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| Actinic Catalog 6.1.2 | |
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W98/ME/NT4/2000/XP |
| 30-day trial û new version | |
Location on CD: software/windows/building/actinic_catalog/ | |
Actinic Catalog includes everything you need to design, build and run an online store.
Please see the Actinic Web site for details of the many new features in version 6. Requires a minimum of 64Mb of RAM (128Mb preferred) and MS IE v5 or later.
With Actinic Catalog you can publish an illustrated online catalogue, update your site and download orders.
URL: www.actinic.co.uk
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| BrowserSizer 1.5 | |
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W9x/Me/2000/NT4/XP |
| Free | |
Location on CD: software/windows/building/browser_sizer/ | |
Make sure your site looks its best on any browser or monitor.
URL: www.applythis.com
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| CoffeeCup Webcam 3.5 | |
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W98/ME/2000/NT4/XP |
| 30-day evaluation | |
Location on CD: software/windows/building/coffeecup_webcam/ | |
Be your own Big Brother and add a webcam to your site.
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| Color to HTML 3 | |
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| Freeware | |
Location on CD: software/windows/building/color_to_html/ | |
URL: www.matthewhipkin.uklinux.net/colourtohtml.php
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| Cool Page 2.72 | |
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W9x/Me/NT/2000/XP |
| Shareware | |
Location on CD: software/windows/building/coolpage/ | |
Cool Page is a WYSIWYG Web page design tool that allows you to create a page simply by dragging and dropping objects into a layout. By pushing a 'Publish' button, you can automatically upload your site to the Internet.
Cool Page has unlimited undo and redo capabilities. This version features minor improvements and bug fixes. The unregistered version is ad-supported and there is some limited functionality.
URL: www.coolpage.com
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| EBooksWriter Lite 2.8 | |
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W9x/Me/2000/NT/XP |
| Free | |
Location on CD: software/windows/building/ebooks_writer/ | |
EBooksWriter Lite can create 20-page ebooks (many more pages in the paid-for versions), which you can then redistribute on Web sites, by email or on CD. Your ebook can include all sorts of formatting as well as hyperlinks. There is a built-in browser as well as a full-text search function.
URL: www.ebookswriter.com
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| Gallery 1.3.4 | |
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WinNT/2000/Unix |
| Freeware | |
Location on CD: software/windows/building/gallery/ | |
This is the best fully-customisable, PHP-powered online gallery software around, in our opinion.
To set the software up, copy the folder as above to your hard drive, unpack the archive file gallery_134RC3_tar.gz (with WinZip or similar), then read the readme file for installation details. You will need Apache server and PHP4 installed on your system.
URL: http://gallery.menalto.com
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| MySQL 4.0.13 | |
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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 server. 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 û see the documentation for details.
URL: www.mysql.com
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| Peter's XML Editor 2 | |
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| Freeware | |
Location on CD: software/windows/building/peters_xml/ | |
Edit XML, XSL and XML schema. Microsoft's XML parser MSXML 4.0 is needed to run this software – you can download this from Microsoft at: Microsoft MSXML 4.0. MS Internet Explorer 5 or later is also required.
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| PHP 4.3.2 | |
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W9x/Me/2000/NT/XP |
| Freeware – latest version | |
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 latest update incorporates numerous bug fixes.
URL: www.php.net
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| PHP-Nuke 6.5 | |
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| Free û new version | |
Location on CD: software/windows/building/php_nuke/ | |
To install, extract the contents of the PHP_Nuke_65.tar Stuffit archive from the folder as above to your hard drive (using Aladdin Stuffit Expander), 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 the readme and install documentation.
URL: http://phpnuke.org
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| Rainbow | |
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| Free | |
Location on CD: software/windows/building/rainbow/ | |
Rainbow makes it easier to create original Websafe colour schemes for new sites. Developed by Sean McManus, a regular contributor to Internet Magazine.
URL: www.sean.co.uk/a/webdesign/rainbow.shtm
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| Snitz Forums 2000 3.4.03 | |
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W9x/Me/2000/NT4/XP |
| Donationware | |
Location on CD: software/windows/building/snitz_forums/ | |
We at Internet Magazine use Snitz Forums on our Web site û it's arguably the best bulletin board for ASP users. To set it up, copy the folder as above to your hard drive, extract the archive file sf2k_v34_03.zip (with WinZip or similar), then take a look through the readme.htm file for installation instructions.
URL: www.snitz.net
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| Source Edit 3.2 | |
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| Donationware | |
Location on CD: software/windows/building/source_edit/ | |
This is an editor that supports all major computing languages including PHP, Java, C++, Perl, CSS, ColdFusion, Pascal, XML and more.
URL: www.sourceedit.com
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| TextEd 3.1 | |
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| Freeware | |
Location on CD: software/windows/building/texted/ | |
TextEd is a straight forward text editor with several little extras, such as a multi-clipboard facility.
URL: www.greenhousemm.com/site/products/texted/
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| TextPad 4.6.2 | |
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W95 (SP1)/98/ME/NT4 (SP6)/2000/XP |
| Shareware | |
Location on CD: software/windows/building/textpad/ | |
If you use plain Notepad to code your Web sites or for other text work, you might like to go one step further and use TextPad, which includes many more editing tools.
URL: www.textpad.com
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| Xenu Link Sleuth 1.2d | |
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W9x/Me/2000/NT/XP |
| Free | |
Location on CD: software/windows/building/xenu_link_sleuth/ | |
Finds dead links on your Web sites. No installation required û simply copy the folder as above to your hard drive, open it and run the application xenu.exe.
URL: http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html
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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