We've reviewed earlier versions of the Opera Web browser. In fact we first reviewed version 3. It's come a long way since then, but the basic premise remains the same; Opera is a compact, full-featured browser ...

PHP is now overtaking ASP as the most popular scripting language on the Web (according to Zend), and it's odd to think of all those sites being developed with little more than a programmer's text editor. ...

It's not immediately clear from this product's strapline - "Create and publish interactive content on your website" - what it does. In fact, it's a means of making Web images and photographs of a particular object ...

To some people this will be a statement of the obvious, but... graphic design of Web pages is not as easy as it looks. Getting the right balance between download speed, aesthetically pleasing design and functionality ...

Serif's Internet Design Suite incorporates three of the company's design-oriented products; WebPlus 7 home page creator, PhotoPlus 6 image editing package and 3DPlus 2, which generates 3D effects for logos and text headings. Together they represent ...

Macromedia's Studio MX consists of the latest "MX" versions of the company's Dreamweaver web authoring and development package, Fireworks web graphics editor and Flash authoring program, not to mention a copy of the FreeHand 10 illustration ...

The e-commerce software scene has stagnated a bit of late and there seem to have been few noteworthy releases in the off-line catalogue builder genre. But while the main players have been busy consolidating position, it ...

WS_FTP is the daddy of FTP software. It's been around for donkeys' years, back when the Internet was just fields. We used the old 16-bit version on a 486 notebook to transfer files to our first ...

We've reviewed earlier versions of Opera in the past (such as this one). Suffice to say it's a small (3MB download) and fast Web browser that's not free - it's either advertisement-supported or paid-for and has ...

Designing graphics for Web pages is not easy. Getting the right balance between file size (and therefore download speed) and quality is hard enough, while matching colours and creating a clean navigation system is considerably harder. ...

Taking a slightly different approach to Actinic, ecBuilder Pro offers a very simple, wizard-based approach that's ideal for the first time Web merchant. You simply complete the details required for your Web site a page at ...

Store4WEB is another perfectly straightforward example of a shrink-wrapped catalogue-building tool, but you actually pay for the product by rolling six-monthly subscription. Again, the emphasis is on simplicity, the software consisting of just one screen with ...

Although still a Web shop and online catalogue builder, Erol is very different to the other products reviewed here. Erol takes a page-based approach to developing your site. This means you can put any type of ...

What we have here is a very easy to use piece of software, like ecBuilder. If anything though, eGenie is even more simplistic. As you click an entry on the tree-like display, so the window alongside ...

Probably one of the best-known offline PC-based shop builders, Actinic Catalog is a good place to start whether you are a developer or an end user. Look and feel is based around a tree-like display, showing ...

Although you get a comprehensive Web shop catalogue builder when you buy into AccessweB, you also get the beginnings of true e-business. This is because AccessweB can be linked into a back-office accounting system to provide ...

One of the problems of running a Web site - arguably the biggest problem, in fact - is letting people know that it's there. You can spend loads on marketing, but ultimately it's the search engines ...

Macromedia Dreamweaver has a well-deserved reputation for being a capable Web design package, and contains support for both graphical design and direct coding of HTML. It also has some site management features and integration with sister ...

Yap stands for 'your alternative phone'. It's a complete package to get your PC going with Net2Phone's Internet phone service. The lure is discounted and even free long distance and international phone calls. You can call ...

Allaire's HomeSite 4.5 is one of the better known Web authoring suites currently on the market. Like Microsoft's FrontPage, it is much more than a simple HTML editor, and includes design tools, support for various types ...