Multimedia Tools This is a list of some of the current multimedia tools. Some of these programs you will have to purchase at your nearest software retailer, while many of them are shareware or freeware. The links below will take you to a page where you can learn more about the software and get instructions for downloading. As more tools and updates come out, this list will grow. Macintosh Tools Windows Tools Macintosh Images: Single Pixel GIF Here's where you can download the single transparent pixel gif using for spacing in HTML pages. Use the following HTML command to control vertical spacing: <IMG SRC="dot_clear.gif" VSPACE=4> You can change the amount of VSPACE. Use HSPACE to control the horizontal placement of the transparent one-pixel gif. Royalty Free Photographs from The Multimedia Library Here's where you can download JPEG images for royalty free use on the Web. There are over 2,000 images available here. Image Manipulation Software: Adobe Photoshop The most powerful graphics software available. Photoshop GIF89a Plug In This plug-in filter allows you to export transparent GIFs in Photoshop. Adobe Illustrator An excellent illustration and vector graphics tool. Equilibrium Debabelizer An indispensible image batch-processing tool. Live Picture Tool for creating graphics. Macromedia xRes Tool for creating graphics. Gif Animation Tools GIFBuilder Freeware utility you can use to create animated GIFs for your web site. Terrazzo Terrazzo is an Adobe Photoshop plug-in for creating seamless tileable patterns from any source imagery. Users may choose from 17 mathematical symmetries to create patterns from information in the source image, which results in kaleidoscopic textures harmonious with the source image. Terrazzo is an indispensable tool for Web page backgrounds, 3D texture mapping, multimedia and graphics effects. Image Viewers/Converters/Utilities GIFConverter Shareware utility for viewing images and converting between file formats. HTML ColorPicker HTML ColorPicker will let you choose colors and then it will change the RGB information into Hex. JPEGView Lets you open, view and convert GIF and JPEG images. GraphicConverter GraphicConverter is a shareware application that converts pictures to many different formats. MacWebCam [CGI/Plug-In] Fast, flexible WebCam application written in C++. Works with any QuickTime video source. Supports multiple time lapse series, .gif, .jpeg, and .pict images, and time caption & logo stamps. Authoring Tools Allegiant SuperCard Multimedia Authoring tool Apple Media ToolKit Multimedia Authoring tool Asymetrix ToolBook Multimedia Authoring tool MFactory MTropolis Multimedia Authoring tool Macromedia Director Multimedia and Web Authoring tool Sound Tools Digidesign Pro Tools Sound Editing Tool. Digidesign Session Sound Editing Tool. Digidesign Sound Designer Sound Editing Tool. Macromedia DECK II Sound Editing Tool. Macromedia SoundEdit 16 Sound Editing Tool. Opcode Systems Audioshop Sound Editing Tool. Opcode Systems Digitrax Sound Editing Tool. Video Tools Adobe After Effects Excellent compositing and video construction tool. Adobe Premiere Excellent video editing tool. HTML Editors and Converters Adobe PageMill WYSIWYG page editing, cut and paste links, integrated preview browser, integrated image handling and forms creation, attribute inspector, drag and drop editing. Alpha A powerful text editor with 20 different modes, one for each programming language in the universe, including an HTML mode. The HTML mode has many tools for fast and easy editing of HTML and JavaScript. Every HTML element has its own keybinding so you won't be slowed down by unnecessary use of the menus. There are also functions for maintaining WWW sites, like link checking and the possibility to dynamically include a document in many other documents. Ant_HTML WYSIWYG Conversion of documents both to and from HTML for beginners and advanced HTML authors. Works in Word 6.0 and above (all platforms and in International versions of Word). Includes a user-customizable toolbar, automatic table conversion and a special utility for creating HTML forms. Arachnid The final version of Arachnid. No further development, revisions, or support. Backstage Create web pages in an intuitive point and click authoring environment. WYSIWYG. Point and click link creation. Automatic forms creation. Templates. BBEdit Everyone's favorite Mac text editor has plenty of capability for messing about with HTML. Includes HTML-aware spell checker, HTML syntax and link checking, and cleanup of