PageXL PWA is a web site builder - in the Edge browser!

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I was looking for meatier PWAs to run in Edge under Windows 10 Mobile - and this one definitely qualifies. It's a web site builder and, as you'd expect, it's not exactly DreamWeaver - but it does work, producing the typical pane-based mini-sites that are often found in 2018 as promotional landing pages for products ad companies. You do get some bells and whistles, including a contact form, so it's not as basic as you might think.

The URL to tap on (or type in) in Edge is pagexl.com/builder/. Of course, you can turn this into an 'app' yourself with PAWA or just pin it 'as is' on your Start screen. It's up to you.

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Browsing the various (lush) templates for site/page panes, and (right) picking one and starting to edit the contents... Note the top of pane editing toolbar.

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Here I'm showing the optional contact form that can be embedded at the bottom of your mini-site, along with some of the many section templates - there's a lot more here than I can demonstrate on-screen, so why not give this PWA a try? (right) exploring some of the formatting preferences for the current mini-site.

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Actually editing textual content, including titles and even URLs, is done with the editing tool and extensive forms like this one.

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Although you'll quickly find your way round, there are some helpful intro screens before you start editing a page for the first time.

Pretty decent, PageXL is far more in depth than the typical PWA, though I suspect that there's some linking-up work needed if you wanted to publish these pages to your own domain. Still, this is a commercial service and, for the subscription price there will be tech support and help from the developer, Lauyan Software Sarl. For free, you can publish two sites/pages, and hosted on the developer's server, beyond this (and to get access to the full range of site and section templates) then you need to pay, with a couple of tiers available.

PS. From the developer: To celebrate our first review, we’d like to offer a 50% discount on all our plans to your readers. To benefit from this offer, they just need to sign up/sign in throught this custom URL: https://pagexl.com/builder/?couponCode=AAWP - the discount is live from now, and will expire on september 30 2018.

Source / Credit: PageXL