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No Code: the new Web-site publishersThey're sometimes called what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) tools. That's a misnomer, since browsers like Netscape and Internet Explorer almost never display the page exactly the way these programs do; better to call them no-code tools. But the new generation of Web page authoring tools will save you from having to learn HTML code, and allow you to see your pages as you create them, rather like a desk-top publishing program. Over the next months and years, these no-code tools will bring countless thousands of new users into the Web-site creation game. They will also be increasingly used to create an organisation's intranet. Windows users right now can chose from at least seven of these tools - the freeware AOLPress, Netscape Navigator Gold, Claris Home Page, Macromedia Backstage Designer, Microsoft's FrontPage and Publisher 97, and a product from Corel called Web.Designer (Web.Designer comes on its own, or as part of Corel's biggest Web package to date - the Web.Graphics Suite.) Lighthouse has so far reviewed six of these products - Claris Home Page 2.0,the Microsoft FrontPage 97 beta release, Microsoft Publisher 97, the Corel Web.Graphics Suite, AOLPress and Netscape Navigator Gold 3.0. And AOLPress remains hard to beat for beginners, largely because it is free. Beginners who want to understand the HTML code behind Web pages may benefit from another product, HiTMeLive! Once you equip yourself with one of these programs, you'll probably want to add some graphics. That's the topic explored in Lighthouse's graphics section. |
  
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