Falcon-Software Company (www.falcon-software.com), a leading web design and multimedia firm specializing in web based solutions for companies across North America, announced on August 11 a contract agreement for the design and development of a rich-media commercial for the Victoria, British Columbia-based Lead Dog Marketing.
The UK-based Jobs Board operator Top Dog Enterprises Ltd., which is one of the leading players in the market, announced on August 11, 2004, the launch of its new website www.topdogjobs.com with many technical enhancements and new features.
Chicago-based marketing agencies AHEADOFMYTIME.COM (http://aheadofmytime.com) and Right Brain Design Group (www.rbdginc.com) team up to provide innovative approach to web site design and internet marketing. Right Brain Design Group will be the creative backbone concentrating on the design and visual appeal of a site while AHEADOFMYTIME.COM will provide the technology to drive the web initiatives.
San Jose, California-based YouInWeb Software, Inc (www.youinweb.com), a leading provider of easy-to-use communications software products and services, announced on August 10, 2004, the availability of its new Ready-Site web design software for individuals, organizations and businesses via www.download.com for free trial and purchase.
The World Trade Center of North Carolina (www.wtcnc.org), which provides business services and facilities in over 100 countries around the world, chose Web Design Studio (www.webdesignstudio.com, a Raleigh, North Carolina-based interactive Web design agency, to create a site with enhanced user-friendly and database capabilities giving immediate accessibility to valuable expertise.
Michigan IT Solutions (www.michiganit.com), a Michigan-based web development firm, will provide web design services to the first 300 nonprofits nation-wide to register free of charge, through the Helping Me IT partnership (www.michiganit.com/helpingmeit/index.html).
Digital Media Net (www.digitalmedianet.com), the world's leading provider of industry information for the digital content creation market and the leading online publisher for the digital media industry with more than 50 online trade publications and newsletters receiving over 1.5 million visits a month, announced on 5 August the launch of new publications targeted specifically toward Macintosh creative professionals.
SouthEastern Trains, a train operator which runs services in Kent, South London and parts of East Sussex, covering 178 stations, 1,700 train journeys each day and handling 132.2 million passenger journeys every year, has appointed web design agency Fortune Cookie to redesign its website www.setrains.co.uk so that it can be easily accessed by those with disabilities and by users of various browsers and internet connection speeds.
Element K (www.elementk.com), a provider of e-Learning solutions and instructor-led courseware for technology and business skills, offering more than 1600 online courses, 1200 courseware and 37 journals titles, announced on 2 August the introduction of Articles - an online reference product covering Office Productivity applications, Design and Media, Networking, Operating Systems, Programming and Web Development topics.
NetForAll (www.netforall.com), a Utah-based, privately-owned company that provides fast solutions for publishing on the web, has released Web Site Robot, a tool with which users with average computer skills will be able to create web sites or online stores without any web design experience whatsoever. The robot hosts the web site on the local PC using a broadband connection to the Internet, so that there is no need for a web hosting company. With the web robot, which is quite similar to the web browser in the way information is exchanged between the local computer and the Internet, anyone with elementary computer skills can copy files such as image, sound, video, or text, to a specific folder on the local PC, and have the robot update the web site in minutes.