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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Fourth World releases WebMerge 2.4 LOS ANGELES, California - 16 February, 2005 Fourth World today released 4W WebMerge 2.4, an upgrade to its popular tool for Mac OS and Windows that generates static Web pages from database or spreadsheet data. The new version provides multiple IF conditions with AND and OR operators, wiki-like syntax options for rapid content publishing, even faster performance, and other new features. WebMerge works with any database or spreadsheet that exports in tab-delimited, merge, or other tabular formats, including FileMaker Pro, Microsoft Access, and most affiliate data feeds. Using simple tags in templates created with any HTML authoring tool, WebMerge makes a new page from the data in each record of the exported file. WebMerge can also create index pages with links to each of the detail pages. Generated pages can be hosted on any Web server without the need for a specialized database hosting solution. New features in WebMerge 2.4 include: - WM-If tag has been extended to support multiple conditions, with AND and OR operators and nested parentheses to allow complex evaluations of data from multiple fields. - The new WM-Wiki tag lets you to use simple markup syntax in your database fields to publish web content more easily than with straight HTML. - The WM-ImagePath tag has been extended to allow standard HTML image attributes which will be included in the generated code. - Generated pages can now have file names up to 255 characters on Windows. - Much of the program has been highly optimized, resulting in performance that's often more than twice as fast as earlier versions. - All paths to directories and other settings are now stored as relative to the settings file, making it easy to move WebMerge-based solutions from one computer to another. - Revised and enhanced Help content, with convenient links to third-party tutorials and other online resources for getting the most out of WebMerge. - Improved appearances on both Windows XP and Mac OS X. "Our customer base has grown to include everyone from magazine publishers to affiliate marketers, with a lot of small e-commerce businesses in between," said Richard Gaskin, president of Fourth World Media Corporation. "Focusing this upgrade on content and layout flexibility helps WebMerge keep up with their growing needs, and the revised Help lets new users jump on board more easily as well." "We currently have just under a half-million web-pages built using WebMerge," said web developer Fred McGregor of Web-Procreate.com. "Updating pages is easy, with some of our sites we simply double-click our setup file, and replacement pages are built and uploaded automatically, a real timesaver for us. WebMerge was always pretty fast, and the speed boost in version 2.4 makes our work even easier." WebMerge 2.4 is available in a free download at the publisher's Web site: <http://www.fourthworld.com/products/webmerge/>. WebMerge can be used for free to generate up to 20 pages and has all features enabled with no time limit. Registered copies of WebMerge have no limit on the number of pages that can be generated. A single-user license costs US$99. Licenses can also be purchased in groups of five or ten at a substantial discount, providing an affordable option for web developers to share their workflow solutions with their clients. Registered users of earlier versions get this upgrade for free. WebMerge requires Windows 98/NT/2000/ME/XP or Mac OS X 10.2 or later, 64 MB total system memory, and 9 MB disk space. About Fourth World Media Corporation Fourth World Media Corporation designs and develops rich-media applications for all major operating systems and the World Wide Web. Based in downtown Los Angeles, Fourth World offers more than sixteen years' experience in rapid application design and development. <http://www.fourthworld.com>. __________________________ Please visit our sponsors: BetterRAM.com(sm): Your Source for RAM http://www.betterram.com, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or call 800-895-3493 MacTech(r) Magazine: The journal of Macintosh technology and development http://www.mactech.com, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], or 877-MACTECH To submit a posting to MacDev-1, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to MacDev-1, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the SUBJECT line reading "SUBSCRIBE MACDEV-1". To unsubscribe, the SUBJECT line should read "UNSUBSCRIBE MACDEV-1". MacTech, Xplain Corporation and its sponsors are not responsible for any errors, omissions, or other inaccuracies in this message. News may be propagated freely, but please attribute your source as MacTech Magazine, <http://www.mactech.com>. --
