AllOutdoors.com Goes Outside for HomePage Services; HomePage.com to be Exclusive Homepage Provider for AllOutdoors.com.Business Editors and High-Tech high-tech also hi-tech adj. Informal Of, relating to, or resembling high technology. high-tech Adjective same as hi-tech Adj. 1. Writers PASADENA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 6, 2000 HomePage.com, the industry leader in the corporate market for homepage services, and AllOutdoors.com, the Internet's largest and most established hunting and fishing community, announced today that HomePage.com will be the exclusive provider of free personal homepages for All Outdoors' visitors. Under the deal, HomePage.com will create a customized homepage service for All Outdoors that will offer their visitors the Web's most intuitive homepage system. When the service goes live in April 2000, All Outdoors' visitors will be able to create a homepage for themselves in approximately 60 seconds using a series of simple templates. Each user will have 10MB of free web space for their personal use with an easy-to-remember web address under the All Outdoors domain (example: http//:joehunter.alloutdoors.com). "We're we're Contraction of we are. we're we are extremely pleased that AllOutdoors.com chose us as their homepage service," said Tim Cahill
"HomePage.com will be supplying us with a key piece of site infrastructure. As the largest and most established online outdoor site, we see homepages as a great way to further develop the All Outdoors community. HomePage.com is helping us to solidify so·lid·i·fy v. so·lid·i·fied, so·lid·i·fy·ing, so·lid·i·fies v.tr. 1. To make solid, compact, or hard. 2. To make strong or united. v.intr. our one-to-one one-to-one adj. 1. Allowing the pairing of each member of a class uniquely with a member of another class. 2. Mathematics relationship with visitors, which is particularly important as we launch TheStore@AllOutdoors.com, the Web's largest, selection of nationally branded outdoor products available," said Charlie Janis, President and CEO of AllOutdoors.com. "Homepages will not only allow for visitor personalization Custom tailoring information to the individual. On the Web, personalization means returning a page that has been customized for the user, taking into consideration that person's habits and preferences. and customer interaction, but also keep member friends and family involved. It's a very powerful tool." About HomePage.com HomePage.com is the industry leader in outsourced homepage services. Since its founding in April 1999, the Company has revolutionized homepage creation and capability, pioneering the clean and simple homepage domain (e.g., janedoe.homepage.com). The Company has developed powerful tools that make homepages the critical one-to-one relationship solution between any company and its customers. As a result, HomePage.com has attracted high-profile clients like About.com, AOL's ICQ ("I Seek You") A conferencing program for the Internet from Mirabilis, Tel Aviv, Israel (www.icq.com). It provides interactive chat, e-mail and file transfer and can alert you when someone on your predefined list has also come online. and Colleges.com that rely on HomePage.com to extend their infrastructure, brand, reach and traffic. HomePage.com was originally incubated by idealab!. The company is now funded by Idealab Capital Partners (the venture arm of idealab!), Moore Moore, city (1990 pop. 40,761), Cleveland co., central Okla., a suburb of Oklahoma City; inc. 1887. Its manufactures include lightning- and surge-protection equipment, packaging for foods, and auto parts. Capital Management and J&W Seligman. For more information on HomePage.com, visit www.HomePage.com. About AllOutdoors.com All Outdoors (www.alloutdoors.com) is the world's largest and most established online community for people who love the outdoors. Founded in 1995 as a pacesetting web site devoted to outdoor enthusiasts, AllOutdoors.com provides a one-stop resource for hunting, fishing, camping, and other outdoor activities. Currently the site hosts over 7,500 pages of content and delivers over 1.5 million monthly page views to several hundred thousand visitors. The company's e-commerce e-commerce, commerce conducted over the Internet, most often via the World Wide Web. E-commerce can apply to purchases made through the Web or to business-to-business activities such as inventory transfers. storefront, TheStore@AllOutdoors.com, is scheduled to go online in February 2000, and will offer the widest selection of nationally branded outdoor products available. All Outdoors is headquartered at 1501 Cass Street, Suite B, Traverse City Traverse City, city (1990 pop. 15,155), seat of Grand Traverse co., N Mich., at the head of the West Arm of Grand Traverse Bay, in a resort and cherry-growing region; inc. 1881. , MI 49684, (231) 947-8181, or http://www.alloutdoors.com. The company currently has 40 employees with plans to add additional staff in all departments in the coming months. (c) 1999 HomePage.com, Inc. HomePage.com, Powered by HomePage.com, and The Homepage Engine are servicemarks of HomePage.com, Inc. All Outdoors, AllOutdoors.com, and TheStore@AllOutdoors are registered trademarks of All Outdoors, Inc. Note to Editors: There is an "at" symbol between "The Store" and "AllOutdoors.com" mentioned throughout this press release. This symbol may not appear properly in some systems. |
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