PageMill-generated HTML, as well as the usual array of tools to automate markup. Bare Bones's site also has information about other tools that help in dealing with HTML using BBEdit. BeyondPress By Astrobyte, BeyondPress can convert files from QuarkXPress to HTML. Claris Home Page An easy-to-use HTML editor, Claris Home Page allows you to view your pages in either graphical or text format, and includes a number of tools to make web page designing quick and painless. Crackerjack Crackerjack is customizable HTML editor designed for those who prefer a non-WYSIWYG environment, but who want automated features such as automatic formatting of lengthy lists, automatic formatting of HTML form entries and automatic table conversion. Works in Word 6.0 and above (all platforms and in International versions of Word). dbf-to-html A FoxPro application that allows you to build HTML files from records in DBF files (used by many database applications), as well as an index page linking these files. Easy HTML A World Wide Web forms-based interactive editor for HTML files. Guides the user through the process of creating and editing an HTML document via a Web browser. Allows continual previewing of the document in progress and saving of the finished product to the user's local disk. Globetrotter By Akimbo Systems, Globetrotter is a web publisher, allowing you to focus on creating entire web sites based on content, without having to think about the underlying HTML. GNNpress WYSIWYG. HTML 3.0 and Netscape extensions. Tables, forms, body attributes. Source editing. Link checking. Customizable toolbar. SOCKS support. Online docs, help, templates, upgrades. HoTMetaL PRO Import from many different formats. Supports most Netscape and HTML 3 extensions. Faster and smaller than version 1.0. Improved user interface. Enhanced URL support. HTML Editor Semi-WYSIWYG editor for HTML documents. Handles text >32K. Common HTML 2.0, 3.0, and Netscape tags. Drag and drop editing. Browser preview. HTML Grinder From Matterform Media, HTML Grinder is a collection of different tools (called "wheels") which can help you change and manage multiple web pages, allowing linking, link checking, multiple search and replace, multiple image replacement, page restructuring, and a number of other handy functions; mainly intended to be used as a complement to an HTML Editor. HTML Markup HTML Markup is a Macintosh text-to-HTML processor that lets you quickly and easily put existing documents on the web. Advanced features let you customize the way your files are converted and support for Drag-and-drop lets you batch process files. HTML Pro WYSIWYG editor, nice interface. Does not support forms, tables, or Netscape enhancements. No Undo. HTML.edit Supports standard HTML 3.0, plus forms and tables. HTML.edit is a complete site editor, having many time-saving features for HTML coding and document management, including customizable elements, bidirectional text and entity translation tables, global and selection-only replacement, document preview and browsing (via URL, BASE, or hotlist). Microsoft Front Page 97 A WYSIWYG HTML editor. Myrmidon Myrmidon provides HTML conversion for any application that prints, while retaining the formatting of the original document. Converts headings, lists, paragraphs, images, non-ASCII characters, and tables. NetObjects Fusion Another web site creation tool, NetObjects Fusion gives you a rich set of controls for designing and building high quality web sites. PageSpinner PageSpinner is an easy-to-use HTML editor which gives a number of options for quick and simplified creation of web pages, very useful for people who wish to see the actual HTML they are working with. Supports HTML 2.0, most of 3.2, plus Netscape extensions. Useful for both beginner and advanced author. Quick access to often used formatting. Supports interactive help with AppleGuide. HTML assistant to help you compose your own web pages. QuickSite QuickSite by DeltaPoint allows easy yet powerful creation of integrated web sites with a consistent look and feel. RTFtoHTML Converter Extremely useful utility for converting existing files saved in RTF format (Microsoft Word files can be saved in the RTF - Rich Text Format) to HTML documents. If images are included in your original document RTFtoHTML saves them out individually. Simple HTML Editor Hypercard based HTML editor. Tapestry Drag and drop to create links, images, backgrounds, movies. Multiple undo. Browser preview. Visual Page A WYSIWYG HTML editor. Web Warrior Supports most HTML