I think that Nicepage should work mostly offline. Here is the reason, i do hope it will be fixed soon.

Um.....
You can tether your laptop off your phone, or get a laptop with cellular ability.
You can't ever control what happens when you are visiting with a client.
And if your big shot $$$$ customer can't offer you internet access at their location, how much business do you really think you will get from them?

Last edited 02 October 2021 by MerlinAZ

One thing for sure i'm real impress by all the features that Nicepage have. This i mean, that you can have online.
Note that there is many phone carrier in my province that have many citys, wich is the province of Quebec; phones carrier dont offer "unlimited bandwith".

Just mentionning fiew: Bell Mobility, Lucky Mobile, Virgin Mobile, PC Mobile, Rogers Wireless, Chatr Mobile, Cityfone, Fido Mobile, Primus Wireless, Simply Connect, Zoomer Wireless, Petro-Canada Mobility, Telus Mobility, Koodo Mobile, Freedom Mobile, SaskTel Mobility, Videotron Mobile, Fizz Mobile, Ice Wireless, TNW Wireless, Xplore Mobile ........ and the list goes on

What happen then?

Well depending of the phone carrier, if a user want to use more bandwith data. If the user pay some monthly bandwith and have reached his/her limits. There are tree options that can happen:
(1) - The user of the phone carrier cant use internet until next month.
(2) - The phone company carrier accept that the user continue to use internet "but" the next montly bill will cost "a lot" since passed it's monthly bandwith limits.
(3) - The phone carrier choose to make the user pay much-much-more or gonna cancel and delete the user account.
At the end the user will have to pay much much more.

There are stories of phone carriers going in court against the customer, to make them pay, even make the customers loose what they own. Some peoples have lost so much that when they wanted a simple rent, that the landlord had search there payments records; if yes or no to rent to them. So they have no place to sleep, but only the street to live onto; and the problems with it.

I think downloading all components inside the app files would make it worse for you if bandwidth was a concern.
Now, you only download components when they are requested. That keeps downloads smaller than it would be compared to downloading everything every time there’s an update several times a month.

I agree Merlin for many peoples bandwith is a concern. There are some phones carrier that make not available "unlimited bandwith", for some reasons. The architecture of the anthena's for phones, maybe is not enough to reach the most customers. It could be because the phones carrier dont want that the data's overload the anthena's phones services and structures; that could cause some "denial of services". It could be simply because the phone carriers want that there customers pay the top price, when there are peoples that have many payments to do; so limited in there budget.

The point is what ever company there is on earth, Nicepage and others. If a company want to have the most money and reach the most customers; then there product must reach the most customers and at some attractive price. Of course if there is "no demands", "no services", "no customers", "no attractive prices"; then there is "no profits".

There are 3 main things to think about for a company, i'm gonna say "3 columns"; 2 negatives columns and 1 positive column. First column is the payments (what ever thing the company pay for "electricity, rent, etc."), the second column is "unexpected things to pay for"; and the last column is (profits). Brief to look at the balance of the finances, and to ask if there is some profits?

If Nicepage want to reach (more percentage %) of the money pie, then i think it's normal that they think also to the customers that there phone carriers dont offer "unlimited bandwith". Maybe there is peoples in the United-States or else where that there phone carriers dont have unlimited bandwith. So there laptop or phone cant connect to "unlimited bandwith internet" If so then this make these "potential money customers (%)" probably not interested in Nicepage or other products that need internet.

I suggest (and i'm not paid for thoses suggestions), that Nicepage keep there formula. It's nice to take only what is needed for creating the pages "online". If Nicepage want to have (more % customers) of the money pie, then they should think to have also a version that the features are all offline (some offline version). When there is updates, then the elements "names X" are (replaced) and for the other new features "names X"; there are simply added to the software. As so the user dont have to download again the "full software", but simply download the "changes/upgrades".

The next thing is for the customers that dont renew there software version. The user can download there version. Like if a customer have paid version 3.2 the customer can have the version up to version 3.3. If a customer have version 3.3 then the user can have the software up to 3.4. This made to have less software versions to store online (for download). Rather then 3.2, then 3.2.1, then 3.2.15 etc (as example), this would cause too much versions to store on servers.

An other idea fo Nicepage. They could store a full offline version as version 3.x. Then if the user have paid up to some version as 3.8 (example), the user could download the full offline version 3; then download the upgrade version 3.1 (to update version 3). After download the upgrade version 3.2 to update the previous version 3.1; this up to version 3.8. Later Nicepage could have version 4.x full offline version, or version 5.x full offline version. Doing so this could make even take less (MB megabytes) servers storage space used. Because the user simply go to there account to download some full offline version; then simply download the "changes/upgrades" of the previous versions up to it's own paid version. Simply after install the soft that check if the user has some previous version.

Like if the user have downloaded the full offline software version 3.0, then want to install version 3.2 (the soft check if user have previous installed version as 3.1). Some kind of "gradual upgrades/updates", because there could be customers that have paid updates to version 3.1 but not 3.2. By login the customer could have some message that the software is activated or indicate that the user have paid for some previous version "download there X version at:" after activate version with there login. The customers can always pay for some upgrades or new Nicepage versions.

As told i am not paid for these suggestions (that Nicepage reach more %), i just want the good for Nicepage (there boss presidents and peoples under; also there related peoples) and there customers as users. I have helped some company's with my ideas, to rise there audience and customers. One thing for sure to be humble and modest, without the free help of peoples that have helped me trough time; i could not help other peoples. So the thank's goes to all.

Thank's for the help Merlin.

A+

Last edited 03 October 2021 by sfavron