Web Development Tools

This is an easy-to-use program that allows you to create Active Server Pages that display Microsoft Access data in HTML table format. Among other features, the program's output format can be easily customised, allowing you to view data in a style you prefer.

Licence: Freeware
Online: N/A
Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me, Windows NT/2000
Requires: Visual Basic 5.0 with Service Pack 3

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		Windows

Convert Microsoft Active Server Pages into PHP pages to be used on Apache Web servers with this program. It includes database support for ODBC, Oracle, Sybase, MySQL and Postgres.

Licence: Freeware
Online: N/A
Operating system: Linux
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		Linux

A powerful Active Server Pages and HTML editor, this product has full support for Visual Basic Script. Its code highlighter will provide a clear view of your code, and shows all HTML, ASP and VBScript colourised so that you can immediately see what is code and what is text.

Licence: Shareware
Online: http://www.tashcom.com/
Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me, Windows NT/2000
Requires: Pentium-90, 64M RAM, 25M disk space

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		Windows

Create instant Web forms with this full-featured professional product. It features immediate setup, an unlimited number of form elements, many customisable options, improved stability and a host of form templates.

Licence: Demo
Online: http://www.webgenie.com/
Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me, Windows NT/2000
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		Windows

This is an Internet store builder that allows you to build a robust store without typing one line of code. It has built-in support for credit card processing.

Licence: Demo (30-day trial)
Online: http://www.imacination.com/
Operating system: Mac OS
Requires: System 7.6, Lasso-enabled Web server, FileMaker 4.0 or Ch-Ching Runtime Engine

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		Mac OS

Web developers and non-programmers can create database-driven Web applications easily with this powerful code generator. It can be used to create many Web forms and grids, such as User Registration Forms for Web sites, Event Lists, full-featured Employee Directories, Forums and Task Management Systems, and Online Auctions, Stores, Portals and Intranets. It allows you to select database fields to be included on each Web page and specify how they should interact. It then generates database-driven, dynamic Web sites in many server-programming languages such as ASP, ColdFusion, JSP, PHP and Perl.

Licence: Demo (20-day trial)
Online: http://www.webprocenter.net/
Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me, Windows NT/2000
Requires:

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		Windows

A language-sensitive source code editor, this program includes features such as branch collapsing, keyword colouring, macro recording and indenting. Define your own or modify existing languages using the Language Editor. The current version includes language support and definitions for Delphi, SQL (ANSI, SQL Server, and Oracle), Visual Basic, JavaScript, C and C++, HTML, VRML, Perl, Java, DOS, Ada, Cobol and more.

Licence: Shareware
Online: http://www.incatec.com/
Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me, Windows NT/2000
Requires: Pentium

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		Windows

A simple XML editor, this product aids in the rapid building of XML applications for Windows 95/98 and NT. It is the appropriate tool for Web developers, consultants, database analysts and anyone beginning to explore the world of ecommerce. It has an easy-to-use interface with two views: right-click context-sensitive menus, and syntax colouring for XML, HTML, CSS and XSL. It has support for ODBC databases (such as Oracle, Access and SQL Server) and for remote XML documents via URLs. Other features include XML parsing and validation, and transformation and manipulation of an XML DOM tree structure.

Licence: Shareware
Online: http://www.tanyitech.com/
Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me, Windows NT/2000
Requires: Internet Explorer 5.0

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		Windows

With this program, you can create a commerce-capable Web site to market your products and services around the world. Using its wizard-driven screens, you can customise colours and backgrounds, and add content pages and catalog items without any technical or design skills. Once you have created your site, you can manage and update it directly from your PC. This program automatically submits your site to major search engines, helping you promote your site to potential customers on the Web. Host your site with any Internet service provider or Web presence provider you choose. The product allows you to integrate customer information with Maximizer contact management software and other applications to make sure you never miss an order. It features real time credit card gateways, a built-in shopping cart, banner ads, an order desk, catalog importing and exporting, and integrated SSL security.

