Download/HomepageThis dog keeps getting further ahead of the pack. Aimed at professional
webmasters -- but friendly enough for mere mortals -- the Hot Dog Professional 5 Webmaster
Suite packs in new web development and site management capabilities that are ideal for a
design team environment. It's got a few more megatons of power, too, with enhanced editing
and page-building functions, HTML 4.0 and Dynamic HTML support, and built-in image
manipulation facilities. All this hums along at over twice the loadup speed of version 4,
while page loading inside the program is even faster. Plus, the integrated auto-update
system is more flexible, offering re-get function for broken downloads and user-tailored
download options. Everything needed to develop and manage one or multiple web sites is
rolled into this best-of-breed application. Fire it up and feel the sizzle. It's hot.
Along with the revved-up HotDog Pro 5 editor module, the Webmaster Suite integrates three
popular partner applications for web analysis and link checking (Linkbot) DHTML authoring
(mBed Interactor Lite) and graphics editing (Paint Shop Pro). But SuperToolz plug-in
functions are bundled differently here than from the previous version 4, with a different
API, so don't try to mix-and-match SuperToolz between the two versions (if you have both).
For the version 5 WebMaster Suite, the included SuperToolz are an improved AutoDownloader
(which provides ongoing program update notification and download, with scheduling options
too), Image Mapper (for creating hyperlinked graphics), Link Exchange (for web
advertising), ICQ Panel (for site messaging and chat services), Real Audio/Video (for site
multimedia functions), Bandwidth Buster, (to optimize speed of page loading), Safe Surf
(for site content ratings), Channel Wizard (to add "push" channel buttons, e.g.
PointCast), Button Editor (for converting images into buttons), Table Editor (making
complex table design easy), JavaScript Tools (for snappy Java effects), and Multi File
Find and Replace (enabling global site revisions and publishing).
Among the many other enhancements are the more customizable layout of panels; a new syntax
checker; a 100-entry MultiLine Clipboard; new panels for macros, HTML tags, Internet
sites, Netscape Bookmarks and Internet Explorer Favorites; and a new Web Sites Wizard,
which makes multiple site management a breeze.
The web site management functions offered by HotDog 5 are almost unbelievably easy to use,
and non-proprietary, too. So you can use any HTML pages in your HotDog sites, and it
doesn't effect their useability in their parent programs. You can create web sites from
existing local or remote file structures, and work in a team-based environment with web
site files on a network, with file locking and version control. HotDog's resident Resource
Manager coordinates and tracks all file-revision activities, including dates, who did the
work, task priorities, and more. The FTP capabilities are improved, making site uploads
and downloads a painless one-click operation, using the WebSite Wizard or Internet panel.
Sitewide file management, error checking, link checking and updating, including external
links, can all be done from inside HotDog 5.
A new Multimedia Manager allows thumbnail previewing/browsing through your directories for
images, animations and sounds, plus there's new Xoom clip art included in the version 5
package. And just point the new Thumbnail Page Creation Wizard at a folder full of images
to create instant tables full of thumbnail links. Save yourself lots of cataloging time.
There are further HTML editing and toolbar enhancements, plus color coding options, more
CSS support, rulers, in-line document browser, integrated thesaurus, and the spell-checker
is available in 10 languages. There's also new tutorial and Help guide, so you have a
built-in reference library covering everything from basic operations to the latest HTML
information.
Probably the hardest thing about the WebMaster Suite is describing all its features in
less than 20 pages. What I've described are highlights. If you don't need all the Suite
program components, just download and install only what you need through the
AutoDownloader. You can easily add elements later as your needs change. Current users of
Hot Dog Pro 4.5X can upgrade at a reduced price that's posted at the product web site.
(And for users who don't wish to move up to the Webmaster Suite, the 4.X version will
continue to be supported.) Product support from Sausage is excellent, and it seems they're
always coming up with new Toolz (often free) and improvements in response to what users
ask for.
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