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| AceHTML v5.07 | |
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(W9x/ME/2000/NT4/XP) |
| Freeware - latest version | |
Location on CD: software/windows/building/ace_html/ | |
Note: requires free registration – see the Web site. This update incorporates some minor fixes and enhancements.
Although you maintain absolute control over the code and its formatting in your document, AceHTML helps out by automating many of the time consuming or awkward tasks involved in site development. For example, the often tiresome job of creating tables is made very simple with a tool that lets you draw out the table and quickly define attributes such as cell widths, borders, padding, colours and so forth. Framed sites are also easy to construct.
Because the package automates small, specific tasks (insert an image, create a form, etc.) rather than the whole page design process, you don't need to worry about it producing overly complex and cumbersome code. The software does exactly what a good developer would do, only quicker.
The software features built in libraries of ASP, PHP and WML commands which can be inserted automatically into your pages. There are over 175 built-in DHTML and JavaScript samples. AceHTML supports XML and includes a Style Sheet editor for CSS2.
URL: freeware.acehtml.com
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| Adobe« InDesign 2 | |
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W98SE/ME/NT4SP6/2000SP2/XP |
| Limited tryout | |
Location on CD: software/windows/building/adobe_indesign/ | |
Adobe« InDesign 2.0 delivers intuitive tools that remove much of the complication of page design, and built-in support for publishing pages anywhere û in print, on the Web, to Adobe PDF, as eBooks, and more. The application integrates tightly with Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Acrobat.
Version 2.0 offers object transparency, long-document management options, one-step table creation, XML import and export, improved performance, and more.
Note: this Tryout version does not enable you to save, export or print. Requires 128Mb of RAM.
URL: www.adobe.co.uk
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| CoffeeCup HTML Editor 9.3 | |
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(W9x/ME/2000/NT/XP) |
| 45-day trial | |
Location on CD: software/windows/building/coffeecup_html/ | |
This very popular HTML editor's many features include Expresso FTP for uploading and downloading, an image gallery with quick-linking images, handy Flash text and effects wizards, automatic image sizing and highlighted tags. It comes with loads of graphics, icons, photos and animated GIFs, as well as many JavaScript scripts. 'Live Preview' supports JavaScript, StyleSheets and DHTML.
CoffeeCup HTML Editor gives you a frame designer, a table designer, a font designer and an HTML code cleaner. There are so many features you will just have to try it and see.
This update adds a Flash effects wizard and Flash tag insertion capabilities, a built-in live online chat help service, and a Web page wizard for beginners. It is also Windows XP compatible.
URL: www.coffeecup.com
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| IconEdit Pro 7.03 | |
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W9x/Me/2000/NT/XP |
| Shareware | |
Location on CD: software/windows/building/icon_edit/ | |
IconEdit Pro is a powerful little application that allows you to create icons, cursors, animated cursors, bitmaps and even wireless bitmaps (WBMP) for your WAP-Phone, with up to 96x96 pixels and 256 colours. A variety of tools and effects let you get creative on a small scale.
Note: setup requires MS Windows Installer (built-in with Windows Me, 2000 and XP).
URL: www.iconedit.com
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| MySQL 3.23.55 | |
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W9x/NT/2000/XP |
| Free - latest version | |
Location on CD: software/windows/building/mysql/ | |
MySQL database server is a very popular open source database. Its architecture makes it fast and easy to customise. Streamlined design means a database management system with great speed, compactness, stability and ease of deployment.
The separation of the core server from the table handler makes it possible to run with strict transaction control or with ultra-fast transactionless disk access, whichever is most appropriate for the situation.
MySQL is free to use in particular circumstances – see the documentation for details.
URL: www.mysql.com
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| PHP 4.3 | |
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W9x/Me/2000/NT/XP |
| Freeware | |
Location on CD: software/windows/building/php/ | |
PHP is a server-side, cross-platform, HTML embedded scripting language, used to create dynamic Web pages. PHP-enabled Web pages are treated like normal HTML pages and you can create and edit them the same way you usually create HTML pages.
