Announcing Internet/Intranet Design Shop.BELMONT, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 27, 1997-- Next Generation All-In-One Integrated Web Publishing Creating a Web site and placing it on the Web server. A Web site is a collection of HTML pages with the home page typically named INDEX.HTML. Web sites are designed using Web authoring software which provides a graphical layout capability or by hand coding in HTML or both. Suite Creates Individual Web Pages and Complete Web Sites -- Also Includes Desktop Publishing desktop publishing, system for producing printed materials that consists of a personal computer or computer workstation, a high-resolution printer (usually a laser printer), and a computer program that allows the user to select from a variety of type fonts and sizes, Consolidating all of the tools for creating web pages and managing web sites into one easy-to-use publishing suite, Boomerang Software today announced the Internet/Intranet Design Shop. A full-featured all-in-one solution for World Wide Web and desktop/personal publishing, the Internet/Intranet Design Shop integrates a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) Pronounced "wiz-ee-wig." It refers to displaying text and graphics on screen the same as they will print on paper or display on a Web page. HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. document processor, graphics editor, photo editor, business graphics and presentation creator, clip art A set of canned images used to illustrate word processing and desktop publishing documents. manager, even full calendar generator. Thousands of backgrounds, symbols, clip arts, and photos are also included on the program's CD ROM CD ROM Compact Disk Read Only Memory . Recognizing that creative graphics are essential for successful web pages, Internet/Intranet Design Shop tightly integrates the graphics creator and editor with the WYSIWYG document processor, eliminating the need for separate programs. "Effective web pages contain both text and graphics," points out Mr. Richard Bezjian, Boomerang's president. "Amazingly, Internet/Intranet Design Shop is the only web authoring program on the market today to recognize this and integrate both functions in one easy-to-use package." Internet/Intranet Design Shop manages entire web sites as easily as individual web pages. The program will save and restore either one page or an entire project, complete with links and graphics. An organizational chart An organizational chart is a chart which represents the structure of an organization in terms of rank. The chart usually shows the managers and sub-workers who make up an organization. even organizes the web site and page document flow for web site design! The feature-packed program is designed to appeal to both the novice and experienced web author. Novice web authors do not need to know any HTML language, thanks to the WYSIWYG operation. "Internet/Intranet Design Shop takes HTML and web site creation from being the high tech toy of the technologically advanced few and brings it to the masses, thus reaching a new milestone in the evolution of websites," comments Mr. Bezjian. Experienced web authors who want to edit HTML source files or insert HTML commands may easily do so through the HTML viewer/editor, accessed through a simple menu icon. Experienced web authors can take advantage of the program's many advanced features including automatic CGI script (Common Gateway Interface script) A relatively compact program written in a language such as Perl, Tcl, C or C++ that processes data on a Web server. It is commonly used to process a query from the user that was entered on an HTML page (Web page) and returned as an generation, multimedia and Java support. "This is what World Wide Web authoring programs should be like," adds Mr. Bezjian. "Internet/Intranet Design Shop is created to be a complete solution for virtually anyone who wants to easily create a web page or complete web site. It is one of the very few WYSIWYG programs that runs on all Windows platforms." The WYSIWYG document processor includes a 100,000 word spell checker A separate program or word processing function that tests for correctly spelled words. It can test the spelling of a marked block, an entire document or group of documents. Advanced systems check for spelling as the user types and can correct common typos and misspellings on the fly. . In addition to its powerful text entry features, it will also import ASCII ASCII or American Standard Code for Information Interchange, a set of codes used to represent letters, numbers, a few symbols, and control characters. Originally designed for teletype operations, it has found wide application in computers. or Windows Write text files. A floating toolbar included options for font size, offset size, attributes, and text justification. Text effects including 3-D effects, rotation, skewing, Bezier shaping, borders, outlines, and backdrops are built-in to create dazzling titles, bullets or text lines. The graphics creator/editor includes a full set of drawing tools, which will even enable the creation of free-hand drawings. A completely integrated calendar module includes daily, weekly, monthly, semi-annual and yearly views. Also included is a complete business charting and presentation module with over fifty chart types, including 2D and 3D variations. With built in OLE 2 (Object Linking and Embedding See OLE. (operating system) Object Linking and Embedding - (OLE) A distributed object system and protocol from Microsoft, also used on the Acorn Archimedes. OLE allows an editor to "farm out" part of a document to another editor and then reimport it. ) support, Internet/Intranet Design Shop enables users to launch other Windows-based programs as helper applications without leaving Internet/Intranet Design Shop. Compatible with HTML 3.0, Internet/Intranet Design Shop supports forms, links, mail- to, graphics image mapping, and tables. A "Rapid Launch" feature will launch any Internet browser for checking the appearance of a web page before it is "posted." To help novice authors become experienced professionals, the program includes complete CGI script and forms tutorials and provides examples of pre-made CGI scripts. Java and JavaScript are easily added via a simple form for setting parameters, and multimedia files may be added for download. The Internet/Intranet Design Shop CD ROM includes the Internet Design Shop web designer, Business Graphics Presentation and Charting, Image Commander, Clip art, Templates, tutorials, electronic documentation and more. Printed documentation is also included with the CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). . Internet/Intranet Design Shop is compatible with Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows NT, and OS/2 (as a Win-OS/2 Session). A free trial version is available for downloading from the company's web site at http://www.mosaiccom.com. -0- For more information contact Boomerang Software at 617/489-3000, visit the company's web sites at http://www.mosaiccom.com, http://www.boomerangsoftware.com, or send E-mail to info@mosaiccom.com. 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