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Again if you didn't invest in one of the more sophisticated web development packages like FrontPage or Dreamweaver, you might need to get yourself some kind of site management package or you might want to collect a whole bunch of site management tools and use them all together. This is necessary because a website is usually comprised of many, many files, there is obviously the web pages themselves and there can be anywhere from one to several hundred of those, then there is all the images that go on them. The scripts involved, other source of media like music or streaming video also you have available for download. All of these must be some how managed as a unit. You can do it in your head if you want to and I have done that in the past but it can be time consuming and you can forget things, anyway let’s have a look. Yes you get these with high end HTML editors like the two that I mentioned before. The features that they offer can include and the list is quite long and these are just a few of them. Link checking, that means going through each of the hyperlinks in your site and verifying that it does actually point to a valid destination either within your own web or on the rest of the Internet. Uploading via FTP, we talked about that. A site wide search and replace facility is often useful if you've got something that you’re referring to in your site, maybe the address of your headquarters and it appears on dozens of pages and you change it, you obviously want to be able to change it in every page without forgetting any, So you would want to search and replace for those changes on every page on which they occur. And file renaming; that is a wonderful feature, if you pick up a file and you drag it into another folder or you rename the file yourself or even if you delete it, it would be really nice if your site management package told you that the impact of your manipulating the name of the file or it’s location are going to be that many of the other pages that depend on that or linked to it aren't going to work anymore and would you like them to automatically be fixed. I said that in a very long winded way. I’ll give you a demonstration of that in a moment and you’ll see exactly what I am talking about, it's a very, very useful feature. We’ve got reporting, finding out how big your website is, how many links there are, whether pages are out of date or not whether you've got files in your website that aren't being used in any way and you can delete them obviously and so on. It's obviously great to generate reports like this. Cascading style sheet support, themes, if you don't know what a theme is, It's a way of making your entire web site have the same look and feel; usually this is done by cascading style sheets but there are other ways of doing it and generating site maps, generating buttons. When I say buttons, I mean clickable links that are actually images on your web pages like you could have a little button on your main page that has the words on it, ‘contact us’ and when you click on it, it takes you to the contact page. It would be nice if buttons like that could be automatically generated, and they can, I’ll start Microsoft FrontPage now and show you examples of some of those. This is Microsoft FrontPage XP running again and this time I’ve loaded up a web site that I developed for the Brisbane River City Clippers singing group of which I’m a member. Now some of the features that I was talking about involve say, reports and you can receive reports on all the files on your website which one of them are available to the general public, which one of them are not linked to, in other words not reachable by the visitors to your site. Slow pages, which are considered to be large pages, how many hyperlinks, how many broken hyperlinks, apparently I’ve got one broken hyperlink, I probably should check that, external hyperlinks, links to other websites and so on. I won’t run any of those reports but you get the general idea, folders I can pick up a document. Now this is the automatic renaming thing that I told you about. Pick up a document and drag it to another folder. Now you didn't see anything impressive happen then but you ought to know that there were about 6 or 7 pages that contained links to that file that I just moved from one place to another. Each of those files was automatically updated to reflect that the file now lives in the images folder. That is fantastic, I better obviously put it back, I’ll do that now, back again, I can upload, publish my web to the Internet, which starts an FTP process and I’ve got a themes option here where I can choose what I would like my web page to look like. My entire web site to look like I should say and you've got a lot of themes to choose from and so on. I won’t go into site management in any more detail at the moment; we will be mentioning it later on in the course. I just wanted to show you this, so you could have an idea of what sort of features and functionality are available in the programs that are out there. On to the next module.