Well, I decided to make a living developing software. Not working for anyone else though but developing my own software products. I am already in business so this is a simple extension to my existing business of web marketing.

In my last post I toyed with the idea of developing language software but now I junked that idea. What I have been working on for about a month now is web site development software. I am aware that there is a vast number of existing products out there but I have never really found one that is ideal for my needs.

Most tend to be all bells and whistles and the process of making a web site with them is harder than it should be. Some that make it very easy to make a basic site produce very bad code though with lots of formatting code in the content.

My solution will produce very neat code and be like a rapid website development solution. In the programming world we have RAD (Rapid Application Development) tools where wizards and drag and drop controls save you hours of coding standard things such as file opening dialogue boxes.

As an example, my way to produce a site map will hopefully be jaw-dropping to anyone used to the usual methods of doing it after you created a site with specialist tools. My way will be right at the start where you will be helped to define a set of pages based on keywords for your topic. Then you will play around with a graphical tool to produce your site structure by dragging, dropping and shuffling around the pages or lists of pages. And I will save the site map as XML so it’s compatible with the Google standard.

I would struggle to code this feature if I hadn’t already coded something similar for my table editor. This is a graphical tool where you define table cells in a graphical manner and it spits out the HTML code once you are happy. One feature of this I haven’t seen before is the ability to change your mind anytime about how many rows or columns you need and not have to start again.

There will be so many cool features in this software. Even the text editing is cool! Wait till you see the way you edit styles with this software, see the colors and sizes in the code.

I am hoping to release the first version in December.

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