new sitebuilder plus homestead is fast becoming the worst web site builder program on the internet. This is the worst program I have ever tried to use and I flat refuse to use it ….. it is slow, has half the usable features missing, you can only use one page at a time which in itself to time consuming, you can no longer work off line which causes many problems when the internet is slow or down, it takes foever to build just one page and publish it, it is so user unfriendly it is rediculous, no one the desktop verdion I have talked to likes sitebuilder pluos and wants to use the desktop version, but with all the complaints from homestead custmers about loosing the desktop version homestead still ignores everyone suggestins to continue the desktop over sitebuilder plus …. I am paying to use sitebuilder desktop and if I cannot use desktop I will cancel homestead. It seems to me homestead just does not care about their customers needs and to me that means it is soon time to go somewhere else. Homestead if you want to keep your customers I think you better start listening to what is being said about your sitebuilder plus garbage program ….. it sucks…..
Mike
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happyguy | November 12, 2012 at 5:27 am
Totally agree. I’ve spend 1000′s of hours using sitebuilder and there is no comparison to the slow sitebuilder plus. Sitebuilder is like the great movie that does not need a follow-up movie (that usually is terrible compared to the first movie). Sitebuilder absolutely rocks and is untouchable when it comes website designing!!!!
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Tony Tallarico | December 23, 2012 at 4:44 pm
Sitebuilder Plus is tedious to work with. The original Sitebuilder blew it away. In Sitebuilder Plus something as simple as copying and pasting has become cumbersome. Homestead/Intuit went from offering a pro piece of software to offering a weak hobbyist program. What a joke. What’s with every time you a publish a page you have the opportunity to let everyone know on facebook that you just edited your site. Are you kidding me? I’m not a 12-yr-old who needs to let everyone know what my favorite color is. If this is truly what Sitebuilder has become, I can’t imagine staying with Homestead much longer … and i have been a customer since day 1.
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sjhwd | December 23, 2012 at 4:55 pm
Funny … I’m sitting here working on a client’s site who got conned into switching to Plus. I was past frustrated so decided to go read mail and found your comment in there which pretty much expresses my continued opinion of Plus. Takes twice as long, not nearly as easy to use and GOOD GRIEF YES! that pop-up to let the world know you just did something is ANNOYING, ANNOYING, ANNOYING. I can only hope that Intuit will not eliminate the desktop version because I’m outta here along with a few dozen clients if they do!!
Thanks for posting Tony! and Happy Holiday
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Happy Sitebuilder User | December 24, 2012 at 6:40 am
Sitebuilder is the king. Using sitebuilder plus is choppy and cannot compare. Take it from someone who has spent 1000′s of hours using Sitebuilder along with 100′s of websites made. I have looked at Sitebuilder Plus and there is no question that it is inferior to the real deal. Just keep Sitebuilder the way it is as there are thousands of happy customers who want to keep it the way it is.
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S. Whiplash | December 24, 2012 at 8:45 am
I’ve been using Sitebuilder (desktop) since it came out. Tried using Plus at the suggestion of a CSR at Intuit, and it is at the top of anyone’s P.O.S. line. Impossible to use unless you put aside a full day to update ONE PAGE! My feeling is they would love to just get rid of the desktop and all its users for whatever reason. No sane company would suggest using the web version of Sitebuilder. The day they stop us from using the desktop is the day I, along with, I would think, just about everyone else who uses it, tell them goodbye. And I honestly think they just don’t care.
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Tomas A. Parillo | February 7, 2013 at 12:51 am
I am one of the first users of Homestead, and my website is in Spanish. Homestead / Intuit Co. need to update or improve SiteBuilder, with dropdown menus, and other tools. Sitebuilder desktop is best. I hope we will soon have a new desktop sitebuilder. Furthermore, it is compatible with Windows 8.
