Features of Frontpage and Homesite

A WYSIWYG (graphical) authoring tool costing about £70 and providing a quick and easy way to create quite spectacular websites.
The package includes Themes (similar to CSS Cascadiong Style Sheets) and BOTS for many useful functions. If you use BOTS then you will have to use a server which offers support for these, and this sometimes costs extra.

Features include:

• Shared Borders - the top and side panels of a range of pages can have identical contents
• Themes will be carried through to all pages in a range
• Navigation with active buttons related to a range of pages
• Easy access to the HTML code, with the code highlighted at the current position of the graphical cursor
• Easy creation and manipulation of tables
• Generation of a sitemap
• Neat checking of links
• Reports
• Publish function to upload to the server

Homesite

An HTML authoring tool with support for the wide range of HTML commands and quick ways to build a program. Includes a Browse function but it is also easy to use your favourite browser to check the work as it develops.

Features include:

• Easy insertion of all HTML tags into your text
• Replace special characters
• Insert Snippets
• Extended search and replace
• Integration with Scanner software
• Spell Check
• Validate code
• Document weight (text and images) in kb
• Verify Links and show links
• Wide range of options for format and tags