Eric Hysen is a busy entrepreneur, with a small but growing business that designs Web sites for other small businesses. He's got four clients, which may not sound like that many, but because Eric is 14 and in the ninth grade at Blair High School in Silver Spring, Md., he's got other things to do, such as homework.
Over the last 9 months, the Mozilla Foundation has raised close to $100,000 in online donations from more than 3000 users. Building on this success, and borrowing a page from the playbook of recent political campaigns, we are now gearing up to launch the Mozillion campaign, an effort to raise one million dollars in online contributions over the next 12 months.
Boston-based Zeeo Interactive Inc., a web design and development firm, has been chosen by Therion Biologics Corp., a Cambridge developer of therapeutic vaccines for cancer and preventive vaccines for AIDS, to redesign and launch Therion’s corporate website.
Midland Loan Services, a leading third-party provider of servicing and technology solutions for the commercial real estate finance industry, and Genex, an award-winning Web design and development firm, today announced the launch of Midland's newly redesigned Web site, www.midlandls.com. Streamlining user access to Midland's online investor reporting systems, the new site combines innovative design with robust information technology, also providing an intuitive and direct way for users to explore and access information about Midland's loan servicing, credit advisory services and technology solutions.
GeoPraxis (www.geopraxis.com), a developer of architectural, engineering and construction software, announced the availability of Green Building Studio (GBS) web service, allowing early stage building design teams to include complete building energy analysis into their architectural practice. GBS offers early stage energy analysis using DOE-2 and EnergyPlus and identifies suitable product information for building design teams. GBS will be available free of charge to users of Autodesk, Graphisoft and Bentley 3D-CAD and building information modeling (BIM) tools. GBS allows you to share data with your engineers using other complex engineering analysis and sales tools, giving design teams the opportunity to qualify their early-stage building designs for LEED programs, local codes and utility efficiency programs.
Garden Ridge, a home decor and craft marketplace, has launched their revised and updated Web site at www.gardenridge.com. Garden Ridge selected Zunch Communications, Inc. of Dallas to redesign and add new features to their Web site after interviewing several companies in fall 2003.
Colorado Secretary of Technology Leroy
Williams, one of the nation's first cabinet-level officials to oversee state
e-government, will address the awards ceremony for the MBS Tech Challenge. The
event culminates a prestigious web-design competition where high school
students from around the state compete for more than $20,000 in scholarships
and prize money.
The San Francisco-based Graphics design software specialist Macromedia made known to have fixed the flaw detected in
all its editions of ColdFusion MX 6.1 and all versions of ColdFusion MX 6.1 J2EE. Those vulnerabilities caused privilege
escalation problems and therefore
in its announcement the company
advised the solutions' users of the immediate need to apply the accompanying patches.
Compuware Corp. recently released OptimalJ 3.1, a tool intended to speed up Java development by relieving programmers from the need to code the infrastructure of a Java application. Writing code for the infrastructure of an application, which supports business logic, is lengthy and laborious process. It includes invoking various network interfaces, accessing databases and making links to other applications. OptimalJ simplifies this process by using a modeling front end to diagram the application in the industry-standard Unified Modeling Language.
A new release has come up on web design scene. It is created by a Miami-based web design and web hosting company Develacom.com,
Inc. (www.develacom.com), and addresses its web design clients.
The new roll-out represents an innovative technical support and customer service system featuring a wide range of promising
solutions. The newly-created
system ensures customers with efficient, 24/7 response to the most common and frequently arising problems and questions
in the web design community. Concurrently, the new technology provides effective tracking of all the issues as well as an
explicit solution for the technical and customer support needs of the company's customer base.