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Namo's Namo Web Editor 2006, a software package that creates and maintains personal or professional Web sites, gets good marks overall, particularly for its large set of features and economical cost. However, in a market led by Microsoft and Macromedia, more will be needed to make Namo Web Editor 2006 competitive. Integration needs improvement, and the product should be more user-friendly to make it appealing to entry level and advanced users. The program needs to be more cohesive, and it is not as user-friendly as FrontPage and Dreamweaver. Namo is shooting for the middle, but missed all the marks. With a provided installation front-end, the user can load Namo Web Editor 2006 and some extras, which include the Namo Web Canvas draw program and the Namo Image Slicer, Namo Image Capture, and Namo Gif Animator utilities. Only the Web Editor is evaluated. A full set of paper and electronic documentation is provided, including a manual, Microsoft Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)-type help, and an online HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) reference. Although the Site Wizard is the best place to begin using Namo Web Editor 2006, the selection is in a busy interface and users may not notice it right away. The site plan is a flow chart that makes the layout of the site clear, and users can switch between landscape and portrait modes to see more of a design. Users can easily add or delete pages from a default plan as desired and can use the site plan as a guide when creating pages. Namo Web Editor 2006 has the power that advanced users want, including a quick tag editor for adding HTML code on the fly through the edit window, the ability to save as XHTML from the Save As dialog, and a very interesting way to upload or download directly from a blog within the Namo Web Editor.
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