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| 4D Business Kit 2.1.1 | |
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W98/ME/2000/NT4/XP |
| Evaluation version | |
Location on CD: software/windows/building/4d_business_kit/ | |
4D Business Kit is an e-commerce solution development and management application combining a Web server, Web language, multi-store manager and database in a single product. With 4D Business Kit, you can design any type of dynamic merchant or non-merchant Internet or Intranet site. 4DBK is an ideal e-commerce solution for small to medium-sized businesses.
Until you have purchased your copy of 4D Business Kit and obtained a serial number, you'll be able to create as many stores as desired in Demonstration mode and then publish them on the Web for two hours. The application can also be launched only 50 times. After that, you will be asked to enter a serial number to take full advantage of 4D Business Kit. 128Mb RAM recommended.
URL: www.4d.com
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| A4Desk 3.46 | |
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W98/Me/2000/NT/XP |
| Evaluation version ñ latest update | |
Location on CD: software/windows/building/a4desk/ | |
A4Desk is a template-based WYSIWYG application for developing Flash menu headers and Flash Web sites. With no need for coding, you can build Flash menus and Web sites in minutes with only a few mouse clicks and keystrokes. This trial version places a watermark on all documents you create. This update includes various additions and enhancements.
URL: www.a4desk.com
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| Design-Side Includes | |
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W98/ME/NT/2000/XP |
| Free | |
Location on CD: software/windows/building/dsi/ | |
Design-Side Includes (DSI) is a tiny free 100% Java command-line utility for inserting repeatedly used snippets of HTML code into multiple Web pages at design-time. DSI runs on Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, and Solaris. DSI is intended for Web sites with little dynamic content but regular updates. Requires Java 2 (build 1.4.1 or later). For examples and the full user manual, including information on configuring your system to run Java programs, visit www.centerkey.com/dsi/manual.html.
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| FAQGenie 1.3 | |
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W9x/ME/NT/2000/XP |
| Free | |
Location on CD: software/windows/building/faq_genie/ | |
FAQGenie takes the hassle out of writing and maintaining a FAQ on a Web site. You simply enter your questions and answers, arrange them according to your preferences, select a suitable layout and in the click of a mouse you have a professional looking FAQ page. You have the option to have the document on a single page or in frames. You can have the answers all on a single page or one per page. Other options include FAQ import, extra headers and footers, meta-tags, JavaScript to auto-frame, and much more.
URL: www.virdi-software.com/faqgen
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| FlashBuilder 2 | |
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W9x/Me/2000/NT/XP |
| Free | |
Location on CD: software/windows/building/flashbuilder/ | |
FlashBuilder is a combination of a free Web hosting service and a WYSIWYG interface for building Flash content. It enables you to create, edit and publish your own Flash Web site in minutes, using up to 50 custom images and mp3 files. It includes a library database of themes to choose from as well as custom interfaces and a Flash intro page. The library includes intros, interfaces and background music loops.
FlashBuilder lets you customise the text for the Web site Title and Strapline, the email address for the contact button and the text for ten main sections with ten sub-pages on nine of the main sections, giving you a total of ninety sections of content. Once your site is built, you can preview it and then save it to the hosting server. A good help system is built into FlashBuilder which will help novice site builders. You can pay to upgrade your FlashBuilder Web site and make the site bannerless.
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| Moodle 1.2.1 | |
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W9x/ME/NT/2000/XP |
| Free | |
Location on CD: software/windows/building/moodle/ | |
Please see the installation instructions first.
Moodle is for the more technically minded amongst you. It is Open Source software for producing Internet-based courses and Web sites. The Moodle people describe it as "an ongoing development project designed to support a social constructionist framework of education". Moodle is an acronym for Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment.
Moodle will run on any computer that can run PHP, and can support many types of database, particularly MySQL (both these are on your CD in the Building section). Also requires a Web server.
URL: http://moodle.org/
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| MySQL 4.0.18 | |
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W9x/NT/2000/XP/2003 |
| Free ñ latest update | |
Location on CD: software/windows/building/mysql/ | |
MySQL database server is a very popular open source database server. Its architecture makes it fast and easy to customise. Streamlined design means a database management system with great speed, compactness, stability and ease of deployment. This latest update includes several enhancements and additions plus numerous bug fixes.
