LBMS introduces World Wide Web design standards with Client/Server Guidelines Desktop Edition.HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 2, 1996--LBMS, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : LBMSY), a leading provider of Applications Development Management (ADM See add/drop multiplexer. (language) ADM - A picture query language, extension of Sequel2. ["An Image-Oriented Database System", Y. Takao et al, in Database Techniques for Pictorial Applications, A. Blaser ed, pp. 527-538]. ) solutions for applications development, today introduced Client/Server Guidelines(TM) 6.0 Desktop, a "best in class" standards management tool for World Wide Web (WWW WWW or W3: see World Wide Web. (World Wide Web) The common host name for a Web server. The "www-dot" prefix on Web addresses is widely used to provide a recognizable way of identifying a Web site. ) and Graphical User Interface graphical user interface (GUI) Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to (GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. ) designers. Client/Server Guidelines Desktop is the first in a series of scaleable products based on Client/Server Guidelines, LBMS's fully customizable standards tool that captures, distributes and maintains all Windows(R)-based software standards in one central location. Client/Server Guidelines Workgroup and Enterprise editions will be introduced later this year. As a scaleable version of LBMS's popular Client/Server Guidelines product, Desktop is fully customizable, allowing developers to store, manage and modify proven design standards Design standards Specifications of materials, physical measurements, processes, performance of products, and characteristics of services rendered. Design standards may be established by individual manufacturers, trade associations, and national or in WWW page development and GUI design. By implementing proven techniques and industry standards for GUI and Web design, individual developers can take a "best in class" approach to new design implementations. By promoting reuse of these corporate- and industry-standard development guidelines, Client/Server Guidelines increases developer productivity and efficiency, and ensures consistency across applications. "Providing structure and consistency to the development process is increasingly critical, as the number of developers building Internet and Intranet applications rises," said Rick Pleczko, Vice President of Process Management Products for LBMS LBMS Long Beach Middle School (New York) LBMS Lake Bluff Middle School (Lake Bluff, Illinois) LBMS Lake Belton Middle School (Belton, TX) . "Providing a Web standards Web standards is a general term for the formal standards and other technical specifications that define and describe aspects of the World Wide Web. In recent years, the term has been more frequently associated with the trend of endorsing a set of standardized best practices for management tool in this new, chaotic market, underscores LBMS's commitment to provide strong management products to cope with ever-changing development environments. Client/Server Guidelines - Web Design provides developers the knowledge to build their own unique Web environments while it effectively allows them to 'look over the shoulder of the experts' who have already succeeded in Web application development." Client/Server Guidelines Desktop provides rich content around a two specific application design requirements: Web page application or GUI design. Sold as individual standards tools, Client/Server Guidelines - Web Design and Client/Server Guidelines - GUI Design both bring design standards and proven methods to individual developers chartered with these specific design functions. Client/Server Guidelines - Web Design Reflecting the format of LBMS's successful GUI Guidelines(tm) product, Client/Server Guidelines - Web Design supplies a comprehensive set of rules and techniques for each design element of a Web page, supplemented with examples, reasons and possible exceptions to a variety of scenarios. Web design models are aimed at increasing developer productivity and enhancing end-user efficiency by presenting specific standards that should be applied to Web site components, characteristics and layout design. The importance of establishing standards in applications development has been touted by the industry for years. Industry analysts at the Gartner Group (company) Gartner Group - One of the biggest IT industry research firms. Address: Connecticut, USA. state the following: "Interoperability has been the paramount concern of Internet technology. The Internet is the first environment where formal de jure standards Hardware or software that is endorsed by a standards organization. Contrast with de facto standard. have become de facto standards Hardware or software that is widely used, but not endorsed by a standards organization. Contrast with de jure standard. de facto standard - A widespread consensus on a particular product or protocol which has not been ratified by any official standards body, such as ISO, as well...However, now that there are well over 10 million Internet users - predicted to grow by 50 percent in 1996 alone - standards for information access are insufficient to support commercial-upgrade applications and the rigors of IS production uses. Gartner Group expects Internet standards See Internet Engineering Task Force. to be forced to evolve considerably to support an acceptable level of commercial functionality." "Web page design has become an increasingly significant function for nearly every organization, and WWW page designers are faced with fierce competition to provide both creative and functional solutions in Web development," said Pleczko. "Developers are doing this by emulating effective Web pages for successful design elements, in turn, raising the risks for mistakes and poorly executed and untested designs. LBMS's Client/Server Guidelines - Web Design encapsulates lessons learned by others along the way, while helping designers over their learning curve and pushing them beyond the same development mistakes. The results are Web pages based on proven techniques that are functional while transcending a developer's own creativity." Client/Server Guidelines - GUI Design Customized for Windows 95, Client/Server Guidelines - GUI Design is a fully customizable standards "desktop" that captures, distributes and maintains all Windows-based GUI design standards in one central location. GUI Design includes industry proven standards and guideline topics, including a comprehensive database of GUI design standards for Windows 95 and 3.x and a glossary of terms providing definitions and notations for developers who are unfamiliar with Windows terminology. Client/Server Guidelines - A Scaleable Solution Client/Server Guidelines is scaleable from the Desktop through the Enterprise, making it easy for organizations to apply broader implementations of Client/Server Guidelines as their needs for standards grow. For the Workgroup and Enterprise Editions, an organization can make changes to the central standards database creating instant updates that are available to development teams via the repository. As organizations scale their internal systems, an upgrade program automatically updates the Client/Server Guidelines database, allowing customers to grow from one edition to the next. When current Client/Server Guidelines customers upgrade to the Workgroup or Enterprise editions of version 6.0, their databases will automatically upgrade to the new release, saving them the effort of re-entering data and duplicating work. Pricing, Availability and System Requirements To be used efficiently, all computer software needs certain hardware components or other software resources to be present on a computer system. These pre-requisites are known as (computer) system requirements and are often used as a guideline as opposed to an absolute rule. Client/Server Guidelines requires Windows 95 or Windows 3.x Windows 3.x can refer to either an individual or all of the following versions of Microsoft Windows:
LBMS, Inc. is a leading provider of Applications Development Management (ADM) products to Fortune 1000 organizations. LBMS's integrated line of ADM tools provide organizations with process management, model management and object management solutions for software development. LBMS has an installed base of more than 21,000 users worldwide in areas such as financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , technology, manufacturing, retailing, oil, government and utilities. In addition to worldwide headquarters in Houston, the company has over 20 sales offices throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe, Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. and Australia. LBMS has third-party agreements with Powersoft Corp., Microsoft Corp., Gupta Corp., Sybase, Inc., Symantec, Digital Equipment Corp., NCR (NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH, www.ncr.com) A technology company specializing in financial terminal transactions, retail systems and data warehousing. Until the late 1990s, NCR was heavily invested in the hardware side of the industry, known worldwide as a major manufacturer of computers , Unisys, and Informix. The LBMS home page on the World Wide Web is located at http://www.lbms.com. -0- Note to editors: Client/Server Guidelines and GUI Guidelines are trademarks of LBMS, Inc. All other company and product names are trademarks of the respective company with which they are associated. CONTACT: Miller/Shandwick Technologies Fran Kelly/Doug Black, 617/536-0470 fkelly@millercom.com dblack@millercom.com or LBMS, Inc. Samantha Lagerloef, 713/625-9334 or 800/231-7515 samanthal@lbms.com |
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