Publish any database or spreadsheet
with templates from any HTML editor
on any web server.
And then automate it.
Yep. It’s that easy.
WebMerge lets you export your database to HTML, generating static Web pages from your database content.
WebMerge works with any database or spreadsheet that exports in tab-delimited, Merge, or other tabular format, including FileMaker Pro, Microsoft Access, and Microsoft Excel. Using HTML template pages you can make with your favorite authoring tool, WebMerge makes a new HTML page from the data in each record of the exported file. WebMerge can also create index pages with links to each of the detail pages. Generated pages can be hosted on any web server without the need for a specialized database hosting solution.
WebMerge 2.4 provides support for multi-column index page layouts, a new WM-FieldInclude tag which lets you insert a text file or HTML file referenced by a path in your field data, enhanced support for JavaScript and CSS in navigation tags, and a few other minor enhancements.
WebMerge works locally on your hard drive, uploading it pages using standard FTP. It requires no extensions to your system, ans no special CGIs or other components on your server. Everything you need to start generating pages is included in one easy-to-use application.
A wide variety of businesses, universities, and other organizations rely on WebMerge daily, ranging from web designers to the US Library of Congress. Most of our customers tell us that WebMerge paid for itself with the first project they used it on.
Here’s what others say about WebMerge:
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"…easy, low-cost Web publishing software to create a database-derived site that doesn’t require any complex Web database infrastructure."
- MacWorld Magazine |
"This product works incredibly quickly and smoothly. I outputted 19,000 hotel records neatly and quickly into templates that were extremely easy to put together. Workflow is actually fun now – watching this thing make a huge interlinked and organised website that rocks in the search engines all at the press of a button and in under a minute is such a pleasure!"
- G. Hall
TravelBX
"WebMerge has been invaluable to me to significantly upgrade our site in an efficient way. Combined with Filemaker and a good html editor such as GoLive or Dreammaker, WebMerge is incredibly flexible. Webmerge has become an indispensible tool for me.
"Perhaps the most wonderful aspect of WebMerge is the ease of making updates. Make a quick change to the data, click a couple buttons…and it is done.
"Thank you Richard for a superb tool. And thank you for the first rate support that you and your contributing experts provide. The learning curve was swift."
- Philip Brouwer
Accent on Rugs of Los Gatos
"I searched high and low to find a simple solution to the conversion of my FileMaker Pro files into pages that don’t look like some kind of database junk listings.
"WebMerge is still the best solution I have seen yet. I use weekly to generate 41 different categories of items into 200+ pages for my web site in about 90 seconds. Great program!"
- JW Freeman
JWMercantile, LLC
"This is a GREAT product . . . powerful, logical, intuitive, and reasonably priced. I love it.
"I found WebMerge by searching for something like "mail merge" but for web pages. I thought I might find something, but I never expected to find something done by SMART PEOPLE.
"Thank you. I totally relate to what you’ve done."
- Karen Kaiser
itsUSimages.com
System Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.2 or later
At least 500MB total system memory
15 MB disk space
For more information, visit the WebMerge site.
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November 30th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
Don’t miss this one! WebMerge is a invaluable tool for those building pages from database exports or csv files, it allows you to quickly setup a workflow that actually work.
The template system is very powerful and easy to use. Since it generate static pages, it’s search engine friendly and will be indexed pretty well.
The developers are very responsive and the application is constantly updated.
I recommend WebMerge for anyone that needs to create webpages from database, catalogs or indexed data.
December 1st, 2008 at 3:52 am
I guess I’m misreading this, but this takes a dynamic, functioning database and spits out static pages? It appears to do it from the desktop, so it’s not some sort of cgi-like middleware, right? Don’t most database apps already allow you to export as static HTML files (I know Access does and and I vaguely recall FileMaker Pro does, too.)
December 1st, 2008 at 11:37 am
ubrgeek: Agreed… why would I want to use a desktop app to generate static HTML pages instead of just pulling the data from the db dynamically? Maybe I’m missing something here.
December 1st, 2008 at 12:14 pm
Kirk and Ubrgeek, your feedback is valuable. Thanks for taking the time to post. Next time I’ll write better copy here for MacZot that more clearly describes the job WebMerge does.
While FMP and Access do provide some means of generating static web pages, their tools for doing so are somewhat limited, focused as they are on dynamic server solutions. And using them assumes, of course, that you have either Access or FMP to begin with.
While we have a few hundred customers who use WebMerge in conjunction with Access and FMP, a great many of our customers get data from a variety of sources, ranging from spreadsheets to affiliate data feeds.
WebMerge is especially popular with affiliate marketers and others who build custom storefronts and directories on the web, but we’ve also sold single- and multi-user licenses to organizations like BMI Music Publishing, AOL, the US Library of Congress, and thousands of small web development shops.
Sooner or later just about every web developer gets a database or spreadsheet with content they need to put on the web quickly and have full control over its layout. WebMerge is for them.
Generating the pages locally lets you review the site before posting, so you can refine your templates and/or content if needed. When you’re ready to go live, WebMerge includes built-in FTP to post the pages it creates to your server.
In fact, you can save your settings and have it run automatically when you launch the program with your settings file. Many of our FMP and Access customers use the scripting capabilities in those tools to do just that, so they can make one-click publishing solutions for themselves and their clients.
To get a better idea of the range of sites built with WebMerge, check out our Gallery page:
http://www.fourthworld.com/products/webmerge/gallery.html
I’ll check back here later to see if I can answer any questions, and of course you’re always welcome to write or call any time I can be of help:
ambassador@fourthworld.com
US: 800-288-5825
International: 323-225-3717
Thanks again for your feedback.
- Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Media Corporation