tags including forms and tables. Drag-and-drop creation of links to other documents and images. Extensive command-key equivalents for folks who like to keep their fingers on the keyboard. Does not enforce HTML structure. WebDoor Publisher By Open Door Networks, WebDoor Publisher is meant to be used by account holders for easily creating web pages, but can be used by anyone. It is free if you have an account with them, shareware if you don't. World Wide Web Weaver Formerly called WebWeaver by Best Enterprises. A shareware version, called HTML Web Weaver Lite, is also included. Supports Netscape frames. Builtin table builder, import feature. Many HTML 3.0 tags. Web browser preview (choice of several browsers). Easy to use link-creation interface. Background color chooser. Integration with CGI/forms creation. Converts Mac styled text directly to HTML. Floating palettes for frequently-used tags. Many more features. XL2HTML Created by Jordan Evans, this converter translates a range of Excel cells into the HTML "table" format supported by Netscape. File Transfer Protocol Fetch Fetch is a user-friendly Macintosh FTP client; it allows point-and-click, drag and drop file transfers to and from any machine with an FTP server, over a TCP/IP network. Telnet NCSA Telnet NCSA Telnet allows you to have simultaneous connections to numerous computers across the network, and includes a standard file transfer server (FTP) to allow you to transfer files to and from other remote machines and users. Miscellaneous Logomotion Excellent tool for 3-D animation, morphing type, and creating flying logos. Small Screen Show the boundaries of one or more smaller screens on a sufficiently large screen. Useful for testing whether something would fit on a small screen. WebMap WebMap reads GIF and PICT files, and allows you to draw out the various graphic primitives (rectangle, circle, and polygon) that represent the hot areas on an HTML client-side image map. RGB/Hex Converter Convert RGB values to hexidecimal and vice versa. Windows Images: Single Pixel GIFs Here's where you can download the single transparent pixel gif using for spacing in HTML pages. Royalty Free Photographs from The Multimedia Library Here's where you can download JPEG images for royalty free use on the Web. There are over 2,000 images available here. Image Manipulation Software: Adobe Photoshop One of the most powerful graphics software available. Adobe Illustrator Illustration and vector graphics tool. Corel Draw/Photopaint Although not as powerful as Photoshop it is a good choice for creating graphics on the Web. Equilibrium Debabelizer Pro for Windows 95/NT An indispensible image batch-processing tool. Fractal Design Painter Interesting features make Fractal Design Painter a good choice for creating graphics. Macromedia xRes Tool for creating graphics. Image Viewers/Converters Batch It Graphics batch processing tool. Conversion Artist Graphics conversion tool. Lview Pro Shareware utility that for viewing and converting between file formats, as well as making transparent GIFs. PhotoGif Shareware plugin filter that will work with any paint program that supports Photoshop compatible plug-ins. There is also a Mac version of PhotoGif. Dave's Targa Animator DTA reads and writes GIF files, as well as TGA, BMP, TIF, FLI, PCS and a number of other formats. DTA is a DOS command-line utility. CorelDRAW CorelDRAW web site. HiJaak Graphics Suite Excellent graphics conversion package. Gif Animation Tools GIF Construction Set A tool that allows you to create animated GIFs GifTrans Set GifTrans is a DOS command-line program you can use to create transparent gifs. HTML Editors and Converters 4W Publisher Formerly called Web Builder -- Web Builder 1.20c was renamed 4W Publisher 1.30. Allows you to create and maintain product catalogs in a database, and generates HTML pages, menus and keyword indexes. Demo version available. Aardvark Pro Aardvark has to be simply the best HTML editor available for the PC. You'll find Wizards and shortcuts to make even the most complex pages a breeze. Aardvark keeps track of URLs and Images so you can insert links into your document with just a click. Almost Reality's HTML+ Editor Editor currently handles most of HTML 3.0. Fully customizable; built-in Color Wizard, Form Wizard, Image Wizard. Has URL and File Bookmark systems to track files and URLs. Soon will include Table and Sound Wizards, long filenames, Win95 32-bit support. Ant_HTML WYSIWYG Conversion of documents both to and from HTML for beginners and advanced