Fast Submit - Tools to Help Save Time

Tools to Help Save Time

Distributing and supporting software can be extremely time consuming. Be sure to consider these two innovative tools that can streamline software distribution and technical support issues.

PAD - Save time in software submissions!
Download sites are a source of excellent referrals and can drive significant traffic to web sites but the submission process can be very time consuming. As a result, the Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP) developed PAD. PAD (Portable Application Description) is the newest, and easiest way to submit software to download sites.

PAD is a formatted XML, which contains all the information about the software developer, program, and relevant program information that should be included with applications or libraries. Place the PAD file on your web site and submit the url of the PAD file location to the download sites. The download sites poll the PAD location and extract the information required to add the file to the download site.

Once the software is listed on a PAD enabled download sites, a number of them will poll the PAD file location and automatically update database information if there have been any PAD file changes.

PAD is a free and literally save hours of time in software submissions. The download sites extract the information in the PAD file and in many cases, immediately create an html page.

Resources:
PAD resources
Download Fast Submit - PAD createtion tool

Example of a PAD file created with Fast Submit:
http://www.aggsoft.com/pad/Fast-Submit.xml