TopStyle Lite is a free version of TopStyle that contains an extremely small subset of the features found in the Pro version of TopStyle. Most importantly, TopStyle Lite is strictly a simple CSS editor, whereas TopStyle Pro is a full-blown XHTML, HTML and CSS editor. However, if all you want is a very basic CSS editor, TopStyle Lite will serve you very well.

TopStyle Lite is a simplified version of its bigger brother, TopStyle. Although it provides a smaller selection of features, it's still a powerful style sheet editor that enables you to confidently and accurately create cascading style sheets, which can then be implemented into your website.

The burden of producing style sheets that are cross-browser compatible is eased by the inclusion of a multi-browser style checker and validator. This not only alerts you to invalid entries in your style sheets, but will highlight any bugs in popular browsers that may affect the style sheets' display.

It can create a basic style sheet from an existing HTML file, and all you need to do is simply apply styles to all the relevant tags in this document. Properties can be altered using the drop-down menus, or through manual entry. Any property that isn't supported by the current CSS definition will be highlighted in red, enabling easy location of errors later on.

The interface is extremely adaptable, enabling you to preview the current style sheet from within the editor itself and locate elements within the style sheet easily and quickly. In fact, TopStyle Lite makes every aspect of CSS creation extremely easy. If you're an old hand at style sheets you'll be surprised at the time this package will save you. And if you're a novice you'll be grateful for its error reporting aspect.

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Having a website is not just a question of creating some HTML documents, uploading them to your web space and then forgetting about it. Websites require certain maintenance tasks and one of them is checking links to make sure they all work and there aren't any broken ones.

This can be a really boring job, but fortunately you can have Xenu Link Sleuth to do it for you. This simple tool grabs a root webpage and scans it thoroughly in order to test every single link and check they all work correctly. You can customize the analysis with filters and also set the number of maximum simultaneous threads, but in any case, be warned that the analysis takes quite a long time. In fact, I was surprised to see the huge amount of links contained in every website I tested the program with.

Once the analysis is finished, the program generates a plain HTML report with results that enables you to check link status on your website.

Xenu Link Sleuth is a simple yet very efficient way to check all the links on your website.

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Adobe's new cross-operating system runtime opens up much more possibilities to both developers and everyday computer users. It allows developers to create new web applications using HTML, XML, Javascript and Flex. What's more they aren't limited to using Adobe's library, but can create, share and use their own to create specific web applications.

For users, it gives access to new and exciting rich internet applications (RIA) which can be run straight from their desktop. These use very little memory, are usually quick to launch and execute and have very smooth animations. A quick visit to the Adobe Showcase Gallery and you get an idea of the sort of applications that are being developed for AIR: a Google Analytics Reporting Suite, a Twitter desktop client, a movie discovery tool and much, much more. The possibilities are endless and really depend on the creativity of developers.

While I've had some errors with AIR, especially when installing new apps, I'm overall very impressed with it. Quietly but surely, we're seeing more and more exciting web applications being developed. Install AIR to be part of the web applications revolution!

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For anyone who doesn’t have any interest in coding from scratch but wants to join the shift away from table based web design and get into Cascading Style Sheets, CSS Tab Designer provides the ideal solution. What you get is a simple interface, with a selection of templates from which to make basic, functional tabbed navigation for your web site. If you expect anything more however, prepare to be disappointed.

When you first open this program, you can check out a sample project, which is a really quick way to play with it and learn what you can do. For the majority of people a quick edit of the IDs is all they will need to be ready to upload to their site. If you decide to start from scratch, you soon reach the point where you’re ready to publish the code, although on the way you may notice the lack of any undo feature or that you can’t “save as”, which makes saving variations more complicated.

Neither of these should upset anyone too much, but one thing that got under our skin was the lack of customization options. CSS Tab Designer doesn’t provide any means by which users can design their own tabs, nor does it even allow you to go in and edit the generated code if you have images and would like to apply them to the same template. In this case you’ve got to open a separate program, such as notepad, and edit the code to point to your own images.

Evidently this software has been designed for beginners, but since it’s free and generates light and easily editable CSS code, it may be of use to anyone working on a web site.

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PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly.

