Click Here for a Smarter Way to Build Web Sites; NetObjects Fusion Software Addresses Critical Need of Web Site Builders.REDWOOD CITY Redwood City, city (1990 pop. 66,072), seat of San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1868. Manufactures include commmunications, electrical, electronic, and medical equipment. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 29, 1996--A new Web site building software application, NetObjects Fusion A popular Windows-based Web authoring system from Website Pros, Inc., Jacksonville, FL (www.websitepros.com). It provides a visual environment for designing Web pages and can import an existing site. , from NetObjects, Inc., debuted today to wide industry and user support for its unique site-oriented approach to addressing the critical need of site builders -- for tools that truly "fit" the visual, media-rich, and constantly-changing nature of the Web medium. Recognizing that NetObjects Fusion will make it much easier for a broader base of users to create and update compelling Web sites, Internet industry leaders IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , UUNET (UUNET Technologies, Inc., Fairfax, VA, www.uunet.net) Founded in 1987, UUNET was the first commercial Internet service provider. Originally offering e-mail and news, it became a full Internet service organization providing dial-up and leased line accounts as well as archive space for , Netscape and Javasoft today announced partnership agreements and their strong endorsement of the product. (see 4 separate press releases for details). With agreements ranging from co-marketing and product bundling Product bundling is a marketing strategy that involves offering several products for sale as one combined product. This strategy is very common in the software business (for example: bundle a word processor, a spreadsheet, and a database into a single office suite), and in the fast to long-term strategic alliances, the 4 companies will help promote Fusion as a key component of their Internet and intranet solutions. NetObjects Fusion is aimed at people who design, develop, and produce Internet and intranet Web sites. Fusion is the first smart Web site building application that combines automated site building, professional-quality design, and data publishing. Fusion's revolutionary site-oriented approach treats the whole site as an integrated entity, rather than as a collection of dissimilar pages hooked together by links. Fusion's visual metaphor of the entire site-building process is similar to the quantum leap quantum leap n. An abrupt change or step, especially in method, information, or knowledge: "War was going to take a quantum leap; it would never be the same" Garry Wills. of the Macintosh over text-based operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. in the 1980's. NetObjects Fusion provides users with Site Structure, the first visual site editor that allows users to conceive and edit the hierarchical map of the entire site. PageDraw, the first draw-based Web page layout editor, gives users unprecedented drag-and-drop, pixel-level control over virtually any content, with no knowledge of 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. required. Content can include text, graphics, tables, forms, and rich media such as Java, Active/X, and Shockwave. The SiteStyles Manager provides the first centralized way to apply overall graphical elements to a site. Sophisticated data publishing capabilities let users visually integrate existing content from ODBC (Open DataBase Connectivity) A database programming interface from Microsoft that provides a common language for Windows applications to access databases on a network. data sources such as spreadsheets and databases into Web sites. A gallery of over 50 professionally-designed SiteStyles and prebuilt pre·built adj. Of, relating to, or constituting a structure or a portion of a structure that is constructed or assembled before being transported to its site of installation; prefabricated: a prebuilt home. AutoSites gives users a jumpstart toward creating high-quality sites. Automated site-wide navigation, link management, and one-button publishing of multiple site versions eliminates the drudgery of making changes as sites grow. NetObjects Fusion runs without proprietary extensions and is compatible with all standard browsers and servers. A pre-release version of Fusion is immediately available for download, at no charge, from NetObjects' Web site (http://www.netobjects.com). Over 150 site builders are using pre-release versions of the product to design and build Web sites. These early users represent a broad spectrum of Web site designers, developers, intranet power users, and webmasters who have built leading-edge sites and completed Web projects for organizations and corporations. Examples include: @home, Sony Pictures Television Sony Pictures Television, Inc. (SPT) is an American television production and distribution company. It is a subsidiary of Sony Pictures Entertainment. In turn, the latter is part of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. , The 3DO Company, Sun Microsystems, Earth Island Institute The Earth Island Institute was founded in 1982 by environmentalist David Brower. It organizes and encourages activism around environmental issues and provides public education. Funding comes from individual members and supporting organizations. , and BeHome, Inc. "As individuals and enterprises use the World Wide Web to increase their reach, the next revolution will be in the creation and production of content," said Samir Arora, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of NetObjects, Inc. "NetObjects was founded to address Web site builders' needs for sophisticated yet intuitive applications that help them easily design, author, publish, and maintain Web sites. Today, we deliver on that promise with NetObjects Fusion, a product that allows users to focus on the content, rather than the process, of building Web sites." Building Information Age Structures with Stone Age Tools A recent Forrester Research report on the Web authoring tool market with a focus on "Which Web Tools?," confirms the widespread opinion that the plethora of current tool offerings inadequately fulfills Web site builders' needs. An excerpt from the report states, "Webmasters let us in on a dirty secret --they find most site development tools useless." Based on interviews with over 50 Web designers and Webmasters, the report concludes that current tools fall far short of developers' needs and expectations; site managers see today's tools as solving limited, specific problems; and Web developers find vendors out of touch with real Web trends, processes, and platforms. "Using current site building tools is like constructing the Eiffel Tower with a hammer and chisel," said Emily Davidow, principal of Digital Elements, New York-based Web designer of the award-winning BeHome commerce Web site. "NetObjects Fusion is the first tool that understands Web site builders' pain and lets us build sites, not pages." Pricing and Availability A free, pre-release version and information on NetObjects Fusion is available from NetObjects' Web site (http: //www.netobjects.com) or by calling 1-888-449-6400. NetObjects Fusion 1.0 is expected for general availability in September at a suggested retail price of $695. Users can purchase the product directly from NetObjects before September 25, 1996 for an introductory price of $495. Other distribution plans will be announced at the time of general availability. System Requirements Minimum requirements include a personal computer with a 486/66 or higher processor, Microsoft Windows 95 operating system, Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.51 or later operating system, 16MB of memory for use on Windows 95, 16MB of memory for use on Windows NT, 10 MB of available hard-disk space for mimimum install, VGA (Video Graphics Array) The display standard for the PC. All PC display adapters support VGA, and Windows machines boot up in "VGA mode" before switching to higher resolutions. or higher-resolution video monitor, mouse or compatible pointing device, TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. compliant with Winsock version 1.1 or later and standard 32-bit ODBC drivers for external database connectivity. Recommended system requirements include a personal computer with a Pentium processor, with 24 MB of memory for use on Windows 95 and 32MB of memory for use on Windows NT, 60MB of available hard-disk space and SVGA (Super VGA) A screen resolution of 800x600 pixels. Third-party vendors extended IBM's VGA display standard and were the first to use the term. SVGA has also referred to 1,024x768 resolutions. See PC display modes. 256 colors or higher-resolution video monitor. About NetObjects NetObjects, Inc. develops products that enable Web site builders to dramatically improve the design, authoring, publishing, and updating of Web sites. NetObjects Fusion provides the first visual, site-oriented approach to building Web sites, unlike first-generation, text-based, page-oriented tools. NetObjects Fusion is the first smart Web site building application that integrates automated site building, professional-quality design and data publishing, thereby lowering the cost, time and tedium of building high-quality Web sites. Founded in 1995 and headquartered in Redwood City, California Redwood City is a suburb located on the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. Redwood City is the county seat of San Mateo County. As of the 2005 census, the city had a total population of 76,000. , NetObjects is privately-held and funded by Norwest Venture Capital, Venrock Associates, and private investors. Information on NetObjects and its products can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.netobjects.com or by calling 1-888-449-6400. CONTACT: NetObjects Kamini Ramani, 415/482-3238, kamini@netobjects.com |
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