MiniCat Web eXPert incorporates all of the features of MiniCat Web EZ for building multilevel multimedia catalogs and formatting wizards to create web pages. In addition, MiniCat Web eXPert also contains programming tools which enable qualified users to create custom variations and combinations of the supplied page and site styles, or to design their own original styles. Use of MiniCat Web eXPert will require a working knowledge of HTML and other Internet-based programming abilities. Download a demonstration version of MiniCat Web eXPert View a comparison chart for all MiniCat products Buy now MiniCat Web eXPert Catalog Builder is the latest E-commerce program from Prostar Interactive. MiniCat Web eXPert contains tools to gather information, images, multi-media and text to structure this information into a multi-level electronic catalog. MiniCat Web eXPert converts this electronic catalog into web pages forming a complete web site suitable for E-commerce. An option for output to CD-ROM is also available. The design or style of the web site may be chosen from a set of pre-defined Site Styles. Custom Site Styles may be defined in MiniCat Web eXPert to give virtually unlimited flexibility in site design. Third party shopping carts may be easily integrated with the web site. MiniCat Web eXPert comes with support for several third party shopping cart systems. A Site Style is a set of Page Style definitions and other information that pre-define the layout for each page type in a catalog: Catalog, Category, Item and SubItem pages. Any Site Style may be applied to any catalog. Minimally, there are 3 Page Styles in a Site Style: a Catalog page, a Category page and an Item page. If the catalog contains SubItems there will be a SubItem Page Style. If the catalog allows ordering of items, then E-commerce support is provided via an Order Form Style that is associated with the Site Style. The catalog layout may be customized even further, by associating an alternate Page Style for a Category, an Item or a SubItem. For example, Item pages in one Category may have a different style from those in another Category. In this case a Site Style acts as a default template for the catalog, with specific Page Style associations overriding the default Page Style specification. A Page Style contains web page formatting information (i.e. HTML statements or other markup language) and Prostar defined extensions called Hooks and Tokens. Hooks and Tokens identify places where catalog data and other information should be substituted during the web page building process. One important result of this technique is that MiniCat Web eXPert is independent of the underlying code in a Page Style. For example, the code within a Page Style may be the current version of HTML, a newer version of HTML or some other web or browser based markup language (such as XML). In this sense, the Page Style metaphor utilized by MiniCat Web is ready for the future and will not break as web based markup languages such as HTML change in the future. One of the goals of MiniCat Web eXPert is to simplify the user's job in creating and maintaining a web site. Even a relatively simple catalog may require 10's or even 100's of web pages. Via the relatively simple Site Style and Page Style mechanisms, the layout and content of a catalog's web site is defined. MiniCat Web does the rest during the web page building step, turning these styles into actual web pages forming a complete web site. For those who need it, significant customization is also straightforward. Download a demonstration version of MiniCat Web eXPert View a comparison chart for all MiniCat products Buy now