HOTDOG PRO

Having used the new HotDog Pro to edit my multiple sites, I find many frustrations: Loads slowly-to show us self-serving graphics, while we wait! The Help is shallow and incomplete. There is only enough information for the developer not to be accused of misrepresenting its presence. The main toolbar buttons: you can't just add a new button to the basic toolbar-unless I missed the specific instruction for that-you add a new toolbar of buttons without the original labels. Why only H1-H3?? The spell checker: It is untrainable-you can't add to it so it remains illiterate-and really-ultimately useless-to worthless; highly misrepresented. It should, like Word's Spellchecker, allow you to add words in an expanding dictionary to allow you to dev elop your own list of acceptable words and spellings. This has a teenager's list of words-everything else is highlighted for correction!! Get a life!! Tools: are scattered all over the place- not very intuitive for me. The Rover: Does NOT, that's right, does NOT reflect the HTML accurately. It drove me nuts tryong to get a list left-centered; Rover showed it as centered. When I looked at it in Netscape-it was fine. In general-this is a program filled with features-to COMPETE!! The features are often sloppy in organization, incomplete, shallow, and disorganized. It is clearly a program in evolution-I use it for certain features. In general I write HTML without any p rogram-often in HTML Writer. I reload the document in other HTML programs when I am lazy about contructing certain effects such as curved or zooming words. It is hard for me to give someone a hundred bucks for a half-baked program like this. Let's tighten up our criteria for judging the "Most Needed," and "Best of the Net" descriptions!!!