I'm looking for a website submission software. There was wolfexpress with the old OS9, but with macX I need an emulator, that I don't want to use. can somebody help me??

Really...

I think that it is truly sad that here we are in January of 2007, and there is not a single site submission tool for Mac OSX. Go to VersionTracker and try searching for one by using terms like "site submission" and "search engine submission", and you will come up empty-handed. VSE Be Found was good in its day under OS 9, and I did purchase it, and used it about once a month, but when OSX came along, they fizzled out with empty promises of making an OSX version. I am really surprised that not a single Mac programmer has taken up the challenge, and written a new site submission program. Clearly, there is a need for us webmasters.

Well, lo and behold! We own some early model G4's on which we are now running Tiger 10.4.8. These are the ones where you can still install OS 9, but not actually boot your machine from it. Well, I still have OS 9 on one partition, plus VSE; so I just re-registered VSE Be Found by sticking in my old reg. code, and tried it out. I got some errors, since their submission scripts are outdated, or the submisson sites have changed in some way; but I bet it still worked with a good 40 or 50 submission sites.

It may work...depending on how new, or old, your computer is. With the later G4's and the G5's, it is my understanding that you can't even install OS 9 on them anymore. But, if you have an early G4, or something older, e.g., a G3, there is no reason why you shouldn't be able to safely install OS 9. However, you need to make sure that you install 9.2.2, and not an earlier version. Let me know how it goes, or if you encounter any problems.

Hmmm...9.2.3? There is no 9.2.3; at least not in English.

On a related note, I discovered recently that Apple does offer a full 9.2.2 .dmg image file download, for free. This beats having to use a 9.0 or 9.1 installer CD, and then having to hassle with the one or two  upgrades to 9.2.2. If you need it, the .dmg file is about a 510 meg download, and is called NetBoot 9 v1.0. The .dmg image is hidden inside the NetBoot 9 package, so I wrote up a Read Me for it, for those who may need it...but you probably won't.   ;)

BTW, the first poster mentioned an OS 9 program similar to VSE Be Found, called "wolfexpress". Have you ever heard of it? Yesterday I scoured the web trying to find it, but I came up empty-handed.

Yeah, I know what you mean about wearing glasses. I've been using them since I was six years old. At my age, my corneas are already getting rigid, so a few years back, I was forced to switch to bifocals, but I really don't like them. They're great for distance, and for using the computer, but for reading up close, neither the top nor the bottom lens works, so I have to just take off the darn things and stick the page about two inches from my face.  

Concerning web site design apps, well, years ago, I bought and used Adobe Page Mill. However, as I became more proficient at web site design, I pretty much abandoned it, and now do just about everything in BBEdit. BBEdit has a plug-in under the "Markup" menu called "Tidy", which is based on the BBTidy HTML plug-in. It is  really great, as it checks, and corrects, any HTML errors, if they are not too serious. It can also format things nicely for you as well, automatically.

Besides that, I have so many pages now in our different sites, that I have a lot of templates to use. All I normally do is grab an old page, edit it to make the new page, and then run it through Tidy for error correcting. I also run my text pages through BBEdit's spelling corrector.

There are plenty of HTML editors available today, some more complicated than others; and some are free. Here is a list of some of the ones that I am aware of:

Argena
Attic PageImp
Blue Box Simple Site
Cinnamon WebMaster
Claris Home Page
Cobwebber
CoolSearch-Replace
Create
CreaText
CreativePage
Daktari
Deus Web Wizard
FrameWork
FrontPage
GoodPage
Happy Mik
HTML Creator
HTML Easy Edit
HTML Grinder
HTML Merge
HTML Template
HTML Web Weaver
iEdit
iMakeHTML
iSpider
JChecker
JustEdit
JustEdit Plus
KuebSite
miniWEBedit
Muwse
NetSmith
Nvu
PageSpinner
PageStarter
Rage WebDesign
RapidWeaver Plus
StephenEdit
Taco HTML Edit
Tag
Tempre
TheNote
Tumult HyperEdit
Visual Page
Wallaby
wData Builder
Web Writer
WebCode
WebDesign
WebHome
WebsiteWizard SE
webToys
WorldWideWebWeaver

Hi

I also used VSE BeFound for many years until OSX came along. I then had to use an old iBook running OS9 to power up my trusty VSE BeFound, but it became time consuming transfering files from A to B etc... (the only thing that stopped me from selling my iBook was VSE BeFound, how sad is that?) The one thing I liked about it was it's ability to suggest keywords and add image tags... Does anyone know of anything that will do that on OSX - or even a PC running XP - I have downloaded many apps for XP that claim to suggest keywords and are simple to use, but they are either too complicated or just plain crap...

"Bring back VSE BeFound for OSX users!!!"

Hello Again goatgal88,

Hmmm...it sounds like you may possibly have misunderstood my earlier comments. To clarify, none of the programs I have listed in my previous posts are actual site submission tools. They are only tools to help you to PREPARE your site for submissionn to the search engines. In other words, they are HTML editors, meta tag creators, etc.

As we've all been discussing, at this current time, there is not a single Mac OSX site submission program for Mac webmasters . . . not a one. VSE Be Found in Classic mode is it . . . and sadly, it has not been updated in such a long time, that some of the program's scripts are outdated and no longer work properly. But, as I said before, there are still about 50 or 60 submission scripts which do submit properly.

As far as helping you choose some of the above-mentioned programs, well, as I've been saying, I normally use BBEdit, and a lot of copy and paste from already made templates on our sites. I honestly don't have any experience with any of the above programs; although I am sure that some of them must come with Read Me's or PDF manuals to help get you started, if you invest the time in reading them.

Following are two other programs I found on VersionTracker which you might find useful:

Advanced Web Ranking 5.0.3:

Minimum System: Jaguar+
VersionTracker Ranking: 4 stars
Price: $59/$149

Comment: This program does NOT submit your site to search engines; it only queries about 800 search engines, (mainly Google sites all over the world), and creates a variety of reports showing your sites rank in each of the search engines. There is a list of engines it uses on the company's home page.


WebranX Pro 1.1:

Minimum System: Panther+
VersionTracker Ranking: 4 stars
Price: Freeware

Comment: This program does NOT submit your site to search engines; it only queries some of the top search engines, and shows your sites rank in each of the major search engines.

Hope the above helps a little.