Professional website designers can now easily bring the weblogging capabilities demanded by their customers to their website designs as a result of joint development efforts between Six Apart and Adobe.
Six Apart, the industry leader in weblogging software and services, and Adobe collaborated to build a set of visual tools that lets designers easily create and update Movable Type and TypePad templates right from the rich GoLive design environment.
The new features were announced in conjunction with Adobe’s announcement yesterday of the Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium Edition(R), its design environment for creative professionals, which includes the Adobe GoLive(R) CS2 software.
“Adobe GoLive CS2 is a leading development platform for architecting Web and mobile experiences,” said George Arriola, senior product manager for mobile and pervasive publishing at Adobe.
“As weblogging has become part of the communication mainstream, and companies are increasingly demanding that their web presence include weblogs, we wanted to make sure our website creation software incorporated the best possible tools to support weblogging. Our joint development work with Six Apart will make it easier for designers to meet their clients’ weblogging expectations.”
Palettes of tools that allow designers to create TypePad and Movable Type templates have been built into GoLive CS2, making it easier to create powerful and attractive blogs and sites.
This greatly reduces the complexity and manual labor involved in creating a complex weblog. Further, the tools are designed to support mobile weblogging, which is the practice of posting text or photographs from a mobile phone to a blog.
“This collaboration puts Movable Type and TypePad design tools into the hands of some of the world’s best and most accomplished website designers — the two million professionals who use Adobe’s products,” said Barak Berkowitz, Six Apart’s CEO. “Adobe intuitively anticipated the increasing market demand for weblogging and we’re proud that our weblogging tools are now built into their flagship website creation product.”
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