This paper introduces several web page making softwares with their own characteristics.

Entry level software

If you are a beginner in web page making, let the following kinds of software take you into the colorful world of web page making!

Microsoft FrontPage 2000

Make a powerful web page

If you are already familiar with Word, then I believe you will be very comfortable with FrontPage 98 for web design. Only by using FrontPage2000 to make a web page can we truly appreciate the meaning of "powerful and easy to use". Page making is completed by the editor in FrontPage2000, and its working window consists of three tabs, namely "what you see is what you get" editing page, HTML code editing page and preview page. FrontPage2000 has graphics and GIF animation editors, and supports CGI and CSS. Both wizards and templates can make it easier for beginners to edit web pages.

The most powerful function of FrontPage2000 is its website management function. When you update the site on the server, you don't need to create a directory of change files. FrontPage2000 will track files and copy those new versions for you. FrontPage2000 is the only existing software for making web pages. It can not only work on local computers, but also directly work on files on remote servers through the Internet.

Download URL: www.microsoft.com

Netscape editor

Make a simple web page

Both Netscape Communicator and Netscape Navigator Gold3.0 have fckeditor. If you like using Netscape browser to surf the Internet, using Netscape editor is really simple and convenient! When you display a webpage with Netscape browser, click the edit button, and Netscape will store the webpage on the hard disk, and then you can start editing. You can also edit text, fonts and column words, change the home page author, title, background color or image, define drawing points, insert links, define document codes, insert images, create tables and so on. Just like FrontPage 2000, isn't it? However, Netscape Editor has limited functions for complex web page design, and even does not support form creation and multi-frame creation.

Netscape Editor is a good entry tool for beginners to make web pages. If your web page is mainly composed of text and pictures, Netscape Editor will be an easy choice. If you know something about the HTML language, you can use a text editor such as Notepad or Ultra Edit to write several HTML statements, which can also make up for some shortcomings of Netscape Editor.

Adobe Pagemill 3.0

Make multi-frames, forms and image map pages.

Pagemill is not powerful, but it is easy to use, suitable for novices to make beautiful, not very complicated homepages. If your homepage needs many frames, tables and image maps, then Adobe Pagemill 3.0 is really your first choice.

Another feature of Pagemill is that it has a clipboard. You can drag and drop as many texts, graphics and tables as you want, and then open them when needed, which is very convenient.

Download URL: www.adobe.com

Claris Home Page 3.0

Quickly create dynamic web pages

If you use Claris homepage software, you can create a dynamic webpage in a few minutes. This is because it has a good tool for creating and editing frames, and you can add new frames without spending too much effort. In addition, Claris Homepage 3.0 integrates the FileMaker database, and the enhanced website management function also allows you to detect the legitimate connection of pages. However, the interface design is too rough and the image processing of the image map is incomplete.

Download address:/software/highlights/claripagetial.html.

Improved software

If you have the basic knowledge of web design and HTML language, you can choose the following software to design your web page, which will definitely add a lot of color to your web page.

Dream weaver

Self-made dynamic HTML animation web page

DreamWeaver is a cool web design software, which includes visual editing and HTML code editing packages, and supports ActiveX, JavaScript, Java, Flash, ShockWave and other functions. Moreover, you can also support the design of dynamic HTML by dragging and dropping, and make dynamic HTML animation from beginning to end, so that the page can be displayed correctly in Netscape and IE 4.0 browsers without plug-ins. At the same time, it also provides the function of automatically updating page information.

DreamWeaver also adopts round-trip HTML technology. This technology enables web pages to be freely converted between DreamWeaver and HTML code editor, and the syntax and structure of HTML remain unchanged. In this way, professional designers can fully enjoy the benefits of visual editing without changing their original editing habits. DreamWeaver's most challenging and important thing is its open design, which makes it easy for anyone to expand its functions.

Download URL: www.macromedia.com

Fireworks, fireworks

The first software designed entirely for web makers.

Fireworks has a long history, and its appearance has completely changed Web drawing. Fireworks is specially designed and developed for the network image, and it has built-in rich functions to support network publishing, for example, Fireworks can automatically crop pictures and generate javascript with dynamic mouse response. And Fireworks has a very powerful animation function and a nearly perfect network image generator (export function). It strengthens the connection with dreamweaver, and can directly generate dreamweaver's Libaray or even export to CSS-style web pages and pictures!

Download URL: www.macromedia.com

glitter

Get your web page moving.

Flash is a dynamic interactive shock wave used on the Internet. Its advantage is that it is small in size and can be downloaded and played at the same time, avoiding users waiting for a long time. FLASH can be used to generate animations and add sounds to web pages. In this way, you can generate multimedia graphics and interfaces, but the file size is very small. FLASH can't be programmed like a language, but you can also make a highly interactive home page by combining its built-in statements with JavaScripe. Someone once said: Network designers in the next century will not use FLASH and will be eliminated! I believe this sentence is true!

Download URL: www.macromedia.com

Hot dog professional edition 5

Make a web page with all kinds of complicated techniques.

HotDog is an early code-based web design tool. Its most notable feature is that it provides many wizard tools to help designers make complex parts of the page. HotDog's advanced HTML supports the insertion of marquee, which can be viewed at normal speed in preview mode. This is very rare, because even Microsoft, which created this label, did not provide such a function in FrontPage 98. HotDog supports plug-ins far more than other products, and the dialog box it provides allows you to manually select different options for files with different formats. But it is not very convenient to deal with China people.

HotDog is a powerful software, which is a good choice for senior designers who want to add complex technologies such as CSS, Java, RealVideo, etc.

Download URL: www.sausage.com

HomeSite 4.5

Make a web page that can completely control the progress of the page.

Allaire's HomeSite 3.0 is a compact and multifunctional HTML code editor, which has rich help functions, supports CGI and CSS, and can directly edit perl programs. HomeSite's work interface is complex and simple. According to the habit, it can be set as a simple editing window such as notepad, or it can work in a complex interface.

HomeSite is more suitable for complex and wonderful page design. HomeSite 3.0 is your best choice if you want to completely control the progress of your web pages. But it is too complicated for beginners.

Download address: www.allaire.com or www.homesite-now.com.

HotMetal Pro 4.0

Making web pages with strong data embedding ability

HotMetal not only provides a "what you see is what you get" graphic production method, but also provides a code editing method. Is a software that won't disappoint designers at all levels. But beginners need to be familiar with HTML to use this software easily. HotMetal has powerful data embedding ability. Through its data insertion wizard, external Access, Word, Excel and other ODBC data can be extracted and put into the page. And HotMetal can automatically convert them into HTML format, isn't it great? In addition, it can convert many old format files (such as WordStar, etc.). ), and can automatically convert the pictures in these documents into GIF format during the conversion process.

HotMetal provides users with "too many" tools, and it can also show the link status of the whole site document with network diagram or tree diagram.

Download URL: www.softquad.com