HotDog Professional
5.5
Created for Professional Webmasters, the HotDog Professional
5.5 Webmaster Suite delivers the most comprehensive combination
of Web development tools ever. Boasting major enhancements in power,
flexibility and functionality, the upgrade includes a revamped shell,
more customizability, better internet connectivity, extensive Web
site management facilities and major performance improvements.
Powerful
Overall
- Twice as fast to load and three times quicker to open
documents than HotDog 4
- Super charged HTML Editor engine and Web site management
facilities
- Includes total solutions for Dynamic HTML, site management,
reporting, image manipulation and a large selection of SuperToolz
plug-in component functionality
Basic Editor Functions
- Supports proportional fonts and full color customization
- Supports multi-byte and multi-lingual character sets
- Customizable Syntax Highlighting
- Customizable Tag Highlighting
- Error Highlighting
- Correct line number Word-wrap
- Hidden characters
- Overtype mode
- Ability to save as Windows, Macintosh or UNIX file formats
Advanced Editor Functions
Split-view Editing
- In ROVER view edit Web pages and watch changes appear on
the fly
- Browse the Web in the on-the-fly preview window, download
any remote page being viewed and open the source in a new editor
document
- Use rulers to set widths to target browser resolution
Flexible
Overall
- Complete control over code – create Web pages for all browsers
- Allows site authors to work in an unrestricted environment
without restrictions imposed by product developers
- No proprietary formats – just regular files presented in
a way that is easy to use and understand
Choose the Code to Create
- Tags Filter, Syntax checking based upon user-specified browser
support
- Create custom tag libraries
Customizable Interface
- Detailed Preferences allow the program to behave to suit
the individual
- Drag and Drop Resource Panels
- Customizable Toolbars
- Customizable shortcut keys for all Tags and Macros
Advanced HTML Properties
Multi-document and Multi-user
Web Site Management
- Any file structure, on any computer can be defined as a
HotDog WebSite
- HotDog WebSites support multi-user editing environments
with file-locking and Groupware Tasking and Notes
- Enjoy site-wide file checking, editing and replacing functions
without the need for specialized Web servers or proprietary
formats
Functional
Overall
- HotDog Professional 5 Webmaster Suite is jam packed with
more functionality than any other editor on the market
- Even old hands find cool new things every day
- Every problem that professional Webmasters face, HotDog
has an answer
All the Essential Functions
Needed in an HTML Editor
- Intelligent helpful interfaces to everyday HTML editor functions
- Wizards for laborious tasks
- Resource Panels contain pockets of functionality to aid
with every task that a Webmaster faces as they create, edit,
maintain and manage their Web sites
Best-of-breed Partner
Applications
- Interactor for HotDog puts Dynamic HTML at the Webmaster’s
fingertips. Create interactive multimedia for the Web with ease
- Linkbot for HotDog provides site reporting at its best –
instantly find all of a site’s problems and weaknesses with
suggested resolutions for those issues
- Paint Shop Pro for HotDog, the most popular image manipulation
package in the world. Accomplish anything needed visually with
this critically renowned package
SuperToolz
- 12 free plug-in applications for all those specialty tasks
that crop up – new additions to the SuperToolz line available
regularly
- The AutoDownloader automatically informs, downloads and
installs new plug-ins or updates
- Includes Smart Update facility to grab only the necessary
files and Smart Resume if the download fails during installation
Interactor
For HotDog
 Interactor is an easy-to-use authoring
tool that uses Dynamic HTML to make a Webmaster’s site come alive
with animation, sound, and interactivity. Interactor’s features
are listed below:
- Sprite. The Sprite Player automatically flips images
based on time intervals or direction of movement
- Path. The Path Player moves images over Bezier curves
including acceleration/deceleration and scaling
- Button. The Button Player handles image flipping
on mouseover and mousedown events and can automatically synchronize
properties of other players or post values to a server
- Text. The Text Player displays automatically anti-aliased
text which can even be entered by the user using any image as
an insertion cursor
Sprites
- Box. The Box Player provides a simple box graphic
with no download
- Score. The Score Player directs actions over a timeline
including the ability to synchronize with other players and
be embedded within other scores
- Sound. The Sound Player plays .WAV and .AU files
and loops them for bandwidth-saving effects
- Awesome Capabilities. Data from Players can be posted
to servers to create rich interactive forms. Drag and Drop applications
can be made with the draggable properties of visible objects.
