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You can find everything in the elated folder on the CD. To take a look straight away at your FREE Web graphics and templates, click here...

Web link: www.elated.com.

Designed for non-programmers, AWK creates three kinds of Java applets for your Web pages via a simple GUI. Button Factory generates Java 'mouseover' buttons based on your own text and images; Marquee Wizard creates scrolling, multi-directional text; and Widget Kit cooks up weird slideshow effects based on your text.

Web link: www.siliconjoy.com

Browserola was designed for Web developers frustrated with the way different browsers render their carefully crafted HTML. Select the browsers and particular versions and Browsola emulates the pages as others may see them – it handles 12 different browsers: 5 versions of Netscape, 4 versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer and 3 versions of the HTML standard as defined by the W3C.

Currently Browserola does not check Javascript compatibility, nor is there support for Opera.

Web link: www.codo.com/browserola

More than just an HTML editor, AceExpert provides predefined Java applets and JavaScripts, and features 'Cascading Style Sheet' and ActiveX support, table and frame wizards, plus all sorts of extras. AceExpert is packed with things to help you create efficient sophisticated Web pages. The shareware version of AceExpert allows you to run the application 25 times.

A Cascading Style Sheet file editor that makes it easy to edit and apply style sheets, using a simple tabbed dialog box or by editing styles directly. Wizards allow you to apply any number of CSS files to any number of HTML files and give control over their cascading order.

Version 2 is a major rewrite offering better speed and more functions. This trial version will run 40 times – to continue using it ater that, you must register.

Web link: www.Sheet.Stylist.com

Get to grips with style sheets (with support for CSS Level 2) – try out Balthisar Cascade. Apply your stylesheet to existing HTML pages and preview HTML/CSS in your default browser.

To use: Copy the webflex folder from the CD to your Hard Drive and open the file webflex.htm in your browser.

WebFlex is a unique online JavaScript Web page editor that delivers HTML, JavaScript, DHTML, Java and CSS routines in a simple point-and-click environment. It includes direct access to the source code and has a range of useful features to help both new and experienced publishers create everything from simple Web pages to online shopping systems and more. This version is designed for Netscape 4.x and Internet Explorer 4.x browsers.

A powerful Web page wizard ideal for the novice or anyone wishing to create Web pages with the minimum of fuss and bother. Includes an FTP client.

Web link: http://Kaboom.JSP.net

The Magical Mouse-over Button Generator is a Web page design wizard that automatically creates BMP and JPG image files for captioned buttons along with sample HTML and optional JavaScript code to pop up different images as your mouse passes over each button. All without using a paint program.

Full-featured HTML source code styling tool. It will clean up all that messy HTML code that almost inevitably develops, making it easier to read and edit. It indents, comments, structures your HTML code according to the rules you specify, and can even compress the size of HTML files by removing extra spaces, tabs, line breaks and comments. Pretty HTML works in batch mode as well as in single file mode.

Web link: http://mpp.at

iPrism helps you stay clear of ugly Web page design by providing a simple and effective way to make Web pages more visually appealing through colour co-ordination. Import and export colour codes and image information. Colours can be selected from an imported image, from the Netscape palette, with a colour selection dialog, or with rgb slider bars.

A comprehensive HTML editor. Tutorials and wizards lead you through Web page creation, making you productive without delay as you create frames, tables, forms and more. There's context-sensitive help and a spelling checker. Web Weaver 98 supports all HTML 2.0 and 3.2 tags as well as Netscape and Internet Explorer extensions. Other features include an image browser, an imagemap creation tool and a Web page traffic statistics analysis tool. This release offers several bug fixes and may be tried free for 30 days.

Arachnophilia can import and automatically convert RTF documents, tables and outlines from any Windows 95-compliant application to HTML. It supports a number of Web browsers, CGI, Perl, frames, C++, Java, and JavaScript.

Other features include a built-in FTP client, automatic uploading of changed files, user-defined templates, user-customisable toolbars for quick access to frequently used tags, global search and replace, and a multiple-document interface with full drag-and-drop capability. This version features an Instant View mode that shows your HTML changes as you make them and you also get several tutorials.

Arachnophilia is offered by its developer, Paul Lutus, as 'CareWare'; he says, "Stop whining for an hour, a day, a week, your choice, and you will have earned your copy of Arachnophilia."

Web link: www.arachnoid.com

Create clickable images for people to navigate your Web site – as well as linking to other pages and images, you can execute JavaScript via the 'hotspots'.

NOTE: Needs the Visual Basic 6 runtime files – click here to install them...

A complete Web ad management system for Active Server Page (ASP) based Internet and intranet sites, AdShark will randomly rotate all types of advertisements (including GIF, animated GIF, HTML, DHTML and JAVA) in your site's ASP documents. You decide where the ads go in your layout by inserting a few lines of ASP, and AdShark does the rest.