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Loretta | March 19, 2013 at 7:43 am
Sitebuilder plus is a definite few steps backwards…..no grids, can’t see what your posting, cant re-use the same colors unless you type it in everytime, the pop-up everytime you publish something, you can’t look from page to page, can’t find the files on one page as you could in the desktop version. Why should I be connected to the internet when the desktop was fine? One consistent problem is when you are calling in for support to hear the annoying recording that most help is online….if I could find it online, would I be calling? UGH! I dont get the sense that Intuit or Homestead cares, to be honest.
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sjhwd | March 19, 2013 at 10:23 am
Thanks for the post Loretta and the chuckle … how many times I’ve sat through that recording thinking to myself how it sounds like “Go the hell away you annoying customer, don’t bother us”. But the good news is that Intuit no longer owns the Homestead SiteBuilder!!! Or at least they are in the final stages of ownership. They sold out to a company called Endurance International. I’ve spoken to one of their management personnel and while he wasn’t forthcoming with much info about the direction EI will take with Homestead, he did say that they would be moving Tech Support back to the States and were in the process of training Support Tech people. So perhaps there is hope that they will also see the value in A. Retaining the desktop version and B. Changing the recorded “Go Away” message.
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Sharandee Barb | April 15, 2013 at 10:57 am
Don’t know what else to say except if they don’t keep Desktop Sitebuilder, I won’t be recommeding Homestead to anyone any longer. Have used Homestead since its inception in the 90′s, and am getting fed up fast. Clients sign up now and then I have to call and have their account deleted and reinstated to enable them to download the desktop version on their computer. Even though I am building their site, they still want the opportunity to make minor changes and work on it too. I myself will not ever use SiteBuilder Plus. Never!
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jocoi | April 20, 2013 at 7:55 pm
hate Sitebulder Plus. been with Homestead since 2001. working on getting my mind right in preparation to re-build everything I created at another host. To all desktop version folks, change.org
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Mike | April 21, 2013 at 1:13 am
I have posted here several times in regard to sitebuilder plus being a major waste of my time to use which I will update after this notice of importance ……….. in recent post I stated that when I tried to load sitebuilder desktop to use it on my computer it would have pop ups that said my hard drive was full, and several different other notices about loading sitebuilder desktop and when it finished loading it did not work right. this link will tell you theproblems Ihad trying to load sitebuilder desktop ….
http://renaissancesep.homestead.com/Homestead_Error_Page.html?_=1346735272812 ……..
Well come to find out my computer had problems, one was a minor crack in the mother board that had a very fine crack in a solder link between two connections and a loose screw …. this is what was causing all the problems the pop ups were indicating. I found this out when I took my computer to the shop to upgrade the ram and hard drive … they repaired my mother board and after taking it home and loading sitebuilder desktop I had no further problems at all ….. all the pop ups disappeared, have never had a problem since then … no pop ups at all whenloading sitebuilder desktop …. Perhaps if any of you are having similiar pop ups like I had when loading sitebuilder desktop maybe you should have your mother boards looked at … you may find a minor invisible problem causing site builder desktop not to work right … They found the problems with my mother board by going over it with a magnafying glass … that is how small the crack problem was. I took my other computers to the shop to have them looked at that were having problems loading sitebuilder desktop and they also found minor problems with the mother boards, had them fixed and now no problems loading sitebuilder desktop … all my computers now can load sitebuilder desktop including my lap tops without any problems and site builder desktop works with no problems …. thought I would pass this information along just in case some of you have had the same problems I have had loading sitebuilder desktop ….. I know when I was talking to a customer service tech he would have similiar problems on his computer at homestead when he loaded sitebuilder desktop …. no one at homestead could figure out why I was having all these pop ups happening when I tried to load sitebuilder desktop … the one tech nailed it when he said it may be my computer but when Ihad it checked they could not find anything wrong with my computer until whenI took it back and they went over the mother board with a magnafying glass and found the cracks ….
