The fifth Webdesign International Festival will be held in Limoges, France from May 13 to May 15, 2004. Competitions, lectures, debates and exhibitions will be part of the three-day festival program. The festival should gather web professionals and enthusiasts from all over Europe and from other countries such as Chile and Canada to share and exchange their multicultural Internet experiences. Although the festival is called “Webdesign” professionals from all aspects of the Internet industry are expected to attend, including designers, content creators, webmasters, researchers, marketing specialists and publishers.
On April 26, during National Volunteer Month, student and faculty volunteers from The Art Institutes' Multi Media and Web Design departments will raise websites for non-profit organizations across the country - in the spirit of an Amish barnraising - and go live with website launches on the same day.
Tim Spear admits that the year he and two friends started a web design company tested them to the limit. In 2001 - just after they set up shop - the dotcom bubble burst and internet companies closed everywhere.
Diversified Engineering Services (DES), an environmental consulting company, has presented its redesigned website www.desconsultants.com. The redesign was carried out by Redfern, a web development and marketing company. Redfern has fully redesigned, redeveloped and reengineered DES’ old website to make it more useful and convenient to use for DES’ customers and employees. Rosalie Redfern, owner of Redfern, said that the company enjoyed working with and helping develop DES’ online presence and reach.
AgentPort (www.earthlink.net), a web development company based in Louisville, announced that it has signed contracts with two local real estate companies, Re/Max Properties East and Realty MarketPlace. According to the contract with Re/Max Properties, AgentPort will supply a customized web development package to integrate property information from multiple listing service (MLS). AgentPort will develop a completely new website for Realty MarketPlace. It will also integrate the local MLS into the website and will build a system that provides Realty MarketPlace’s agents with websites of their own. Financial details of the contracts were not revealed.
A fruitful cooperation has been established between EyeWonder, Inc., a leading instant streaming video Internet
solutions
provider, and Bolt, a ruling youth media company.
The two new partners collaborate in offering extensive video streaming opportunities on Bolt.com which
turns Bolt into the chief video-enabled destination for young adults.
Charleston County Public Library will launch its redesigned website on April 19, 2004. The redesigned website combines both the library’s marketing efforts and its management system. The library needed a new design for its website that would be easy to navigate and would provide access to the current news about events taking place throughout the library system. Slicker Inc., a local web design company was chosen to make the redesign of the library’s website.
Exhibits cover everything from athletics to science and math to poetry and the arts. The students will demonstrate using the Internet, Power-Point, Web design, digital artwork, photography and video.
At a small public high school near downtown Miami, students balance algebra and literature with hemlines and A-frames, allowing future fashion designers and architects to start focusing on prospective careers while still in their teens.
