World Wide Web and HTMLTools

NOTE Note: Some of this information may be out of date.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

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.

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

Mag's Big List of HTML Editors
by Gabriel White at Latrobe
by Carl Davis, mainly for MS-Windows
on the Authors & Webmasters page at The Virtual Mirror, for MS-Windows
at the Web Designer for MS-Windows and Mac (you need a browser that will handle tables).
by Jon Wiederspan for Mac
by Grant Neufeld for Mac, with other tools.
by William A. Luddy mainly for Mac and Windows, with other tools.

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:

SIMON: A shared hot-list tool.
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)
Browser-Editor for NextStep/OpenStep: complete WYSIWIG hypertext editing and browsing application based on Tim Berners-Lee's original development.
eText Engine: WYSIWYG editor for NeXTStep
HTML-Editor: for NextStep
WebPages: by IT Solutions 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 and HTMLed Pro: an HTML editor for MS-Windows
HTML Writer: another HTML editor for MS-Windows
WebEd: and another
WebEdit: and another
VRtml: another from VRtiks
HTML HyperEdit: and another (not supported but still available)
WebElite: and another
WebMania: point and click authoring tool with forms generator 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.
H.T.M.L. Handler: authoring tool for MS Windows
Html+ Editor: for Windows from Almost Reality.
HoTMetaL: and HoTMetaL Pro from SoftQuad for MS-Windows and Mac
Web Media Publisher: for Windows 95, in beta
Chinese/English HTML editor: for MS Windows by Jing-Hwa Luo.
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.
HTMLWriter: for the Mac, based on SuperCard.
HTML Editor: for the Mac by Rick Giles.
HTML Web Weaver (shareware) & WWW Web Weaver (commercial): from Best Enterprises, a Macintosh text editor for creating and editing HTML documents. (Replaces earlier HTML SuperText)
HTML Pro: an HTML editor for the Mac
Webtor: WYSIWIG 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.
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
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).
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: 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
Home Page Tool Box: to build home pages on the Mac
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.
SEARCH.EXE: a freeware Windows 3.1 program which automates the production of HTML Web Pages containing JPEG anchor images and GIF in-line images.
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.
Web Publisher: authoring tool for Windows 3.1 from SkiSoft
HWA/HTML: real soon now from Olson software. Authoring tool for Windows with visual site management.
Visual HTML++: a WYSIWYG point-and click WWW development system for Windows from e:llussion
PageMill and SiteMill: authoring tools from Ceneca Communications or Adobe
FrontPage: Client/server Web authoring software, including an HTML editor. A 30-day evaluation copy is now available for download from Vermeer Technologies
Internet Publishing Solution: real soon now from Frame and Adobe
Lotus InterNotes Web Publisher: automates the process of publishing information to WWW by converting Notes documents into HTML.
WebText: for Windows (written in Visual Basic) allows creation of HTML from text or word processor files.
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.
BIPED: a perl 5 CGI script that allows you to view both the source code and the rendering of your page within a single screen, edit the source and check the HTML.
TableMaker: converts tab or comma-delimited text into HTML tables. With examples and a listing of sites with information on tables.

Checking dubious HTML

Webber: An HTML authoring tool with a validating SGML parser
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: W3C'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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Last updated 7 Dec 1995