Price: Free. Supplier: America Online
Web site:
AOLPress
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AOLPress is another free WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) Web editor,
and is fairly similar to the others, apart from a few unusual features. It's
available to everyone, not just AOL members, although it works best if you're
publishing to an AOL server.
First of all, each Web site you create can be made into a MiniWeb - a diagram
showing all the pages in your site, with lines to show the links between them.
The diagram is clickable, so you can immediately go to any page in your site
hierarchy. A broken link checking tool is also available.
Image map support is built right into the program, so you can easily make
hotspots within one large image for users to navigate with, without having to create
many separate graphics.
Its last unusual feature is that frames handling is very easy - just drag a bar
to the correct position to set up a frame. I haven't seen another WYSIWYG editor
that makes it this simple.
However, innovative features aside, the package is beginning to look and feel
rather dated, complying to the HTML 3.2 standard rather than the new HTML 4.0
for instance. Version 2.0 of AOLPress has been out for a long time now, and it
looks like it's not being updated any more at the moment.
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