HTML authors. Works in Word 6.0 and above (all platforms and in International versions of Word). Includes a user-customizable toolbar, automatic table conversion and a special utility for creating HTML forms. Arachnid HTML Easy to use HTML editor with advanced features for Netscape use. Aspire HTML 2.0 and Netscape 1.1 extensions; can turn off Netscape extensions support. Optional skeleton document on startup. List, form, and table creator features. Version 2.0 adds HTML 3.0, Netscape and Explorer 2.0 extensions, online help, long filename, big files, URL manager, 16M colour selector, builtin frames templates. Atrax, The Web Publisher WYSIWYG, drag-and-drop environment. Builtin imagemap editor. Tables, forms, frames, indices, glossaries. Background images, colors, sounds. Font faces, colors, sizes. Java, ActiveX, Shockwave, and Plug-ins. Spell checker, global search and replace. Backstage Create web pages in an intuitive point and click authoring environment. WYSIWYG. Point and click link creation. Automatic forms creation. Templates. CMed HTML 2.0, HTML 3.2, Netscape and Microsoft Extensions HTML editor. One of the most actively developed shareware editors over the last year. Help file on HTML. Support for two test browsers. Improved color selection, Netscape color names. Frames, client-side imagemaps, Java applets. Claris Home Page An easy-to-use HTML editor, Claris Home Page allows you to view your pages in either graphical or text format, and includes a number of tools to make web page designing quick and painless. Corel Web Designer A WYSIWYG HTML editor for Windows 95/NT. CRACKERJACK CRACKERJACK is customizable HTML editor designed for those who prefer a non-WYSIWYG environment, but who want automated features such as automatic formatting of lengthy lists, automatic formatting of HTML form entries and automatic table conversion. Works in Word 6.0 and above. DiDa A small HTML editor that runs as fast as Notepad. Only 500K but has many features, include WYSIWYG preview, a table editor with instant preview, right mouse click to access all functions, auto line selection, tag deletion, file history. E-Publish Internet E-Publish allows you to take Word for Windows or RTF source documents and produce Windows-based electronic documents or HTML documents. When producing HTML, E-Publish automatically converts graphics to GIF format and allows you to maintain hyperlinks with its hyperlink database. Easy HTML A World Wide Web forms-based interactive editor for HTML files. Guides the user through the process of creating and editing an HTML document via a Web browser. Allows continual previewing of the document in progress and saving of the finished product to the user's local disk. EdWin Edwin is a full-featured HTML editor supporting physical and logical formatting, images and maps, tables, fill-out forms, Netscape framesets, document attributes, and special characters. FrontPage A visual client/server web publishing environment. Editor provides WYSIWYG editing, built-in spell checking, easy creation of links and clickable images, forms creation, image type conversion, and more. The editor is only one small component of this environment. Free trial download at http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/sbn/0700.htm. Gomer Context-sensitive help, browser preview support, all-text interface, HTML tag match checker, frames tool, large file support. Hippie A full-featured HTML editor that supports all HTML 3.0 tags, and is WYSIWYG. You can see the page you are creating as you edit your HTML, with a split screen window. HotDog Flexible and user-friendly HTML editor, widely acclaimed in the Net community. Supports Netscape extensions and HTML 3 elements. HotDog Professional Advantages over shareware version include unlimited file size; customizable toolbars, shortcuts, etc.; spelling checker; document templates. HoTMetaL Includes plenty of features -- document templates, forms support, rules checking, cleanup of existing documents with bad markup. HoTMetaL Includes plenty of features -- document templates, forms support, rules checking, cleanup of existing documents with bad markup. HTML Assistant Pro Latest release includes built-in viewer, word processor to HTML conversion, QuickFrames, a WYSIWYG frame creator, multiple file replace, instant web publishing, and more. HTML Author Easy to use WYSIWYG editor in the form of a template for MS Word for Windows. Main focus is on insertion and maintenance of anchors. Extensive error checking. Hotlinking between files