Re: Trellix report

[Susan Vineyard <vineyard -at- CHEROKEE -dot- NSUOK -dot- EDU>]

I would like to add that Trellix is great for some applications.  It works
well
for instructors creating a class Webpage because the program functions so
much
like a word processor and requires no knowledge of html.  It's also great
for
on-line books and reports. We may have one of our managers use it to create
a
newsletter on our Intranet.  It'll work great for that.

My class page is located at
http://Arapaho.nsuok.edu/~Vineyard/Class/Fall1999/default.htm

(If you wait until tomorrow to look at it, some of the bugs will be worked
out--I'm in a rush right now.)
I'm using layering, though.  I'll have a my Main Trellix page contain a
Links
page in a container page (which means I can edit it in my html editor).  It
will link to sub-Trellix documents that I can change or add one at a time.)

--Anyway--interesting program.  Oh yes, although it's bundled with Corel
2000,
some functions will not work unless you have some Microsoft components
installed.

--Susan Vineyard

Roz Ault wrote:

> Several days ago I asked whether anyone on the list had experience with
> Trellix, Dan Bricklin's program that converts Word documents for posting
on
> the Web. Only one person who responded (thanks, Susan!) had much
experience
> with it, and she also posted her response to the list, so I won't repeat
it
> here.
>
> Based on what I found out, though, I don't think Trellix is a particularly
> good solution -- certainly not for us, and I doubt if it would work well
> for most companies. Apparently, any time you want to make changes to Web
> documents created by Trellix, you have to go through the whole Trellix
> publishing interface; you can't just do quick HTML edits for minor
updates.
> It might be appropriate for someone who wants to publish a fairly complex
> document once, but we need to keep our documentation current with frequent
> changes, and several different people need to be able to work on various
> parts of it.
>
> The correspondence I had with a Trellix rep was not encouraging, either. I
> had filled out a form on their site requesting an evaluation copy. All I
> received in response was a message from a sales rep asking how I liked the
> product. I responded that I hadn't yet received any information on how to
> get a demo copy. The sales rep sent me a message with a URL supposedly
> pointing to a good review (which yielded only a 404: File not found
error),
> and said she'd have someone else send me the evaluation copy. This was
over
> a week ago, and that's the last I've heard from them.
>
> - Roz
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> -- Roz Ault, Information Technology
>    The Faxon Company, Inc.
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