Image rights: River SRL.If you can make a document in Pages, you
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and useful web design tool for people who
want something other than a WordPress site.
There are three versions: Basic, for one site
of up to 10 pages; One, which removes the
page limit; and Pro, which adds Instagram
and multi–site support.
The app opens with a blank page and an
open toolbar with common items such as
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to use Sparkle is to download one of the free
templates and mess around with it. The
library contains some genuinely useable
contemporary designs, something that lets
down some other web creation apps, and
editing them is as simple as editing a
document in Pages. The interface is largely
the same too, with the familiar toolbar at the
top and inspector panels for changing item
properties at the right.
It’s all very straightforward, and you can
easily paste code from other apps or sites
using the Embed icon, which creates a spaceSparkle
Create great websites easily like you used to with iWeb
From $29.99 From River SRL, sparkleapp.com
Needs OS X 10.9 or laterSPARKLE
As easy as Pages
Excellent templates
Page limit in Basic
Inflexible previews
GREATfor you to post website code: SoundCloud
music, YouTube links, ecommerce Buy Now
buttons and so on.
Publishing is simple with a standard FTP
setup. If you go for Sparkle Pro you can also
publish directly to Instagram and integrate
Google Analytics.
There are a few niggles over and above
Basic’s 10–page limit. You can’t change the
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The fonts you’re given are web–safe ones,
not necessarily the ones you want from your
Mac (although you can add them manually).
And while the app creates responsive
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page for desktop and mobile: rather than just
changing the Live Preview when you switch
devices, it switches the editor mode too.
Layout changes you make to mobile aren’t
applied to the desktop version.
These are minor irritations, however.
Sparkle is very easy to use, creates
impressive results and reminds us a lot
of Apple’s long–gone iWeb.
THE BOTTOM LINE. Sparkle is a very
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Basic version is limited. CARRIE MARSHALLUsing Sparkle reminds us
of the much–missed iWeb,
Apple’s incredibly user–
friendly web creation app.Unlike some rivals, the supplied templates are
modern and usable, and editing the templates is easy.
Reviews
46 SEP 2019 maclife.com