3 - Welcome

What is HotDog Professional 6? Speed, Precision, Control - The Gun Coder's Solution!

Welcome to HotDog Professional 6.

Affectionately known as HotDog Pro, this wonderful program is both an advanced HTML editor and a brilliant website development tool. HotDog Pro is designed for webmasters who not only want complete control and flexibility in website development, but also great efficiency and ease-of-use.

Since the creation of the World Wide Web in 1989, Sausage Software has been at the forefront of companies responsible for extending the simple foundations of the Web with new technologies. This has enabled computer users all over the world to create a new class of sophisticated and revolutionary websites. When the original version of HotDog was released in June of 1995, it was the first HTML editor of its kind.

With Sausage's responsive and innovative approach to meeting the needs and wants of webmasters, HotDog has only become better and better with time. Over the last five years, HotDog has been downloaded more than any other HTML editor on the Internet, with download sites including: CNET, Rocketdownload, Tucows and Sausage.

Today, HotDog Pro is the most powerful and user-friendly text-based HTML editor on the market. Aimed at web enthusiasts and professional webmasters (known at Sausage as Gun Coders), the development of HotDog Pro 6 has been focused on the following design objectives.

• Low Resource Usage and High Speed

• Easy and Powerful Editing

• State-of-the-Art Website Management

• Quality Assurance Facilities

• Customizable

• Extended and Non-Intrusive Help

• Accessibility Features in Conformance with W3C Accessibility Guidelines

What's New in HotDog Professional 6?

At Sausage we love to stay in tune with what's new and what's cool. Not only is our HotDog Team proactive about researching and developing new technology in consultation with leading webmasters, but many of our wonderful customers are also proactive about providing us with their valuable feedback.

In accordance with the suggestions and requests made to our HotDog Team and on our Sausage Island Discussion Forum, we have enhanced most existing features and developed some great new features within HotDog Pro. Our most significant new developments include:

• enhanced editor support for all the most popular web coding languages (HTML, CSS, ASP, VBScript, JavaScript);

• new Navigation Viewer resource panel for quick over-viewing, navigating and editing of webpages (also highlights accessibility and syntax errors);

• new Cascading Style Sheets resource panel for style sheet integration and editing;

• new Font and Paragraph Formatting dialogs for easy style formatting within webpages;

• new Scripts resource panel for adding pre-configured, webpage-enhancing JavaScript functions;

• new Accessibility Editing dialog for improving webpage accessibility, plus accessibility options incorporated into all relevant dialogs.

A more comprehensive listing of all the new features that have been added to HotDog Pro 6, since the previous version, is available within the program's Help topic New in HotDog Professional 6

To guide you through the evaluation process, the following sections provide you with further details of our design focus followed by an overview of all the main features in HotDog Pro 6, including the new features mentioned here.

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