I have started a petition to show that this patent is affecting many more than the patent office probably ever conceived.

http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/balthaser

Thanks!
Sean Gates

I know for a fact that while Dave Williamson and myself were part of Spooky and the Bandit we developed at least 2 of these 'site building site' style web applications. The most advanced one was called Casper (1998 - 2003).

However from a more commercially comparible perspective what about Moonfruit? http://www.moonfruit.com/ They launched their product around late 1998 / early 1999 (and Macromedia were an investor if my memory serves me correctly on all points)

So For Neil to try this he's going to have a hard time getting any further. I remember when he first posted about it - when it was still under the Balthaser.com site under the monicker of Balthaser|FX. This finally morphed into the 'profx' site and the product currently living there (obviously development has progressed but...).