No single tool can do every task that a Web Developer faces in developing a Web site. Evaluation versions of some of the tools listed below can be found in the Third Party Tools directory on the HomeSite CD-ROM (you can browse the CD-ROM from the main CD-ROM interface or use Windows Explorer). If you only have the electronic version of the product, you can click on any of the links below to go to the company's Web site and download the evaluation version of their tool.
Allaire is providing these links to third party tools as a service to our customers. We do not make any claims about quality of these tools, resell these products, or provide technical support/customer service for these products. If you are interested in finding out more about one of these products, click on the links below.
Teach Yourself HomeSite 4 in 24 Hours by Ben Forta is available at Amazon.com.
HomeSite 4.5 for Dummies by Nick Bradbury, David Crowder, and Rhonda Crowder is also available at Amazon.com.
Visit the Allaire Training site for information on current course offerings.
Allaire has resources on its site to help you get the most out of HomeSite.
The HomeSite DevCenter has the latest product information, Web development trends, industry news, and links to technical resources on the Web.
The Allaire Developer's Exchange has free Web content and add-ins (Help files, ActionScripts, dictionaries).
Savant Interactive has published webSavant, a Web site development training course that ships on 4 CD-ROM's. You can learn more about webSavant and order a free trial CD-ROM at the Savant site.
MyComputer.com is a site of services designed to provide easy, hassle-free solutions for Web developers. Check out Superstats, SiteMiner, WebRookie, and more.
For audio editing, check out Syntrillium's Cool Edit Pro tool. Cool Edit Pro is a 64-track digital audio recorder, editor, and mixer for Windows 95/98/ME and NT/2000.
Cool Edit 2000 is Syntrillium's scaled-down audio editing tool for Windows 95/98/ME and NT/2000. Several plug-ins for additional functionality are also available.
Go to the Syntrillium site for more information.
Fireworks is a graphics tool specifically designed for creating Web graphics. Go to the Macromedia Fireworks site for more information.
Flash is a popular tool for creating animations and vector graphics. Go to the Macromedia Flash site for more information.
Ulead's Gif Animator is a tool for creating animated gif files. More information can be found at the Ulead site.
JASC’s PaintShop Pro is a popular graphics tool among Web developers. It contains the features you want for photo editing, creating Web graphics, drawing, painting, and animating. More information can be found at the JASC site.
RealProducer Basic
RealProducer Basic is a free authoring tool for live recording and web broadcasting or converting AVI, Quicktime, WAV, AU, AIFF, and other media files to streaming RealAudio and RealVideo. More information on RealProducer can be found at the RealNetworks site.
RealServer Basic RealNetworks’ RealServer Basic is the free version of the popular RealNetworks RealServer Plus. More information and a free download can be found at the RealServer site.
RealSlideshow RealSlideshow is RealNetworks’ tool for quickly and easily creating personal Web slide shows. More information can be found at RealNetworks site.
GetRight allows you to easily download files by pausing and resuming downloads, and allowing you to resume a download if errors occur. See the GetRight site for more information.
Brown Inc. has a professional tool for indexing HTML files. Go to the HTML Indexer site.
Submission Wizard helps you submit your site to Web search engines. More information can be found at the Submission Wizard site.
TagGen is an add-in of the TagGen metadata management system. More information at the TagGen site.
WebPosition Gold is designed to launch your Web site to the top of the search engine results by analyzing your pages, giving advice on how to make them more applicable to the top search engines, assisting you in uploading your pages, and reporting your position on each search engine.
Ipswitch’s WS_FTP Pro is the perfect tool for accessing remote files and the fastest way to download software and digital music. More information can be found at the Ipswitch site.
Dreamweaver is a visual Web site design tool. Dreamweaver also supports ColdFusion application development. Go to the Macromedia Dreamweaver site for more information.
NetObjects Fusion is a visual Web site creation and management tool. NetObjects Fusion also supports ColdFusion application development. More information on NetObjects Fusion can be found at the NetObjects site.
Bradbury Software's TopStyle Pro is the full version of the Cascading Style Sheet editor that is bundled with the HomeSite. TopStyle can be found at the Bradbury Software site.
CSE HTML Validator is the most powerful, easy to use, and user configurable HTML, XHTML, and WML syntax checker available for Windows 95/98/2000/NT. More information can be found at the CSE HTML Validator site.
Linkbot Developer Edition
Linkbot Developer Edition is an award winning Web site testing software from WatchFire. Linkbot Developer Edition automatically scans a Web site for more than fifty different types of problems, including JavaScript, and generates graphical reports detailing what errors need to be fixed. More information can be found at the WatchFire site.
Metabot
WatchFire’s Metabot gathers and analyzes content intelligence about metadata used on a website and delivers its analysis through detailed web-based reports. It allows web authors to analyze and optimize metatags that exist in their files and to ensure metatag standards compliance. More information can be found at the WatchFire site.
Netscape Communicator 4.7 is also on the HomeSite CD-ROM. More information can be found at the Netscape site.
Lynx is a fully-featured Web client for users running cursor-addressable, character-cell display devices. It will display hypertext markup language (HTML) hypertext documents containing links to files residing on the local system, as well as files residing on remote systems. The latest Win32 version can always be downloaded from Fdisk.com.
Despite its small footprint, Opera boasts a number of extremely powerful features, making it a great browser for the serious Web user: multiple windows, a powerful hotlist, online graphics toggling, and various customization features. Visit Opera Software for more information.
NameSecure.com is the Internet's Premier domain registration and Web site forwarding tool. NameSecure.com registers domain names and redirects that domain and email to the page of your choice. You can get more information at the NameSecure site.
If you need to register your domain, Register.com offers a simple process for domain name registration. You can get more information at the Register.com site.
MyDomain.com provides web forwarding, sub-directory forwarding, and IP Pointing services, as well as e-mail forwarding and e-mail catch-all forwarding. Visit mydomain.com for details.
DNSCentral allows web developers to register their domain names, set up web site/domain forwarding, and define meta tags to make their web sites easier to find by search engines. Go to DNSCentral.com for more information.
HyperMart, part of the Go2Net.com Network, offers free Web hosting for businesses. You can get more information and sign up at HyperMart.
Tripod, part of the Lycos Network, offers users free home pages with 11 MB of space. You can get more information and sign up at the Tripod site.
You can get free site hosting at the Xoom site.