Licence: Demo
Online: http://www.multiactive.com/
Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me, Windows NT/2000
Requires: Pentium-90, 32M RAM, 60M disk space

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		Windows

This is a freeware HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Perl and text editor for Windows. It has many features, including a tag tree with every HTML tag and JS event, a library of JavaScripts, an easy-to-use interface, several wizards, and multiple find and replace capabilities.

Licence: Freeware
Online: http://www.snowblind.net/
Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me, Windows NT/2000
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		Windows

An Internet-ready 32-bit text, HTML and programmer's editor for Windows, this program can serve as a replacement for Notepad, as well as offering many features for Web site and code programmers. Features include: syntax highlighting for HTML, CSS, PHP, ASP, Perl, C/C++, Java, JavaScript and VBScript; a seamless Web browser for previewing HTML pages; and FTP commands for uploading local files to FTP server. It also contains an HTML toolbar, user tools, line numbers, a ruler, URL highlighting, automatic completion, cliptext, column selection, powerful search and replace, multiple undo/redo, a spelling checker and customisable keyboard shortcuts.

Licence: Shareware (30-day trial)
Online: http://www.editplus.com/
Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me, Windows NT/2000
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		Windows

You can easily implement HTML forms for user feedback with this program. It takes all the information entered on the form and saves it into a tab-delimited file. Next, if all goes well, a custom response file is loaded up and displayed to the user. The owner of the page can download this tab-delimited file on a regular basis and import it into any database program. The user can do this on any platform, Mac, PC or Unix, because all the data is stored in a plain text file.

Licence: Freeware
Online: N/A
Operating system: Mac OS
Requires: System 7

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		Mac OS

This is a Java text editor designed for programmers. It offers auto indentation, syntax colourisation, a fully customisable interface (through XML), and advanced options such as auto version checking.

Licence: Freeware
Online: http://www.jext.org/
Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me, Windows NT/2000, Linux
Requires: JDK (SDK) 1.2

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		Windows

Providing an integrated development environment for building Java applications and applets, this program also has support for editing HTML files. It is easy to write, compile, run and test complex programs with this product. It also allows you to find syntax errors and locate classes, methods and packages using the built-in file browser. This full-featured Java and HTML editor also makes it easy to switch between Sun's JDK and Microsoft's Java SDK. Its features include a visual debugger, a JDK 1.1 browser, syntax colouring, code folding, autocompletion, smart keys, smart indent, custom file types, and the ability to write your own JavaScript tools. It also includes editing support for compound documents, including syntax colouring and smart indenting for JSP, asp and PHP pages, background colours, optional MDI editor tabs, support for HTML dialogs, and smart complete for Java files.

Licence: Demo
Online: http://www.modelworks.com/
Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me, Windows NT/2000
Requires: Internet Explorer 5, Winsock 2

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		Windows

Designed to allow you to quickly connect Web pages to databases, this utility also allows you to preview live data in the workspace with Live Data Preview, and easily add server-side logic, navigation and interactivity. Designed specifically for Web application development, it is based on the Dreamweaver core architecture. Macromedia Dreamweaver users will appreciate the familiar interface and working environment.

Licence: Demo (30-day trial)
Online: http://www.macromedia.com/
Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me, Windows NT/2000, Mac OS
Requires: Windows: Pentium, 48M RAM, 30M available disk space, 256-colour display, 800 by 600 screen resolution; Mac: Mac OS 8.6

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Windows				Mac OS

This is an authoring environment for XHTML documents and XHTML-FML Web interfaces. Get access to a whole range of new tags and author highly dynamic Web interfaces easily. Built upon a modular framework, it combines three independent applications into a powerful toolkit that includes Mozquito Engine, XHTML Validator and Factory Editor.

Licence: Demo (30-day trial)
Online: http://www.mozquito.org/
Operating system: Mac OS, Linux
Requires: Mac: Mac OS 8.1

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Mac OS				Linux

Running in a frame on your Web site, this JavaScript-based hierarchical menu system (similar to Windows Explorer) can help you easily create a Web site and links, since all the complex coding has already been done. You have complete control over the appearance of the menu: customise colours, fonts, structure appearance, and even individual link and folder icons.

