Likewise, the dropdown formatting menus make it a snap to set a page's background, metatags, and link colors. HotDog includes wizards to help you make frames, tables, and stylesheets, but they limit design freedom. Frame Wizard is equally clunky, and CSS Wizard is nearly impossible to understand. And Sausage Software promises it'll use AutoDownload to keep the program updated to recognize new HTML tags. HotDog also has site-management features that let you change the contents of many pages at once.
Help includes a kick-ass glossary and a floating HTML reference that's a boon to any desktop.
And the tutorial does a good job of introducing the program's basic functions. HotDog also includes ample minor features that are fun to explore. There's even a wizard to add limited dHTML animation to your pages. Nevertheless, all these goodies crowd the interface more than they contribute to the basic utility of the program.