during editing. HTML Builder HTML insertion by highlighting text and clicking on toolbars or menu items. Popup dialogs for attributes. Formerly called Web Spinner. HTML Easy! Easy to use HTML editor supporting many HTML 3.0 and Netscape features. HTML Editor Designed to be as simple and informative as possible. Easy to use design dialogs. HTML hint window. Latest additions include forms and imagemap design dialogs, ability to call browser or image editors. HTML Pad Tag insertion, table editor, supports forms. Background, text, and link color selection and visualization. Character entities supported at keyboard. HTMLed Easy to use HTML editor for Windows. Floating toolbars for foreign characters, customized compound tags. Reads, writes UNIX files, DOS files. Macromedia Backstage Designer A WYSIWYG HTML editor for Windows 95/NT. NetObjects Fusion A WYSIWYG HTML editor for Windows 95/NT. Ned's Speedy HTML Markup Maker Easy-to-use text editor with multiple document user interface. Tags and text are added to documents via buttons on toolbars. Additional toolbars are provided for creating html forms and adding special character entities. It's quick, it's easy, and it's got everything most people will ever need for developing handsome, functional web pages. RTFtoHTML Converter Extremely useful utility for converting existing files saved in RTF format (Microsoft Word files can be saved in the RTF - Rich Text Format) to HTML documents. If images are included in your original document RTFtoHTML saves them out individually. Spider CCI-based editing environment works interactively with Spyglass and NCSA Mosaic for online hyperlinking and viewing. Full validation of HTML via SGML parsing. Supports multiple DTDs. Context-sensitive HTML help. Includes many document templates. Coming 1.1 features: integration with Netscape Navigator, word processing import, toolbar bubble help, enhanced import features, more free home page templates and clip art. Visual HTMLBoard Works with any Windows text editor or WP. A keyboard with HTML tags and a helpbox that describes their functions. As you work, files are organized for easy upload to a web server. Designed to be accessible by people with mobility impairments. Web Publisher Automated production tool for the World Wide Web and HTML. Allows you to seamlessly convert and enhance documents built with standard word processing software. Web Weaver Easy to use HTML authoring tool including many Netscape extensions, HTML code, etc. WEB Wizard: The Duke of URL Interactive home page creation -- you answer it some questions, it builds you an HTML file. Very user-friendly interface. WebAuthor Full HTML 2.0 support including forms. GIF support. Many non-2.0 tags including Netscape and 3.0 recognized. Kenn Nesbitt's WebEdit Includes support for every feature of HTML 1 and 2, plus most of HTML 3. WebElite Fast, intuitive editor that simplifies HTML2.0 and much HTML3, including automatic insertion of character entities, addition of user defined tags, and automated creation of forms and tables. Keeps URL databases for easy insertion. Multi-threaded for fast operation in Windows 3.1 and 95. Documents may be previewed directly in any Web browser, and can communicate with Netscape 1.2 and greater using DDE. Includes syntax checking, long files names, template support for creating boiler-plate text documents, text database import capability and various ways to convert text to HTML automatically. WebText Focus is in merging text files of any size to Web page templates with a minimum of procedures. Maintain and update your page content offline with your favorite word processor, then process pages of absolutely huge proportions in just a few seconds. Ideal for Web administrators looking for a quick and easy way to get lots of information online with the minimum fuss. Also useful for non-programmers who just want a template-based system that does all the thinking for them. File Transfer Protocol Cute FTP Shareware FTP program with an excellent user interface. Telnet CRT Easy to use telnet application with configurable features. Sound Editing Tools Sonic Foundry Sound Forge Sound Editing Tool. Video Tools Adobe Premiere Excellent video editing tool. Miscellaneous Map Edit A graphical editor for World Wide Web image maps. Very simple to use. Web Hotspots An editor for World Wide Web image maps. Color Manipulation Device Useful utility that allows you to specify hexidecimal values in your HTML documents. RGB/Hex Converter Convert RGB values to hexidecimal and vice versa.