Licence: Freeware
Online: N/A
Operating system: Mac OS
Requires: Java-enabled server

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		Windows

This is a complete integrated development environment for Perl. Key features include a visual editor/debugger that is similar to products such as Visual Basic and Delphi. The CGI Wizard component allows both novices and experienced programmers to create powerful scripts visually, without writing code. CGI simulation allows you to run, debug and test scripts on the Windows desktop without the need for a Web server. Output such as Dynamic HTML and automated email messages can be examined visually in the IDE. It includes all the features you expect in a professional development tool, including colour syntax highlighting, automatic indentation, a full-featured debugger with mouse-over variable inspection, single step, watches and data structure dump.

Licence: Demo (30-day trial)
Online: http://www.solutionsoft.com/
Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me, Windows NT/2000
Requires: Perl

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		Windows

A complete PHP development and server environment for Windows, this utility installs PHP, Apache, MySQL and PHPMyAdmin, both installing and setting up the environment.

Licence: Freeware
Online: http://sourceforge.net/projects/phptriad
Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me, Windows NT/2000
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		Windows

This is a full-featured HTML editor that allows you to create and edit ASP, ColdFusion, CSS, DHTML, Perl, PHP and other Internet file formats. It supports most of the latest Web standards and includes a Web server, an FTP client, a ColdFusion document builder, common wizards and more than 100 templates. It also features an internal Web page previewer, a code cleaner, CSS creation tools, download time calculator and the ability to convert your document to XML.

Licence: Freeware
Online: http://www.softlite.net/
Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me, Windows NT/2000
Requires: Pentium-90, 16M RAM, Internet Explorer 3.02

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		Windows

An ASP to PHP source code conversion helper, this tool can modify conversion rules and input and output syntaxes, which is useful for other languages also.

Licence: Freeware
Online: http://pharmease.com/
Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me, Windows NT/2000
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		Windows

Written in JavaScript and HTML, this simple shopping cart can easily be modified to suit any medium-sized site. The user moves around the site, filling up their shopping basket, and can then buy all the goods in one go.

Licence: Freeware
Online: N/A
Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me, Windows NT/2000
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		Windows

This is an integrated development environment for markup language that has all the major aspects of XML, including XML editing and validation, schema/DTD editing and validation, and XSL editing and transformation. This system has a professional validating XML editor that provides four document views: an Enhanced Grid View for structured editing, a Database/Table View to show repeated elements in a tabular fashion, a Text View with syntax colouring for low-level work, and an integrated Browser View, which supports both CSS and XSL style sheets. It also features support for the new XML Schema Candidate recommendation through its graphical XML Schema design view with advanced in-place editing capabilities, plus validation of XML documents against XML Schemas. Additionally, a repository interface for accessing WebDAV or Source-Safe-compatible servers and a scripting environment with a COM-based API for creating custom B2B solutions are also included.

Licence: Demo (30-day trial)
Online: http://www.xmlspy.com/
Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me, Windows NT/2000
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		Windows

A powerful validating XML editor for Windows, this product supports XML, XSL, DTD, CSS, HTML and text files. An integrated preview window allows you to format your XML using either CSS or XSL. It has an intuitive, customisable user interface with advanced editing functions such as bookmarks, auto-indent and find and replace. It also features XML Reference Help, Project Management, Real-time Syntax Colouring, Tree View, Batch and Command Line Processing, Expandable Schema View and more.

Licence: Shareware (30-day trial)
Online: http://xmlwriter.net/
Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me, Windows NT/2000
Requires: Internet Explorer 5.0

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		Windows

For efficient authoring, publishing and maintenance of Web sites, this is a professional XML publishing system. The integrated CSS (cascading style sheets) editor makes it easy to define a consistent presentation style for the site. At your command, the XML documents are automatically published as standard HTML for deployment on a Web server on any platform. It will add CSS to the resulting HTML pages, and optionally emulate the style sheets using presentation markups for older browsers.

Licence: Demo
Online: http://www.in-progress.com/
Operating system: Mac OS
Requires: System 7

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		Windows