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Starting as a novice, with system as described above, I have noticed all sorts of offers for 'free' software to solve all my web page production needs. I can't say I have found one to date that comes near the promised utopian software, at a price that I can afford, FREE!
There are some products that do what they say on their offers, and at the right price, providing you are prepared to compromise on being some distance from the 'cutting edge' .
Those nice folks at Netscape have given us Composer, free with the Communicator package. It works and is fairly user friendly.
Then for something a bit more 'hands on' for HTML editing comes Arachnophilia described as 'careware' by the author:
For the graphics handling there are many packages on offer, which fall short in all sorts of ways. This is where Paint Shop Pro comes to the rescue; although a shareware product, there has been a release of PSP 4.15 special edition as a free give-away from: PC Advisor magazine April 1999 issue.
The shortcomings are - The SE version does not do GIF's, otherwise it has all the capabilities of PSP v4x.
The GIF shortcoming (with psp4.15se) can be overcome with IrfanView, a 32 bit graphics viewer and conversion utility.
To further enhance the HTML text colour without the hassle of all that code writing you can use TextFade.
Hot Dog have given us Reptile, which does a superb job. You can use Reptile to create textures (pictures) which will look fantastic as backgrounds on your web pages
IE5 has FrontPage, it works and is fairly user friendly.
Other useful web utilities include:
A good tool for publishing all that hard work to your web site, and for later modifications.
Organize all those Dial UP Networking connections and launch them from the system tray.
Enables you to keep an effective call log of all that British Telecom profit flowing out of your wallet.
When you want to download Gozilla steps in to help out in all sorts of ways, including resuming broken downloads.
Sits on the system tray waiting to give you the low down on that intriguing colour scheme.
This is an excellent site that offers just what it says it offers - free software applications.
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