Web Page and Site Maintenance Tools

Netscape Navigator

Pros:

• Integration with Netscape browser and mailer
• Generates HTML 3.2
• WYSIWYG table editing; allows nested tables.
• Allows creation of image maps
• Allows creation of forms
• Integration with Navigator: Click on "edit document" on any Web page to edit it.
• Super, subscripts possible
• Can use http (not just ftp) to upload page to Web server
• Can spawn editor (e.g., Notepad) to edit HTML directly
• Can set properties for various elements (character, paragraph, document, ...)
• Can add document keywords, classification to aid indexing by search engines

Cons:

• If you open an existing document with HTML that is not understood (e.g., with frames), that HTML is deleted from your document!
• No form support
• No spellchecker
• Find function is goofy: always returns to top of page when restarted after an edit, and no global replacement feature
• "Publish" feature only allows ftp'ing one doc (with images) to/from Web site. Cannot automatically tell which files were locally modified an must be uploaded.
• No way to set font family
• Crashes a lot (especially UNIX version)
• UNIX version lacks some features of Windows version
• Undo button won't undo format/style changes