Claris Announces Claris Home Page 2.0; Free upgrade for 1.0 users plus built-in site publishing, multimedia plug-in support, and much more.SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 30, 1996--Claris Corp. today announced Claris Home Page 2.0, the next version of the company's popular web authoring software for Mac OS and Windows 95/NT users. Registered Claris Home Page 1.0 users will be eligible to download a free upgrade to Claris Home Page 2.0, scheduled to ship in December. A free, time-limited beta version A pre-shipping release of hardware or software that has gone through alpha test. A beta version of software is supposed to be very close to the final product, but, in practice, it is more a way of getting users to test the software in the first place under real conditions. of Claris Home Page 2.0 will be available for downloading in mid-October. Claris Home Page 2.0, designed for novice-to-expert web page authors, will deliver a number of important new capabilities and features designed to enhance both the look of web pages and the productivity of web authors. Key new features will include built-in site publishing, with auto-consolidation of files; support for popular multimedia plug-ins, including QuickTime and Shockwave; spell checking and support for multiple fonts; client-side image maps for linking to other pages and sites, and 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. editing enhancements such as syntax coloring (color-coding of HTML tags). Claris Home Page 2.0 users will also be able to dynamically re-size and position Frames by pointing and dragging with their mouse; preview background 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. images from within Claris Home Page; drag and drop A graphical user interface (GUI) capability that lets you perform operations by moving the icon of an object with the mouse into another window or onto another icon. For example, files can be copied or moved by dragging them from one folder to another. tab-delimited text from spreadsheet and database documents to automatically create tables within their web page, and specify row heights and column widths within Tables. The new version will also provide concurrency Operations that are performed simultaneously within the computer. For example, dual-core CPUs provide complete overlapping of two independent processes. See dual core, hyperthreading, multiprocessing, multitasking, multithreading, SMP and MPP. concurrency - multitasking between 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. and HTML modes, allowing users to go to the precise location in which they were working in the previous mode. Claris Home Page 1.0 is currently available through authorized resellers at an estimated retail price of $99 and estimated education retail price of $79. Users of competitive web authoring software applications qualify for a $20 rebate ($10 rebate for education retail price buyers) direct from Claris with proof of purchase. Users may download a free time-limited trial version of Claris Home Page 1.0 from the Claris World Wide Web site at http://www.claris.com through mid-October. CONTACT: Claris Corp. Kevin Mallon, 408/987-7227 kevin_mallon@claris.com |
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