Nearly 30 students, faculty, and alumni volunteers worked from dawn to dusk to assemble the building blocks of eight new Web sites and put them online in one day. The WebRaising is based on the idea of an old-fashioned barn raising. In a single day, and at no cost to the community organizations, the WebRaising teams combined their creative and technical expertise to build new Web sites for these non-profit groups.
Artlandia, Inc, maker of pattern design software, announced that it has released version 3.0 of SymmetryWorks, an Adobe Illustrator plug-in designed for pattern making and industrial design. SymmetryWorks 3.0 offers support for raster images and clip options for improved image transitions. According to Artlandia, using Symmetry Works 3.0 web and surface designers can create patterns imaginatively, intuitively and in a fraction of the time, it would take with any other software.
In the past year, the Web design and programming firm opened an office in Portland, moved to new spacious headquarters in the hip 8th Street Marketplace, and more than doubled its employee count to 25.
The city on the Peace River has cast its seductive spell over yet another professional couple.
John and Beth Magnin have decided to chuck it all, settle here and open two businesses, a Web site and a Web design firm, both operating out of an office at 2529 Tamiami Trail in Punta Gorda.
ISOC.net, a web design and hosting services provider based in Florence, signed a contract to create and host a new website for Jules-Jewels Inc., a jewelry maker from Northern Kentucky.
The U.S. Small Business Administration is featuring Designed Solutions Group Inc. as its Ohio success story, with the Centerville company profiled on the SBA Web site for the next three months.
Microsoft and eBay will provide tools that allow Excel 2003 and FrontPage 2003 to be used with eBay online auction service.
Microsoft said that using these tools developers would be able to build applications that would allow eBay customers to administer their auction listings using Excel to analyze their sales and upload multiple listings simultaneously. With the tools, FrontPage users will have the opportunity to display information from eBay on web sites build with FrontPage.
Award-winning web-design agency Byte Art, which began in 1997, has doubled in size every year since its inception.
The company now has offices here as well as in London and Jersey.
Production director Simon Bone said good marketing was the secret to a successful online venture.
A course curriculum designed to impart creative instincts and design aptitude among students, Digital Media and Communications is a one-year program by Artlab Madras that will equip students with IT skills along with creative thought and artistic expression.
Kevin Lynch, Macromedia chief software architect, announced the company’s Flash road map in his keynote address at the FlashForward 2004 conference. A few years ago, Flash was primarily used for website intros that required a high-speed Internet connection to load in a timely manner. Macromedia now promotes Flash as complete development platform for building rich Internet applications.
Macromedia Central, the information-management tool that was introduced last summer, was the first illustration of the expanding capabilities of Flash. Central allows developers to provide content to users both when they online and offline.
