WebsitePainter
Developer Tools
Only for Mac
$39.99
WebsitePainter is a editor for creating professional looking Websites, without HTML knowledge and programming. With a few clicks it is possible to create web pages with elements like Web shapes, gradients, round borders, hover effects, transparencies, continuous text and more.
Features:
- Exact placement for pixel perfect layouting
- WYSIWYG editor
- Integrated FTP client, one click and publish it to your server
- Supports Absolute as well as Dynamically Sized Layouts
- Create Interactive Slideshows with just a few clicks
- Create HTML, PHP and ASP pages
- Lots of precreated templates
- Full control over the generated HTML code
- Supports all Languages through Unicode
- and much more
Note: This is not a HTML editor!
You do not need any knowledge of HTML or write any line of code to use WebsitePainter. Just click your web page together or choose from a great variety of templates. WebsitePainter is a WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) editor which supports all the major industry standards, including HTML 5, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and ASP.
more Such as: No retina support. No svg support. Hyperlink ordering is not intuitive. Changes to the image directory sometimes require a restart to access. No apparent opacity adjustment. Fewer than desired number of alterable preferences (example: default font size). Some notable strengths: Pixel per pixel nudge with arrow keys. Subcontainer tool. All system fonts accessible. Good preview function. Detailed adjustment of tool attributes. HTML knowledge unnecessary. Output bitmap quality is superb.Two tips, in case you find yourself working with this program. 1) How to outwit the intra-document hyperlinks: if not working as expected, try creating a cluster of anchors and targeting the median one. 2) Wrestling with copy/paste: understand that the container is copied exactly, including position, meaning that the destination position must exist numerically.Is it worth the price? Still undecided on that one.
Such as: No retina support. No svg support. Hyperlink ordering is not intuitive. Changes to the image directory sometimes require a restart to access. No apparent opacity adjustment. Fewer than desired number of alterable preferences (example: default font size). Some notable strengths: Pixel per pixel nudge with arrow keys. Subcontainer tool. All system fonts accessible. Good preview function. Detailed adjustment of tool attributes. HTML knowledge unnecessary. Output bitmap quality is superb.Two tips, in case you find yourself working with this program. 1) How to outwit the intra-document hyperlinks: if not working as expected, try creating a cluster of anchors and targeting the median one. 2) Wrestling with copy/paste: understand that the container is copied exactly, including position, meaning that the destination position must exist numerically.Is it worth the price? Still undecided on that one.
As I am a retired electronic publisher volunteering my services for a nonprofit library group, this program does all that is needed at a great price. Also, it is easy for me to teach non-technical people to design and upload their website. It also, kudos to the developer, comes in Mac or PC flavors. Keep up the good work!
As I am a retired electronic publisher volunteering my services for a nonprofit library group, this program does all that is needed at a great price. Also, it is easy for me to teach non-technical people to design and upload their website. It also, kudos to the developer, comes in Mac or PC flavors. Keep up the good work!
Straight forward and easy to use from install to the uploading of the finished file. I have no plans to use anything else. When uploading, it is best not to consider using a second program like Fetch. Websitepainter will do it easily. Though I am sure Fetch does the job for other files, it didn't do the job with this format.
Straight forward and easy to use from install to the uploading of the finished file. I have no plans to use anything else. When uploading, it is best not to consider using a second program like Fetch. Websitepainter will do it easily. Though I am sure Fetch does the job for other files, it didn't do the job with this format.
Everything was going smoothly until I had to link another page to a button/text, if you can inform me on how to do so I would be more than happy to give you five stars.-UPDATE: I'm reading that other peope are experiencing the same problem; I assume that this essential capability is not yet funcional on your application? This app cost $40, and I at least expected it to have this extremely basic ability, I demand that my money be returned or the problem be fixed/explained. It feels as if this is false advertising. I understand that the app is in its infancy, but you should inform potential buyers that they are exremely limited in designing a webpage at the moment with your $40 application.
Everything was going smoothly until I had to link another page to a button/text, if you can inform me on how to do so I would be more than happy to give you five stars.-UPDATE: I'm reading that other peope are experiencing the same problem; I assume that this essential capability is not yet funcional on your application? This app cost $40, and I at least expected it to have this extremely basic ability, I demand that my money be returned or the problem be fixed/explained. It feels as if this is false advertising. I understand that the app is in its infancy, but you should inform potential buyers that they are exremely limited in designing a webpage at the moment with your $40 application.
