Misc. HTML Tools

HTML-Optimizer lets you create web pages that load faster by optimizing both HTML and script code, without corrupting it in the process. It will create a duplicate (optimized) folder of your website, leaving the original files untouched. To speed up the process for larger sites, it offers Smart Handling that will only process the files that have changed. You can customize the optimization settings and choose which options should be applied, exclude folders, specify file extensions to be processed and more. HTML-Optimizer can also encode your mailto tags, reducing the risk of spammer harvesting, and add missing image width and height tags. Additional features include drag and drop, step-by-step wizard and more.

Word Cleaner enables you to batch convert Microsoft Word files (.doc), TXT and RTF to HTML files, including images, tables and other formatting. You can do this in a single file or batch mode, converting entire directories at once. Even though Word already offers a `Save as web page` feature, it is known to clutter your document with MS Word specific styles, that may not be compatible with all browsers, and also add additional size to the file. Word Cleaner not only allows you to perform the conversions, but can also clean the clutter code from files that have been previously converted with the Word feature. It can remove/clean the Word code in different ways that can maintain the style, but use standard CSS instead. The conversion process can be customized in detail by an advanced user.

CHM2HTML Pilot allows you to easily convert CHM documents into a set of nicely formatted HTML files, complete with framed navigation menu. You can select from different menu schemes, select which columns to include and more. CHM2HTML Pilot supports command line, batch mode and optional Explorer integration.

Web Questionnaire enables you to create online surveys or feedback forms without the need for any HTML coding or server side processing. The program creates form pages that are submitted and then sent to your email address. It then collects and analyzes the results from your email program or POP account and creates a statistical report with bar graphs and pie charts that allows you to view the results of the survey. Web Questionnaire includes more than 30 templates that you can customize and also import your own HTML designs. Other features include WYSIWYG form design and editing, personal FAQ library, form validation, and more. Web Questionnaire does not require you to run any scripts on your server, and it does not include any scripts to process the forms. All form processing is done via the author`s web server, which may raise privacy concerns, depending on the content of the forms.

Web Calendar Pad lets you create nice looking calendars that can be used on the web or on your desktop. You can simply add your custom events, select a style and then publish it. If you choose to upload it to a web server, it offers an integrated FTP module to upload the calendar to your site. Even though, the creation of web calendars does not require and HTML knowledge, it offers advanced users to further customize or extend the included templates. Furthermore, Web Calendar Pad allows integration with iCalendar, which allows iCal or Outlook users to subscribe to your calendar. The interface allows you to manage up to 30 calendars (work, home, birthdays etc.) and publish each with individual settings.

AdesClrPicker allows you to pick and collect color values from anywhere on your screen and save them to a custom color library from where you can copy the color code to the clipboard. The program also stores the last 10 color values and makes them accessible from the tray menu. AdesClrPicker can pick HTML, RGB, VB, C++ and Delphi color codes and supports export to Adobe Photoshop.

WinSurvey is a tool to create, publish and analyze online surveys. You can easily create a survey by specifying the questions, answer and answer options, using a WYSIWYG Survey Designer interface. The finished survey can be saved and uploaded to the web or saved locally. The program offers script output in ASP and PHP format and supports MS Access and mySQL database connectivity to an existing database. If you do not have access to PHP or ASP, you can also use the acebit.com survey processor, which does not require the use of any scripts (but you with your email address. In addition to publishing your surveys, WinSurvey also allows you to process the collected data and generate nicely formatted, full color presentations from it, which can also be published to the web or exported. The program is fairly easy to use, however the survey output is in very basic format and cannot be easily customized. Database connectivity is limited to creation of the connection string.

An imagemap editor that emphasizes user-friendliness. With Mapedit you can make client side imagemaps, which work without any special configuration in all modern web browsers. Just open your HTML document directly with Mapedit and start adding hotspots to your image, then hit save to add the imagemap directly to your page. No need for separate map files -- no muss, no fuss.

Connect Daily is a a web based calendar and resource management program that integrates into any web site and allows multiple users to maintain an online calendar with unlimited items. It also supports recurring events handler capable of most any day & date requirements as well as exceptions to recurring events. Integrated RSS feed capability enables you to retrieve XML feeds of calendar events for inclusion in your site. Connect Daily offers different user levels and the option to allow certain calendars to be edited without approval, while others can be edited by users, but entries will only be published after approval by an administrator. The approval processes allow many users to edit calendars, with the assurance that all items added are approved. Additional features include customizable appearance including: colors, fonts, page headers, and page footers; conflict checking, Gantt Chart views and more. Connect Daily can also synchronize with MS Outlook and Palm PDAs. You will download a small installer that then downloads additional components you may need, 2mb - 20 mb.

