NetObjects Fusion 2.0 delivers over 100 new features and enhancements and is based on the company's unique site-oriented approach to building sites. As a result, users can rapidly design, develop and manage sites over time. A pre-release version of NetObjects Fusion 2.0 for the Macintosh is available from NetObjects' Web site, www.netobjects.com.

"Despite several competitive offerings on the market today, NetObjects Fusion remains the only choice for site builders who want to visualize, build and manage Web sites as a whole, rather than on a page-by-page basis," said Dave Kleinberg, NetObjects' executive vice president of products. "In NetObjects Fusion 2.0, we have delivered the second version of a next-generation product which provides over 100 user-requested features and enhancements. By making it available to the large group of Macintosh-based site builders, we expect to further establish ourselves as a standard for Web site building."

"As a serious Macintosh developer, I am impressed with NetObjects' strong commitment to the Macintosh community," said Dustan Shepard, art director of Forbes Magazine's Digital Media, who uses NetObjects Fusion as his primary Web design product. "NetObjects Fusion 1.0 for the Macintosh demonstrated that NetObjects truly understands the process of site building. The superior quality of the second version and its wealth of user-requested features establishes NetObjects Fusion as the preferred choice of site builders."

NetObjects Fusion 2.0 for Power Macintosh: The Industry's Only Site-Oriented Product NetObjects Fusion 2.0 addresses all the five key stages of site building: creating sites, building pages, setting the site style, managing assets and publishing the final site . Users start by conceiving the information structure of the site, then enjoy the benefits of automatically-generated links between pages, set the visual theme, place elements on pages with pixel-perfect precision, manage assets and changes globally and publish the site.

Key new features and benefits include: Site Import: Leverage user investment by easily importing existing sites; MasterBorders: Provide design flexibility by letting users place elements on the borders of a page that are automatically repeated site-wide; AutoFrames: Provide design flexibility by converting MasterBorders into frames site-wide with the single click of a button; NetObjects Fusion Components (NFX): Add sophisticated interactive content and functionality without custom programming through a host of Java-encapsulated components such as a Message Board, SiteMapper, or TickerTape; MacOS-specific features: Provide support for native Macintosh developers through enhanced drag-and-drop capabilities, direct support for QuickTime from the toolbar, improved color management and improved performance.

"We wanted to revamp our existing Web site with one that would deliver a rich, interactive experience for a core African-American audience on the Internet," said Malcom CasSelle, co-founder and senior vice president of NetNoir. " I was looking for a Web authoring product that would eliminate the most insidious of headaches in Web development and combine power with ease of use. NetObjects Fusion for the Macintosh was the perfect solution because it combined a unique top-down approach to Web site authoring with consistency in design and navigation across sections, and superior graphical control."

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NetObjects is widely recognized as pioneering the category of "site-oriented" Web site building software -- an approach that begins with the site, rather than the page, as the primary entity. NetObjects Fusion 2.0, has won several industry awards, including CNET's 1997 Internet Excellence award for the Best Web Design Tool. Since the introduction of NetObjects Fusion in September 1996, over 150,000 site builders have downloaded it to build thousands of media-rich Web sites. NetObjects 2.0 for Windows and Power Macintosh are available today for an expected street price of under $500 in North America via Ingram Micro, a network of resellers and VARs and directly from NetObjects.

About NetObjects
NetObjects, Inc. is a privately-held company that is funded by IBM, Perseus LLC, AT&T Ventures, Norwest Venture Capital, Venrock Associates, Rae Technology LLC and private investors. NetObjects develops Web site building products that are based on the first visual, site-oriented approach to building Web sites, unlike first generation, text-based, page-oriented tools. NetObjects' partners include AT&T, IBM, Microsoft, Netscape, Sun Microsystems' Javasoft and UUNET. NetObjects Fusion is the first smart Web site building application that integrates automated site building, professional quality design and data publishing, thereby lowering the cost, time and tedium of building high-quality Web sites. NetObjects Fusion has received wide acclaim including winning CNET's 1997 Internet Excellence Award for Best Web Design Product and being named one of CNET's Top Five Internet Products of 1996, and PC Magazine's Editors Choice award. More information on NetObjects can be found at www.netobjects.com.