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By CHARLES K. WILSON
Managing Editor
NAPA Valley Register
A week of hard work and your web site is up and running. Now you’re
ready to take it on the road, but the phone line doesn’t work in the conference
room and the files on your laptop are so scattered that you can’t get the
home page completely up much less the whole site.
What’s a web developer to do?
Make it a standalone program with HTML2EXE by Update Computer Services,
a Windows 95/98/NT program that can convert a page or a site into an executable
file that can be used to show your site kiosk fashion or let you put your
site on a promo disk and send it to a potential client.
It takes just a couple of mouse clicks to compile your site. After you
point to the page or home page of the site you wish to turn into a standalone
file and then click “compile” and “build” and HTML2EXE takes care of the
rest.
The program was quick and easy to use. The complete compilation looked
and acted like a web page, but there was no internal file or images, just
one compact file that popped up like a regular web page ... tables and
all.
HTML2EXE (version 2.1) lets users choose a variety of settings that
can protect the work you’ve done from copying. It also includes the capability
to set up a password for the site or for the pages beyond the home page.
Users can also set an expiration date for the project.
One of the small but nice features is the ability to add your logo to
the button bar at the top of the page. That can help users provide an extra
measure of professional presentation.
HTML2EXE will work with background sounds, image files (animated GIFs,
JPGs, PNGs, and BMPs), frames, image maps, long filenames. And though the
program requires Win 95/98/NT to run, the completed file will work
on Windows 3.1 or 3.11. |
