Introduction

Welcome to Spider Writer, the solution for web development in the 21st century. To get you immediately on your way into the world of web development, please take a few minutes to read this help file to give yourself a good idea of what the system can do.

To quickly get you working with Spider Writer, please read the following topics: Document Source view, Design view, Sidebars, Basic File Operations, Basic Edit Operations, Local Files sidebar, Environment sidebar, and Project Fundamentals. This help file contains a wealth of useful information on all the other features of Spider Writer as well so be sure to spend some time reading it. It will help make you a very efficient Spider Writer user.

Contacting the Spider Writer Support Staff

The creators of Spider Writer have worked hard to provide a very complete editing system to meet the needs of today's web developers. If you have any comments or suggestions about this software, please send them to suggestions@spiderwriter.com. Your input is greatly appreciated.

If you require technical support, please visit the Developer Center and post a message in the Spider Writer Support forum. The benefit to this method is that other users will also see your post and may be able to help to you, along with the Spider Writer support staff. If you need to correspond directly with a support specialist, you can send e-mail to support@spiderwriter.com.

For more information about the Spider Writer suite or for the latest updates, visit our web site at http://www.spiderwriter.com . Thank you for your support!

Registering Spider Writer

If you are running an unregistered copy of Spider Writer, the Registration Wizard will pop up each time you run Spider Writer. Follow the steps in the Registration Wizard to register via either postal mail or through secure on-line credit card transactions. If you choose to register via postal mail, the Registration Wizard will create a file called REGISTER.TXT in the main Spider Writer folder. Print this file using Notepad and send it along with your payment to the address listed in the file.

Purchase Spider Writer on-line with a Mastercard or Visa.
It's quick and easy. Visit http://www.spiderwriter.com/purchase.html

for more details.

Why register? Registering removes the 30-use limit of the evaluation copy, allows you to receive excellent product support, and enables you to access the full set of button and bullet templates for the Button Wizard. When you register, you also are eligible to receive free updates for a year after purchase!

Application Requirements

Spider Writer requires Internet Explorer 4.01 or higher to run (Find in Files requires IE 5.0 or higher).
To use data connections, Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) version 2.5 or higher must be installed.
MDAC may be downloaded from: http://www.microsoft.com/data/
To use the Thesaurus, Microsoft Word must be installed.

Legal Notices

Spider Writer is a trademark of Actipro Software LLC and is protected by copyright laws.
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