Blue Sky Software announces WEB Office, the first Web Authoring Suite.LA JOLLA La Jolla (lə hoi`yə), on the Pacific Ocean, S Calif., an uninc. district within the confines of San Diego; founded 1869. The beautiful ocean beaches, in particular La Jolla shores and Black's Beach, and sea-washed caves attract visitors and , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 16, 1996--Blue Sky Software Corp. announced today that it will start shipping WEB Office, the First and Only Suite for Web Authoring and Publishing, on May 20. WEB Office provides Web authors with all the tools they need for professional Web development, whether they are creating Web sites for Intranets or the World Wide Web. WEB Office also includes the unique and unrivaled Web Doctor. "WEB Office is a complete Web Authoring package which includes everything you need to create and maintain your Web site," said John Dial, Information Architect at TradeWave Corp. "Thanks to the included Web Doctor, I did not have to manually check all the hyperlinks of my Web site. Web Doctor automatically checked them, found my errors, and gave me a valuable diagnostic report. Web Doctor is unique and a real time-saver!" continued Dial. WEB Office is a full-featured, integrated suite of professional, easy-to-use, 32-bit Web authoring and publishing tools such as Web Doctor, Hotspot Studio, 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. Tool Kit, Help-to-HTML Converter, and Internet Assistant for Microsoft Word for Windows. A fully integrated toolbar A row or column of on-screen buttons used to activate functions in the application. Many toolbars are customizable, letting you add and delete buttons as required. Toolbars may be fixed in position or may float, which means they can be dragged to a more convenient location in the give users instant access to this family of powerful tools which offer the following state-of-the-art functionality: -- 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 Authoring inside Microsoft Word -- Automatic Link Checking and Diagnostic Report of Web sites -- Web Graphics Editor -- Image Map Creation and Graphic Conversion -- Web Graphics Library and Web Graphics Locator -- Help-to-HTML Converter -- Mastering HTML Book WYSIWYG HTML Authoring ---------------------- The included Internet Assistant for Microsoft Word for Windows turns Microsoft Word 7 for Windows 95 into a full-featured Web authoring tool capable of creating professional HTML documents for Intranets and the World Wide Web as easily as plain text. The visual tool palette added to Microsoft Word 7 provides point-and-click access to all the HTML authoring functionality needed for professional Web development, including full support for the creation of HTML 3.0 tables as well as other advanced HTML features. WEB Office includes extensive and complete printed documentation for Internet Assistant for Microsoft Word for Windows. This comprehensive documentation written by HTML experts is not available anywhere else; it provides in-depth tutorials, solutions to frequently asked questions, and advanced tips for the experienced Web author. Unrivaled Web Doctor -------------------- Web Doctor instantly detects and reports errors and/or discrepancies such as broken links, missing images, suspect pages and suspect graphics, and makes it easy to maintain an error-free Intranet/Internet Web site. Web Doctor automatically generates a visual diagnostic report of the Web site showing errors, discrepancies and statistical information for the particular Web site. Web Doctor is unique and its powerful error-checking and reporting capabilities significantly reduce the time-consuming process of checking the integrity of a Web site. Web Doctor also provides valuable information such as reports of pages that have passed verification, external URLs, unused pages, unused images, all HTML pages by alpha and all images by alpha. Web Doctor includes an Image Gallery report graphically presenting all the images in the Web site. Web Doctor's Download Time Reports provide the typical download time for each page depending on what type of connection is used by the viewers. These Download Time Reports are available for the following connections: 14.4, 28.8, ISDN ISDN in full Integrated Services Digital Network Digital telecommunications network that operates over standard copper telephone wires or other media. and T1. Powerful Web Graphics Editor ---------------------------- The included Paint Shop Pro is an easy-to use, full-blown Graphics Editor that allows users to easily create attractive Web graphics and/or modify existing ones. This powerful