What's a good 68k app for building web pages?

[Shinobi Kenobi]

I never tried to make a web page on a 68k Mac, so I think it would be fun to try. I know Netscape Navigator 4.x has a built-in web page builder, but I don't like it. Dreamweaver doesn't work on a 68k. Has anyone here done this on a 68k before? Any recommendations?

 

[robin-fo]

Claris HomePage might be 68k

 

[Shinobi Kenobi]

I'll try that, thanks

 

[chelseayr]

yeah claris homepage was very much a 68k app to the end (or at least as per 3.0) afaik

 

[Shinobi Kenobi]

It works pretty good, thanks again

 

[ClassicGuyPhilly]

Sorry missed you didn't like Netscape

 

[Shinobi Kenobi]

If I recall the 1996 era Netscape had a web page editor if you have a decent enough machine

That's what I said in the first post, but it keeps messing up the path of the background picture, and several versions after it kept doing it. I used to use it on my Power Mac G4 Quicksilver, but got tired of having to edit the HTML after every damn time I saved the file.

 

[joshc]

Adobe PageMill 2

 

[Snial]

Even ClarisWorks can be used to create web pages. Assuming you have the translators installed you can Save As.. html.

If you want to really push it, SimpleText and TeachText can be used to create web pages, but I guess you know that much.

I may have used either Netscape Communicator or possibly HotMetalPro to create web pages in the late 1990s. But by that time i was using a PowerMac 4400, so I quite possibly wasn’t running 68K apps to do it.

Here’s my very rubbish web page from the late 1990s to early 2000s. Freeserve was a dial-up ISP in the U.K. which gave you a portal to browse the net; an email address (actually you could have multiple email addresses); a web space and domain name comprised of www.yourUserName.reserve.co.uk.

You could upload your website via standard ftp commands. I used Fetch, which was great fun with the animated dogcow. It was pretty insecure and freeserve closed down in the noughties. My site is preserved on the wayback machine. Here you’ll find:

• A Mac based emulator for the world’s first stored program computer, which became operational at Manchester University U.K. in mid-1948. (“stored program” means the computer’s program was stored in RAM rather than being hard-wired or coded via a plug-board as ENIAC was).
• A Mac-based emulator for the British Acorn Atom computer: Acorn went on to create the BBC micro and later, the ARM CPU that forms the basis of nearly everyone’s phone, the Raspberry PI; and all new Macs.
• An article about a Fantasy computer called the “iBase”, which is essentially an iPad from 2002 (it’s a merger of the Web tablet I worked on in 2000-2001; the Palm Pilot and iPod).
• An improvement to MIT’s Handyboard robot which allowed 100 proper stepper motor speeds controlled by pulse density modulation.

index.html

 

[nathall]

I found the incredibly tiny picture of your face there very comical.

 

[Shinobi Kenobi]

Thanks, I've heard of PageMill, but never used it. HomePage works nicely. I started off by making web pages in the late '90s with Angelfire. They had a basic web editor, and I soon learned HTML. I didn't get a Mac until years later. I got my first computer in the summer of 2000, and didn't get internet until late 2000 or sometime in 2001. I used the Macs in my high school until I got my first computer.

When I learned HTML, I made them with Notepad for quite a while. Eventually I wanted to save time and went to FrontPage in Office 2000, but nowadays I prefer to use old software from the '90s on vintage Mac systems.

@ClassicGuyPhilly No problem friend

@Snial I use Fetch on my Macs. I really like it. Nice and simple to use.

 

[zefrenchtoon]

Hi!

Back in the days, I used BBEdit and/or PageMill.

I've done a quick a quicksearch and found that someone asked almost the same question here in ... 2015 !!
This thread aimed me to follow different links to
- Arachnid (winner of the 1995 Apple Enterprise Award in the Publishing for Government, Business and Education category)
- HoTMetaL

Maybe you should give them a try

 

[zefrenchtoon]

If I remember correctly, BBEdit had a FTP feature that can allows the user to "edit" a file and directly upload it to a ftp while saving the modifications.

It was very useful to edit/test a web page on a HTTP server.

 

[Frobozz]

I used BBEdit and pagespinner.

PageSpinner 3.x - Macintosh Repository

PageSpinner is an HTML editor. It supports HTML 3.2, HTML 4, XHTML 1.0, and both Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer extensions. Other Web...

www.macintoshrepository.org

MR also has versions 1 and 2. 4 is ppc only.
MR has tons of BBEdit versions as well. 4.1 will work pretty well if you have something more than a 68000.

 

[Shinobi Kenobi]

Awesome, those also sound like good choices. Thanks!

 

[chelseayr]

@Shinobi Kenobi funny to run into someone else who had angelfire too heh. I end up using the advanced editor almost from the start just as well (the only thing that obviously wasn't mine raw coding were the silently injected ad banner but mm)

 

[Shinobi Kenobi]

@chelseayr Yeah, I remember those annoying ad banners lol. I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to make them go away, but finally realized there was nothing I could do. I didn't discover GeoCities until several years later.

Also, I switched from HomePage to PageMill. I discovered that HomePage was deleting new lines I added to make it easier to find a javascript I made. Other than that, I liked HomePage, but I want to keep my edits lol.

 

[finkmac]

claris home page