ZdNetItalia : IMS Web Engine (Professional)

Add dramatic animation to your Web pages
IMS Web Engine lets you create Web pages that include event-driven animations. It uses DHTML and JavaScript to provide dramatic interactive pages that come to life via simple timing mechanisms and mouse events. Looking like a cross between a photo editor and a visual programming interface, it includes a number of point-and-click tools that enable you to insert text, images, and shapes and to define object triggers and animation techniques. Other features include audio support; zoom support; custom background color; target resolution selection; a text, HTML, and Rich Text editor; and much more. You can easily preview your work in your default Web browser to monitor your progress. IMS Web Engine is a powerful, complicated program with an appropriately steep learning curve, but online help and an excellent tutorial get you started. Reviewed on Nov 7 1998.