Web Autheroing with Web.Designer
By Forster D. Coburn III
Most of us learned to create Web pages the hard way, using HTML coding in a text editor. While many of the Web-page editors on the market today will let you edit your pages in a more friendly environment than raw HTML coding, they must be used in conjunction with a browser to view the pages. That method of design usually requires frequent switches from the design environment to the browser to check the changes that have been made for errors. But a recent offering from Corel, called
Web.Designer, changes all of that. Web.Designer does everything in its WYSIWYG design environment. Here you can enter text, drag and drop graphics, apply styles, and much more while instantly seeing the changes on screen.
Web.Designer actually consists of three programs: CorelWeb.Designer, CorelWeb.Gallery, and CorelWeb.Transit. The utilities also come with 8000 clip-art images and more than 60 Web-page templates. All of the programs run on Windows 3.1, Windows 95, and Windows NT. They require a 486DX or better processor, 8 MB of RAM, approximately 20 MB of hard disk space, a CD-ROM drive, and VGA graphics.
Inside Web.Designer
Web.Designer is based on the same code as MacroMedia's Backstage line of products. Those looking for capabilities such as back-end linking to databases, object support, and chat rooms may want to look into upgrading to one of the Backstage modules.