Quask FormArtist enables you to create advanced, multi-page web forms and surveys with no technical knowledge needed. The forms can be designed from a visual editing interface that allows you to select and insert ready-to-use elements from a library. The created forms have a unique look and support advanced form techniques like image sliders, custom color schemes, picture grids and much more. FormArtist also supports interactive scripting, conditional questions, calculations and many other advanced scripting options as well as embedded forms.

Web Form SPAM Protection enables you to protect your online forms from being exploited for spam sending purposes. The program can load web pages from your local drive or from an online URL and converts the form portions of the HTML code to encrypted Java script, that can be displayed by your browser, but not necessarily used by spam robots. You can then save the protected page as new file (save your original) and upload it to your web site.

Advanced DHTML Popup provides a WYSIWYG interface to design DHTML based popup windows without the need for any coding or knowledge of DHTML/Javascript. You can select from a dozen templates and customize each in appearance and behavior (close, open, mouseover actions etc.), and preview the results while you work on it. The finished popup can then be compiled and the code inserted into your web page. The trial version cannot compile and is limited to internal browser preview.

HTML Image Splitter can take an image and slice it into multiple pieces. You can specify the cut positions and also define URLs that should be launched when users click on the segment. The advantage of slicing the image, rather than using an regular image map is that large images will load significantly faster. The program lets you test the sliced image in your browser before saving. It will then generate all the code and images that are needed for the final result. It supports BMP,JPG,GIF and PNG for input and BMP,JPG and PNG for output (no GIF). Additional feastures include rollover images, batch processing and a built-in HTML editor.

Easy Web Password enables you to password protect your web pages without the need for any server side software or scripting. You can simply select the pages to the protected, set up user accounts and passwords and generate password protected version of your HTML files. When a user tries to access the page(s) he will be shown a login page that prompts for a username and password. Easy Web Password works with HTML and text file and the protection is compatible with all modern web browsers. It can be used for online web pages as well as offline CD/DVD distributions.

TagsLock Pro is a web site content protection tool for webmasters that allows to protect web pages by creating spam-proof email (mailto) links, URLs (a href) as well as source code encryption. In addition, it other several meta tag features as well as options to disable right clicking, off-line viewing and more. The program can also be used to insert copyright notices in all your pages. To insure compatibility, you can define tags or sections to be excluded from processing and encryption. TagsLock Pro also creates backup copies of all modified files, so you can restore them in case of problems.

RTF to XHTML Converter enables you to convert Word, RTF and Text files to HTML and XHTML format, with support CSS style sheets. It supports tables, images, fonts, colors, styles, bullets and more than 15 encoding formats. You can adjust the HTML conversion options and choose between XHTML 1.0 or regular HTML 4.0 output, with or without CSS.

SpreadsheetConverter for HTML (formerly ExcelEverywhere) enables you to easily convert your Excel spreadsheets to interactive HTML pages, that allow the visitor to perform instant calculation based on the dat you provide. The program integrates into the Excel interface and does not require any programming or HTML coding. It supports 140 Excel-functions and the output format can be customized in several ways. The created web page uses Java script, so it is compatible with all modern browsers and does not require any server side installation. Some examples of usage include expense reports, online surveys, order forms, ROI-calculators and more.

HTMLPower is a tool to protect the content of your web page and prevent others from viewing or using your source code. In addition, the program can also help webmasters to prevent spam robots from extracting email addresses from their pages and prevent users from using download robots to harvest the entire web site to their hard drive. HTML Power offers 3 Java Script based encryption methods and a variety of other tweaks that allow you to disable right-clicking, printing and more. Furthermore, you can add header and footer notes to your pages, skip certain tags, add meta tags, password protect pages and more.

Web Cal Plus is an HTML Calendar Generation system, that creates attractive multi-color online calendars, including 12-month year calendars, single month and daily calendars. The program works just like a regular desktop calendar program and with the click of a button, you can generate the set of HTML pages for your calendar, optionally with custom header/footer. You can include recurring events, custom icons, holidays, filter the output based on custom criteria and more. Additional features include a lunar calendar with 8 phases of the moon, support for Jewish calendar with Hebrew month names and more. The program is easy to use and creates nice looking calendar pages, however it cannot upload the files to the web (unless you pay an additional $250)- so you ll need to gather all files from a list and do it yourself.

HTML Guard allows you to prevent people from copying your source code. It does this by encoding the source, leaving it unreadable for the human eye, while still allowing any common browser to show the page like it normally would. The encoded source code will leave your meta tags unchanged in order to allow search engines to still index your site properly. In addition, HTML Guard offers several other features that allow you to apply casual protection features like disabling of text selections, right click menu and printing. The program provides a modern, easy to use interface

Hixus Email Address Protector (formerly 0-code Email Address Protector) allows webmasters to create spam-proof mailto tags, that cannot be harvested by email extraction robots. It encodes the email address into a simple java script, which will work fine with any browser, but not for spam robots. In addition to the Java method, it can also create a GIF, JPG or BMP image for any email address that you type in. This allows you to display an email address that looks like text but is actually an image, which is impossible to harvest with any technique.

