Web Authoring Tools

First, rookie-level Web-making software

If you are a web-making beginner, then let the following kinds of software to take you into the colorful web-making world!

①microsoft FrontPage

If you've been familiar with word, then it's very handy to believe that you're using FrontPage for Web design. Using FrontPage to create Web pages, you can really appreciate the meaning of "powerful, easy to use". Page authoring is done by the editor in FrontPage with a working window consisting of 3 tabs, the "WYSIWYG" edit page, the HTML Code editing page, and the preview page. FrontPage has a graphics and GIF animation editor that supports CGI and CSS. Wizards and templates make it easier for beginners to edit pages.

The most powerful feature of FrontPage is its site management capabilities. When you update a site on a server, you do not need to create a directory that changes the file. FrontPage will track the files for you and copy those new versions of the files. FrontPage is the only software in existing Web authoring software that works on a local computer and works directly on files on a remote server over the Internet.

②netscape Editor

Netscape Communicator and Netscape Navigator Gold3.0 versions are available with a Web page editor. If you like to surf the Internet with a Netscape browser, it's easy to use the Netscape Editor! When you use the Netscape browser to display the page, click the Edit button, Netscape will store the page on the hard disk, and then you can start editing. You can also edit text, fonts, colors, change page author, title, background color or image, define strokes, insert links, define document encoding, insert images, create tables, and so on, is it like FrontPage 2000? However, The Netscape editor has limited functionality for complex web design, and it does not support form creation or multi-frame creation.

Netscape Editor is a great starting tool for Web-making beginners. If your page is primarily composed of text and pictures, the Netscape editor will be an easy choice. If you know anything about HTML, you can use a text editor such as Notepad or ultra edit to write a small number of HTML statements, or make up for some of the shortcomings of the Netscape editor.

③adobe Pagemill

Pagemill function is not powerful, but it is convenient to use, suitable for beginners to make more beautiful, rather than very complex homepage. If your home page requires a lot of frames, forms, and image map images, then Adobe Pagemill is really your first choice.

Pagemill Another feature is that there is a clipboard, you can put any number of text, graphics, tables dragged into the inside, when needed to open again, very convenient.

④claris Home Page

If you use the Claris Home page software, you can create a dynamic Web page within minutes. This is because it has a good tool for creating and editing frame (frame), and you don't have to spend too much effort to add new frame. and Claris Home Page 3 is a FileMaker database, and the enhanced Site management feature also allows you to detect a legitimate connection to a page. However, the interface design is too rough, the image map of the processing is not complete.

Second, intermediate web-making software

If you have a certain basis on the web design, the HTML language and have a certain understanding, then you can choose the following several software to design your Web page, they will be Tim color for your page.

①dreamweaver

Homemade Dynamic HTML Animation Web page

Dreamweaver is a cool web design software that includes visual editing, HTML code editing packages, and support for features such as ActiveX, JavaScript, Java, Flash, Shockwave, etc. And it can be dragged from start to finish making Dynamic HTML animation, support Dynamic HTML design, so that the page is not plug-in can also be in Netscape and IE 4.0 browser to correctly display the animation of the page. It also provides the ability to automatically update page information.

Dreamweaver also employs the roundtrip HTML technology. This technique allows Web pages to be freely converted between Dreamweaver and the HTML code Editor, with the same HTML syntax and structure. In this way, professional designers can fully enjoy the benefits of visual editing without changing their original editing habits. The most challenging and vibrant of Dreamweaver is its open design, which makes it easy for anyone to extend its functionality.

②fireworks

The first software to be completely designed for web makers

The story of fireworks is really not small, it has made the web mapping has undergone a revolutionary change. Fireworks is designed for network image design, built-in rich support network publishing functions, such as fireworks can automatically transduction, generate mouse dynamic sensor JavaScript. And fireworks has a very powerful animation feature and an almost perfect network Image Generator (export feature). It enhances the relationship with Dreamweaver and can be directly generated by Dreamweaver Libaray and even exported to Web pages and images with CSS styles!

③flash

Get your Web page moving.

Flash is a dynamic, interactive shockwave that can be used on the Internet. Its advantages are small size, can be downloaded side play, so that the user to avoid long waits. #{6flash6} #可以用其生成动画, you can also add sounds to your Web page. This allows you to generate multimedia graphics and interfaces, while making the file size small. Although Flash cannot be programmed like a language, you can also make a highly interactive homepage with its built-in statements and Javascripe. Someone once said: The next century network designers will not use flash, will be eliminated! I believe this is true!

④hotdog Professional

Create a Web page to add a variety of complex technologies

Hotdog is an earlier code-based web design tool, and its most distinctive feature is that it provides a number of wizard tools to help designers create complex parts of the page. Hotdog's advanced HTML support inserts marquee and can be viewed at normal speed in preview mode. This is very rare, because even Microsoft, which pioneered this label, does not provide such functionality in FrontPage. Hotdog's support for plug-in is also far more than other products, and it provides dialog boxes that allow you to manually select different options for different formats of files. But the processing of Chinese is not very convenient.

Hotdog is a powerful software that is a great choice for high-level designers who want to add complex technologies such as CSS, Java, and RealVideo to their web pages.

⑤homesite

Make a Web page that can control the page process completely

Allaire's homesite is a small and versatile HTML code Editor with rich Help features, CGI and CSS support, and the ability to edit Perl programs directly. HomeSite work interface simplified by people, according to the habit, it can be set to image Notepad as simple as the editing window, but also can work in a complex interface.

HomeSite is more suitable for the design of more complex and exciting pages. HomeSite is your best choice if you want to have complete control over the process of the pages you make. But it's too complicated for novices.

⑥hotmetal Pro

Create a Web page with powerful data embedding capabilities

HoTMetaL not only provides the "WYSIWYG" graphic production method, but also provides code editing methods, so that all levels of designers are not disappointed software. But beginners need to be familiar with HTML in order to use this software with ease. HoTMetaL has powerful data embedding capabilities, and with its Data Insertion wizard, you can put external access, Word, Excel, and other ODBC data into the page. and hotmetal be able to convert them to HTML automatically, isn't it great? It can also convert many old-format documents (such as WordStar, etc.) and automatically convert the images in these documents to GIF format during the conversion process.

HoTMetaL provides users with "too many" tools, and it can also use a network diagram or a tree chart to show the link status of the entire site document.

Third, advanced web-making software

①microsoft Visual Studio

The versions of the series are: 2003, 2005, 2008 and future versions;

Suitable for the development of dynamic ASPX Web pages, but also can make no refresh site, webservice features, etc., only for advanced users.

②jbuilder

Whether it's a variety of versions, it's a good place to use it to develop JSP Web pages for advanced users only.

③ Notepad

Do not think Notepad is very small, the software is very simple, but how to use it to make Web pages, but also for advanced users, because in its content, there is no visual operation can be directly produced Web pages, and can only write a variety of HTML code, CSS code, JS code and a variety of dynamic scripts, to create a Web page.

Web Authoring Tools