Tools

WEB SITE BUILDERS:

Web Site Templates Starting with a blank page? Try one of the free templates to base your site on.
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HTML Editors

Visicom Media's AceHTML 4 (formerly AceExpert), the latest version of its award-winning Web development tool. Developers around the world now have the choice between the Freeware or Pro versions.
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1st Page 2000 The complete HTML/Script Editor. 1st Page 2000 is an extensive web editor that allows you to build and enhance Web sites. 1st Page contains HTML enhancing tools that bring your existing Web documents to the next level. Thousands of professional web builders are using 1st Page to enhance and build their websites! From beginners to experienced web builders 1st Page suits everyone thanks to its QuickModeSwitchTM feature. Unlike most WYSIWYG editors 1st Page 2000 won't add unwanted junk code. It's a flexible environment that simply aids, creates, enhances and accelerates web development. Thousands of web builders worldwide are taking the move to switch over to 1st Page 2000 to create and manage their web sites.
1st Page 2000 is free, no registration is required.
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WYSIWYG Editors (What You See Is What You Get)

Cool Page 2.1 Cool page is a fast, easy, and creative way for beginners thru intermediate to design and publish an interesting web page in minutes, exactly as you imagined it. Cool Page is unlike any previous web page programs because:
1. Simply drag images, text, animations, backgrounds, etc. to anywhere on the page with pixel-perfect placement. What you see in Cool Page is exactly what visitors to your page will see.
2. Simply drag thumbnail images to your web page. A collection of clipart and animations are included.
3. Retrace your design steps with unlimited undo/redo
4. Pages created with Cool Page are 100% compatible with all standard browsers. You may evaluate Cool Page for an unlimited time. The program is fully functional during this evaluation period, except at 30 days the GIF import feature partially cripples but is still functional.
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Dreamweaver 4: The frogs togs when it come to WYSIWYG, that is why it is not free, but link it with Fireworks 4 and you can create web sites with the best of them!( this site was built with it!) Both available as a fully working 30 day free trial
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WEBMASTERING TOOLS

CGI Scripts:
CGI stands for "Common Gateway Interface" - a term you don't really need to know. In short, CGI defines how web servers and web browsers handle information from HTML forms on web pages. That's simplifying it, but you get the point. In the broader sense, however, the term 'CGI' is often used to mean "any program that runs on a web server and interacts with a web browser". You may hear someone ask, "Where can I get a CGI script to handle this form?" or "Use CGI to do what you need". What they are referring to is a program of some sort that runs on your web server.
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EditPad Lite: A Friendly text editor and very handy scripting tool that has all the basic features a text editor needs. It is available free of charge for non-commercial use.
EditPad is a replacement for the standard Windows NotePad and is ideal for editing CGI or perl scripts.. It runs under Windows 95/98/NT4/2000. No additional DLLs or whatever are required. and has some very interesting features:
EditPad can open as many files at a time as you want.
You change between the open files by clicking on their tabs.
No hassle with heaps of overlapping windows.
If you run EditPad again when there is already an instance running, the file(s) you wish to edit will be opened by the existing EditPad window. This means there will be at most one EditPad window open, which will save you from a lot of task switching. Of course, if you do need more instances, simply pick View|New editor from the menu.
Block functions: save parts of your text to disk and insert a file in the current text Specify many print settings: font, margins, headers/footers, etc.
Option for keeping the EditPad window on top of all other windows.
When you close an unsaved file, EditPad will either warn you, automatically save the file or do nothing. Reopen menu that lists the last 16 files opened.
EditPad puts an icon in the system tray that remains visible, even if EditPad is closed. This way you have easy and fast access to EditPad, without the need to keep it running all the time.
Configure the open and save dialog file filters. EditPad reads UNIX (LF only) and Mac (CR only) text files (in addition to DOS/Win CR+LF files, of course) and can export files to both formats. ROT-13 standard used on the Usenet for making (possibly) offensive texts illegible. ANSI <=> OEM (DOS ASCII) conversion MAPI support for e-mailing texts Easy and working installation and uninstallation.
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WEB PROMOTION

WorldSubmitter
Use their free submitter below to place your site with 10 top search engines or visit their site and submit your URL to over 8000 search engines including many top worldwide search engines/directories as well as Country-specific search engines/directories including Yahoo.It also submits to an amazing 2.72 Million FFA (Free For All) link pages, 96000+ Classified Ads sites and 6400+ Message Boards! All free and no catch ever!
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Get Found
Download this free software and submit your site to over 2400 engines & FAA's!
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Submissioncenter
This "multisubmission" resource is free, always current, and allows you to submit to some of the worlds most traveled search engines instantly. Here are the search engines that this submission center supports. Gaining a top 5 ranking on one or more than one of these search engines will certainly drive significant traffic to your ranked web pages. Altavista, Excite, Go, Google, Hotbot, Infoseek, Lycos, Northern Light, WhatUseek
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