Artisteer Announces Support for Google's Blogger(TM). Automated Web Design Software Allows Bloggers to Create Blogger(TM) Templates in Minutes

LAS VEGAS, Nov. 10 // -- Extensoft today announced a new 2.3 version of its automated web design product, Artisteer, now with support for Google's Blogger(TM). Artisteer enables non-technical users to create great looking web designs in minutes. Thousands of web design professionals already use Artisteer for quick web design drafting, idea generation and small to medium design projects. The new version now enables everyday bloggers to take advantage of the automated web design technology without HTML knowledge or CSS coding experience, while producing professional looking blog designs.

Leonid Evstafiev, product manager for Artisteer said in a recent interview: "With the newly added Blogger support we aim at helping writers take complete control of their blog system, including all aspects of blog design. This eliminates the technical challenges of creating professional web designs, while extending Blogger's design features."

Artisteer 2.3 also finalizes the recently introduced support for the DotNetNuke(TM), bringing the power of automated web design to this popular Microsoft ASP.NET based content management system.

Artisteer simplifies tasks such as designing the menu layout, changing colors, text, header image, backgrounds, and buttons, which can all be configured with a few clicks. Prior to Artisteer's introduction, tasks such as these have taken hours, often requiring a high level of experience and tedious work modifying HTML and CSS code. Artisteer simplifies this process by cutting the time required in creating a web design from hours to minutes. Artisteer's easy to use interface utilizes the Microsoft ribbon interface most notably used in its popular Office 2007 suite.

Artisteer created templates are standards based and WC3 XHTML compliant, solving compatibility issues with all major browsers while offering compatibility for most plug-ins and modules.

Artisteer 2.3 comes in two versions, Home and Standard edition, with a starting price of $49.95. The Home version of Artisteer supports creating web designs for Blogger(TM), WordPress and HTML publishing. The Standard edition of Artisteer adds export support for Joomla, Drupal, DotNetNuke, ASP.NET and CodeCharge Studio. Artisteer runs on Windows XP/Vista/7 and a Beta version is available for Mac OS X. A free trial is available for both editions at http://www.artisteer.com .

About Extensoft:

Extensoft is a unique consumer software company with the goal of bringing creativity and productivity to computer users worldwide. Extensoft is located in Seattle, Washington and Las Vegas, Nevada.

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click2try(TM) Virtual Launch Program Delivers Open Source Apps from Any Website. Open Source catalog site provides button that gives instant-on access to applications

HOUSTON, Aug. 4 // -- click2try(TM) (http://www.click2try.com) today announced its Virtual Launch program to help website owners and bloggers give free access to individual Open Source applications from the click2try(TM) catalog. The company's click2try.com site provides users free and subscription-based access to preconfigured application virtual machines.

Anyone can visit the click2try(TM) Virtual Launch page and choose from a list of hosted applications. The page generates the code to display a button which, when copied to a website or blog, allows any visitor to launch a preconfigured application virtual machine. The preconfigured virtual machine hosting the application is actually delivered from the secure click2try(TM) data center in Houston, Texas. To users of the blog or website, the application is launched right from the site they are on.

"The Virtual Launch program is a free service aimed at helping Open Source projects publicize their applications," says Mario Grech, click2try(TM) CEO. "By allowing bloggers and community sites to provide an instant-on experience for their users, we're helping spread the word about the great applications that are available from the Open Source community."

The click2try(TM) Virtual Launch program makes it easy to launch and try a software application from any site, and eliminates the need to download and install software. The click2try(TM) site currently offers over 50 applications, including Ubuntu, openSUSE, Kablink Teaming, CentOS, Joomla!, Drupal, WordPress, XOOPS, SilverStripe, Eclipse, Compiere, OpenERP (TinyERP), Openbravo, SugarCRM, vTiger, OrangeHRM, PostBooks, Simple Invoices, KnowledgeTree, OWL, osCommerce, eGroupWare, TimeTrex, Mantis, Bugzilla, Trac Subversion, Redmine, dotProject, GanttProject, Sakai, Moodle, Open Admin for Schools, Koha, TCExam, OxygenOffice (OpenOffice), Chandler PIM, Freemind, Pentaho, DrJava, Bacula, ORTS Trouble Ticket System, Request Tracker/RTFM, Cacti, Simple Directory Listing, Open-Realty, TinyMCE, phpBB, PunBB, TikiWiki, DokuWiki, MediaWiki, and MoinMoin.

"We would love to get thousands of sites to integrate the Virtual Launch button into their pages," says Mark Smallwood, click2try Marketing Manager. "If your blog is about how to use CRM applications to get more customers and sales, wouldn't it be great to provide a way for your visitors to try out SugarCRM, Compiere, and vTiger right from your site, at no cost to you or them?"

The Virtual Launch program is open to anybody without registration. Simply visit the click2try(TM) Virtual Launch program page and generate and copy the code. Paste the code into the appropriate location in your own site to pull the button and application from the click2try servers.

To generate the code to add to your blog or website, visit http://www.click2try.com/virtual-launch-program/.

About click2try

click2try is a content-rich, Community-driven Web site for sourcing, testing, evaluating, and hosting existing Open Source software products on pre-configured virtual appliances. With the most comprehensive collection of information on selected Open Source software applications online, click2try is committed to extending the access and the usability of Open Source software to as many people as possible by making it simple, reliable and economical to use. For more information, visit http://www.click2try.com/.

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