Major Update Now Optimizes Website Image Content for Retina Displays,
Adds New Social Media Sharing Bar, New Designs and More
Adds New Social Media Sharing Bar, New Designs and More
Universe Sandbox is a physics-based space simulator. It merges gravity, climate, collision, and material interactions to reveal the beauty of our universe and the fragility of our planet. Sandvox 2 is an excellent visual website-design tool for individuals and businesses that need to create attractive sites without having to learn the HTML/CSS/JavaScript that goes into it. Overall, Sandvox is an excellent option for anyone who wants to quickly create basic but still useful and attractive Web sites. (Sandvox is a Universal Application). Mac OS X 10.5.7 “Leopard” or higher. This version of Sandvox is not compatible with earlier versions, including 10.4 (Tiger), 10.3 (Panther), or 10.2 (Jaguar); see below for compatibility using older versions of Sandvox. To use graphical titles Sandvox requires a Quartz Extreme-capable Mac. Floating Sandbox is an interactive game where you can sink ships, throw them around, bend them, burn them, and so on. There are many different ways in which you can destroy a ship in Floating Sandbox, what’s your way? Sandvox is not available for Windows but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Windows with similar functionality. The most popular Windows alternative is Pinegrow Web Editor.It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Aptana Studio or BlueGriffon.If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked 26 alternatives to Sandvox and 17 are available for Windows so. Defense zone 2 1 6 2 – tower defense game.
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Alameda, Calif. - May 14, 2013 - Karelia Software today released Sandvox 2.8, a significant update to its award-winning website building software for Mac.
Sandvox 2.8 can now optimize website image content for viewing on Retina displays. Sandvox 2.8 also introduces two new designs, new LinkedIn and Pinterest sharing buttons, a new social media sharing bar and much more.
Now, for the first time, website creators using Sandvox can simply check a box to present high-resolution photos, graphics and images to website visitors using Retina displays. Websites created with Sandvox can automatically present Retina-quality images when accessed via Retina-enabled devices, or show standard resolution images when viewed by other devices.
'We're extremely excited that Sandvox now automatically optimizes your content for Retina displays,' said Dan Wood, president of Karelia Software. 'Of our many groups of users, Sandvox enjoys a strong following among photographers at all levels and we think they're going to love this update with Retina optimization and two beautiful new designs.'
Two new design options, Hydrogen and Kryptonite, are now included in version 2.8. Both Hydrogen and Kryptonite are clean, flexible, modern designs that offer left or right sidebars and work exceptionally well for showcasing photographs and galleries.
In addition, version 2.8 introduces new social media features including new sharing buttons for both LinkedIn and Pinterest, new customization options for Twitter and Facebook, and a brand new Sharing Bar that presents all of Sandvox's supported social media buttons in a neat, convenient row. To accomodate all of these improvements, the Objects menu now features a new Sharing section.
Sandvox 2.8 also includes an updated Metrics inspector, plus improvements to the Amazon and Google Maps objects, to publishing, to podcast RSS feeds, and adds support for the latest jQuery, v1.9.1.
About Sandvox
Named to Mac App Store's Best of 2012, Sandvox lets anybody, even non-experts, build beautiful, modern, feature-rich and standards-compliant websites.
Sandvox requires no HTML, CSS or design experience. Simply choose from one of dozens of included designs, drag-and-drop your content, automatically create blogs, galleries and slideshows, equip your site with any of more than two dozen ready-to-go content objects, including contact forms, Google Maps, and YouTube videos, all while using a familiar inspector to adjust page layout, styles and settings. Sandvox, of course, supports today's most popular social media features and current SEO best practices. When ready, just upload your site to your favorite webhost directly from within Sandvox. It's that easy.
Sandvox is a complete website creation solution, including the latest version of the Karelia iMedia Browser, an open source contribution which is now a staple in many popular Mac apps, and helps website creators manage and use photos, videos and multimedia content. Sandvox supports several features for power users to embed raw HTML, use JavaScript, jQuery, PHP, and other more advanced techniques. A plug-in API is available for third-party developers.
