Hi,

A couple of questions for you.  First give the changes 24 to 48 hours to take effect especially if you are operating your site using a free Magix hosting account.  Second are you absolutely certain that your domain name or hosting account have not expired.  Magix is not very good at notifying people of domain name or free hosting account expiration.  Both free and paid domain names and hosting accounts are only valid for 1 year from the date of purchase or acquisition so if your account has expired and you did not renew (even though you may not have been notified) it will likely remain "under construction" forever.  You can try to search your domain name at the one of the "whois" sites to see who owns the domain.  For some reason, Magix holds on to domain names that people have registered through them (I have had this happen with one of my business sites) and could never find out how to get that name back in use even though I still show up as the domain owner, but Magix and or their affiliate being the registrar still control acces to updating the site.

Silly convoluted and hard to understand? Yes it is.  If you can't get it resolved, purchase a new domain name and hosting with someone like Godaddy, You will get numerous expiration notices from them, and have more than enough time to put your renewal in place.  Clearly to me at least having been burned once, Magix is not serious about domain name registration or hosting.  I will not make that mistake again. 

As for web creation software, I would not use any product from any company that is a online only design service simply because you are then limited to their site, their designs and their service of the product.

I do use the Xara Web Designer MX Premium product and I like it very much.  It is great if you want to use a drag and drop approach and not worry about writing html.  I then upload my sites using the free version of Filezilla via ftp to my Godaddy accounts and all works well.

All of this for a new and or inexperienced web site designer causes a lot of pain and frustration, and I really get annoyed with the companies that make it so easy to get started, and then leave you high and dry.  Magix has some really good products, but Website Maker, their hosting, and their domain registration services are not among their strengths.

I would be happy to give you more ideas and advice on this topic.  I will also look up your web site "whois" information if you care to share your url with me either on this site or by sending me a private message.

George