PageCharmer's authoring environment is entirely browser-based. A tabbed dialog box allows you to customize one of the template applets by changing images, text, colors, backgrounds, fonts, speeds, hyperlinks, rollover effects, and other features. Changes appear in real time, and when you're done, you click a button to generate HTML code. PageCharmer comes with a dozen template applets, such as a ticker. After loading a template version, you can specify the height and width, background image, speed and direction, text size and color, and size and color of a shadow behind the text.
More complex applets manage rollover effects, sounds, and pop-up menus.
The most ambitious applet in the package is an imagemap with a variety of rollover effects, including pop-up menus that appear and disappear at customizable intervals. A set of eight world and continent maps can be used as imagemaps, but you can also use any other graphic. You can even import existing non-Java imagemaps, and the program automatically converts them into Java applets. PageCharmer also includes a library of 500 GIF images and 55 AU sound files. The product doesn't include an imagestrip editor, so if you don't use the supplied examples, you'll have to find a third-party editor.