The freeware version of Bare Bones' popular HTML/text editor, BBEdit Lite (last mentioned in the August 20, 1999 Scout Report) is a good option for those who want a powerful text editor but don't necessarily want to pay for it. Version 6.1, released May 31, 2001, features a number of improvements from 4.6, the last publicly available version, including the ability to run natively on OS X, support...

Big Brother is an easy to use tool for fast and efficient site hyperlink checks. This Macintosh shareware (cost of $10) was developed by Franois Pottier, a theoretical computer science student at Projet Cristal, INRIA (The French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control). All that Big Brother requires is a URL and it takes care of the rest. The output includes a detailed...

BlackWidow (Version 4.1 originally reviewed) is a powerful Website scanning tool and an offline browser. It allows users to download an entire site -- including HTML files, images, cgi files, and more -- with the site structure intact. The intuitive, explorer-style interface makes BlackWidow easy to navigate, and users can specify the depth to download, the file types and sizes, wildcards, etc....

JChecker is a compact shareware utility that offers HTML validation and link checking capabilities as well as some other nice touches for Macintosh OS 8.x. (There is no 68K version.) In addition to checking HTML syntax and links, JChecker also has a Beautify HTML function which organizes HTML pages hierarchically, numbers code lines, and color-codes different HTML components. The Minimize HTML...

NetObjects Fusion is a cross-platform website creation and management tool that takes a site-oriented approach rather than simply being a page editor. NetObjects Fusion allows authors to create the site structure visually, make global changes, automatically update links, and construct and organize the individual pages without writing HTML. Once the site is designed, the entire site structure and...

C|net's TechRepublic is a convenient, one stop compendium of its web developer information. Articles from various c|net locations are compiled in the topics of web authoring, graphics and design, servers, hosting & hardware, and marketing and management. Latest articles appear at the top of the page in a section called Top of the Stack. Builder News compiles relevant articles from News.com (...

WebEQ 2.0 is a package of Java applets that allow the user to easily incorporate complex mathematical notation into HTML documents. The package supports the WebTeX mark-up language which is similar to LaTeX, but based on MathML, the proposed HTML mathematical mark-up standard. The language is easy-to-learn, especially for those who have had LaTeX experience. The WebEQ engine will be able to...