W3 and HTMLTools
These tools, part of the available WWW software, are for management of W3 servers, generation of hypertext, etc.
CGI server extension scripts
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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:
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LaTex to HTML
- Code from Nikos Drakos, Computer Based Learning Unit, University of Leeds.
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MS Word and rtf
- RTF converters,
and facilities for Word for Windows.
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Framemaker interfaces
- There are several approaches which allow FRAMEmaker to be used as a W3 tool.
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WP to HTML
- WordPerfect HTML conversion
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Miscellaneous scripts
- and programs for generating hypertext from things like directory listings, etc.
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Mail Archive to HTML
- Make that mail archive available on the web.
See also htxp, a time-saving macro preprocessor for writing HTML (and other
documents) allowing user-definable abbreviations and macros.
Some conventional word-processors and general-purpose SGML editors can be used with HTML.
See also: more info on filters, SGML info and tools
A list of
HTML editors for MS Windows with explanations and reviews,
is maintained by Gabriel White. There is also a
page of reviews of editors, mainly for MS-Windows,
by Carl Davis.
Here is a list of some purpose-made html editors and authoring tools:
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BBEdit Extensions
- Allow easier edit of HTML files with BBedit on the
Mac.
- NeXTStep editor
- WYSIWYG hypertext.
- html-mode for Emacs
- Not WYSIWIG but useful.
- HTML assistant
- and HTML Assistant Pro for MS Windows (Version 3.1 or higher).
- HTMLed
- an HTML editor for MS-Windows
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HTML Writer
- another HTML editor for MS-Windows
- HoTMetal
- and HoTMetal Pro from SoftQuad
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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.
- HTML Editor
- for the Mac by Rick Giles.
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BBEditLite
- another editor for the Mac.
- Web Weaver
- a Macintosh text editor for creating and editing HTML documents.
- High Tea
- a simple to use HTML editor for the Mac that incorporates many
of the latest extensions. Available from any of the info-mac or umich mirrors.
- HTML Pro
- an 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.
- 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.
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ANT
- templates for Word 6.0 implementing
Word to HTML and HTML to Word WYSIWYG Conversion Utilities
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WebWizard
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authoring system for Microsoft Word 6.0 for Windows
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WebAuthor
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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
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Internet Publisher
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add-on to WordPerfect 6.1 from Novell (real soon now). Also Internet Publisher Pro.
- HTML Easy! Pro
- an HTML editor for Windows with full HTML 3.0 support.
- Spider
- authoring and browsing tool from InContext Systems
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Arachnid
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a graphical authoring tool for Mac (now in beta).
- Live Markup
- and Live Markup Pro:
a MS-Windows 3.xx application that offers a WYSIWYG layout environment for building or editing WWW Pages.
- HTML Grinder
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for the Mac. "No mere editor, the Grinder is a powerful utility to assist you with intelligent link building".
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amiweb
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a document authoring assistant for AMIPRO v3.0+
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another utility for AMIPRO
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is under development
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curl
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a tool for automatically generating links between HTML
pages based on a contents file.
- webify
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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
- 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.
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colorEditor
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from Best Business Solutions Inc.
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, in Beta.
Checking dubious HTML
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Validation service.
- You can send your document to be validated courtesy of Dan Connolly and Mark Gaither. An HTML Check Toolkit is also available to install on your own system for validating HTML against the standard DTDs.
- weblint
- a perl script to check HTML.
- htmlchek
- an awk script to check HTML.
- 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
- W3O's testbed HTML3 browser flags and comments bad HTML.
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.
Maintaining HTML documents
- Analysing HTML
- html_analyzer for assisting in the maintenance of HTML databases.
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
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Web-roaming robot etc
- Guido van Rossum's knobot code in "Python" language.
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Web Checker
- James Pitkow's web checking robot
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ALIWEB
- An efficient distributed index harvesting system.
Public WWW Access Services
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Telnet server
- Setting up a service machine for anonymous users to log in to a www client.
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Mail Robot
- A program to return any information in the web information by electronic mail
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Created by Tim BL et al.
Last updated 09 June 1995