webpad Features

Following are some of the cool features of webpad. Have a look around and you’re likely to find more; with 4 years of development behind the current version, it’s hard to keep track of them all.

  • Simple Installation: just drop webpad into a directory and request it through a browser. It will tell you if anything is wrong, or prompt you to start configuring your settings if everything looks ok.
  • Comprehensive User Manual: accessible directly from the toolbar at all times.
  • Browser Compatibility: webpad now works in Firefox (PC and Mac), Camino (Mac) and Internet Explorer 6 (PC)
  • Powerful Settings Interface: control all features in webpad through the simple yet powerful Settings interface.
  • Powerful Plugins: Write your own plugin to access data from almost anywhere web accessible. Harness the power of PHP and you can access data tucked away in a database, via email, in a Wiki: the sky’s the limit.
  • File Management Tools: when accessing files, you can also create directories plus delete and rename files. webpad might be just about all you need to manage your website!
  • Keyboard Shortcuts: most common features and tools are accessible through keyboard shortcuts (see the User Manual for more details).
  • Edit Files From All Over!:
    • From your computer (upload a text-based file and start editing)
    • From the server webpad is installed on (perfect for editing a website quickly)
    • From any FTP Server (configure as many as you like and edit files on them live!)
    • From a website (open the source code of almost any website right from webpad)
    • From your blog! (Blogger.com, MovableType, WordPress, LiveJournal and blosxom)
  • Upload Files: webpad allows you to upload any files (like an image, PDF, Word Document etc) to your server and save it within your home directory.
  • Email Files: you can send any file as an email. webpad even automatically detects HTML-formatted messages and sends them properly.
  • Print: print your documents to get a look at them on paper. Use webpad’s Print tool to avoid the normal problems with printing from the web.
  • Go-to Line: an ever-useful programming tool, webpad includes the ability to jump directly to any line in your file. Just click the ‘Goto Line’ tool, enter a line number and jump straight there.
  • Find/Find Next: cycle through all occurrences of a string in your document to find just what you’re looking for.
  • Find and Replace: locate all occurrences of a string in your document and replace them with something else.
  • HTML-specific Tools
    • Bold/Italics: quickly drop in the tags to (correctly) format your text in HTML as bold (<strong>) and italics (<em>).
    • Insert A Link: insert an HTML link to an email address, a page, FTP server or even a news:// server.
    • Insert An Image: easily insert the correct code for including an image in your HTML document using the ‘Image’ tool.
    • Indent/Blockquote: control some block-level formatting of your HTML documents easily.
    • Left/Center/Right/Justify Align A Paragraph: you can quickly start a new paragraph which is aligned any way you like it. Just move your cursor and then click the right button to add <p> tags with the correct alignment.
    • Color (hex) Picker: insert the hex code for any color easily by picking it in this simple tool.
    • Insert A Table: enter some simple details and webpad will instantly insert the HTML code required to create the table you want.
    • Insert A List: ordered? unordered? No problem. webpad an create any of the available HTML-style lists quickly and without fuss. Pick which one you want, then enter each item on a new line and webpad will take care of the rest.
  • Templates: Create default file templates which may be easily accessed when creating a new file.

Check out the Screenshots page for more shots of the webpad interface.