Website Reviewing Tools

[Geoff Hart <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca>]

Nancy Adams wondered: <<My company is looking for a tool to collect  
review comments for a web site.  We need to have our reviewers make  
comments about the functionality of the  web site, as well as about  
the editorial content. Are there any other tools out  there besides  
Acrobat?>>

Word* is a good choice. No, really. <grin>

* Or any other word processor that offers decent revision tracking  
tools, but everyone has a copy of Word, so...

The basic notion is that you can download Web pages (save them to  
disk) as .htm files, open them _as text files_ in Word (i.e., so you  
can see the HTML tags), save them as .doc files (NOT as HTML) so you  
can edit them using Word's revision tracking tools, review and  
incorporate the changes, then save the files again _as text files_  
(DO NOT use Word's "save as HTML/Web page" feature). Since you  
haven't touched any of the markup tags, you can simply upload the  
resulting files with no cleanup required.

I've done this successfully for moderately complicated Web pages. For  
details, see Chapter 12 of my book (details below) or come see the  
talk I'll be giving with Char at WritersUA next spring.


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