AdShark can handle 'weighted' displays, where some ads get shown more frequently than others, and you can define 'categories' for ads that belong on certain pages or in different parts of your page layout. It can also limit the number of times an ad is shown by displays, click-throughs or by date, and can generate log files indicating the date, time and IP number of who saw or clicked on the ad.

Web link: http://oceantek.com/adshark

If you want to be an online merchant, try this powerful point-and-click e-commerce turnkey solution. Used to conduct e-business in over 30 countries, it can create shopping baskets in any language. Includes one-click activation of realtime payment service providers such as Authorize.Net, Cambist.com or MOL, background textures, over 30 button sets (incl rollover effects), shop templates and much more.

Create from single page shops to megastores with unlimited departments and sub-departments for thousands of products. Shops feature real-time currency conversion, search engine, SSL, email order confirmation, tracking of reseller network, and they remember customer details for return visits. Will run on any server straight after uploading, even XOOM, GeoCities or AOL accounts.

Web link: www.shopfactory.com

MyStore e-commerce storefront software is designed to run in a Web page browser on the client computer from HTML documents delivered by any host computer on an intranet or the Internet. It uses JavaScript1.1 code embedded directly in each file to render dynamically most documents and perform all functions without requiring any special server side software.

This trial version is fully functional and comes with several storefront configurations and a database so you can immediately check out the possibilities. You will have to to fill in a short registration form to enable purchase orders using the name of your store – follow the link below and click 'Try Now' on the MyStore page; if there is a more recent version of the software there than MyStore 3.1, you should download it.

MyStore requires no installation – simply copy the mystore folder to your hard drive and re-use the HTML and other files. You can set up and test your entire store on your computer without ever uploading anything to the server host. Your store will run from any server without special server side databases and SQL software. The MyStore storefront software produces a purchase order that gets sent to you without requiring any special server side CGI scripts to format the order into readable email text.

Web link: http://MyStore.to

An easy-to-use application that allows you to maintain your price list and from that generate framed Web pages complete with a sizeable JavaScript 'shopping basket' and the option to send the order in via a Perl CGI script or by using a free online mailing service. You can include thumbnail pictures of the products and link to product pages. Web PriceList 2001 supports international currencies.

The shareware version is limited to a list of 50 products.

Web link: www.seddysoft.com

The latest release of this popular HTML editor adds a raft of improvements to a program already full of features. CoffeeCup is a text-only authoring environment so there's no onboard WYSIWYG preview. However, there's a lot to like about this program, not least its price, and the 50-odd built-in JavaScripts, 10 VB and 5 CGI scripts. You get syntax colouring, a style sheet maker, frame designer, table wizard, an image mapper, an FTP client and many more features to make you more productive.

Web link: CoffeeCup Software

ColdFusion Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) with an array of highly productive visual tools for creating ColdFusion applications. It includes all of the HTML editing technology from the award-winning HomeSite (included separately below...). With ColdFusion Studio you get a visual database, programming and debugging tools, support for remote team development, and site management and deployment.

Web link: Allaire

HomeSite is an award-winning HTML design tool for professional Web developers. The highlight of this new version is increased productivity. You can now produce full-featured Web sites faster than before.

Features in HomeSite 4.0 include high-end language support (JavaScript, ASP, Perl, and DHTML); a style editor to create and edit cascading style sheets; a JavaScript wizard; a Tag Inspector to display properties in a single sheet and a Tag Tree for easy visualisation of a page's tag structure; Design View, a visual development mode (requires IE 4.01); and Site View, which gives you a hierarchical view of your entire Web site.

Web link: Allaire

30-day Trial

This is a professional Web development tool from Macromedia. Dreamweaver supports pretty much everything you can do with a Web page, Dynamic HTML, absolute positioning, cascading style sheets, an extensive JavaScript behaviour library, visual table and frame design, a client-side image map editor, and a repeating-element library. Version 2 adds enhancements in page production, site management, dynamic publishing and XML support. You can test dynamic objects with live playback of Macromedia's Flash and Shockwave animation technology or any Netscape plug-in and use SiteMap to move elements around, add new pages, and reorganise the site.

You'll just have to try it if you want to find out everything else that Dreamweaver has to offer.

Web link: Macromedia

Y3K JS++ is a JavaScript and HTML development environment. JS++ utilises building blocks of 'Units' of code to speed up the insertion of code into pages – a click of a button can go a long way. There are also timesaving batch processing functions for HTML tags including META tags.

Web link: Y3K

Cool Page is a fast, easy and creative way to design Web pages. Ideal for beginners and intermediate Web designers to create and publish an interesting Web page in minutes.