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EclipseStyle releases web developers from the shackles of using Notepad as their CSS editor forever! Now virtually any attribute of a stylesheet, or even a web page, can be updated immediately. Sure, a few stylesheet generators are out there, and they are perfectly fine, if you never want to make any changes, already know the names and values of all of the CSS attributes, and love working with a grid of 100 lists.

EclipseStyle puts other stylesheet editors to shame with its features such as a preview window, intuitive tabbed interface, and much more. It even includes an introduction to stylesheets if you are unfamiliar, as well as complete tutorials and references to the EclipseStyle interface.

EclipseStyle also features a code window for seeing what your style looks like in good old CSS code, automatic organization of your existing stylesheets, and extracting stylesheets from existing web pages. Try EclipseStyle today, and see what stylesheets can do for your website, and how easy they become with EclipseStyle!

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phpBB is a high powered, fully scalable, and highly customizable opne source bulletin board package. The popular tool has a user-friendly interface, simple and straightforward administration panel, and helpful FAQ.

Based on the powerful PHP server language and your choice of MySQL, MS-SQL, PostgreSQL or Access/ODBC database servers, phpBB is the ideal free community solution for all web sites. It allows you to make the forums as large or small as you desire.

Major features:

• Supports popular database servers
• Unlimited forums and posts
• Multiple language interface
• Private or public forums
• Powerful search utility
• Private messaging system
• Complete customisation with templates

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Web Page Tune Up is a free tool for analysing and improving the meta tags and HTML content of a web page, with the objective of helping to improve the search engine ranking of individual web pages. It analyses meta tags and other components of the file, suggesting improvements and providing a simple interface to manage each of these improvements.

Web Page Tune Up is intended for the webmaster who wants to be able to determine keywords and check on possible page problems quickly an easily. No knowledge of HTML is required, so the tool can be used any anyone.

Here’s what this program has to offer:

• Identifies candidate keywords
• Identifies poor keywords
• Allows new keywords and phrases to be added.
• Sorts keywords into optimal ordering
• Updates the meta-tag information for you
• Warns if page lacks a title, description or keywords
• Allows title and description to be edited
• Removes unnecessary HTML that most WYSIWYG editors put in

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Despite its funny name, Dialogoo actually proves to be an easy way of adding a chat service to your website. It contains support for all manner of bells and whistles to get your visitors talking, including support for emoticons, real-time warnings, webcam calls and voice chat. Once registered on the web page of the author you'll be able to use Dialogoo to generate the JavaScript needed to add to your site.

Despite creating well-functioning chat rooms the program doesn't really allow you to fully customise the environment to fit in with the style of your site. It's compatible with both Internet Explorer and Firefox though, and represents a quick way to harbour a community on your website, which, after all is what everyone wants these days.

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Dealing with CSS for the uninitiated can be a daunting if not impossible process. Publishing Astyle CSS is a CSS style sheet publisher which allows you to do it visually and create and publish code from a totally visual interface. You do not have to have any coding knowledge, as it features handle markers, bellboys and squares that to mark and publish with ease.

The application effectively creates "order" from your stylesheets with labels, values, colours, margins, sources, images and other properties. It separates the values of the labels which lends some sort of organisation to the document. Even better, it has a previsualisation window which allows you to see how each element will look in the navigator. You've even got the option to label HTML code as well.

With other useful features such as 'the option to clean up HTML documents via CSS and drag and dropping code into the sheets, this is a very user friendly product. However, you'll need to know a little bit about the world of CSS to get going as the user guide is limited.

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With HTML Fader you can easily create showy color gradation effects in HTML, applicable to the titles and texts of your Web pages. The program incorporates an interface of basic design in which you must both introduce the gradation color values (in RGB) and the text. Then you click the button to generate the HTML, and copy the relevant code so that the color effects appear.

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Ferant DHTML Studio Lite is user friendly, powerful, and immune from popup killers. It allows you to visually integrate your DHTML windows with any project and open several DHTML windows at the same time.

