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Designing home pages on the Web seems to be the current rage. However that first home page can seem to be an unsurmountable task for the novice. Indeed, learning HTML (the language of web documents) can be complex in its more advanced forms. But the internet belongs to everyone and in true form some talented developers have come to the aid of would-be web designers. This page is dedicated to these people and their products.
The following is a list of sites that can best describe this
The following is a list of sites that can best describe this
A proper Web page requires good presentation and good presentation requires proper Netiquette. These sites can improve your Web manners.
This is a listing of stand-alone Windows HTML editors.
Note -reviews are no longer available. New editors are constantly being developed and old ones are being updated and I no longer feel that reviews are feasible.
This is a listing of MAC editors.
This is a listing of commercial and multimedia editors
| Editor | Description | Location |
| 4W Publisher | A Windows multi purpose editor. A demo version temporarily available | http://www.infoanalytic.com/4wpublisher/index.html |
| Media Wrangler | Impressive Windows multimedia design tool, editor, and imagemap creator. Demo available | http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/altavista-cgi-bin/ imagemap/home?382,234 |
| Hype IT 1000 | Windows server software with HTML editor, email, report generator etc. | http://cykic.com/CYKIC2.GIF?365,89 |
| WebPages | A Windows WYSIWYG editor with a large variety of design models | http://www.its.com/WebPages/index.html |
| Internotes Web Publisher | Lotus/Notes very expensive web developper | http://www.lotus.com/inotes/ |
| Coriolis Group | Windows all in one surfing and publishing tool | http://www3.primenet.com/coriolis |
| SiteMill PageMill | Mac commercial integrated web authoring and website management. | http://www.ceneca.com/guideToProducts.html |
| NaviPress GNNPress | Windows, Mac, Sun integrated web browser and HTML editor. | http://www.navisoft.com/register/prstrial.htm Trial version now available |
| Internet Publishing Solutions | Unix integrated package from Adobe and frame Technologies (fairly expensive) | http://www.adobe.com or http://www.frame.com |
| E-Publish | Windows web package. Uses Winword or RTF source, converts to HTML, checks links, | http://www.stattech.com.au |
| W3MAGIC | Multi platform-animation, special effects, forms processing | http://www.clark.net/pub/alweiner/cgi-bin/ homepage.cgi?w3magic |
| Internet Creator | Windows catalogue web page builder | http://forman.com/fic/icp2.htm |
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listing of template editors and converters is now too large for this page. Accordingly, it now has its own page
This is a list of Linux, UNIX., X-Windows, Nextstep, Amiga, OS/2, Irix editors.
| Editor | Description | Location |
| Webforms | A Windows forms generator for links. Impressive interface. | http://www.intac.com/~dversch |
| HTML-Heaven | A multi part Amiga stack for text editors using ARexx script | http://www.iaehv.nl/users/paul/main.html |
| I-View 1.06c | Offline html browser-supports images. Built in html editor. (Windows) | http://www.talentcom.com/iview.htm |
| Indexer 1.1 | Windows editor. Makes an html document of your Netscape cache | http://www.compart.fi/~anders/ |
| Background Assistant | A WYSIWYG Windows editor for creating color and backgrounds. | http://fox.nstn.ca/~harawitz/whatsnew.html |
| URL Grabber | Windows desktop toolbar to "grab" and store URL's . | http://fox.nstn.ca/~harawitz/whatsnew.html |
| Interactive Catalog Maker | A windows editor that allows you to make a products catalogue. | http://www.hyperact.com |
| Netscape Bookmark Editor | Windows Netscape bookmark editor. Shareware severely crippled | ftp://ftp.ior.com/usr/schapman/nsmed25.zip |
| Checker | Windows link(URL) validator (220kb) | http://www.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca/spider/ q7f192/branch/win-checker.html Online URL checker-great tool for those multi link pages |
| Yabe | Windows bookmark editor (15kb) | http://www.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca/spider/ q7f192/branch/yabe.html New and limited-check for improvements |
| <htmlcheck> | Perl script-checks HTML2.0 and 3.0 | http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~churchh/htmlchek.html |
| HTML ColourTool | Mac background and link color viewer | ftp.fenk.wau.nl/pub/mac/info-mac/text/html/ html-colour-tool-201.hqx |
| Easy HTML | Any platform with forms browser-Form based interactive editor | http://banjo.cise-nsf.gov/easyhtml/easy.html |
| Smartmarks | New Netscape multi-purpose bookmark and URL checker | http://www.netscape.com/comprod/ smartmarks_install.html |
| ColorCalc 1.0 | Windows background/text color generator | http://www.panix.com/~orest/distract/ccalc.html |
| RGB Bar | Windows background/text color generator with links to existing documents | http://www.netaxs.com/~pmcohen/rgbbar12.zip |
| BBS HTML ColorEditor | Windows background/text color generator | http://www.infocom.net/~bbs/ colorEditor_FAQ.html#WIN |
Graphics play a very important part in the proper and interesting presentation of a good home page. This section deals with some of the most popular sujects
Forms are a very popular feature , however they require CGI scripts and server access to set up properly.
This new section on Mail-To Forms shows how this can be accomplished through a simple e-mail form
You created your new page, now you want to let the world know. These sites will do it for you! If you use the newsgroups make sure you follow the publishing rules for that particular group.
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