Besides the obvious fact that the web is run by a mish-mash of patches
that make it do things it was never intended to do in the first place, why
is the design and deployment of simple websites so damned difficult?

If Santa come out of his drunken stupor while you're around, please tell him
that I want the following.......

I'd like a website designer that.....

- has a widgets panel full of things like calendars, header, column and
footer widgets, scrolling text boxes, bread crumb trail widgets, navigation
widgets, real time date/time widgets, rss feed widgets, a google adsense
widget, rotating ad/image widgets, email form widgets, search widgets (both
site and web), those neat little rounded corner panels in a widget and lots
of 3rd party companies ready to sell me thousands of more widgets.  You
should be able to drag and drop columns and widgets on a web page canvas
just like you did with controls on a form in VB.

- I want to be able to see things display in real time on my canvas the way
they will display in the browser ( you know, like the way a word doc
displays in real time as you edit the word document)  When I drop a widget
in my web page canvas, I want to see it like the surfers will see it - none
of that placeholder crap.

- I want to be ale to edit anything that I drop on the canvas right where
it is and see my changes in real time on the canvas the way the end surfer
will see it.

- I want to be able to click, drag and select one or more objects on the
canvas and give them a name - automatically grouping them and treating them
as a single entity for CSS editing.

- I want CSS editing of my widgets and such to be dumbed down and simple.
Give me a properties list.  Do software developers really expect me to know
all of the properties that could be editable on a particular object?   I'm
doing good just knowing where I am most days.

- Along with those property listings, for each one I need drop downs or
color pallets or whatever will help me choose valid values for the property.
Remember, my goal is to publish good looking, standards based web pages -
not to master CSS, XML, XHTML or whatever other God-forsaken alphabetic hell
some group proposes next.

- I want to be able to click to add another main level page or page beneath
the one I am currently working on.  When that happens, I expect all of my
navigation (site wide) to be undated automatically for me and I expect the
new page to have things like the header, footer and navigation already added
when I see it on my canvas the first time.

- In short, I want a real WISYWIG web page development tool that lets me
concentrate on what I do best - content development and visual design.

   I don't get paid to know all of the inner workings of the web, CSS, ASP,
ASP.Net, PHP or any of that crap.  I get paid to deliver great looking,
functional sites on time.  And, right now, every tool that I have tried
actually works against me in that goal.

   So, sober up Santa!  I need a website designer for website
designers....not for programmers.