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27 January 1998 - NetObjects, Inc. today announced NetObjects Fusion 3.0 for Windows 95/NT, the latest version of its award-winning Web site building software. The product builds upon NetObjects' pioneering site-oriented, visual approach to creating Web sites by adding more than 150 new features and enhancements.
NetObjects Fusion 3.0 offers site-builders an open site-building environment, providing unparalleled flexibility and choice to lay out pages, control and edit HTML code, add DHTML based interactivity and animation, publish for different browsers, and integrate sites with existing databases and commerce applications.
As the Internet matures, commercial Web sites and intranets are evolving from relatively simple, static billboards into dynamic business entities that are visually enticing and interactive, provide dynamically generated information, and support commercial transactions.
Professional site-builders are frustrated with the tedium of creating sophisticated Web sites with page-oriented, code-based, textual tools and with visual products that eliminate control over HTML. Instead, they need an open site-building environment or "control centre" that provides robust site-management, visual layout capabilities, cross-browser support as well as the flexibility to integrate content and code created in external HTML, script and content editing tools.
"NetObjects recognises that site-builders' needs are changing and has developed the latest version of Fusion with this in mind," said Ken Parkinson, NetObjects' European sales and marketing director. "Fusion 3.0 is a truly open and flexible product which enables the creation of dynamic business sites that take advantage of key new Web technologies. It allows site-builders to work the way they want."
Pricing and Availability
NetObjects Fusion 3.0 for Windows 95/NT is expected to ship in March, 1998 and will be available at a recommended retail price of £199 excluding VAT. Registered users of NetObjects Fusion may upgrade to Version 3.0 for £65 excluding VAT. A Macintosh version of the product is expected to be available a quarter after the Windows version ships. Information on a pre-release, trial version of NetObjects Fusion 3.0 will be available from the NetObjects Web site at www.netobjects.com.
Fusion 3.0 factsheet with more information on features and benefits available at the Brodeur A Plus press centre (www.brodeuraplus.com). Notes to editors
NetObjects is committed to supplying innovative products that automate and simplify the process of designing, authoring, publishing and updating web sites. These are aimed not only at professional web site designers but also at user companies who are maintaining their own sites.
Their appeal in an ever-expanding market is such that NetObjects has already attracted major funding from IBM, AT&T Ventures and other major corporate and private investors. For more information, please visit NetObjects World Wide Web site at http://www.netobjects.com.
The NetObjects product family consists of NetObjects Fusion Personal Edition for entry-level site builders, NetObjects Fusion 2.0 for experienced site builders and NetObjects TeamFusion for site building teams. All three products are the first in their class to integrate automated site building, professional quality design and publishing, thereby lowering the cost, time and tedium of building high-quality Web sites.
NetObjects Fusion was finalist in the development tool of the year category in the 1997 UK Internet Awards and has received commendations for excellence in usability and best Internet software in the 1997 PC Magazine Technology Innovation Awards.
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