Now back to this sitebuilder plus night mare …. I state and swear on a bible … I will not use sitebuilder plus at all … I hate it, it is slow, unfriendly, can’t work off line with sitebuilder plus, it is missing many of the features I use in site builder desktop, takes forever to publish a page, takes forever to build a page, has major problems with elements, has distorted images on pages, takes forever to load a image to a page, you cannot work on several pages at a time, your only limited to working on one page, if you try to bring up another page you loose the page you were working on, save does not work all the time, you loose work that took hours to do, when your computer is running slow it is a nightmare to use even worst then when your computer is running fast … you have a hard time lining up elements because of poor grids, and there is a lot more I could add to the list …. who ever thought up sitebuilder plus should be fired. Sitebuilder desktop is or was the greatest web site building tool on the internet until the sitebuilder plus started up … when sitebuilder plus started up homestead forgot about sitebuilder desktop and let it go by the way side. Even with sitebuilder desktop never being updated it is still the best sitebuilder program homestead has, it kicks sitebuilder pluses ass in a thousand different ways. Homestead if you discontinue sitebuilder desktop I guarantee you you will loose 90 percent of your business and you will disappear from the interent as a web site building company.
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sjhwd | April 21, 2013 at 1:40 am
Good grief Mike, you certainly are hard on mother boards!
Really appreciate your posting the solution for your issues. Hopefully it will indeed help others. I bet it feels good to be ‘back in the saddle’.
As for SiteBuilder Plus I can only nod in agreement with your comments. I mean seriously who doesn’t include Spell Check in a program that uses text? Sheesh. It’s so obvious that Intuit just threw Plus together to make a quick buck. I’m betting it cost them more to write and print out the ‘canned’ excuses for the off-shore tech support than it did for their development team to write the program.
It makes me sad because desk top is such a fantastic tool for both beginning web masters and the more seasoned. I can only hope that the new management is as concerned about their long time clientele as they are new ones. What I truly don’t understand is why they are even pursuing Plus. There are dozens of online based website building programs out there that put Plus to shame and they are much cheaper. So why not stick with and improve upon the one builder that is different, has more functionality, is twice as user-friendly, much less ‘buggy’?
Anyway … thanks again for sharing both your fix and thoughts.
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Mike | April 22, 2013 at 11:48 pm
LOL, well not really a laughing matter but …… it is not that I am hard on mother boards, the problem was not being hard on mother boards as I also thought but could not figure out how I could be hard on them if I never moved them in any way ……….. I have never dropped a desktop computer or my laptops for the matter so I wondered how a crack could form on the mother board so I asked the techs …. come to find out if parts of the mother board gets to hot from a lot of use or constance continuious use it can cause a crack from over heated elements like the solder and wireing … hair line cracks are a trouble maker since you really can’t see them on a physical check of the mother board without really looking hard and close …. also the the capasitors and other elements can become defective on the mother board causing the same sort of problems I was facing …. this comes from hard usage and long time wear … sometimes in hot weather the fan cannot keep up with cooling the componets in the desktop and this also can cause the mother board to crack from swelling and then reducing from heat and moisture …. at any rate my problems have been solved by repairing the mother boards .. I hope this will help many who are having problems as I had.
I also agree with what you said 1000% … Homestead better open their eyes and pay attention to their customers .. without us they have no business, gee, I wonder why that is so hard to understand …. If they want to have sitebuilder plus, they can, it is their time they are wasting and their money, as long as they keep sitebuilder desktop and keep updating it and begin to add the features needed in todays online world such as online videos that you can access on phone operating systems … I have a client who needs his videos to be seen on phone operating systems and homestead cannot offer that but other web site companies can … they do not want to use you tube as their video access they want control of it in the web site not on you tube … which I can understand and agree with … You know I really find it hard to believe that homestead see’s sitebuilder plus as a positive way to go, it is completely useless in so many ways … cheaper is not better in business, cheaper can cause a business to go out of business …
Mike