Features:

• Provides rich web content for borders, status bar, and title bar
• Supports non-rectangular DHTML windows
• Can add 3-D effect to DHTML window
• Makes it easy for developers to create their own DHTML window style
• A DHTML window can not be lost behind the parent browser
• Supports got focus and lost focus events
• Fast performance, opening DHTML window does not require slow trip to server

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Use VMenu when you want to add a vertical navigation menu to your site. Due to the possibility to add captions/subcaptions to the menu, you can group items and create large navigation menus with really usable interfaces. Menus created with it are completely based on CSS and do not use scripts that is why they are most attractive for search engines. These menus perfectly work in all modern browsers.

Vertical Menu Builder consists of four sections: Items, Menu Style, Item Style and Output. Use the Items section to add/remove menu items, the Menu Style section to edit the general appearance of the menu, the Item Style section to edit the appearance of menu items and the Output section to get the final HTML/CSS code of the menu.

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Webmedia Explorer is an alternative CMS engine that reads your PC hard disk and generates a website in real time taking advantage of a very powerful rendering and data fetching caching system.

It may work as your web desktop, your mediablog or a very abstract portal engine in which sections or categories are actually real folders. With it, you can do things that with other CMS are inconceivable like moving a whole data tree from one place to another.

You can have all of your data organized in folders but also marked with tags at the same time. Editing tasks are also very simple, as there is no admin interface. Webmedia Explorer uses a simple context menu that simplifies this.

You can do a lot of different things with Webmedia Explorer:

• Have a personal photo album.
• Have a personal media center with all your music and movies.
• Have a blog, be it personal or not.
• Have a bookmark collection.
• Have a web rss reader.

Webmedia Explorer is probably the easiest to install CMS as it doesn't use any general purpose database server. Furthermore, it is very easy to modify due to its object oriented three layer architecture and reduced size. So you can quickly adapt it to your own needs.

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If you've always wanted to try learning Java but have no programming skills, then Javascript Animator Express may be of interest. It allows you to create virtual animations in Java, with no need to program nor a single line of code. Sounds ambitious? It probably is although this program does a respectable job in trying.

Firstly, you will have to choose the images that you want to include in the animations and define how long you want the interval time between the transitions. Creating the animation effect is then just a case of clicking the animate button so you can preview what you've created. If you the images in sequence, you should have yourself a pretty impressive Java animation.

The page generated with the animation also contains a small control panel that enables you to slow down and change the intervals. A useful little program that makes java animations easy but would have been a lot more useful if it included options to create other Java functions.

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ACEMenu is a versatile DHTML menu builder. Create horizontal menu bars, vertical side menus, floating menus and image menus quickly and easily using the menu creator software. Compatible with Netscape, Internet Explorer, Opera, Mozilla, Konqueror and Safari browsers.

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The TomaWeb Image Mapper is a utility that allows you to easily create area maps for the graphics on your website. Features include zoom, HTML code generation and more. Image Mapper works in the browser window. There is no need to upload files to the Net, or even to download the program (although you have the option of doing so, should you wish to create further image maps). To use Image Mapper, you do not need any knowledge of image map HTML code, everything is already created for you. Neither is there any need for an external image-editing program to track your image map coordinates, Image Mapper does it all.

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MySQL is an open source relational database management system (RDBMS) that uses Structured Query Language (SQL), the most popular language for adding, accessing, and processing data in a database. It is downloadable from the mySQL website and tailor it to their needs in accordance with the general public license. MySQL is noted mainly for its speed, reliability, and flexibility.

NOTE: This beta release, as any other pre-production release, should not be installed on production level systems or systems with critical data. It is good practice to back up your data before installing any new version of software.

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Kwizmaker is an easy to use, multiple-choice quiz generator. You decide how many questions to set, how many possible answers to choose from, insert images as required, create HTML quiz page, then preview. It's that easy and it's free for personal use.

The quizzes produced have an onscreen timer with configurable time out. The quizzes self-check to ensure completed entries, calculate perecentage scores, feedback incorrect responses and can submit the results to your server for processing.

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phpFreeChat is a simple, fast, and customizable chat server that uses the filesystem for message and nickname storage. It uses AJAX to smoothly refresh and display the chat zone and the nickname zone. It supports customized CSS stylesheets and a plugin system that allows you to write your own storage routines.

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