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

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 W3 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.
See also htxp, a time-saving macro preprocessor for writing HTML (and other documents) allowing user-definable abbreviations and macros.

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

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:

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
HTML Writer
another HTML editor for MS-Windows
HoTMetal
and HoTMetal Pro from SoftQuad
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.
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.
ANT
templates for Word 6.0 implementing Word to HTML and HTML to Word WYSIWYG Conversion Utilities
WebWizard
authoring system for Microsoft Word 6.0 for Windows
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
Internet Publisher
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
Arachnid
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
for the Mac. "No mere editor, the Grinder is a powerful utility to assist you with intelligent link building".
amiweb
a document authoring assistant for AMIPRO v3.0+
another utility for AMIPRO
is under development
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
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
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

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

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.
Mail Robot
A program to return any information in the web information by electronic mail


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