Web Page and Site Maintenance Tools

Adobe PageMill

Note: Adobe SiteMill allows Web site maintenance, but it's only for Macs!

Pros:

• WYSIWYG editing of HTML 3 tables, nested tables, full drag-and-drop support.
• Supports frames: Full WYSIWYG support of multiple frames per page.
• Allows Netscape plug-ins
• Textflow around images
• Sound import: Can directly play (or convert) sound files such as AIFF, WAV, SND, and AU.
• Spellchecking: Dictionaries include a "Geektionary" of Internet terms; allows user defined dictionaries.
• "Mastersoft filter library" supported:
• Comprehensive library of file format converters, including the most popular word processing, spreadsheet, and database formats.
• Directly read your Microsoft(R) Word, Wordperfect(R), Excel, dBASE, and comma delimited files into a Web page.
• Direct Excel import:
Automatically creates tables by selecting a cell range in Excel and copy/pasting it into Adobe PageMill.
• Embedded PDF support
• Supports hidden HTML:
• Anchors, hidden fields, comments, placeholders.
• All invisibles can be shown and hidden. Their contents may be edited using the Attribute Inspector (which will have a text field allowing direct editing of comments, placeholders) or HTML source code mode.
• Third-party products can plug into PageMill
• HTML drag flavor supported: Whatever is dropped is interpreted as HTML, glued into the page and immediately displayed as WYSIWYG.
• Document Statistics:
Graphical display of estimated download times for a document or object.
• Remote objects and Java Applets
Objects that only exist across the network can still be inserted into the page and positioned or resized interactively.