| | Software Recommendations |
| by Mark Kaprielian |
| 04-01-01 |
| | FrontPage 2000 |
| | Last Reviewed 11/21/1999 | I code for a living but don't want to take spend time coding if I don’t have to. I maintain three |
| | websites with no coding of HTML at all. If you can use the windows explorer and MS Word, |
| | then you can do your entire web site with this program. Probably the best feature of all is |
| | the ability to just move or rename your files and the program will maintain all your links for |
| | you. The reporting features are great too. For example, will verify all your links, both internal |
| | and external and present them with a set of tools for fixing them. The program is flexible |
| | enough to allow you to do HTML directly, including style sheets. The only potential downside |
| | is that in order to use all the advanced features, your Web hosting service must "support |
| | Microsoft Front Page Extensions". More and more providers support this but not all. This |
| | potentially means that you can't make use of your "free" web space that you generally get |
| | with your dial up account. This in itself is not a problem. You merely have to sign up for FP |
| | web space with anyone on the net. It doesn't have to be associated with your dial up |
| | account at all. It is just rental space out there somewhere. I have also maintained sites with |
| | FP that do not have FP extensions. There is no problem with this. You just can't use the |
| | really nice built in features that only FP supported sites have. What you have is then just an |
| | HTML editor. One interesting hybrid use is if you are on an internal network. I create FP |
| | webs on the Unix servers at my place of employment to manage the internal web directories |
| | that I am responsible for. Again, I can't use the advanced features but I can use the explorer |
| | like interface to navigate and view the directories. What does work in this scenario is the |
| | ability to move and rename and not break links. Much nicer than just having a plain old editor, |
| | and, still, I do no HTML!! |
| | HTML Reference Library | 3.0 | http://www.terminalp.com/htmlib/ |
| | Last Reviewed 11/21/1999 | I've just recently acquired this program and haven't spent much time with it. It looks to be a |
| | very well done and working HTML reference guide. In addition, it comes with a color picker |
| | tool. Best of all, it is free. This is currently the HTML help licensed to the popular Home Site |
| | web tool. |
| | SiteC | 1.2 Build | http://www.locutuscodeware.com/ |
| | Last Reviewed 11/21/1999 | A nifty little tool for that goes out and checks to see if a list of sites that you specify are up |
| | and running. It can alert you via email if you like and it logs its checks to a file for you. |
| | VisualRoute | 5.0b | http://www.visualroute.com/index.html |
| | Last Reviewed 11/21/1999 | A nifty program that visually maps the hops from you to any URL. This tool if very handy in |
| | determining where or what kind of connection problem you may be experiencing. Has a text |
| | output so you can send the report to your ISP or whomever you need to. |
| | Who's Talking | 2.51 | http://www.softwaresolutions.nu/whostalking/index.h | $99.95 |
| | Last Reviewed 11/21/1999 | This is a kind of reverse search engine. This tool searches some of the top search engines |
| | to find and list concisely the URLs that link to a target URL you supply. It also has other |
| | searching features of this type. |
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