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An Easy To Use Website Builder For Affordable, Professional Web Design
Thanks for visiting the Sandvox lens. You came here to learn, right? Good, because this is the place to discuss Sandvox, Karelia Software, Macintosh applications, website design and development, iWeb alternatives for the Mac, OS X software, and other related topics. Take a look around and feel free to leave your comments, questions, or even your choice for the best Mac web design program.
Sandvox's Apple Award
In 2007, Sandvox 1.2 won the runner-up prize for the coveted Apple Design Award for Best Mac OS X User Experience...
"Sandvox is a great piece of software...an excellent example of an intuitive user interface."
- User review from Andrew Soh of Visual Valhalla
Why are you here?
There are so many reasons to choose from...
Our customers and fans have come from such varied backgrounds. Sandvox has been utilized by beginning web designers looking to post information or pictures for their personal use, or maybe for a social group or network. Our application is also very popular with small businesses, hoping to get the word out about their products and services. Sandvox also caters to HTML coders of the larger Macintosh community looking to add that little something extra to their sites.
Sandvox is an easy website builder for the Mac, an affordable alternative to iWeb that allows you to create your own website using a clear WYSIWYG interface and a wide variety of site-themes and templates. Sandvox is a fast and flexible website builder renowned for its ease of use and seamless operation with OS X.
Whatever your motivation, we're glad to have you here. Take some time to explore the content and links posted here. Go ahead and add your own questions and comments regarding web design, website marketing, software development, etc.
Sandvox is an easy website builder for the Mac, an affordable alternative to iWeb that allows you to create your own website using a clear WYSIWYG interface and a wide variety of site-themes and templates. Sandvox is a fast and flexible website builder renowned for its ease of use and seamless operation with OS X.
Whatever your motivation, we're glad to have you here. Take some time to explore the content and links posted here. Go ahead and add your own questions and comments regarding web design, website marketing, software development, etc.
The Sandvox Lens Table of Contents
- Sandvox's Apple Award
- Why are you here?
- Other Karelia Lenses
- Getting Started with Sandvox
- Sandvox with Google Analytics
- The Best Sandvox Links
- The Karelia Twitter Feed
- Sandvox Website Designs
- Sandvox Pro
- Sandvox on the Social Networks
- Websites You Can Build With Sandvox
- Sandvox User Reviews
- The Official Karelia Blog
- Get That Small Business Started with Amazon.com
- Dig in the Sandvox
Other Karelia Lenses
Even more reading material...
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Karelia Software - For You and Your Mac
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Karelia Software is built around a desire to serve the Macintosh community through production of simple, elegant, and intuitive software. We are always on the lookout for the feedback and concerns of the larger Mac community.
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Getting Your Website Noticed
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Welcome to the Karelia online marketing tips and techniques page. We would like to offer this page as a resource for those looking to help their personal or small business website stand out in the online community. Online marketing tips are plentifu...
Getting Started with Sandvox
Pulled straight from the help files and FAQs to get you going...
- SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
- A PowerPC or Intel Macintosh computer
- Mac OS X 10.4.11 (Tiger) or Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
- To enable graphic text, a Quartz Extreme-capable Mac is required - FOR BEST SITE VIEWING
- Safari, Firefox, Internet Explorer 7 and later, or other modern browers
- CSS support from the viewer's web browser (all modern web browsers
support CSS) - DOWNLOADING AND INSTALLING SANDVOX
- Sandvox is available from Karelia Software at www.sandvox.com
(Enter your email address for an extra set of 5 designs for free!)
- After downloading, open the Sandvox disk image
- Read and agree to the license agreement
- The disk image will then eject itself, leaving you a copy of Sandvox in your
downloads folder, which you can drag to your desired location
Sandvox with Google Analytics
The how-to guide to integrate Sandvox and Google Analytics...
Sandvox is known for its ease of use, allowing users to create professional websites for small business or personal uses. Check out this screencast for a step-by-step guide to adding traffic analysis from Google Analytics to your Sandvox-created website.
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The Best Sandvox Links
Where it all begins...
- Easy To Use Website Software for the Mac
- Sandvox.com, your destination for all the latest on Sandvox, including help files, FAQs, Karelia team bios, etc. You can also read professional and user reviews about Sandvox's website creation and HTML coding capabilities, along with the included web site templates and site-themes for Mac.
- Sandvox User Forums
- Tried and true methods and tips for web design and website editing from the Sandvox user community. These are the folks who know how to squeeze every last drop of coolness out of this Mac OS X web site creator software. This is the place to go to find out all the in's and out's of Sandvox.
- Sandvox on "i use this"
- Already a Sandvox user? Stop by iusethis.com and add Sandvox to your profile. You can also check out all the other user opinions, complete with stories of website creation and homepage design with this unique OS X website creator.
- Sandvox Website Examples
- This is a user-contributed gallery of websites of all walks of life built with Sandvox. Websites are organized by tag, so it's easy to find examples of websites of any topic.
