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Software for Building Web Pages

• Microsoft Word using "Save as HTML" option.
• Pro - already available to us.
• Con - Makes web pages that might not view properly (or "as well") with browsers other than Internet Explorer.
• Netscape Composer - ver. 4.x on ERAU systems
• Pro - already available
• Con - Somewhat out of date, but still makes good simple pages.
• Microsoft Frontpage
  
• Pro - Available to University community (home and work)
• Con -  Makes web pages that might not view properly (or "as well") with browsers other than Internet Explorer..
• Mozilla Composer - freely available from http://mozilla.org/
  
• Pro - Freely available, based on Netscape core technology; good for new user.
  
• Con - Less features than Frontpage

Software for Working with Images

• Microsoft Photo Editor

• Pro - Easy to use, comes with MS Office.  Note: No longer installed without doing a custom installation.
• Con - Current versions of MS Office require the user to explicitly install this component.
• Con - Not all image formats are supported, but many are making it adequate for most users.

• Irfan

• Pro - Free, powerful, able to handle many image types and work on groups of files to perform the same process.
• Con - No-frills packaging.
  
• IrfanView 3.8 - available from CNET's Download.com
  
• http://download.com.com/3000-2192-10180889.html
  

• ImageMagick 
  

• Pro - Free, very powerful
• Con - Some image types may need additional components before they can be handled.
• XP, Win2K, WinME, NT, Win98, Win95 Install:  Download one of :
• For 24/32 bit graphics (good for most of us)
  ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/binaries/ImageMagick-5.5.7-Q8-windows-dll.exe
  
• For advanced 48/64 bit graphics (you know if you need this)
  ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/binaries/ImageMagick-5.5.7-Q16-windows-dll.exe
• The software homepage, which should be used for future downloads, can be found at:
  
• http://www.imagemagick.org/

• AFPL Ghostscript  and GSview 

• http://www.cs.wisc.edu/%7Eghost/doc/AFPL/index.htm
  
• for Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 or XP
• You will need to obtain and run the self-extracting EXE
  
• gs811w32.exe, AFPL Ghostscript 8.11 for Win32 8375296 bytes
  
• You can unzip with WinZip or a similar program if you want to check the contents.
  
• It is recommended that you also install GSview, a graphical interface to Ghostscript.
  
• gsv44w32.exe, GSview 4.4 for Win32 1570816 bytes
  

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