MetalWEB

This is the newest version of a program which, apparently, has been around some time, but hasn't had a lot of publicity. It's pretty good at knocking up the odd page of HTML, but it's not entirely bug-free, which means that you can inadvertently lose an entire page of HTML by just clicking on something you shouldn't.

However, if you can learn where all these bugs occur, you end up with a very useful piece of software, capable of making some pretty damn good web pages.

So, what exactly is it capable of? Well, it claims to be a WYSIWYG HTML editor, which can't really be true, since all browsers display HTML differently, and What You See isn't always What You Get (and yes, I'm pretty proud of that one .

Okay, you get a window with lots of buttons which control the functionality of the program. Below that, you get the main area which displays the HTML as it would appear in a web browser. Things in this area can be manipulated like objects in a word processing program.

Screen shot of MetalWEB

That means that you can move text, images, forms, etc all around the page, you can drag them into an edit window which allows you to edit their functionality so they do what you want them to do on the web page.

MetalWEB can handle everything from frames to forms, and it does frames particularly well. You can define a frame, either horizontally or vertically, and then you can resize them by moving the frame borders. Fun.

So, do you want to make your own webpage but don't have the necessary HTML knowledge, MetalWEB could be the ideal program for you. Or perhaps you prefer something slightly less memory hungry... try WebPlug reviewed by Phil Ellis.

by Neil Bullock

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