- 6 new free website templates, modernized some of the old templates
- Added support for swiping on carousels and slide shows on mobile
- Improved HTML / CSS / JavaScript Code generation at several situations
- Larger preview for website templates
3.9 09/05/2025
- Added support for carousels
- Accessibility support like aria labels and alt text
- Improved file upload speed
- Slideshows with navigation buttons and alignment options
- Advanced word break support
- Project color selection
- and a lot more
3.8 06/06/2025
- Support forcase sensitive file systems
- GUI updates: Some key shortcuts stopped working sometimes
- Added instructions in case you get a "Safari can't open the page" error message
3.7.1 11/08/2023
- Added support for the webP image file format
- Added support for SVG images
- Color picker now is non-modal and reflects color changes in real time
- New website templates
3.7 06/23/2023
- Added support for bullet and numbered lists
- Improved FTP support
- Improved UI
- Images in Slideshows now support Hyperlinks
- Slideshows now support the 'cover' image scaling method
- Website templates are now a bit more modernized
3.6 04/05/2022
Improved copy and pasting from other apps to WebsitePainter
3.5.1 06/22/2020
Background shadows (box shadows), selectable HTML version (version 4/5), additional keyboard shortcuts, faster rendering of large images
3.5 06/12/2020
- Built-in automatic image resizing: If you add an image which is unnecessary huge for a website, WebsitePainter now offers you to resize that image automatically, making your website smaller and load much faster.
- Faster website upload: When publishing your website to the internet, WebsitePainter now only uploads changed files, if wanted. So making small changes to your website is now much, much faster.
- New 'static' gallery mode: The gallery has now an additional new open mode: 'none'. Which when selected, causes that the gallery pictures are not clickable and cannot be made bigger.
- Improved image quality: The preview image quality of the built-in image gallery is now much higher
- Smart quote filter: Smart pasted text and smart quotes are now automatically detected and replaced when causing problems in code like PHP, JavaScript, HTML or CSS code
- Compatibility with more PHP web servers: External PHP css files now have the extension filename_php.css instead of filename.php.css before, because some servers would try to run the .css file as PHP file.
- Unsaved changes indicator: The editor now has an indicator showing if there are unsaved changes in the document
3.4 05/08/2017
- Fixed a problem causing navigation menu not to work correctly, sometimes.
3.3.1 01/18/2017
- Added support for Text Shadows
- Improved Rendering engine
- Better font and fallback font support
3.3 01/17/2017
- Nicer rendering with newer versions of Safari and Chrome
- Galleries and Slide shows now have a better fitting automatic size
- Fixed a problem causing fonts of size '54' not to be displayed correctly under certain circumstances
- Language translations which didn't work on some older versions of Mac OS X now work there, too
- A few minor bug fixes and improvements here and there
3.1 06/22/2016
- WebsitePainter now generates much smaller websites by using HTML 5 CSS styles where possible.
- Improved image gallery: Now supports rounded images, and text below each image.
- Improved slide show: There are now multiple modes for blending between images, and also different modes for scaling up images as well.
- Added possibility to set a line height for every element showing text
- Every element, including for example navigation menu, slide shows and similar now supports complex shape modes for example with gradients and round corners.
- Added support for H1..H3 elements so you can now optimize your websites for search engines better
- Improved HTML 5 video element
- Added option to skip uploading very big files (like videos) so that you only have to upload them once
- There are now lots of new built-in text symbols included
- Generated HTML code is now much more easier to read
3.0 06/01/2016
- Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation
- Fixed a bug potentially causing a crash when using huge complex tables with lots of merged cells
- Fixed a bug causing WebsitePainter to default to english language on some newer Mac OS X systems with non-english language settings
- Fixed a problem causing the cursor not to blink sometimes on some Mac OS X versions
- Improved website code generation speed and memory usage
2.3 04/22/2014
- Added a new free website template - "Toscana"
- Improvements for Mac book users: Deleting elements now is also possible by pressing backspace
- The border mode can now be defined correctly for all 4 sides separately on text elements if wished
- Added Farsi translation
- Fixed a problem with clipped text cells in tables, when the font in the browser is different than the one in WebsitePainter.
- Fixed a crash log reporter problem
- Fixed a possible crash when dragging an image into a layout container.
2.2 06/15/2013
- iPhone and iPad compatibility: The navigation menu now also automatically works on touch screen devices. Previously, the menu only opened sub menus when the mouse cursor hovered over it, which isn't possible on touch screen devices of course.
- WebsitePainter now is also able to publish huge websites with combined internal image data bigger than 2 GB. In previous versions, this simply didn't work, causing WebsitePainter even tocrash sometimes.
- Fixed a bug causing copying of partial texts of shapes not to work correctly under certain circumstances
- Fixed a translation bug in the german localization, naming new pages 'UnbanannteSeite'.
- Command icons are now a bit bigger and more clearly readable
2.1.1 08/08/2012
- Added possibility to reorder websites in the document tree
- Much faster table layouting
- Improved polish translation
- Fixed a bug causing the ID of multiline text edit fields not to be generated into the HTML code.
- Fixed a bug causing WebsitePainter to try uploading a senseless file when youtube videos are used.
- Fixed a bug causing Safari as well as Internet Explorer not to scroll down to a named anchor below the page end.
2.0.1 04/05/2012
- Added support for tables. Tables can contain simple text and their cells can be splitted, merged and edited. Background, gradients and colors can be configurated for each cell freely.
