Entrepreneur's Complete Guide to Software

Adobe Web Collection
Vendor:ADOBE SYSTEMS
Phone number: (800) 833-6687
Street price (packaged): $999
Operating system requirements & features: Win NT/98, Mac OS 8.6. Design still, interactive and animated Web graphics; optimize them for efficient downloading; and build dynamic Web sites. Contains GoLive 5.0, Illustrator 9.0, LiveMotion 1.0 and Photoshop 6.0.

eMerchant Pro 1.0
Vendor:BIG PICTURE TECHNOLOGIES
Phone number: (800) BIG-PIC1
Street price (packaged): $275 (with one year of site hosting)
Operating system requirements & features: Win 2000/NT/Me/98/95. All-in-one solution to help small businesses build e-commerce Web sites, catalog and sell products, process credit card orders, and initiate live chats with customers.

Smart Site 3.02
Vendor:BIG PICTURE TECHNOLOGIES
Phone number: (800) BIG-PIC1
Street price (packaged): $59.95
Operating system requirements & features: Win 2000/NT/Me/98/95. Web site analysis and maintenance tool designed to help manage the quality of your Web site. Smart Site uses an original, easy-to-use interface to identify broken links, coding errors, slow-to-download pages, spelling mistakes and unused pages for analyzing Web site visitor information.

Dreamweaver 4
Vendor:MACROMEDIA
Phone number: (800) 457-1774
Street price (packaged): $299
Operating system requirements & features: Win 2000/NT/Me/98/95, Mac OS 8.6. Professional Web site design and production tool. Integrates with Web applications and Microsoft Office. Customizable with HTML, JavaScript and XML.

ecBuilder Pro 5.0
Vendor:MULTIACTIVE SOFTWARE
Phone number: (800) 804-6299
Street price (packaged): $229
Operating system requirements & features: Win 2000/NT/98/95. Produce an e-commerce Web site from your PC without technical or design skills. Enables 10,000-item product catalog, shopping cart, security encryption and real-time credit card processing.

NetObjects Fusion MX
Vendor:NETOBJECTS
Phone number: (888) 892-0702
Street price (packaged): $99.95
Operating system requirements & features: Win 2000/NT/Me/98/95. Award-winning small-business solution for Web site building, management and e-commerce. Drag and drop text, graphics, multimedia and "Get Started" Wizard.

This article was originally published in the May 2001 print edition of Entrepreneur with the headline: Entrepreneur's Complete Guide to Software.