SiteKreator offers a free Personal Edition – get a login there and take a look around. The big diff. between Dreamweaver and SK is this: with DW you create a site made of individual pages, even if you use a template for your pages each page still has to be created and re-uploaded any time there is a change. Version control is a nightmare. SK has ‘elements’ that form the template for all pages – change an element and it rolls out to the rest of the pages. Within the pages are sections that contain your text, menus, images, links to blogs, etc. Creating a new page only involves modifying the sections and adding your content.
I’m a big DW fan, I learned almost everything I know about CSS using it and I still use it for blasts, etc. but to do our site? Unh-uh. Too much work.

I am intereseted in SK. I currently edit our site in Dreamweaver
and I would like to know what advantages Site Kreator has over this
program.

SiteKreator

Sector: Office 2.0, Web publishing, Content Management

Headquarters: Santa Clara, CA

Management: SiteKreator is the flagship product of Netclime, which was founded in 1991 by Ivaylo Lenkov, CEO

Funding: Private

Secret Sauce: Webmasters beware – SiteKreator is about to make you redundant. You may scoff, ‘No! A template based site builder cannot create as I can!’ Scoff away (I did, I admit it) but SiteKreator can, and does it well. More importantly, SK can integrate and host the backend stuff: shopping carts, blogs, forums, data, etc. It’s an SMB dream come true.

The real-world complexities of enterprise-level web publishing make a one-size-fits-all approach a recipe for disaster; there’s no shortage of content management systems on the market but can they answer all needs? The short answer is no, not out of the box, anyway. And that’s where the consultants (and the revenue) come in. SiteKreator offers a personal edition for free but the revenue is going to come from subscribers to the business edition and, as customer needs expand, through customizing and backend implementations. It’s the ‘d-i-y to a point’ business model.
Seen and Heard: IT|Redux uses SK for the entire Office 2.0 site, he says SiteKreator “is fairly simple to use, makes parsimonious use of AJAX where it really makes sense, and can produce professional-looking websites in a matter of minutes”. CNet’s Alpha blog notes, “it has interactive features, such as a form builder and a message board application, that are easy to integrate into your site”.