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Web-Related Software

Legend: (M)=Macintosh, (W)=Windows, (U)=Unix, (*)=NIH site-license agreement (see Software Distribution Project for information on software downloads)

HTML Editors
 Microsoft Word
HTML export capability for very basic web pages
 BBEdit (M), Homesite (W)
Powerful text editors with HTML extensions
 Microsoft FrontPage (M, W)
Popular editor package; utilizes Front Page extensions that can run on certain web servers
 Adobe PageMill (M, W)
Incorporates both HTML creation and some site management capabilities
 Macromedia Dreamweaver (M, W)
Features support for cascading style sheets and dynamic HTML
 NetObjects Fusion (M, W), GoLive CyberStudio (M)
High-end HTML editor/site management tools

Web Server Software
 Microsoft Internet Information Server (W,*)
Comes bundled with NT Server; support for Active Server Pages and BackOffice
 Netscape Enterprise Server (W,U)
Support for Windows NT and Unix platforms; includes messaging and workgroup tools
 O'Reilly Website Professional (W)
Alternative web serving software for Windows users
 Apache (W,U)
Free ,powerful, popular Unix-based server: version also available for NT
 WebStar (M,*)
Macintosh-based web server with extensible plug-in architecture
 QuidProQuo (M)
Low-cost web server compatible with WebStar plug-ins

Application Development Tools
 Cold Fusion (W,U)
Another rapid application development tool; uses Cold Fusion Markup Language (CFML) as the tagged-based syntax.
 FileMaker 5.5 (M,W*)
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 Microsoft Active Server Pages (W*)
A server-side scripting environment based on VBScript; only runs on IIS. The scripting environment comes with NT Server; however, you may want to purchase Visual InterDev for a more user-friendly environment.


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