The separation of the core server from the table handler makes it possible to run with strict transaction control or with ultra-fast transactionless disk access, whichever is most appropriate for the situation. MySQL is free to use in particular circumstances ñ see the documentation for details.
URL: www.mysql.com
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| PHP 4.3.5 | |
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W98/ME/2000/NT/XP/2003 |
| Freeware ñ latest version | |
Location on CD: software/windows/building/php/ | |
PHP is a server-side, cross-platform, HTML embedded scripting language, used to create dynamic Web pages. PHP-enabled Web pages are treated like normal HTML pages and you can create and edit them the same way you usually create HTML pages. This latest update is a bug fix release.
The link above is for the simple installation and configuration of the core product. Also on your cover CD, in the folder as above, is a ZIP file for a manual installation that comes with loads of external extensions. Please read the 'install.txt' file.
URL: www.php.net
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| stylevision 2004 release 3 | |
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W98/Me/NT/2000/XP |
| Trial version ñ new | |
Location on CD: software/windows/building/stylevision/ | |
Note: once you have installed and registered your free evaluation copy, you will receive an email message with your personalised evaluation key-code that unlocks the software. All features are fully enabled for a period of 30 days.
Developed by the makers of xmlspy (featured in the past on your cover CD), stylevision offers a broad range of conversion utilities that make it easy to migrate traditional HTML Web sites to the XML format. The application includes an HTML importer that separates HTML files into XML content, XSLT stylesheets and associated XML schema. stylevision also includes a drag-and-drop XSLT editor, a graphical XML schema editor and a text editor with intelligent editing capabilities.
XML-based Web sites separate style from content, making them ideally suited to really serious cross-platform Web publishing e-commerce applications.
URL: www.altova.com
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| TextPad 4.7.2 | |
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W95 (SP1)/98/ME/NT4 (SP6)/2000SP4/XP |
| Shareware | |
Location on CD: software/windows/building/textpad/ | |
If you use plain Notepad to code your Web sites or for other text work, you might like to go one step further and use TextPad, which includes many more editing tools. The size of documents it can handle is limited only by your system's memory. Frequently used combinations of commands can be saved as keystroke macros.
URL: www.textpad.com
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| 4D Business Kit 2.1.1 | |
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OS 9.2.1 (with CarbonLib 1.4+)/OS X 10.1+ |
| Evaluation version | |
Location on CD: software/mac/building/4d_business_kit/ | |
4D Business Kit is an e-commerce solution development and management application combining a Web server, Web language, multi-store manager and database in a single product. With 4D Business Kit, you can design any type of dynamic merchant or non-merchant Internet or Intranet site. 4DBK is an ideal e-commerce solution for small to medium-sized businesses.
Until you have purchased your copy of 4D Business Kit and obtained a serial number, you'll be able to create as many stores as desired in Demonstration mode and then publish them on the Web for two hours. The application can also be launched only 50 times. After that, you will be asked to enter a serial number to take full advantage of 4D Business Kit. 128Mb RAM recommended.
URL: www.4d.com
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| Design-Side Includes | |
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OS X |
| Free | |
Location on CD: software/mac/building/dsi/ | |
Design-Side Includes (DSI) is a tiny free 100% Java command-line utility for inserting repeatedly used snippets of HTML code into multiple Web pages at design-time. DSI runs on Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, and Solaris. DSI is intended for Web sites with little dynamic content but regular updates. For examples and the full user manual, including information on configuring your system to run Java programs, visit www.centerkey.com/dsi/manual.html.
To use DSI, copy the folder software/mac/building/dsi/ from your cover CD to a convenient place on your Hard Disk. Use the Java tool to launch it.
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| Style Master 3.51 | |
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OS X 10+ |
| 30-day demo ñ recently updated | |
Location on CD: software/mac/building/stylemaster/ | |
Style Master is a specialised style sheet development environment with everything you need to develop, test, and deploy sophisticated style sheets and uniform Web pages. Style Master supports all of CSS2.1 and is now optimised for Panther 10.3.
Style Master utilises point-and-click editors, built-in help, and full browser support information. Other features include powerful find-and-replace, tools for direct hand editing of style sheets (including colour-coded syntax and user control over white space in the generated style sheet), and automated creation of style sheets from imported HTML pages.
With a tutorial and loads of reference material, this major update is recommended.
URL: www.westciv.com