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NOTE: The Spider Writer product is no longer being actively developed or supported.
Spider Writer HTML Editor
Feature Summary List
Below is a list of some of the features you'll find in Spider Writer.
You can also take a product tour of the Spider Writer suite.
Of course, the best way to see its features in action is to
download the evaluation copy.
Spider Writer is the product of intense collaboration by professional web developers.
We try to keep in close contact with you, our users, in order to provide you with the
best system on the market which suits your needs.
Visit the support forums to suggest new features
or request product support.
New or improved features in version 5.x are displayed in bold face.
Intuitive User Interface
- Easy-to-learn, uncluttered user interface
- Drag-and-drop dockable customizable toolbars
- Four main workspace views
- Document Source
- Multi-tabbed editor toolbar
- Optional split-screen browser with automatic refresh capabilities
- Seven drag-and-drop dockable sidebars
- Tag attributes editor
- Local files
- Environment (projects, Visual SourceSafe integration, data connections)
- Tasks
- Script outline (type library and object model enumeration)
- Code snippets
- Results (syntax checking results, thumbnail image viewer)
- WYSIWYG Design View
- Complete WYSIWYG HTML editor
- Seamlessly works with Document Source view
- 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, or full screen modes
- Horizontal and vertical rulers
- Web View
- Full-featured web browser
- 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, or full screen modes
- Horizontal and vertical rulers
- Document Summary
- Document statistics
- Dependency list
- Document weight
- Download times
- Link verification
- Jump to dependency
- Context-sensitive tag help
- Start Page
- Customizable menus
- Customizable keyboard shortcuts
- Netscape integration
- Easy access to user-defined external applications
- Full screen mode
- Tag dialogs
- AutoBackup for automatically backing up documents
- Multi-monitor support
Powerful Editing Environment
- Instant customizable syntax highlighting of HTML, ASP, JavaScript, VBScript, CSS, XML, Perl, CFML, SQL, PHP
- IntelliPrompt displays popup lists and tooltips for HTML tags, attributes, CSS properties, ASP objects, CFML tags and attributes, JavaScript objects, and the DHTML object model
- New document dialog for selecting wizards or templates
- Check for modified documents when returning focus to application
- Open multiple files from the Open dialog
- Sophisticated color picking dialog with support for browser-safe colors and custom palettes
- Unlimited undo/redo levels
- Line numbers, bookmarks, and control character display
- Spell checking, LiveSpell, word spelling suggestions, thesaurus
- Tag, tag block selection, indent, unindent
- Find matching symbol
- Convert selection to list or table
- Multiple-line global find/replace
- Goto next/previous tag, BODY tag, HEAD tag, next/previous document, etc.
- Special characters
- Syntax checking using integrated HTMLTidy
- Open from the web
- Convert text file
- Convert RTF file
- Convert tag case
- Beautification and compression of code
- AutoReplace
- Multiple time/date format insertion options
- Drag and drop support
- Customizable common font faces
- Save and publish in Windows, UNIX and Macintosh file formats
Impressive Environment Features
- Environment sidebar
- Spider Writer Projects
- New Project Wizard helps create projects
- Synchronization Wizard aids in managing project files
- Publish Wizard
- Publishes to local directories and remote servers
- Time/date stamp inserts
- File inserts
- Route project document browses through a URL
- Visual SourceSafe Projects
- Visual SourceSafe Project Wizard helps to connect to SourceSafe projects
- Full source/versioning control with check in/out features
- Data Connections
- Connect to ODBC, Jet, SQL Server, and Oracle databases
- List stored procedures, procedure parameters, tables, table columns, views, and view columns of databases
- Create two varieties of SQL queries with one click (for VBScript ASP, JScript ASP, and CFML)
Time-Saving Tools
- FTP Client
- Image Mapper
- Style Editor
- Syntax Editor
- Find in Files
- Button Wizard
- Calendar Wizard
- Channel Wizard
- Form Wizard
- Frame Wizard
- Glossary of Terms Wizard
- Gradient
Text
Color
Wizard
- Internet Ratings Wizard
- List Wizard
- Meta Tag Wizard
- MoneyMaker Wizard
- Photo Album Wizard
- Quick Start Wizard
- Script Wizard
- SQL Query Builder
- Table Wizard
- HTML Reference
- CSS Reference
- Search for new Spider Writer versions
| System Requirements |
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| Windows 95, 98, Me, NT4, or 2000 |
| 800x600 minimum screen resolution (higher recommended) |
| 24MB of RAM (32 or higher recommended) |
| Internet Explorer 4.01 or higher (5.x recommended) |
| Optional System Requirements |
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| Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher required for Find in Files application |
| Microsoft Word required for Thesaurus |
| Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 2.5 or higher required for database connectivity features |
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