Players can be loaded with data at runtime in response to user
actions or over time. The contents of text fields, pictures,
and sublets can be scrolled
Linkbot
For HotDog
 Linkbot is an award winning suite of site
management utilities which allow Web authors to test, maintain and
organize their sites more effectively and with less fuss. Locate
broken links, visualize site structure, isolate bottlenecks and
schedule analyses to automate routine maintenance. Linkbot contains
all the tools Webmasters need to automate site management and maintain
error-free sites.
- Find and repair dead links. Improve the quality of
a site by cleaning up bugs
- Find unused orphan files. Recover disk space by cleaning
server of files that are no longer linked to
- Find stale content. Identify pages that have not
been updated recently and may not be accurate any longer
- Locate slow pages. Ensure that users with slow connections
can access content quickly
Find and Repair Dead Links
- Find pages missing titles. Pages without titles will
not display correctly in browsers and search engine query results,
thus it’s essential that they’re tracked down and corrected
- Support for work groups. Produce separate reports
for subsections of the site belonging to a specific author
- Interactive site mapping. Explore the structure and
organization of a site in Linkbot's Windows Explorer-style interface
- HTML Reports. Automatically generate HTML reports
detailing the sites major problem areas
- Multi-task scanning. Scan large sites quickly by
processing up to 30 URLs at a time
- Automated scheduling. Schedule Linkbot to scan the
site a regular intervals and to automatically generate HTML
reports
Paint Shop
Pro For HotDog
 Paint Shop Pro is a full featured
graphics program for image creation, viewing, and manipulation.
Paint Shop Pro provides a rich and extensive set of tools for photo
retouching, painting, and image and color enhancement in graphic
design applications of all kinds. Paint Shop Pro has an intuitive
and easy-to-use interface to make it quicker and easier than ever
to create and edit images and photos for presentation and Web graphics.
- Photo Retouching. All the power necessary to enhance
existing images. Use the clone brush for quick and easy duplication
of image areas, even from one image to another! The retouching
tool allows easy alteration of images
- Color Adjustments. Paint Shop Pro allows every aspect
of an image’s color levels to be adjusted. Palette editing and
direct palette mapping make global color changes to multiple
images. Equalize and stretch an image’s RGB and luminance values
with powerful histogram functions; view the results in an enhanced
histogram window!
- Image Enhancements. Easily flip, mirror, rotate and
crop graphics, or even combine two images together with the
powerful Image Arithmetic function. Paint Shop Pro includes
21 image filters and 11 deformations, and supports external
plug-in filters such as Kai’s Power Tools and Alien Skin Eye
Candy. Even create individual custom filters!
Paint Shop Pro
- Web Graphics Support. Creating a graphic for the
World Wide Web couldn’t be any easier than with Paint Shop Pro.
Simply create a graphic, then save it for World Wide Web use.
Paint Shop Pro fully supports the Transparent GIF, Transparent
PNG and Progressive JPEG file formats popularly used for web
page development
- Image Viewing and Printing. View multiple images
at the same time with Paint Shop Pro’s extensive viewing capabilities.
Edit an image at the pixel level and also view changes at actual
size! Maximize workspace with full-screen editing and preview
modes. Paint Shop Pro fully supports any Windows-compatible
printer
- Powerful Utilities. Paint Shop Pro’s thumbnail browser
allows visual searching of directories for images – simply select
the appropriate thumbnail to load an image for editing. A useful
screen capturing function automatically opens screen captures
as new images for easy editing
- File Format Support. Features support for over 40
file formats
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