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World Wide Web and HTMLTools

Note: Some of this information may be out of date.

These tools, part of the available WWW software, are for management of World Wide Web servers, generation of hypertext, etc.

CGI server extension scripts

CGI Archive
To add contents to the archive, put them in /incoming/cgi.

Generating HTML

There is a full list of filters and converters between various formats and HTML, collected by Richard Brandwein and Mike Sendall. Highlights include:
LaTex to HTML
Code from Nikos Drakos, Computer Based Learning Unit, University of Leeds.
MS Word and rtf
RTF converters, and facilities for Word for Windows.
Framemaker interfaces
There are several approaches which allow FRAMEmaker to be used as a World Wide Web tool.
WP to HTML
WordPerfect HTML conversion
Miscellaneous scripts
and programs for generating hypertext from things like directory listings, etc.
Mail Archive to HTML
Make that mail archive available on the web.

HTML editing and authoring tools

Some conventional word-processors and general-purpose SGML editors can be used with HTML.

See also: more info on filters, SGML info and tools

Several sites offer further information on HTML editors, some with reviews:

There are reviews of the Ant, WebAuthor and Internet Assistant in WWWiz Online.

There are reviews of HoTMetaL Pro, NaviPress and PageMill in InformationWeek.

Here is a list of some purpose-made html editors and authoring tools:

Webber
An HTML authoring tool with a validating SGML parser
BBEdit HTML Tools
a package of extensions for BBEdit or BBEdit-lite for the Mac. Contact: Lindsay.Davies@sheffield.ac.uk
A new release of the original BBEdit HTML extensions
also for BBEdit and BBEdit-lite Contact: bellverc@si.uji.es (Carles Bellver)
eText Engine
WYSIWYG editor for NeXTStep
HTML-Editor
for NextStep
html-mode for Emacs
Not WYSIWIG but useful.
HTML assistant
and HTML Assistant Pro for MS Windows (Version 3.1 or higher).
HTMLed (HTMLed32) and HTMLed Pro
an HTML editor for MS-Windows 3.1, NT, 95
HTML Writer
another HTML editor for MS-Windows
WebEd
and another
WebEdit
and another. 32-bit Windows 95/NT version soon in beta.
VRtml
another from VRtiks
WebElite
and another
HyperType Edit
a new freeware editor for Windows.
Quadratura
another new editor for Windows.
WebMania!
point and click authoring tool with forms and frames from Q&D (written in VB)
Arachnid
for MS-Windows (no connection with Arachnid for Mac below)
NerdEdit
a simple editor for MS-Windows
WEB Wizard
The Duke of URL offers easy creation of home pages on MS Windows.
HoTMetaL
and HoTMetaL Pro from SoftQuad for MS-Windows and Mac
Web Media Publisher
for Windows 95 and WindowsNT, with JAVA support
ReVoL Web Worker
a freeware HTML editor for Windows 95 with HTML 3.0 and Netscape 2.0 support. Available via ftp as rww32.zip.
Aardvark Pro
editor for Windows 3.x and Windows 95
SpiderPad
for Windows 3.1 and Windows 95, with Visual Table, Form, and Frame editors.
CMed
editor for HTML 2.0/3.0 & Netscape/Microsoft Extensions for Intel-based Windows NT 3.5 and later, and Windows 95
HTMgen32
object oriented multi-page HTML generator/editor for Win95/NT3.51 (32 bit version only)
HTML Builder
A 32 bit application for Windows 3.1x, Windows 95 and Windows NT 3.x.
DerekWare HTML Author
a small but powerful freeware editor for 32-bit Windows 95
Chinese/English HTML editor
for MS Windows by Jing-Hwa Luo.
Multilingual Publisher
from Accent Software. WYSIWYG HTML editing in over 30 languages, soon with Japanese and Chinese.
htmltext
an editor based on the Andrew Toolkit.
tkHTML
based on tk/tcl.
tkWWW
also based on tk.
S H E
Simple HTML Editor - a HyperCard stack.
High Tea
a simple to use HyperCard based HTML editor. Available from any of the info-mac or umich mirrors.
HyperMarker
another HyperCard stack.
Site Writer Pro
another HyperCard application.
HTML Editor
for the Mac by Rick Giles.
HTML Pro
an HTML editor for the Mac
HTML.edit
another HTML editor for the Mac.
Web Warrior
another HTML editor for the Mac.
Alpha HTML Mode
Alpha is a customizable programming/text editor for the Mac. Check for newer versions of the HTML environment than the one included in the Alpha distribution.
HTML-HyperEditor
A HyperCard stack with non-English-language features.
Phoenix
WYSIWIG editor for the X Window System
ASHE
a simple editor in c for Motif
asWedit
an HTML 3, HTML 2 and text editor for the X Window System and Motif.
Bulldozer
a WYSIWYG HTML editor for the X Window System. In beta for various Unix platforms.
The Ant
templates for Word 6.0 implementing Word to HTML and HTML to Word WYSIWYG Conversion Utilities
WebAuthor
HTML add-in to Word for Windows 6.0 from Quarterdeck
Internet Assistant
for Word 6.0 for Windows from Microsoft. Now in public release, see "What's New" on Microsoft's WWW Home Page
WebWizard
authoring system for Microsoft Word 6.0 for Windows
Internet Publisher
add-on to WordPerfect 6.1 from Novell. Also Internet Publisher Pro.
HTML Easy! Pro from Basic Concept Studio
an HTML editor for Windows with full HTML 3.0 support.
Spider
authoring and browsing tool for Windows 3.1 from InContext Systems
EasyHelp/Web
from Eon Solutions for Word 2 or Word 6/7/NT for Windows. Lets users make either Windows Help files or HTML pages from Word for Windows documents.
Arachnid
a graphical authoring tool for Mac (now in beta - no connection with Arachnid for Windows above)
WebManager
from P.INK. An authoring tool for Mac (now in beta).
HTML Grinder
toolkit for the Mac. "No mere editor, the Grinder is a powerful utility to assist you with intelligent link building".
AmiWeb
an HTML toolkit for AmiPro
another utility
for AmiPro
curl
a tool for automatically generating links between HTML pages based on a contents file.
webify
a "primitive but useful" tool running on Unix to convert postscript (eg. containing a PowerPoint slide presentation) to browsable web pages.
Imagizer
a tool to help develop Web pages with images
Paradox
a utility to create HTML pages using Paradox for Windows.
Xantippe
a hypertext/hypergraphics authoring environment for Windows 3.x from IRIS Media Systems can create HTML files as well as other formats.
ColorEditor
is designed for HTML document authors to select the color scheme for the html pages.
TypeHTML
A HyperCard stack that helps in editing HTML. Especially useful for marking up existing ascii text files. It also translates the Macintosh character set to and from ISO Latin-1, which should interest people who have to author French, German, etc.
Symposia
Web editor and browser for MAC, PC, and UNIX. Beta version.
NaviPress
authoring and other tools from NaviSoft.
Emissary
for Windows from Wollongong with browser and other Internet access tools
E-Publish
from from Stat Tech, an electronic publishing package for Windows, allows you to publish information in HTML.
WebFORCE
Software Environment for IRIX from Silicon Graphics including WebMagic Author.
HWA/HTML
from Olson software. Authoring tool for Windows with visual site management.
PageMill and SiteMill
authoring tools from Adobe
Internet Publishing Solution
real soon now from Frame and Adobe
HTML Notepad
for Windows 3.1 adds HTML capability to the Notepad editor.
jed
editor for MSDOS, MSWindows, Unix, OS/2, and VMS has an html mode.
Page Builder and Color Coder from DBasics Software
form-based utilities to create and view pages online.
WebTemp
a tool for creating web pages from templates. Once configured, web pages can be created by end-users with no knowledge of HTML using simple forms.