For more information on Sandvox, visit the company's website:
<http://www.karelia.com/sandvox/>
Facebook page: <http://www.facebook.com/karelia.software>
On Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/karelia>
Pricing and Availability
Sandvox 2.8 requires Mac OS X version 10.6 (Snow Leopard) or higher and is currently available in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese and Chinese.
Sandvox is regularly priced at US$79.99 and available directly from Karelia Software or through the Mac App Store. The Sandvox 2.8 update is available today free of charge for any registered owner of Sandvox 2.
Registered owners of Sandvox 1.x can upgrade to Sandvox 2.x for US$49.99 directly from Karelia Software. New licenses, upgrades, household licenses and site licenses are all available directly from Karelia Software by visiting:
<https://secure.karelia.com/buy_now/>
About Karelia Software
Karelia Software, winner of Macworld Eddy and Apple Design Awards, is known for producing groundbreaking Mac apps. Karelia's premier application, Sandvox, redefines how websites are built, combining power and flexibility with world class ease-of-use and making it possible for anyone to build the website of their dreams. <http://www.karelia.com/>
Copyright (c) 2013, Karelia Software. All Rights Reserved. Sandvox is a registered trademark of Karelia Software. Mac, Mac OS, OS X and App Store are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. All other company and product names are trademarks of their respective owners.
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While the most important aspect of MobileMe going dark for iWeb users is getting your site hosted somewhere else, it’s clear that iWeb itself is hanging on by only a thread as well. So the need to move your iWeb-based Web site somewhere else is a good excuse to get away from iWeb too, and to make that easier, Karelia Software has just updated their Web site authoring tool, Sandvox.
I won’t get into Sandvox’s features in detail, but suffice to say, while it predates iWeb, it’s now designed to do everything iWeb can do and more. (Karelia has had the dubious distinction of being stepped on by Apple not once, but twice, first with Sherlock 3 appearing to compete with their Internet search tool Watson and then with iWeb competing with Sandvox.) Sandvox offers a drag-and-drop interface for creating entire Web sites — complete with blogs, picture galleries, social media integration, and more — all without coding in HTML. Once you’ve designed your site, Sandvox generates it using HTML5, and makes sure the code is compatible with allmajor browsers on the Mac and PC, and with mobile devices.
What’s new in Sandvox 2.6 is the capability to extract content from existing iWeb sites. Note that Karelia is careful to avoid the term “import” since Sandvox cannot — technically or legally — import iWeb sites. (Technically it’s hard because iWeb does some funky stuff with the HTML code, and legally it’s impossible because iWeb templates are copyrighted by Apple.)
Instead, when you point Sandvox at an iWeb-generated site, Sandvox crawls the entire site, extracting good-sized chunks of text and large graphics and adding them to a new Sandvox document. (You can even watch it doing this, which is pretty cool.) It will not create a site that looks like your existing iWeb site, but the same basic structure and content should be present for you to manipulate, tweak, and even improve within Sandvox. Karelia has posted a detailed, FAQ-based guide to transitioning an iWeb site that should explain exactly what you can expect. (As a dirty little secret, Sandvox can extract content in this way from any site, but it’s tweakedto work best with iWeb-created sites.)
Much as I know being forced to make transitions like this is a pain, I think this one is worth looking at a little differently. Web design is an ever-evolving art, and if you created a site in iWeb a few years ago, when Apple was still maintaining the program, it’s a few years out of date. Sandvox has been updated that entire time, so by refactoring your site in Sandvox, you’ll get not only the advantage of working with a modern, more-capable tool, you’ll get a site redesign in the process. (We run into this everyfew years ourselves. We’re in the middle of a major site redesign for Take Control, and once that’s done, we’ll probably be turning our attention to TidBITS too, since what we did a few years back doesn’t have that fresh feel any more.)
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Sandvox 2.6 works in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and later, and has been localized to French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and Simplified Chinese. (The Japanese localization is also new in 2.6.) It costs $79.99 for a single copy, or $119.99 for a household, with site licenses running $39.99 per seat. A free trial version is available. Although Sandvox is available in the Mac App Store, I recommend you buy directly from Karelia so the company keeps more of the revenue and can more easily provide you with support, should you need help.