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- WEBLUG
- By: Esteve Boix
- Email: stv@minorisa.es
- Website: http://www2.minorisa.es/~stv
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- Webplug by Esteve Boix is an HTML editor. Now before you start saying
- things like.. " I like to code by hand", or " A text editor was good enough
- for my Grandfather" etc. Just hear me out. What Webplug does, and does
- very well is to take a lot of the drudgery and typing out of creating web
- pages.
-
- Webplug, unlike some of the competition around at the moment, does not
- try to be WYSIWYG. It doesn't try to write the code for you in the way that
- <SPIT>Frontpage</SPIT> does. It's no good for the absolute novice, a certain
- amount of HTML knowledge is required. At its simplest it is like a text
- editor with multitudes of clipboards containing all your most used HTML
- tags. If that was all Webplug did then it would be good, but not that good.
- Where Webplug really scores is in its ability to add "Custom Tags". Picture
- the scenario. Your sitting on the beach with a cool glass in your hand
- while dusky maiden fan.. Oops, sorry, wrong scenario.
-
- Your sitting at your computer developing the most 'kickarse' web page ever.
- You want the stunned readers to be able to tell you how impressed they were
- by your coding prowess so you include a Mailto link
-
- <A HREF="mailto:myaddress#isp.net>Praise me!</A>
-
- A slip of the finger and the @ is replaced by #. Now, instead of a net god
- you look a pillock. With Webplug you can set up your most common links or
- pieces of code so that, at the click of a button they are inserted correctly
- every time.
-
- The tags are displayed in windows and are put into related groups. Any
- number of the group windows can be displayed at once, but you'll probably
- open them as they are required or just keep the most common tag windows
- open.
-
- Taking the toolbar from left to right..
-
- Execute
- This function will change the highlighted text so that any HTML characters
- contained in the text will be displayed correctly. So our MAILTO link would
- become <A HREF="mailto:myaddress#isp.net>Praise me!</A>
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- Info
- This GUI will insert the HTML header information for the document.
- Including the Meta Author, Description and Keywords
-
- Styles
- This set the style attributes e.g. bold, italic etc.
-
- Format
- Use this to set the format <H3> , <B>, <CENTRE> etc.
-
- Images
- Insert an image. You can set the alternate text, alignment, size., spacing
- and border.
-
- Forms
- Guess! To be honest, this is not one of Webplug's strong points.
-
- List
- All the list tags are here
-
- Background
- Here you can specify all the tags concerning the background of the page.
- You can pick your background image, colour as well as the text and link
- colours.
-
- Tables
- This supports the automatic generation or the manual insertion of table
- tags
-
- Links
- Here you can select the links to different pages in your site as well as
- the target frame if required.
-
- Custom tags
- Here is the real power behind Webplug. You can load your own most frequently
- used tags of text and insert it at the touch of a button.
-
- Frames
- Pretty weak this one with only the basic tags available.
-
- Plugins
- There are three available at the time of writing, File dropper, Element
- finder and Insert colour. I haven't yet found much use for any as yet.
-
- All the usual editing commands are here.. Cut, copy, paste, undo and redo,
- along with block marking and search and replace. You can also run your
- favourite browser and send the current document to the browser.
-
- VERDICT
- Webplug isn't perfect. It lacks the colour change for tags that GoldEd has.
- It would be nice if Tidy, the HTML checker could be incorporated into it.
- Having said all that. Webplug is still a fine program that can save a lot
- of time and also help to avoid simple typographical errors marring your
- creations. I would definitely recommend anyone to use (and register!)
- Webplug
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- Give it a try.
-
- SCORE
- 85%
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