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Most of the software included in the CD is either freeware or shareware. Freeware means just that—it's free (yippee!); shareware, on the other hand, is not free. Shareware used to mean any software offered expressly to be shared between users, but
for some time has meant try-before-you-buy software. The idea of shareware is to allow the user a free trial period of the software (usually 30 days) before requiring that payment be made by those who want to keep it. In other words: try it; if you like
it, buy it.
WinZip brings the convenience of Windows to the use of ZIP files without requiring PKZIP and PKUNZIP (except for special features, like spanning multiple floppies). It features an intuitive point-and-click, drag-and-drop interface for viewing, running,
extracting, adding, deleting, and testing files in archives. ARJ, LZH, and ARC files are supported via external programs. WinZip interfaces to most virus scanners.
With nearly 1,500 acronyms and terms described, defined, and cross-referenced, Free Internet Lexicon and Networking Dictionary for Windows is the only known resource of its kind. A sample of the PC/Internet Lexicon contains the complete Internet Terms
and Internet Acronyms modules, the Top Level Domains List, and way too many smileys. This is a self-extracting, auto-installing EXE file with uninstaller. It's in Windows Help format, with some surprising features.
CuteFTP is one of very few programs that enable novice users to utilize the capabilities of FTP without having to know all the details of the protocol itself. The strongest point of CuteFTP is its capability to gather almost every available bit of
information about files and directory structure of a remote system and present it to the user in an easy-to use file-manager-like browsing screen. CuteFTP will also keep data transfers to a minimum by means of storing all the data it can to a temporary
file. One of the best things about this client is that you don't have to do separate transfers for 7- and 8-bit files—it's automatic.
EWAN (Emulator Without A good Name), is a very easy-to-use Telnet client. This will be useful for accessing rs.internic.net, and for accessing the shell account on your Web server.
Paint Shop Pro is a powerful Windows graphics program that provides painting, photo retouching, image enhancement, editing, and color enhancement functions. An image browser, batch image conversion, image viewing and printing, screen capture, and
scanner support (TWAIN-Compliant) are also provided. Enhance your other applications with Paint Shop Pro's OLE support.
Paint Shop Pro is a raster format image-editing program, a type of software more commonly known as a bitmap editor. Raster image formats break a picture into a grid of equally sized pieces, called pixels, and records color information for each pixel.
Common examples of raster formats include the Windows BMP format and the CompuServe GIF format.
Unlike most bitmap editors, Paint Shop Pro isn't confined to a short list of raster file formats. It provides full support for all of the most popular raster formats, full or partial support for many less popular raster formats, and can read nine meta
and vector image formats. It is also our favorite shareware graphics program. While this isn't nearly as feature-rich as the commercial applications of its type (Photoshop, PhotoPaint, and so on), it's a great start.
WebForms is a World Wide Web forms generator that automatically creates HTML forms and reads their responses, enabling you to conduct surveys, collect orders for your products—anything you can think of! Responses are automatically sent to your
mailbox, then read by WebForms and collected in a response database. It's all controlled by you, and all you need is an e-mail address. NO CGI REQUIRED!
Be aware, though, that this software will sign your HTML (this form created by. . .). This has become a problem with many software applications, but it's simple enough to go back to the raw code and delete this information.
Map This is a program designed to create mapping files for clickable image maps (ISMAPs) for the World Wide Web. This can simplify the process of creating ISMAPs, but you should still understand the code in the map file (which can be created and
accessed via a text editor).
WebMania is a full-featured HTML editor that includes unparalleled support for frames, forms, and now client-side image maps. It also includes 60 user-programmable toolbar buttons, which enable you to add new HTML tags as you learn them, and/or as HTML
standards evolve. This software signs its name in your code. The minimum operating system necessary to run this editor is MS-DOS 3.3.
This reference software, using the Internet RFC as an information base, is a nonline reference library of currently supported HTML elements—their syntax and use. It is extremely helpful in searching for HTML tags or to see which tags are
compatible with which browsers. HTML Library also includes the HTMLib Colour Wizard, which can be used to get an idea of what different color schemes will look like when used in HTML documents (and helps decipher the 6-digit code).
HTML Notepad is an editor with the capability to produce HTML coding for World Wide Web pages. Simple and fast, it comes with full explanation on how to create professional pages. HTML Notepad provides a simple interface for nearly every HTML tag used
by the professional Web page designer. It includes most of the HTML 3.0, Internet Explorer 3.0 & Netscape 3.0 tags. An editor like this is usually our first choice.
GIF Construction Set for Windows is a powerful collection of tools to work with multiple-block GIF files. It will enable you to assemble GIF files containing image blocks, plain text blocks, comment blocks, and control blocks. It includes facilities to
manage palettes and merge multiple GIF files. It will make the extensions of the GIF specification work for you. Among its other functions, GIF Construction Set for Windows can
This is the gif89a animation tool.
The HTML templates on the CD are located in the directory d:\templat (where d is your CD drive). They are meant to serve as examples and to be adapted for your personal