My own selection of Internet tools

Sometimes, people ask what tools I use for Internet (both surfing and editing). Here's the list.

Right in the order I use them, here is the list of what applications I run when I connect my Windows PC to the Internet:

• Mail: Pegasus mail for Windows (freeware) is simply the best tool (the most flexible, the most powerful) I could find. It may be too complex for some, but it includes even things you did not dream yet.
  
• Web: Opera (free) is my own way to say NO to Microsoft Internet Explorer with a tool that is more powerful and versatile and even easier to use.
  
• Web: POW! (freeware) is one small little cute piece of software that automatically closes the ads-in-a-window (I hate those ubiquitous little things) that come from many of the free web page providers. It's real fun to see the annoying little windows just flash back into oblivion. But in most case, Opera is not even giving a chance to close the window, Opera will not even let it open.
• Off-line web browsing: Teleport Pro (shareware) that I already presented on this site, eases the collection of a copy of a webs site for off-line browsing.
• Usenet: Gravity newsreader (shareware) allows to run mostly off-line (collecting messages in a small amount of time and then reading, answering, posting while off-line). A great money-saver. But MicroPlanet may have gone under and disappeared now.

When time comes to write down this web site, I use a few other tools.

• HTML editor: DreamWeaver v3 (commercial) is the right web site builder I need in 99% of cases. I specially like the templates that allow to quickly alter the look of a whole web site in a matter of seconds.
• HTML editor: HomeSite (freeware) is the minimal HTML editor. However, it includes every little wizard that you need to create complex structures, but it gives you full control over what you create (you may see it as "giving no assistance to those who do not understand HTML").
  
• HTML editor: 1st Page 2000 (freeware) is a significant progress after HomeSite (shown above). Most important, it supports both HTML v4 and CSS style sheets. Moreover, it integrates a large number of Wizards for automatic code generation.
• Graphic edition : The Castle's SplitImage (freeware) allows to do one important task that is not always available from the other freeware tools: split an image into a <TABLE>. It is fondamental to build a sleek user interface when it is based upon images.
• Page publishing: WS_FTP 32 (freeware) is one of the numerous FTP clients. I've got used to it. Maybe you can find a better one. If you can point me to one that allow to upload pages scattered all over my hard disk (but only those that need it and with minimal button clicking).

Last but not least, for those who share an Internet link (e.g. ADSL, cable modem), I am currently testing Proxy+ (freeware) that is all at the same time a firewall, a proxy server and a mail server. Not bad, eh?

Please, also note that I tend to use freeware tools as far as I can, even if it means that I avoid a few good tools (in this category, I can list the excellent HTML editor Dreamweaver v3.0 that I use professionnally too). But it's not an expensive configuration I can run.

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Other interesting links

Downloads:

• freeware HomeSite v1.2
• freeware WS_FTP v95.07.30

Other pages:

• My comments about Teleport Pro (some time ago)

After updating one of my web sites, I prefer to go and check everything using one of the following:

• Project Cool is a network of websites sharing the common belief that anyone can make a great website if given knowledge, guidance and inspiration. There's something for everyone within, from the first time webmaker to the designer with years of experience.
• Tips Tricks for web design
• NetMechanic - diagnostics
• Link Popularity - verify the visibility of the web site
• Rank This! - verify the visibility of the web site

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