Hostway’s SiteBuilder Gives Users Tools to Easily Create a Web Site without HTML Knowledge

Chicago—September 3, 2003—Hostway Corporation, a leading global provider of Web hosting solutions, announced the release of its all-new site builder today. Hostway’s site builder was developed internally after months of research, extensive user feedback and multiple testing phases. The creation of site builder gives Hostway customers access to a powerful Web development tool that is also incredibly easy to use.

Hostway’s SiteBuilder offers an intuitive user-interface, with three site creation wizards for quick and simple site building. The user is guided through a step-by-step process for building, modifying and publishing a Web site without requiring any HTML knowledge.

The tool comes with a variety of professionally designed templates to get users started quickly. Customized, market-specific templates and contemporary designs, plus a gallery of proprietary, professionally developed photos and clip art are just some of the features included.

Extensive tips, an easy-to-follow help section, and the ability to add multimedia elements, including flash, audio and video streaming, give users the full range of choices for making their Web sites reflect their particular goals. Other features include:

• A huge variety of custom color and font schemes to encourage creativity
• Innovative site management tool to organize multiple sites and their attributes
• Automated one-click publishing to Hostway Web server

"No matter how great the technology, if it’s not user-easy, it’s useless. We worked hard to make sure our site builder was intuitive for our typical customer base. This base includes busy small business owners who don’t have the time or patience for technical mumbo-jumbo. I think customers will like what they see in Hostway’s SiteBuilder," said Ho Lee, Director of Product Management for Hostway.

The development of Hostway’s SiteBuilder is another way of giving customers the tools and resources they need to get sites launched quickly, easily and affordably.