Welcome to HTML Utilities v1.1! These will help you in designing web pages.
HTML Utilities include 6 useful programs:

• HTML Color
• HTML Charmap
• HTML Optimizer
• HTML Constructor
• CSS Maker
• HTML Editor

The most common way to assign a color to an element in HTML code is to enter it as a 6-digit hexadecimal number. As you know, in RGB(red-green-blue) color mode each color consists of 3 main colors: red, green and blue. By mixing it, you can get any color you want. For example, by mixing red and green we get yellow. HTML Color is based on the same principle. When you move the three sliders in the top left corner of the main program window, you change the proportion of one of the main colors.

But there is an easier way: you can press the "Choose Color" button and select a color from the standard Windows palette.

If you want to create a new HTML document, simply press "Wizard" button. Select the color you need from "Color" menu, then save the file to disk or copy the result code to clipboard.

The interface of HTML Charmap is very simple: when you click an item from the kist to the left, the necessary code is being displayed in the textbox to the right. Press the "Copy" button to copy it to clipboard, and paste it into your HTML document.

The symbols in HTML are represented by escape-sequences (ES). An ES begins with "&" and ends with a semicolon ";". For example, quotes are represented by the following ES: "

In the other programming languages, the source code is compiled into an .exe or an other file. This operation is inreversible: you cannot de-compile the .exe file into the source code. But in HTML everyone can view and modify the content of a file. But there is a simple way to make your HTML files non-readable by removing "new line" symbols, i.e. by making the text a single line. This page is optimized by HTML Optimizer; use "View Source" command of your browser to see the result. There is no difference for browser beetween new line and a space, so the appearance of the page doesn't change. The exception is the <pre> tag content. If you will try to ptimize the file that contains <pre>, you'll get a message warning you about possible loss of information.

The other advantage of optimizing your files is that their size is being decreased for a little. By the way: you can optimize not only HTML files, but CSS stylesheets too (*.css).

HTML Constructor is a simple program that contains useful parts of HTML code. Did you know, how to make a creeping line, how to make a dropped capital, hor to insert a Flash movie into your page, how to... You'll find all this information in this program.

You can add your own tips. Do the following:

• In the program's folder, find the codes folder.
• There is a lot of files named "1", "2" and so on, and files with a .cmt extension. The first are the tips, the second are the comments.
• In the files without extension, the first line is displayed in the list in the program, the second is name of the tag, in which the code should be inserted, and the thied is the tip itself. If you have, for example 48 files (the last is named "48"), create a file with the name "49" and add there the text as described above.

If you find your tip useful, please send it to me.

Imagine that you have 15 HTML files. The text in these files is of green color – you have used the <font> tag with the "color" atribute. And if you will have to change the design, you will have to edit all the 15 documents. So, there is an easier way: you create a cascade stylesheet (CSS), where you describe all the font properties, and apply this CSS to your documents. Even if you have a single document, it's better to use CSS. In this case, it can be added directly into HTML file. CSS Maker will help you in creating CSS stylesheets.

HTML Editor is the main program in the HTML Utilities. All the other can be started from its "Tools" menu. This editor is so simple in use, that I suppose there is no need to describe it here.

If you want, you can replace notepad.exe in your Windows directory with this program. Please note that if you do so, you'll have to copy all the other HTML Utilities in the same directory.

If you'll find a bug in HTML Utilities, please report it to a-i@bk.ru. At the moment, the known bugs are:

• HTML Editor doesn't work with less than 800*600 monitors. Sorry.
• Sometimes, the text color may change to default. Simply select Edit --> Preferences... and press OK.
• If you press "OK" in preferences dialog, and then File --> New without changing the text, there will be no dialog asking you about saving the changes.

If HTML Editor craches and you haven't save the changes, try to search for a file named "Heditor.tmp.html". It was created when you last selected the "Quick Preview" function.

Download HTML Utilities v1.2 (85 Kb)

HTML Utilities requires the following files: msvbvm60.dll, richtx32.ocx, comdlg32.ocx. Make sure that these files are in Windows, Windows\System or HTML Utilities' folder. You can download these files (If a link doesn't work, try another):

• MSVBVM60.dll (1.3 Mb): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
• RICHTX32.ocx (199 Kb): 1, 2, 3
• MSCOMCTL.ocx (138 Kb): 1, 2, 3, 4

New features & bugfixes

• File --> File info
• Improved "Open" dialog in HTML Optimizer
• New bug: "the program "heditor.exe" has performed an illegal operation and will be shutdown." It occurs when you haven't enough RAM free. Try to unload some other applications.
• Main textbox context menu items: Save, Quick Preview
• Bug fixed: after you opened a document, then created a new one, it was saved into the same file as you opened before. This could cause a loss of information :(. Sorry if it did.
• Insert --> Date & Time
• Other menu
• Undo and Redo functions work as they must.
• List of recent items in File menu; "Clear recent items" button in "Preferences" dialog.
• Some hotkeys added into menus. For example. it's very convenient to press Ctrl+Q instead of going to "Insert" menu and pressing "&quot;".
• More items in "Insert" menu: dash and ampersand.
• Startup performance improved. But now, when you select a tool in "Tools" menu, there will be a small delay.
• When you use Functions --> Case --> Random, be sure that the selected text doesn't contain line breaks. For example, if you will select two paragraphs and use this function, the last character from selected text will be deleted :(. Will be fixed soon.
• The Other->Convert Charsets function has a small bug: it can change the encoding only of 64 (32 small and 32 capital) letters. All the other characters won't be changed :(. So maybe you will have to change some items manually. By the way: the text in HTML Editor can only be displayed in windows charset :(.
• If you open a big file and apply any function like "Convert Charsets" or smth. else, it seems that HTML Editor hangs. Wait for some minutes, he's working... Be patient! On my PII-350 with 128 Mb RAM the speed of charsets convertions is about 10 Kb/min.