The Karelia Twitter Feed
Get Twitter-pated with Karelia
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- The "One Finger Discount" is over, but the website is still up, and it points to some great software. http://j.mp/1M5O6D
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- Sandvox Web Designs: Provider of more website designs for Sandvox http://j.mp/7cc4VH
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- Huge list of SEO tools from Smashing Magazine: http://is.gd/5829b
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- Justin at Second Gear makes some useful apps. Check 'em out: http://www.secondgearsoftware.com/
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- 30+ Mailing List Services listed at Mashable: http://j.mp/48e17F
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- To send feedback directly to Karelia, choose Sandvox → Send Feedback… Easy to attach screenshots of your Sandvox windows. #SandvoxTip
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- You can add special characters into the text of your website from the menu Edit → Special Characters… #SandvoxTip
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- If your host allows it, we recommend you use SFTP to upload your website, not FTP. It's much more secure. #SandvoxTip
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- Thanks for your comments on our Facebook page everybody! It's nice to see this page get built up so quickly. You... http://bit.ly/66Kfl5
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- Neil Boyd has a website with some very nice tips and tutorials on Sandvox. http://www.isawhow.com/ #SandvoxTip
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Sandvox Website Designs
So many templates, so little time...
Check out the Sandvox Designs website for all the info on the 50+ free website templates offered by Karelia, as well as other Sandvox website templates offered by third-party designers.
Look below to preview some of the free website designs created by the Karelia team.
Look below to preview some of the free website designs created by the Karelia team.
Karelia's "Cirrus" Design
Check out this light, airy website template from Sandvox. The Cirrus design is part of the free website template package offered to Sandvox users.(Check out the Sandvox Designs site for the rest of Karelia's free webpage templates.)
Karelia's "Glass Box" design
Karelia offers a wide range of site designs, including this business website template offered free to Sandvox users.(Check out the Sandvox Designs site for the rest of Karelia's free web site templates.)
Karelia's "Earth & Sky" Design
Get back to mother nature with the gentle green tones and simplicity of this free web site design for Sandvox users.(Check out the Sandvox Designs site for the rest of Karelia's free web site designs.)
Sandvox Pro
It gets better? Oh yes, it does...
Sandvox Pro offers users the ability to further customize their webpages and content, while analyze and maximizing web traffic.
- Edit raw HTML
- Creation of custom pages and pagelets
- Customization of a page's editable text elements
- Code Injection panel for easy insertion of code
- Viewing and validation of HTML source code - Google Inspector
- Google Webmaster tools, including Sitemaps and Analytics
- Assistance with site verification
- Automatic sitemap generation when publishing
- Injection of Analytics tracking code into all pages
Sandvox on the Social Networks
People just love talking Sandvox...
- Sandvox on Yahoo Groups
- Ask the 1000+ members of this group for their reaction when first using Sandvox, and they'd probably tell you that "Yahoo" is a very appropriate location for this group. The Sandvox Yahoo group is very active and helpful and can help you best determine how to make a website. Check them out for further tips and advice on this WYSIWYG website builder.
- Sandvox Tip of the Day on Twitter
- Just like an IV, the Karelia Twitter feed gives you what you need right now. Already a Twitterer? Tweet about your good times with easy Mac web design with Sandvox and hear directly from the Karelia team. Follow Karelia on Twitter so you don't miss the Sandvox Tip of the Day.
- Sandvox on Facebook
- Yes, as a matter of fact, Sandvox does have a Facebook group. Thanks for asking. What a rare opportunity to combine your two strongest obsessions. Yet another chance to learn about affordable professional websites from Sandvox, the beginner Mac site builder.
Websites You Can Build With Sandvox
Webpage creation so easy, the possibilities are practically endless...
- Small business site - Product listings, customer service information, even PayPal links for purchasing
- Wedding website - Bridal party, engagement photos, guestbook, and (of course) your Amazon wish list
- Church website - Upcoming events, worship schedules, mission trip photos
- Local sports club - Scores, schedules, updates, pictures of the action
- Non-profit organization - Mission statement, schedule of service events, PayPal links for donations
Sandvox User Reviews
Click each user's name to view their Sandvox-created website...
- Kimball Larsen's review
- "With Sandvox, I have finally found my nirvana - the built in templates are beautiful, and easy to modify to suit my taste, and include flexibility that is not found anywhere for those of us who prefer to write raw HTML on occasion..."
- Lynn Noel's review
- "I shelled out for iWeb, built my new site in it, and quickly ran up against its limitations when working outside the box of its six template styles...Sandvox is The Slickest Thing Ever when it comes to organizing a website that's deeper in some areas than others."
- Scott Corscadden's review
- "We simply love your program - had new pictures up in moments of our new baby (which is a really useful ability, given how little time we have now)."
- Click here to read all the reviews of Sandvox
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The Official Karelia Blog
All the info on Mac software from Karelia...
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The Comment Book
We readily welcome feedback from the Macintosh web site development community. Please feel free to let fly with comments or questions about any of the OS X web design or web hosting topics you see posted here.
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- IndeXinn IndeXinn Feb 19, 2009 @ 6:52 am
- Sandvox is an amazing product. If it was not for Sandvox I doubt that http://www.indexinn.com would exist. We have thousands of pages all effortlessly managed through the Sandvox interface.
It has allowed us to create many other sites like http://elusivebeaches.com that would have taken a great deal more work in a program like Dreamweaver.
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