Conference-CD allows you to create CD menus that automatically list and organize the files included on the CD, using an alphabetical index that allows to navigate all files and folders on the CD. In addition, it can convert PowerPoint files into HTML presentations (requires MS Powerpoint), and includes a Java search engine, allowing the viewer to search the content of the CD. Conference-CD creates the necessary output files to burn the CD, but does not include burning software.

Express Thumbnail Creator is a powerful, yet easy to use tool, which lets you create image galleries ready to be published on the Web. The program features a wizard-style interface, which makes it manageable and easy to use for virtually anybody, including those, who have no idea of HTML and image processing. Creating a web site is as easy as pressing a few buttons and letting Express Thumbnail Creator do the rest of the job. If you are not satisfied with your new image gallery appearance, you can easily customize every single detail. The program comes packed with a number of website templates and you can easily create your own and save them for future use. Express Thumbnail Creator recognizes all popular image formats and uses advanced algorithms for resizing images and creating thumbnails. If you have some knowledge of HTML, you can customize absolutely everything, including page layouts and style sheets or add links to outside pages and more.

Comparison Chart enables you to create comparison charts, that display differences between products, services or any other item that you want to compare. It provides a WYSIWYG interface that lets you type in the criteria and click a button to insert bullets to indicate availability of features. The finished chart can be saved as JPG or GIF image, or exported to HTML. You can customize the colors of the table rows and background (but not the bullets) and also save your design as custom color scheme. Unfortunately, at a closer look, this program shows several significant flaws and shortcomings. For one the image output is of poor quality, the HTML output is very basic and depreciated, and the colored bullets do not match any custom color schemes. The chart can also be printed, but the print output not customized. If you can live with these flaws, give it a try, otherwise wait for improved versions in the future.

Easy Index Generator enables you to create HTML index files from a directory, containing any type of file. It can output the indexes as simple HTML page or frameset to be used as website navigation map, or in HHC format for use with HTML Help projects. The index can be customized by arranging the items, using icons and some options to configure the HTML output.

HTMLCompact is a powerful HTML compression tool, that uses a Java based compression method to reduce the size of your web pages. You can specify tags to be excluded and also exclude the meta tags from being compressed. The compressed page can be viewed in any Java enabled browser. After compressing a page, it can no longer be edited, so make sure you keep an original copy of your code. HTMLCompact can achieve results from 20% to 80% size decrease, depending on the content of your pages.

HTMLProtector is a tool to protect the content of your web page and prevent others from casually viewing or using your source code. It can also stop spam robots from extracting email addresses from your pages and prevent users from using page downloaders to download your entire web site to their hard drive. HTMLProtector offers 2 Java based encryption methods to choose from and a variety of other little tweaks like right click disable, printing disable and more. You can also password protect your pages, insert copyright information and more.

Using this program, a web page or a website owner is able to protect his HTML page with a password quickly, easily and reliably. Normally, password protection is implemented by server applications, and this is often the preferred way to do it. However, this is not always an option. Most of those using free and/or virtual hosting are deprived of this opportunity, because server hosts prohibit access to web server setup. There exists a vast quantity of programs that implement web pages password protection in a number of ways, but they all are unreliable, as it is enough to view the source code of a page to access its relevant data. Unlike these programs, WebPassword GUARANTEES that a page cannot be accessed without knowledge of a correct password. This is achieved through usage of a strong cryptoalgorithm which cannot be cracked even theoretically within reasonable time limits, provided that the password is long enough (9 characters is sufficient in most cases).

Art HTML Listing creates filtered, sorted, fully customizable directory listings in HTML, XML or text format. It features linear and tree modes as well as a variety of filters and sorting options. The output is fully customizable via templates (8 included). The included templates offer expandable/collapsible tree views, XML style, download directory style and others. Additional features include icon identification for different media types, download time calculation, recursive directory processing and more. Art HTML Listing can also be run from the command line mode for external automation, using Windows Task Scheduler or others.

CoffeeCup Image Mapper enables you to create clickable HTML image maps from GIF, JPG and PNG files. It supports different shapes, mouseover text, link targets and comes with integrated and external browser preview to test your image map. The finished map can be copied to the clipboard or exported to a HTML file. The program can also import existing image map from your web documents, allowing you to edit them and save them back to the file. Other features include zooming for precision mapping, and an image map wizard that can help inexperienced users to create an image map.