TECHNICAL SUPPORT

World Wide Web applications are interactive access programs that can be utilized to access data from the web, FTP, gopher, and telnet applications, to name a few. WWW browsers have graphical interfaces and display pictures; in addition, applications viewed through browsers will become "point and click" applications.

File Transfer Protocol is the ability to send and receive files from other computers. FTP programs vary widely in their features, from simple programs that let you select a file and tell it where to upload to, to programs that let you schedule uploads and downloads and more. As with most programs, make sure you get one that does what you need but don't bother with a ton of features you'll never use!

HTML Editors

Hyper-Text Markup Language is the language used for writing pages for the World Wide Web. HTML Editors assist the author by providing buttons and icons that insert the necessary tags.

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Image Editors
Image editors are the various programs you can use to change your images in any way. From simple conversion programs to advanced special effects, you can find it here.

Animated (Moving) GIFs
Animated graphics have become the standard on most web pages. In this section, you will find an assortment of programs designed specifically to create and edit these animations.

Image Mappers
These programs assist you in creating clickable image maps, where the visitor can click on different areas of an image to go to different links. Most modern web browsers support the "client-side image maps" that these programs generate.

Would you like to know who has visited your site, get charts and graphs of visits? If so, then this section is for you. These applications provide basic HTTPD log analysis, reporting and more.

Archiving utilities allow an individual to compress/decompress files, making them smaller for uploading, downloading, putting on disk, etc. To decompress the file, you usually need a decompression program of the same format, to expand the files and make them usable again. There are many different formats of compression which vary in popularity. Currently ZIP is the most popular, but other formats such as ARJ, RAR, and even LHA and ARC have their adherents.