You can also add a favicon, although this is done mostly at your hosting account, not from inside of HTML Egg. Great personalization options, including header images, logo, background patterns and images, page width and other options are available.
HTML Egg allows you to start either with a blank page, or with one of a good selection of pre-designed templates. And of course you can always crop images in another app. However, some interesting possibilities are offered by the layering options and using text boxes to conceal parts of images. HTML Egg doesn't provide cropping or other editing of images, only resizing. The one area which has fewer features than the other site builder apps is image editing. It's a very flexible platform for those who are prepared to overcome the steep learning curve. Using the drag and drop interface you can align text areas and images in any way you can imagine, and text and images can also be layered in various ways. HTML Egg is easily the most capable of the website builder apps for iPad in terms of raw possibilities for content creation and layout. However, it would certainly be awkward to work on large websites using HTML Egg, or in fact any tablet or mobile based website builder app. The websites that you can build are essentially unlimited in size as this depends mainly on the hosting solution you use. Very flexible design options and an almost endless feature set I think some guiding suggestions at apt moments would have really helped with usability.Įmail support is offered and the approach of HTML Egg feels friendly and helpful. There is always help available, but not always instantly visible, and you usually need to tap on a help icon. The help section in the app, and the FAQ of HTML egg's website is extensive but I couldn't find help on every issue, for example on slideshows. Thorough support, help files and video guides, and they're needed It didn't freeze, but shut itself down and had to be restarted. I also incurred several crashes of the app.
I make websites for a living, and so this is actually how it goes generally when writing code, but for a website builder that wishes to include non professional users, it's a serious flaw. In general more things happened accidentally during my attempt at making a test website, than things which I intended to happen. For example, items can be locked to prevent them from being moved, but locking an item doesn't prevent you moving its borders, which can have exactly the same effect as moving it, and is just as easy to do accidentally. It's hard to know whether to label some of the finding bugs, lack of maturity, or poorly though out elements of the design. Major usability issues and the app crashed on me several times It's hard to know whether to label some of the finding bugs, lack of maturity, or poorly though out elements of the design.
It would be better if more guidance had been built into the creation process, and better still if things were more intuitive, but I did nevertheless appreciate the effort that has been put into the help sections, FAQ and video guides. For example, if you insert an image, with the image still selected you can click on the brush icon and bring up the font size, text box styling options, which don't do anything at all to an image. Multiple options are presented at almost all times, and often what's presented has nothing to do with what you are attempting to do. I was impressed by the potential of the capabilities offered by this app, but unfortunately it offers too many choices, many of which will be confusing for all but professional web designers. I was impressed by the capabilities of this app, but unfortunately it offers too many choices, many of which will be confusing for all but professional web designers.
I understood what the help and info buttons would do but precious little else, and found myself constantly referring to the help files, video guides and faq to find out how to do things. You get the impression from the start of an app with great possibilities, but soon realize that you don't know how to do anything, and playing around with the app doesn't produce too many answers. WYSIWYG maybe, but that's where the intuitiveness of HTML Egg ends