- Added the 'image gallery' element. With this, it is possible to easily show a big amount of smaller images on the website, and when clicked on them, a bigger picture version will be shown using either a layer box, a window popup, a new tab or an existing image on the page.
- Added support for Master Pages, a simple mechanism to share parts of the website between different pages. With this feature, it is not necessary anymore to create the same content twice. See documentation for details on how to use this feature.
- Added 7 new modern website templates
- It is now possible to change the properties of multiple selected elements at the same time.
- Added support for justified text
- Added support for hidden form fields.
- Added Greek language translation
- Added Bulgarian language translation
- Right-click behavior in the HTML view improved: Right-Clicking doesn't change the current selection anymore if not wished.
- Resized images are now shown with a much higher quality in the editor
- Added a way for websitepainter to recover damaged .wspd files when loading
- Fixed a problem causing scrollbars in the iFrame in Firefox not to work correctly
- Fixed a bug causing background images of shapes not to be emebedded in the .wspd file
- Fixed a bug causing images not to load sometimes in slide shows, when the image file name contained non-ascii characters
- Fixed a bug causing borders of images not to be rendered
- Fixed a bug causing images to disappear if they are deleted on disk and their filename contains a unicode character
2.0.0 01/20/2012
- Improved the HTML syntax highlighting speed on Mac OS X
- Added bosnian translation
- Added polish translation
- It is now possible to use multiple navigation menus on the same page
- Fixed a bug causing a crash when pasting elements with images into invalid positions of layoutcontainers
- In preview mode, php code won't be displayed anymore in the local browser
- IFrames now have a controllable border style
- Fixed a bug causing HTML encoded entities written out in PHP code sections under certain circumstances
1.5.1 10/20/2011
- Added a 'Navigation Menu' element, to make drop down menus available on your websites.
- It is now possible to change the font, color and sizes of multiple text fields at once. Simply select two or
more fields by holding down Shift, and select a new font or color.
- There is now the option to reload images from disk. Simply right-click the image and select "Reload from disk"
- Fixed a bug causing special HTML, JavaScript and PHP Code elements not to be closed sometimes and thus not to be
executed correctly on some browsers.
- Italian translation improved
1.5.0 05/23/2011
- Added translations for 8 new languages: Arabic, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Slovensky, Swedish and Chinese.
- Fixed a bug causing the 'Recently used documents' list not to appear on some systems
1.4.1 04/20/2011
- WebsitePainter now is also available in German (if your system has this language, it automatically switches to it. Additionally, you can manually set the language in the options dialog).
- Added support for Quicktime videos
- Added support for adding Youtube Videos
- Added support for the HTML 5 audio control component
- WebsitePainter is now able to generate external CSS files for all styles, resulting in
much cleaner HTML code. This option needs to be enabled manually in the options dialog.
- WebsitePainter now HTML encodes unicode characters if wanted (on by default). This
fixes issues with wrongly configurated web servers.
- Added the possibility to add folders and pages directly below folders by clicking on them
- Added tutorial on how to create PHP forms into the documentation
- The default image sub directory name can now also be none, that is storing images
directly in the root directory, and the settings is now stored per project.
- Move to front/back commands are now also available in the main menu as well
- Edit and remove hyperlinks commands are now also available in the main menu as well
- Fixed bug causing color gradients in pages not to work if the page was inside a folder
- When creating a new file based on another file, layout containers were recreated as texts,
this is now fixed.
- Fixed a bug with auto-scrolling when using big pages
- Images with spaces in the file name didn't work sometimes when published to the web server, this is fixed now.
- Default encoding for Forms now is 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
- FTP upload error messages improved
- Fixed crash when opening document by double-clicking
- Fixed bug causing hyperlink button not to highlight when doubleclicking to select a word in text
1.4.0 03/29/2011
- Added the possibility to rename files and folders directly in the project window
- It is now possible to resize all elements including images proportionally by holding down shift while dragging
- Elements using the fill style 'bottom' now are also correctly displayed in the editor when using a custom page height
- Double clicking into text now selects the word the cursor is at.
- Dragging .wspd files to WebsitePainter in the Dock now opens these files
- Copy and Paste from the property window is now supported
- Fixed a problem causing .wspd files not always to open in WebsitePainter when double clicked in Finder on Mac OS X
- Fixed a bug causing PHP elements not to be able to be fully cloned when cloning a website.
- Fixed a bug causing additional HTML code like 'code before this element' and 'additional attributes in body' to disappear in certain circumstances.
- Fixed a bug which could cause websites not to be linked in several circumstances
- Removed the possibility to give pages no name at all
1.3.2 01/29/2011
Fixes a bug causing a text 'unregistered version' to appear on websites on some systems.
1.3.1 01/18/2011
- 6 new free website templates, modernized some of the old templates
- Added support for swiping on carousels and slide shows on mobile
- Improved HTML / CSS / JavaScript Code generation at several situations
- Larger preview for website templates
more Version 3.9 09/05/2025
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