Those where the days before WWB

[BaconFries]

This is in noway an advertisement just reminiscing and thinking back to my earlier days when studying at university and using and creating for the web with the following before it changed hands from Macromedia to Adobe. Macromedia made some great tools at the time one of my favourites was Director.

[Pablo]

Cool! And how about this

[BaconFries]

Excellent I started with WWB4. WWB has came along way I think at onetime you gave links to earlier versions of WB to those whi would have liked to see how it looked then and now. Great work Pablo.

[jerryco]

Interesting question for Pablo: one screenshot says "Not for commercial use". Why was that and why did it change?

[alan_sh]

I think I started with Frontpage back in about 2000. I used Dream Weaver for a while, but went to WebPlus when that came out. Which was great until I needed responsive modes and had to cludge WP to make it look anything like sane. I tried several packages before I found WWB - and haven't looked back since then.

I still have all my motorcycle sites going back to 2002 online - have a look here https://www.manhoc.hoc.org.uk/oldsites.html - of course some of the links may not work and any email or phone numbers on there will be way out of date (back in the days when it was OK to publish email addresses).

Alan

[bkjohns]

Like Alan and a lot of others I started with something other than WWB. For me it was WebPlus. Worked fine for me until everything needed to be responsive. I had tried the trial version of WWB10 and saw the potential but didn't actually buy it and start learning it and using it until V11. It didn't take long to see this was one of the best bang for the buck programs of any type available, not just web design. For what seemed like almost giving it away for what it did/does it can't be beat. Every new version and updates just reinforces that I made the correct choice. Thanks to Pablo just doesn't seem adequate to express my appreciation for WWB. Will always be a fan and upgrade to the new versions as they come along.

[Mary Abigail]

Started out with a demo of Easy Web Editor, then Frontpage in 2002, then moved to Dreamweaver in 2004, found SWiSH Max in 2005/2006 which was a very interesting and easy software to work (since i loved working with Flash) and later (maybe around 2010) tried out Serif WebPlus which was fun to work with and the lastest before WWB was Adobe Muse, but WWB changed the game, for real!

ps - i also remembered Adobe GoLive

[Pablo]

Interesting question for Pablo: one screenshot says "Not for commercial use". Why was that and why did it change?

The initial two versions of WYSIWYG Web Builder were offered as freeware, lacking even a dedicated website. However, with subsequent versions, starting from WWB3, the software underwent significant enhancements, incorporating third-party libraries for UI, graphics, and other functionalities. These improvements made the software more sophisticated but also increased the complexity of maintenance, so I could not longer do it for free.

Thanks everyone for sharing their WWB story!

[Bluesman]

Hi... I jump in here to... At risk to be the "old goat" of the pack. Started 1996 with Net Objects Fusion, that in this time was the (as far as I know) 1st object-oriented software for web production. Also had a version of "Front Page" that I tested out but left in a year. I was with "NOF" until 2015 when I suddenly noticed they ended all development and support, so I in panic started to look for a similar software.
Then I in grace found 90 second website builder that I a couple of month later discovered in fact was Wysiwyg Web Builder, so changed to it because the update frequency was better. NOF and WWB in fact have a lot in common, but also some major differences that can be studied.
When reading this post I also had to check up the NOF software and I got surprised... they still sell the software as it ended 2015?? Undeveloped and unsupported! Really bad.
One very nice future NOF developed when the CMS systems like Joomla and WP entered the market was a so-called rollback system, were you could install this complementary software (payed) to the original software as a plugin (extension) and a separate (free) software for your customers for them to handle their sites (only their own site). You could from the original software lock specific sections and objects so the customer would not mess up the structure and design... and some more good futures. When working with the site it was saved on the web server in the rollback system in choosed amounts of backfall levels for both backup and the ongoing project for all separate editors to manage and continue the work.
I think this was a very good workarround for CMS and could be something for Pablo to check in to
All that said... WWB is the best