About Web In-site
Web In-site is an advanced HTML editor that has been written under the Java 2
Platform utilising the Java Foundation Classes (JFC) Swing GUI components and
classes. It has been designed to assist Web authors in the development of
efficient Web pages and in the creation of sophisticated Web Sites. In addition
to the set of core features implemented in the application, support is provided
for some of the latest advancements in Web programming such as the creation and
use of style sheets using a cross browser implementation of Cascading Style
Sheets (CSS). HTML editors, in general, provide a means of developing and
maintaining Web pages. There are a vast number of Web authoring tools currently
available, but most of these applications have their shortcomings. These are
mainly due to design complexities and a lack of built in utilities. It is
commonplace for too much emphasis to be placed on a "What you see is what you
get" (WYSIWYG) development environment which can often detract from the efficacy
of the tool. The simplicity of HTML has also proven to be one of its greatest
drawbacks. This has necessitated the introduction of more powerful advancements
to Web programming such as the concept of Style Sheets. Style Sheets provide a
powerful and flexible way of specifying formatting information for Web pages.
Style sheets can be applied to all occurrences of particular elements within a
document, thereby enabling authors to change the format of a page by applying
rules within the style sheet itself instead of modifying each individual
occurrence of the relevant element within the document. The GUI and the core
features of the editor have been designed to effectively assist users with
varying levels of requirements. The advanced features serve as invaluable
utilities for those who wish to continue using their current HTML editors, yet
desire the option of using these additional features and utilities. The
application also assists users in the maintenance of large and complex sites
through the usage of an effective site management utility.
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Core Features
- An effective Multiple Document Interface (MDI) environment
- User friendly toolbars with easy access to tags and utilities
- Line and column number display
- Extensive tag support with descriptions of each tag
- code indentation and layout formatting
- Cut, Copy, Paste and Select All
- Goto command for code debugging purposes
- Multiple levels of Undo and Redo
- File Properties
- Cascade all/Tile all/Minimise all
- Find and Replace
- Browser preview facility enabling simultaneous previewing under multiple browsers
- Save files in PC, UNIX or Mac format
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Advanced Features
- Advanced site management utility for link validation and structuring sites
- HTML Code validation utility
- A cross-browser Cascading Style Sheet creator
- A JavaScript creator with powerful scripts to enhance any page
- Tag colouring
- Advanced dialogue boxes which attempt to convert absolute file paths into relative ones as well as converting the path format from the local file system to HTML format. The dialogue boxes provided for the insertion of images into documents and also enable the previewing of image files before insertion into the document.
- Advanced colour pickers enabling the selection of colours using a swatch palette or HSB and RGB values. These also provide an indication of whether browser safe colours are being used or not.
- Advanced wizards for images, links, tables, lists, fonts and colours
- A 4 step wizard for creating new pages
- A meta tag generation utility with basic/advanced meta tags
- An RGB-Hex utility to allow easy colour format conversions
- A utility to convert all tags within a document to uppercase
- A utility to fix broken line breaks within documents
- A log file representing all documents created and opened within the current session.
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