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It is a pity, but the first experience with Sparkle was not too bad. Although a button that should popup an email text did not work. Anyway, when I wanted to improve my website, that was published with Sparkle, and imported it with Sparkle (because I lost the orginal publishing documents) it made a mess of it. l have to start it all over again, texts were lost, pictured disappeared, and so on. I am afraid I have to use other website software to repair it.
It is utter junk! After the latest update it crashes all the time, reformats everything, changes font, background colours, and sizing, destroys important legal documents, fonts become illegible, links go missing, SEO is non-existent, and as for the flipping great margins on either side of your pages... the result is embarrassing. I've been informed by one of my marketing managers that this rubbish is costing me customers! It wipes your publishing logs/details/information with every autosave that you can't turn off. You can't work on any page for more than a minute before it throws you back to the index page. It is an utter waste of money! You lose more than you pay for this piece of trash. And despite all the identified issues like the stupid 2-inch margins that have been going on for years the developers ignore the problems. Avoid at all costs!
Such a wonderful piece of software to use. Coming from a graphic design and branding background with many years experience using all of Adobe's suite of software, I wasn't ready for just how brilliant Sparkle was. So easy to use, familiar (if you use design software), effortless and gave me just what I needed: software which allowed me the freedom to design without restrictions or the need to mess with code. A joy!