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Once the web site is complete the next important task is to publish it on the web. As a single web site can contain lots of HTML documents rich in multimedia content, hyperlinks and other real time resources it is quite difficult to manage the whole structure and publish each document on the World Wide Web perfectly. Thus in order to make the web publishing easy different companies has come up with a number of web publishing softwares which offer a large number of options and tools. Below are some of the popular web publishing tools:
Netscape Navigator Gold: It offers a visual editing environment that is same as a web page so that the user can edit and publish his HTML documents without getting confused. Netscape Navigator Gold includes a number of formatting tools, menu designers and text editors. Right from the visual appearance to directory structure management, the Navigator Gold is able to handle everything smoothly.
Backstage Desktop Studio: This one is developed by Macromedia and consists of a complete suite of web publishing tools to assemble and manage end-to-end HTML documents. The Backstage Desktop Studio specializes in Web authoring. It features WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) interface which makes it easy to design the web page. Apart from this the desktop studio offers dynamic options for site management.
Page Mill and Site Mill: Both Page Mill and Site Mill are the excellent tools for web page design and publishing created by Adobe. Most of the features of these two applications are similar in nature and thus one can use any of them in place of each other.
The Site Mill is a perfect choice for managing and editing the HTML documents. It records the whole structure of the web site and checks each hyperlink for its reliability and functionality and the remaining content whether in the form of text or images, and displays all the errors.
The Page Mill can be used in two different modes, i.e. Browse Mode and Edit Mode. The Browse Mode is the default mode of the application and it allows you to view your page in exactly the same manner it will look on the web. In the Edit Mode you can make the necessary changes to your web site. Page Mill supports a variety of operations such as cut, copy, paste, RTF (Rich Text Format) support, image editing, hyperlink management, site map management, image maps management, web site navigation management, style sheets handling, form, frames, tables and much more.
Apart from all these applications there are other tools also which provides awesome options for editing and managing the HTML documents. Some of them are Adobe GoLive, HotDog, HotDog Pro, HoTMetal, HoTMetal Pro etc. All of them are equipped with the WYSIWYG feature. However there are some differences among them with respect to the Operating System needed, supported file extensions, processing speed etc. One can make use of any one or more depending upon his/her needs.