Cool Page makes extensive use of drag-and-drop, using HTML table codes to display your layouts faithfully when viewed in Web browsers. Drag all components of your Web page onto the layout window and drop them in the desired positions – you can then move images, text blocks etc. till you're happy. Uploading your pages to the Web space is made simple.

You may evaluate Cool Page for an unlimited time, but after 30 days the GIF import feature partially cripples but is still usable.

Web link: 3Dize

This multi-faceted program is a real time saver. SiteExplorer displays the contents and structure of your Web site offline in a familiar two pane Windows Explorer-style view. Click on a graphic or video file listed in the left hand pane and it's displayed on the right. Sound files can be activated in the same way. Clicking on an HTML file displays the links within the text which can be instantly verified. Cool Bananas Software have bundled a basic HTML editor with the program.

Web link: www.coolbananas.com.au

FREE – requires IE4

HTMLib is a unique reference for HTML 4.0 tags and CSS1/2 syntax. Working as a standalone Windows help file, HTMLib contains detailed tag definitions, demos and notes on browser support (including point releases). There's an extensive section covering DHTML scripting, including properties, methods and events, and you even get a body tag colour picker thrown in. This is a very readable and comprehensive reference. If you've ever been frustrated by the lack of syntax help in many HTML editors then this could brighten your day.

Web link: http://hot.virtual-pc.com/htmlib

Stops working 30 days after installation

HoTMetal has been around for a long time and has gone from a humble HTML editor to a powerful feature-packed Web development tool.

Ideal for both professionals and people new to Web site development, it has everything you need to author and publish sophisticated Web sites. You get a comprehensive set of site development tools all in one application. Support for all the latest Web technologies.

Web link: SoftQuad

Hot Wax Pro makes it easy for non-programmers to create and use numerous JavaScript enhancements for their Web pages. You are provided with a selection of scripts ready to work with. It also has a Hex colour picker and a complete reference of the JavaScript syntax in a very friendly form. All you need is a basic knowledge of HTML.

Web link: Y3K Software

Mac OS

NOTE: The Mac programs are mostly in archived 'HQX' (BinHex) files – they can be extracted with several applications, including Stuffit Expander (which is on the CD...). Clicking on the links below should set the process in motion. You may receive a message that the file cannot be loaded into Simple Text — if so, start Stuffit and then open the HQX file you want from within Stuffit.

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21-day trial version

Make your Web pages load faster by using this tool that optimizes HTML documents by removing unneeded information in the HTML and JavaScript syntax. The optimization does not change the way browsers display the document. VSE HTML Turbo optimizes any HTML version, JavaScript, Tcl and VBScript. It is best suited for documents created with Wysiwyg HTML authoring tools.

Style Master
v1.0
(PPC)

Take control over Web style sheets – become a Style Master. Create fully CSS1- and CSSP-compliant style sheets. Open and edit style sheets no matter what application created them. Style Master warns you about any aspects of your style sheet that are not fully supported by the browsers you specify.

(PPC)

This is a professional Web development tool from Macromedia. Dreamweaver supports pretty much everything you can do with a Web page, Dynamic HTML, absolute positioning, cascading style sheets, an extensive JavaScript behaviour library, visual table and frame design, a client-side image map editor, and a repeating-element library. Version 2 adds enhancements in page production, site management, dynamic publishing and XML support. You can test dynamic objects with live playback of Macromedia's Flash and Shockwave animation technology or any Netscape plug-in and use SiteMap to move elements around, add new pages, and reorganise the site.

You'll just have to try it if you want to find out everything else that Dreamweaver has to offer.

Web link: Macromedia

Freeway
v2.0 trial
(68k)
30-day time limited

With support for HTML 4.0 layout, Cascading Style Sheets, and over 100 new features, Freeway 2.0 is a powerful and accessible way to create stunning Web sites.

A complete solution for producing professional-looking Web sites, Freeway's integrated design environment includes the production of Web-ready graphic elements, flexible and precise HTML page layout, upload and powerful site maintenance features. With the new customisable Actions you simply select and place objects which contain pre-programmed scripts and coding. Applications include database connectivity, integration with e-commerce solutions, dynamic HTML behaviours and more.

Typograph integrates TrueDoc dynamic font technology with the latest version of Netscape Communicator so Web publishing professionals can create stylish HTML documents using different fonts and fonts styles. This demo restricts generation of some characters.

Requires BBEdit 4.x which you will find below...

BBEdit Lite
v4.1

That classic Mac HTML editor.

Features include what you'd expect, including DHTML.

To install: copy the cyberstudio31 folder from the software\mac\web editors folder on the CD to your hard disk, open it and double-click the installer icon.

Web link: www.golive.com

Try this straight forward HTML editor.

Easily create imagemaps for your Web pages – load graphics and assign 'clickable hotspots'. Adjust the shape of the hotspot area, choose a URL to associate, and test offline.