Checking dubious HTML

The following will validate HTML syntax

UK site See also The Unofficial WebTechs Validator FAQ
A Kinder, Gentler HTML Validator
offers a similar service. See also The Unofficial Kinder, Gentler HTML Validator FAQ
weblint
a perl script to check HTML.
htmlchek
an awk script to check HTML.
Webber
An HTML authoring tool with a validating SGML parser
fix-html.pl
written by Dan Connolly, is a perl script to legitimize old HTML files into SGML-abiding HTML (as per the DTD that Dan created).
Arena
W3C's testbed HTML3 browser flags and comments bad HTML.

The following will check the validity of links

Generating things from HTML

Converters
exist for plain text, LaTeX, MML, RTF etc.
Other sed scripts can be used to combine documents at various levels into one big book.

Analysing Log Files
Server log analysis
Analysing server logs requires first of all changing the numeric internet node numbers into domain names. httpd-analyse.c is a program to do that. Feed the results through awk and grep of your choice! Some documentation on the program.
Server log analysis
Kevin Hughes' Getstats program does all kinds of things. Replaces Getsites.c

Web Wanderers

See Martijn Koster's pages on WWW Robots, Wanderers, and Spiders

Web-roaming robot etc
Guido van Rossum's knobot code in "Python" language.
Web Checker
James Pitkow's web checking robot
ALIWEB
An efficient distributed index harvesting system.

Public WWW Access Services

Telnet server
Setting up a service machine for anonymous users to log in to a www client.

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