Sandvox is a WYSIWYG

WYSIWYG

WYSIWYG is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get. The term is used in computing to describe a system in which content displayed onscreen during editing appears in a form closely corresponding to its appearance when printed or displayed as a finished product...

 template-based website

Website

A website, also written as Web site, web site, or simply site, is a collection of related web pages containing images, videos or other digital assets. A website is hosted on at least one web server, accessible via a network such as the Internet or a private local area network through an Internet...

 creation tool by Karelia Software

Karelia Software

Karelia Software, or Karelia is a software company with a headquarters in Alameda, California that claims to pioneer the desktop Web application market. It was founded by Dan Wood and later joined by Terrence Talbot. The company derives its name from the Karelia Suite of classical music by Jean...

, based around WebKit

WebKit

WebKit is a layout engine designed to allow web browsers to render web pages. WebKit powers Google Chrome and Apple Safari and by October 2011 held over 33% of the browser market share between them. It is also used as the basis for the experimental browser included with the Amazon Kindle ebook...

. Released May 16, 2006, it competes directly with Apple's

Apple Computer

Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. The company's best-known hardware products include the Macintosh line of computers, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad...

 iWeb

IWeb

iWeb was a template-based website creation tool developed by Apple Inc. The first version of iWeb was announced at the Macworld Conference & Expo on January 10, 2006 as part of the iLife '06 suite of digital lifestyle applications...

 and Realmac's RapidWeaver

RapidWeaver

RapidWeaver is a template-based website creation tool, from Realmac Software, available for Mac OS X.It uses user-selectable templates to define a website's complete appearance...

. Sandvox can be purchased with either a Regular or Pro license. The Pro license unlocks more advanced features, such as the ability to include raw HTML

HTML

HyperText Markup Language is the predominant markup language for web pages. HTML elements are the basic building-blocks of webpages....

 pages and "pagelets" within the created website, along with Google Webmaster Tools

Google Webmaster Tools

Google Webmaster Tools is a no-charge web service by Google for webmasters. It allows webmasters to check indexing status and optimize visibility of their websites.It has tools that let the webmasters:* Submit and check a sitemap...

 integration. In 2007, Sandvox 1.2 won the runner-up Apple Design Award

Apple Design Awards

The Apple Design Awards is a special event hosted by Apple Inc. at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference. The event is meant to recognize the best and most innovative Macintosh and iOS software and hardware produced by independent developers, as well as the best and most creative uses of...

 for Best Mac OS X User Experience.

Overview and features

Sandvox is a website

Website

A website, also written as Web site, web site, or simply site, is a collection of related web pages containing images, videos or other digital assets. A website is hosted on at least one web server, accessible via a network such as the Internet or a private local area network through an Internet...

 and blog

Blog

A blog is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in...

 creation tool. The end-user does not need to have any knowledge of web languages in order to effectively use the product.

The features of Sandvox include:

• Easy and flexible website creation
• Pre-designed templates bundled with the download
• An iLife
  ILife
  iLife is a suite of software applications developed by Apple for organizing, editing, and publishing photos, movies, and music. The suite comprises five applications: iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, GarageBand, and iWeb, all of which run on the Mac OS X operating system....
  
   media browser
• Drag and drop support for media files
• Blogging
• Podcasting
• One-click publishing to most webservers after some initial setup.
• Direct one-click publishing.

Sandvox is currently in its first version with fulltime development by Karelia's team. Like RapidWeaver

RapidWeaver

RapidWeaver is a template-based website creation tool, from Realmac Software, available for Mac OS X.It uses user-selectable templates to define a website's complete appearance...

, it includes some features iWeb

IWeb

iWeb was a template-based website creation tool developed by Apple Inc. The first version of iWeb was announced at the Macworld Conference & Expo on January 10, 2006 as part of the iLife '06 suite of digital lifestyle applications...

 does not, including the capability to add comments and trackbacks through Haloscan and JS-Kit (a feature available in iWeb

IWeb

iWeb was a template-based website creation tool developed by Apple Inc. The first version of iWeb was announced at the Macworld Conference & Expo on January 10, 2006 as part of the iLife '06 suite of digital lifestyle applications...

 only through a third-party application called iComment or when publishing to .Mac) and the ability to add raw HTML

HTML

HyperText Markup Language is the predominant markup language for web pages. HTML elements are the basic building-blocks of webpages....

pages and "pagelets". This last feature allows users to add their own content, in their own format, to their websites.

External links

• Sandvox Home
• Sandvox FAQ
• iComment