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Acro Media has been selected as one of Canada's top 100 Professional Services Companies in 2002 by the Branham Group. The Branham 300 is published each year in the April edition of the National Post Business Magazine listing companies seen to be leaders in the Canadian IT industry. Acro Media has been selected for four years in a row and we are proud to be recognized on a National level for our hard work and dedication.
Adding to this, Acro Media is featured in the book Redesigning Websites published by Rockport Publishers. The publication provides before and after case studies of redesigned Web sites and analyzes the creative and functional aspects of the new Web site design. Acro Media is featured with a 6 page case study for the overwhelmingly successful redesign of the Gary Karr Web site. Again, we are proud to be recognized for our creativity and our ability to create award winning Web sites.
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> Internet Explorer 1, Netscape 0
Netscape gets the final nail in the coffin bringing the browser war between Netscape and Microsoft's Internet Explorer to a close. Netscape owner, AOL Time Warner, received a payment of $750 million bucks from Microsoft who admitted to using its monopoly to eliminate Netscape. In return, AOLTM dropped the suit and received royalty-free use of IE through to the end of 2010.
Developers all around the world are throwing their hands up in joy. Designing for the Web just got a whole lot easier, now that you don't have multiple browsers to accommodate. Sure there are still a few rebel users out there trying to fight off the inevitable, but they currently account for approximately 1% of the population. Considering the drop of users from 25% two years ago and 50% two years before that... well you get the point. Now developers can take advantage of all the features a single browser has to offer. Powerful enterprise Web applications will become more affordable, such as content management tools, that allow the client complete control over their own content.
What I don't think a lot of regular folk have realized is that Microsoft just took a giant leap forward in being in full control of this online world and virtually every user on the planet. Just watch and see, Google, our beloved search engine will be next to go. In hindsight, $750 million will have been a small price to pay.
:: Shae Inglis ::
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We are pleased to announce the following Web site launches:
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getsirius.ca |
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fnfa.ca |
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Advances in technology in the past few decades have been astonishing. For example, the computer on board the Apollo 11 spacecraft weighed 64.7 lbs more than a Palm m130 handheld: which weighs in at only 5.4 ounces. To win a pen that can literally go to space, answer the following question correctly.
Quiz: How many times more powerful is a Palm m130 handheld than the computer on the Apollo Shuttle?
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b) 5 x |
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d) 14 x |
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f) 245 x |
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h) 4000 x |
To Win: The first person to submit the correct solution will be a sent a Bullet Pen engraved with the Acro Media logo.
:: Submit your answer here ::
Squint print: First correct answer received via email will be the winner. Family and friends of Acro Media employees are not eligible to enter this contest. No cash value.
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> Product Focus: pageWalker
Web site managers: Ever want to just click on the text on your site and change it? Maybe replace an image? But you can't because in order to do so you have to know how to code HTML, manage files, upload using FTP, or learn how to use FrontPage or Dreamweaver. Yet it's right there in front of you, and if you could just reach out and touch it, just change a couple of words, your life would be so much easier.
Enter pageWalker from Acro Media, a revolutionary new tool that will take the mystery out of Web site updates. With a simple point and click, pageWalker gives you intuitive control over the content of your Web site. With pageWalker, you see your site the way your visitors see it, yet you can make changes right on the page. Change images, edit text, modify links, upload pictures, and add new pages all through a familiar interface - your Web site.
We've honed pageWalker to be a simple, yet effective tool for Web site updates. It's so easy to use, you don't have to be a master of the Web to do it. In fact, it's one of the few tools out there that will do exactly what you hope it will, but you'll probably have to see it to believe it.
Interested? Contact Acro Media for a demo.
:: Shane Spraggs ::
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