Symantec Visual Page v2.0

http://www.symantec.co.uk/region/uk/product/vpage

Platforms: PC, Mac

Price: (CHEST deal) £29

Installation problems: None

Description: Very much a visually-oriented page creation tool, allowing the easy assembly of complex pages

Strengths: Allows direct access to accented characters. Project wizard to define a new site. Comprehensive manual as an Acrobat document. Will link with Visual Café if a Java environment is needed

Comments: Wasn't teamed with the Visual Café Java development environment, which would have given it a more distinctive position in this comparison, since the pairing is very effective if you want to develop client-side Java applets. Most users were neutral towards Visual Page, though the quality of the HTML was criticised - the strings of tags produced might make the Web pages difficult to maintain with another program.