Holger and Per

I was able to open all 196 pages, and the only page which did not open was page 84.

Because you chose to open in a window, it was not possible to read the majority of the text.

I have used this object for a number of magazines and found it almost tolerable when used with a large monitor and set to allow full screen. In my case many use tablets to browse the magazines, so I have reverted to putting a thumbnail of the cover on the site and if they click on it the pdf downloads and opens with the pdf viewer on their devise.

In my experience there are no limitations, but as the catalogues grows, so to does the download time, and I have found there is no point in trying to hurry the display by opening pages before they have completed downloading.

The Viewer is great for flashy large print catalogues.

The only "problem" with the viewer is that it appears to be generated as jpg or png graphic files, not true pdf, so the quality of each image is not quite as good as the original, this can be overcome by allowing the user to download the original pdf if they wish by clicking the enable pdf download check box within the object.

Sorry this reply was so long.

It is unlikely that your typical website visitor will wait for your 200 MB file to open. It took 5 minutes on my iPad and I waited out of sheer curiosity.

There are many ways to reduce the size of a PDF. Have you explored this?

In any event, the Catalogue Viewer is not well-suited for responsive websites.

I bought this plug-in from Incomedia, but I no longer use it for all the reasons outlined above.

Website X5 has worked well for me, and all my clients are very pleased with their sites. I tried numerous other software applications over the past two years and ended up with X5 as my ultimate choice.

I must admit that when I first looked at X5, I thought is was very wierd, no WYSIWYG, just a bunch of empty cells. I nearly dismissed it as “useless” in my first evaluation, but then I dug in my heels and gave it a concerted try.

Glad that I did.

l have no connection or affinity to Incomedia. I am simply relating my own experiences with the product.

Another site I recently completed is...

http://www.paramountequestriancentre.com

Please take a look.

You as a the "designer" should know that you must keep your site 100% optimized, putting a 200mb file to be "viewed online" it's a very bad idea, you should just put a download button for it and indicate that the file size is 200mb so the visitor knows what it's going to be download and decide if he can (based on his/her internet speed).

Myron - I'm increasingly impressed. Why not submit them so users can click on your profile and quickly view your website creations?

oppure... Puoi inserire online il tuo catalogo qui , cosi viene visualizzato all'istante. E gli utenti lo vedono. Ovviamente se prendi la versione free si vede qualche pubblicità. Se ti va bene, risolvi con questo.

sorry ... 

or ... You can enter your catalog online, so it is displayed instantly.And users see it.Obviously if you take the free version you see some advertisements.If it suits you, solve with this.

Myron, I really liked how you made really good use out of the B&B Template sold on the Incomedia Marketplace. Well done.

Regards

Hello AJ.

Yes, the Incomedia templates are a great resource for building your own websites.

Hi Larry,

You make some very good points. One thing that I like about Incomedia’s templates is that I can view all the features of the site and then inspect how they created them inside the template. A valuable learning opportunity to emulate or expand upon!

As you can imagine, creating video tutorials is an arduous task. I’d like to get remuneration for the lessons, however, I don’t think Incomedia users (for the most part) would ever want to pay for them.

It would certainly be more encouraging if Incomedia offered me a contract to build them for their audience.

For now, I’ll just generate revenue by building more websites.

I hope that you will continue to work with Website X5. Once you get your first fully-functional site up, you will really feel more confident about yourself, and the software.