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Jason Hart
Digital Government
HomeSite adds finishing touch to a page
Pros and cons: + Good tools that don't get in the way + Easy transition to XML tagging – Short on project-management features Real-life requirements: Win95 or Windows NT, 5M free storage, CD-ROM drive if purchased on CD Point-and-click Web editors such as Microsoft FrontPage or Adobe PageMill are great for making pages fast, but you rarely get exactly what you want.
- By Jason Hart, GCN
Digital Government
Packages help create art for Web pages
Users who only occasionally create Web graphics will like Ulead PhotoImpact the best. High on everyone's hate list is the Program Shuffle. The shuffle keeps Web graphics designers doing constant calisthenics. It goes something like this: Create text along a path in Adobe Illustrator. Import it into Adobe Photoshop. Whoops, not quite right, go back to Illustrator.
- By Jason Hart, GCN
Digital Government
GIF animation breathes life into dull site
Webmasters everywhere are busy livening their sites with spinning, sparkling multimedia through Macromedia ShockWave, Java and Dynamic Hypertext Markup Language. These and a slew of other new World Wide Web technologies add glitz at a price: They force visitors to keep downloading new plug-ins and browsers. Most agency webmasters are understandably reluctant to impose this kind of burden on the public.
- By Jason Hart, GCN
Digital Government
Dreamweaver brings ease to HTML coding
Just when you thought you had Hypertext Markup Language authoring down pat, the World Wide Web Consortium goes and changes it. The latest HTML specification, Dynamic HTML, promises slicker presentation, tighter browser integration and multimedia without plug-in hassles. Although DHTML can be complicated, its blend of JavaScript, style sheets and HTML may do wonderful things for your Web site.
- By Jason Hart, GCN