This version has MySQL support built-in and automatically configures IIS, PWS and Xitami, with manual configuration for other servers.
URL: www.php.net
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| PHP-Nuke 6 | |
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| Free - latest version | |
Location on CD: software/windows/building/php_nuke/ | |
To install, copy all contents of the php_nuke folder from this CD to your hard drive, then see below for further setup instructions.
Use PHP-Nuke as a Web Portal System, storytelling software, News system, online community or similar. PHP-Nuke lets you set up an automated Web site to distribute news and articles. Users can make their own submissions to the system.
Main features include Web-based admin, surveys, access stats, themes manager for registered users and all sorts of system management options. There is also an integrated banner ads system and search engine. PHP-Nuke is written in PHP and requires Apache Web server, PHP 4 and an SQL (MySQL, mSQL, PostgreSQL, ODBC, ODBC_Adabas, Sybase or Interbase) û Apache, MySQL and PHP are all available free online and we have included MySQL and PHP on this CD.
For more information and installation instructions, please read this month's feature as well as the readme and install documentation.
URL: http://phpnuke.org
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| Adobe« InDesign 2 | |
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OS 9.1+/OS X 10.1 |
| Limited tryout | |
Location on CD: software/mac/building/adobe_indesign/ | |
Adobe« InDesign 2.0 delivers intuitive tools that remove much of the complication of page design, and built-in support for publishing pages anywhere û in print, on the Web, to Adobe PDF, as eBooks, and more. The application integrates tightly with Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Acrobat.
Version 2.0 offers object transparency, long-document management options, one-step table creation, XML import and export, improved performance, and more.
Note: this Tryout version does not enable you to save, export or print. Requires 128Mb of RAM.
URL: www.adobe.co.uk
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| BBEdit Lite 6.1.2 | |
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PPC |
| Free | |
Location on CD: software/mac/building/bbedit_lite/ | |
This is the cut-down free version of BBEdit, the popular text and HTML editor. BBEdit Lite doesn't offer fancy word processor formatting capabilities, but focuses on helping you manipulate text in ways that word processors generally can't. Some of the powerful features you can use in BBEdit Lite include regular expression ('grep') search and replace, multi-file search, and sophisticated text transformations.
Some of the extras you get if you upgrade to the full BBEdit are: editing of multi-byte text and Unicode files; a complete set of HTML tools for fast, easy and correct markup; floating HTML Tools palette; GoLive and PageMill cleaner tools; Syntax Checker; integrated HTML-aware spelling checker; and more.
URL: www.barebones.com
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| IconBuilder Pro 3.1 | |
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OS 8.6 - 9.x |
| Trial version | |
Location on CD: software/mac/building/icon_builder/ | |
IconBuilder is an Adobe Photoshop plug-in filter for creating great little icons (for instance as Web browser 'favicons'). Lets you use the power of Photoshop to create eye-catching icons and you can convert between Mac and Windows.
This trial is fully functional but there is a delayed startup, which takes longer the more often you use it without registering.
URL: www.iconfactory.com
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| WebDesign 2 | |
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OS X 10.1+ or OS 9+ with CarbonLib 1.5+ |
| 20-use trial - new version | |
Location on CD: software/mac/building/web_design/ | |
WebDesign is an HTML editor with many helpful features. The interface has a tools palette, main editor window and properties palette. The editor window features advanced syntax colouring, syntax checking and optimisation controls. There is a handful of HTML wizards that output HTML code or XHTML code. The tools palette lets you drag and drop HTML elements onto the editor including links, tables, form controls and so on. The context sensitive properties palette then allows you to tweak the attributes of the selected element.
Other features include a find-and-replace tool, a built-in FTP client for transferring files to your Web server, plug-in support to extend WebDesign's functionality, and more. WebDesign supports XHTML, CSS and JavaScript.
This latest version features advanced searching and search and replace; auto conversion of styled text (e.g. from your Word Processor) to HTML, XHTML or CSS; new Web site templates and code examples; plus various other minor enhancements and additions as well as bug fixes.
URL: www.ragesw.com