Web Builder Updated March 4, 2005 (version 1.7)

[Wayne D]

"This project started as a replacement for ‘good-old’ Frontpage Express
that used to be part of Windows. Just a simple, easy-to-use utility to
generate web pages. Web Builder has almost all the features Frontpage
Express had, but gives you much more freedom of where you put your web
objects (such as images, text, tables etc). This means that the finished
page will display in your browser exactly the way it was designed. The
program generates HTML (HyperText Markup Language) tags while you point
and click on desired functions; you can create a web page without
learning HTML. Just drag and drop objects to the page position them
'anywhere' you want and when you're finished publish it to your web
server (using the build in Publish tool).

Features:
- No HTML knowlegde needed!
- Drag and drop of the HTML objects: Text, Lines, Images, Marquees and
Tables.
- Form layout object to create forms, including actions, hidden fields
etc.
- Supports Form fields: Editbox, TextArea, Checkbox, Radiobutton,
Combobox and Button.
- Rich text support: text object can contain different fonts, colors,
links and sizes.
- Option to add custom HTML for each object (Before Tag, Inside Tag,
After Tag).
- Custom HTML object.
- Scripting object (VbScript and Javascript).
- ActiveX, JAVA, Flash, Windows Media player, Quicktime and other Plug-In
support.
- Publish to local drive or a FTP server.
- Images can be drag'n dropped from explorer on the document to speed up
development.
- Easy Photo Gallery creation.
- Banners.
- Rollover images.
- Bookmarks.
- Customize scrollbar colors for Microsoft Internet Explorer.
- Meta tags.
- Printing/Print preview.
- Clipboard Copy/Cut/Paste.
- Aligning functions.
- Undo/Redo.
- New: Navigation bars
- New: Ready-to-use Javascripts
- New: Template support
- and much more!

Try it and let me know what you think of it.
Who knows maybe one day it will be a standard part of Windows..."


http://www.pablovandermeer.nl/web_builder.html

Regards

Wayne D

 

[Michael Laplante]

"This project started as a replacement for 'good-old' Frontpage Express
that used to be part of Windows. Just a simple, easy-to-use utility to
generate web pages. Web Builder has almost all the features Frontpage
Express had, but gives you much more freedom of where you put your web
objects (such as images, text, tables etc). This means that the finished
page will display in your browser exactly the way it was designed. The
program generates HTML (HyperText Markup Language) tags while you point
and click on desired functions; you can create a web page without
learning HTML. Just drag and drop objects to the page position them
'anywhere' you want and when you're finished publish it to your web
server (using the build in Publish tool).

I tried this one. The code it produces is. . . rather large and not very
efficient. Frankly, I'd use Frontpage Express first as much as it's hated.
This thing uses tables (and spacer gifs too IIRC) to position everything. At
a time when web designers are trying to encourage the use of CSS, this
program is a giant step backwards.

It also has numerous other limitations. For example, I don't think you can
paste images in table cells (the tables you deliberately create for
visitors, not the "behind the scenes" tables. . . Also, you can't create
multiple pages with links between them. (Well, you can but not easily. . .)

However, if you want quick and dirty this program and HTML overwhelms you
then yeah you could use this one. A better choice would be Pagebreeze at:
http://www.formbreeze.com/freehtmleditor/



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