Graphics Editor automatically converts popular graphic formats, such as BMP (1) (BitMaP) Also known as a "bump" file, it is the native, bitmapped graphics format in Windows. A BMP can be saved in several color options: 1-, 4-, 8- and 24-bit color provide 2, 16, 256 and 16,000,000 colors respectively. BMP files use the .BMP or . , PCX (1) A bitmapped graphics file format that handles monochrome, 2-bit, 4-bit, 8-bit and 24-bit color and uses RLE to achieve compression ratios of approximately 1.1:1 to 1.5:1. Images with large blocks of solid colors compress best under the RLE method. See PC Paintbrush. , TIF TIF Tagged Image File (file name extension) TIF Tax Increment Financing TIF Temporary Internet Files TIF Transport Innovation Fund (UK) TIF Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund and more, into the latest WEB graphic formats for GIF files and JPG files. The conversion also supports interlaced Refers to a display system or image that uses interlacing and does not render contiguous lines one after the other. See interlace and interlaced GIF. and transparent GIF and JPG See JPEG. jpg - JPEG compression ratios. Creative HotSpot Studio ----------------------- The visual environment of HotSpot Studio eases the process of creating hotspot images and their corresponding image map files for Intranet/Internet Web sites. Users can also import and edit existing image map files. HotSpot Studio supports CSIM CSIM Community Sea Ice Model CSIM Cryogenic Systems Integration Model CSIM C-language-based Simulator CSIM Client Side Image Mapping , NCSA (1) (National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Urbana-Champaign, IL, www.ncsa.uiuc.edu) A high-performance computing facility located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. and CERN CERN or European Organization for Nuclear Research, nuclear and particle physics research center straddling the French-Swiss border W of Geneva, Switzerland. image map file creation providing full support for all types of Web servers. HTML Tool Kit ------------- Web Graphics Library The Web Graphics Library is an extensive clip-art collection of Web graphics (GIF GIF in full Graphics Interchange Format Standard computer file format for graphic images. GIF files use data compression to reduce the file size. The original version of the format was developed by CompuServe in 1987. and JPG). Web authors can instantly access and choose from more than 180 images -- including backgrounds, balls, book and pages, bullets, buttons, lines and starbursts -- from the Web Graphics Library and use these images royalty-free in their Web sites. Web Graphics Locator The Web Graphics Locator makes it easy to find, preview and use Web graphics. The Web Graphics Locator quickly searches for Web graphics in a specific directory, drive or even across multiple drives and creates a list of Web graphics found. Help-to-HTML Converter ---------------------- The Help-to-HTML Converter converts any Windows 3.1 or Windows 95 Help files into HTML files regardless of the Help authoring tool used to create them and without the need of source code. The Help-to-HTML Converter allows users to quickly create a Web site from any Help file. No HTML publishing experience is needed. Mastering HTML book ------------------- The Mastering HTML book is a concise, easy to understand guide to the basics of HTML authoring. This book contains valuable information for anyone getting acquainted with HTML, the Intranet and the World Wide Web. This book provides valuable information on different ways to create Intranet/Internet Web sites and also includes a section of tips and techniques from experienced HTML authors. Pricing and Contact Information ------------------------------- WEB Office is now available at a special promotional price of $399 (list price is $499). For more information, contact the Blue Sky Software Sales Department at 800/571-9764, Intl.: 619/459-6365, fax: 619/459-6366; http://www.blue-sky.com; Internet: info@blue-sky.com. CONTACT: Blue Sky Software Corp., La Jolla 619/551-2485 (phone), 619/551-2486 (fax) http://www.blue-sky.com Marylin Guarino, Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most Manager maryling@blue-sky.com (Internet) 71052,1641 (CompuServe) 701-1737 (MCI (1) (Media Control Interface) A high-level programming interface from Microsoft and IBM for controlling multimedia devices. It provides commands and functions to open, play and close the device. (2) (Microwave Communications Inc. ) Deborah Casey, Public Relations Representative dcasey@blue-sky.com (Internet) |
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