Sandvox 1.0 released

posted 08:11PM May 18, 2006 with tags cool macosx sandvox by Lars Trieloff

Just a quick note: Sandvox 1.0 is out. Sandvox is what iWeb could have been - an easy-to-use, WYSIWYG-Website editor for Mac OS X. The idea behind Sandvox is similar to the CSS Zen Garden: Sandvox creates HTML output and links, depending on the user's preferences, different designs with the website. These designs are 100%-CSS and range from playful to beautiful.

Sandvox allows inexperienced users to build simple websites, but also weblogs (integrates with Haloscan to allow comments), photo galleries (it integrates with iPhoto, iTunes and iMovie to upload media files) and allows a range of ready-to use "Pagelets" that can be added to the website. These pagelet include the essentials for every Web-2.0 citizen: del.ico.us, digg.com, flickr and stickam.

The websites can be uploaded to .Mac and any other provider that supports either FTP, WebDAV or SFTP. Especially the last two alternatives are interesting for me, because it does not require setting up a FTP server on my host, which is required by most other tools.

I've bought this application immediately after the release for my wife and if you are looking for an Website builder for OS X, you should do the same. (I've bought the Pro-version as it allows inclusion of arbitrary HTML snippets, which is not necessary in most cases, but you never know...)