Special Macintosh tools for your Web site
Building a Successor to the HTML Grinder

Matterform Media released its first commercial software product in 1994. The HTML Grinder was a tool for making changes across many Web pages at once.

Although we no longer sell the HTML Grinder, it offered certain features that are still hard to reproduce in the latest generation of Web site editors.

Link Mapper is the first of a suite of new, inexpensive, modern utilities to help Web developers and to replace the functions that our loyal users continue to ask us for.

Following are all the plug-in tools or "wheels" that were available in the last version of the HTML Grinder. If you are interested in seeing one or more of these tools become a new product, please let us know.

Plug-in Wheels

Find and Replace Replace text in all files at once
Glossary Multiple find and replace
Accent Converters Convert accents to HTML
Appender Append text to files at any point
Replace Tagged Text Replace chunks of specially tagged text
Index Builder Create lists of links to other pages
AutoIndexer Create links to files that contain keywords
Sequential Linker Add “Next Page” and “Previous Page” links
Scroller Install scrolling links that jump down the page
StretchList Create expandable outlines
Altifier Add the ALT parameter to your images
Date Stamp Place a last modified date on each page
Page Labeler Insert the URL or title of each page
Recreator Change the creator & type codes of your files
Filename Fixer Find and replace in the names of your files
AppleScript Write your own Grinder wheels
Color Calculator Compute color codes
Eight Dot Three Convert your files and links to DOS
Code Police Catch files that break your rules