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Daniel's Web (scripts for managing HTML pages, tracking hits, etc.) |
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Earl Hood's (OAC) Home Page (excellent collection of HTML, SGML, Unix, and other tools) |
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Wishing WebSex Plug-In Clusters (commercial package of web site monitoring, statistics, and other utility plug-ins) |
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Agents, Offline Browsers, Page Monitors |
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Folio Web Retriever (downloads web sites into a local "infobase" offering additional advantages, including compression, a search engine, ability to highlight text, add links, user notes; for Windows) (Folio Corp.) |
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The URL-Minder (robot that e-mails you when a page you want to track has changed) |
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WebCompass 2.0 (Internet search agent for Windows; downloadable beta) (Quarterdeck) |
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WebPager 1.0 (free monitoring service for mission-critical web pages: give this Web site your URLs and it will send a message to your pager if your URLs ever get knocked offline) (Televisions Inc.) |
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Web Reception Monitoring Service ("This network of monitoring stations will routinely scan a list of registered URL's, access each one, and record the elapsed time to receive each page . . . resulting statistics are mailed each week to the appropriate Webmaster.") (Timeda |
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Automatic Page & Link Generators |
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ForeFront: GrabNet (unique software that grabs pictures and text from the Web to create "visual URLs" in which the URL is associated with selected graphics and text; for Windows and Mac; downloadable 10-day free trial demo) (ForeFront) |
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HTMLRef: "htmlref.zip" (binary) (runs in DOS environment to scan any .html or .htm file, gather URL's, and output the URL's to a browser-readable HTML file) (download this link) |
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htmltoc (Earl Hood) (Perl program for creating a table of contents using the H1-H6 tages in a set of HTML pages; creates links from the table of contents to the appropriate sections of the original pages) |
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Hypermail (Kevin Hughes) (C-language program to convert UNIX e-mail messages into cross-referenced HTML pages) |
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makehomeidx (indexes home pages on a Unix system; also allows users to mount personal home pages without calling upon the sysadmin) |
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MHonArc (Earl Hood) (Perl program to convert e-mail messages into HTML pages; also builds an index of the messages) |
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WebWhacker (for Windows or Mac) ("tool designed to reduce the user's dependency on an Internet connection. WebWhacker downloads, or "Whacks", single Web pages, groups of pages, or entire Web sites, including text (HTML) and images, and stores them on the local deskt |
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Counters |
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EasyCounter (shell scripts that put a counter on your web page without cgi-bin access by reading the access log and rewriting the page on your server; requires that you have permission to read the access_log on your web server) (Sandra Steingart) |
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HTML Access Counter 4.0 (non-graphical counter for Web pages that will count hits from browsers that do not "get" inline graphics and are thus invisible to most graphical counters; requires permission to install on cgi-bin directory on your server) (George Burgya |
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Statbot , Dave Tubbs (hit counter) |
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Html Validators |
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Weblint Home Page (info and links for Neil Bowers's Weblint HTML validation perl-script program) |
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Link Checkers |
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Anchor Checker (Unix) (program for verifying that links on a page are alive) (George Xie) |
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Linkbot (site management and link verification software for Windows 3.1.x, 95, NT) (Tetranet Software) |
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LINKCHECKER: CyberSpyder (Thomas. A. Aman) |
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MOMspider (spider to check for dead links over whole Web tree) |
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Surflogic LLC, Home of Surfbot |
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Verify Web Links (link-verifier bot; currently verifies only http: links but development plans include ftp: and gopher: links) (Webtest Tool Suite) |
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WebWatch (local-machine-based spider that checks links and generates a report page in HTML) |
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Webxref (Perl program that checks a set of local pages for bad links and missing files) (Rick Jansen) |
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Other |
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CGI Spell (online spell-checker for Web documents; feed it your URL and it will spell check English-language pages; future support for Croatian and German) (Vjekoslav Nesek) |
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ForeFront: GrabNet (unique software that grabs pictures and text from the Web to create "visual URLs" in which the URL is associated with selected graphics and text; for Windows and Mac; downloadable 10-day free trial demo) (ForeFront) |
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HistoryTree ("Netscape add-in that records your web explorations in a tree, not just a list. This lets you visualize what you've seen and instantly jump back to other trains of thought") (SmartBrowser) |
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Hyper-G ("large-scale, distributed, hypermedia information system that runs over the internet. It interoperates with other network tools like gopher, WWW, WAIS and telnet logins"; "provides real hypermedia, supporting tools for structuring, m |
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Lynx-Me (graphical Web page developers can feed their URL to this site to be shown what their page looks like in Lynx) |
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NetCal! ("the Internet and Web's interactive calendar") (iTRIBE) |
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Pobox.com (pay-service offering lifetime e-mail address and permanent URL through URL redirection; small annual fee) |
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The Webhound WWW Interface ("personalized WWW agent that periodically (or on demand) recommends new WWW documents to you based on what WWW documents you have expressed a liking for in the past") (MIT Media Laboratory) |
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WebWhacker (for Windows or Mac) ("tool designed to reduce the user's dependency on an Internet connection. WebWhacker downloads, or "Whacks", single Web pages, groups of pages, or entire Web sites, including text (HTML) and images, and stores them on the local deskt |
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Search Engine Programs |
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Excite for Web Servers 1.0 (downloadable web search engine) (Architext Software) |
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Glimpse (indexing and query engine for Web pages; this is the engine behind Harvest text-search packages) |
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GlimpseHTTP (search engine program for text databases on the Web) (Columbia U.) |
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