Sitemasher Launches Partner Program

Website Platform Enables Designers To Boost Revenue and Reach New Markets

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – October 28, 2008 – Sitemasher’s new online website platform puts the focus on the website and not the programming and IT development needed to create it. Today, Sitemasher goes one step further in letting professional web designers be web designers and not IT people by launching a partner program aimed squarely at firms focusing on website design, development, and brand marketing and consulting. With Sitemasher’s website building platform, partners will be able to earn more revenue by speeding the design and development process and to access new markets by maximizing the skills of the entire team.

Sitemasher changes the game in building and managing websites. Traditionally a sophisticated, interactive site requires several people, including a designer, developer, back-end IT administrator and a project owner, to implement a full project. But the Sitemasher website platform enables designers to create pixel-perfect, full-featured custom sites that can be implemented easily without programming and IT integration.

“Sitemasher lets us focus on what we do best. My team is now not constrained by the need for mechanical processes such as CMS setup,” said Erik Themmen of Level2wo, a marketing & creative agency with offices in Miami, Atlanta and Boston. “Now my designers are free to design, and our IT staff can focus on finding new, creative ways to use technology.”

Sitemasher’s partnership program has three tiers depending on the number of websites published by the website design firm. Benefits of the program vary by tier and include listing as a partner on the Sitemasher partnership page, customer leads, a free subscription for the design firm’s website, varying levels of support, and volume discounts or commissions.

“We strive to help design, development and marketing firms find ways to make money faster. Most are artists and designers at heart, not technologists. By removing the technology side and giving them powerful design tools, our partners can increase revenues, profitability and even reach out to new markets,” said Sitemasher Vice President of Marketing Nicole Denil.

Pricing and Availability

All versions of Sitemasher include the fully hosted website builder, content management, analytics and search engine optimization, as well as the hosting of the published websites. Pricing starts at $99/month per website for the basic subscription that allows up to three users to build and manage the website. The Standard version allows up to five users at $249/month, and the Premium package is $699/month for unlimited users. Read more on pricing here.

About Sitemasher

Established in 2007, Sitemasher (www.sitemasher.com ) provides a fully managed, hosted website solution that seamlessly integrates website building, content management, analytics and search engine optimization (SEO), all within a single platform. Sitemasher can be found at www.sitemasher.com.

Sitemasher Launches Free Website Design Contest

Invites Students and Professionals to Showcase Their Design Skills Using Sitemasher’s Online Platform

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – October 8, 2008 – Sitemasher’s newly released online website platform unleashes the design process from the complexities of coding. To encourage both students and professionals to experience this design freedom, Sitemasher today launched a free website design contest that rewards the best in design, usability, functionality and ease of maintenance.

The Sitemasher Website Design Contest, which runs through March 1, 2009, is a professional development opportunity for those looking to prove themselves in the fast evolving design market. Tools like Sitemasher change the rules for website building, making it fast, easy and inexpensive to develop and manage highly interactive websites. Participants in the contest will get an opportunity to showcase their skills by tapping into the power of this new platform, which combines an intuitive website builder, content management, analytics, search engine optimization and website hosting in one powerful online tool.

“At Sitemasher, we foresee a day very soon when folks strive to prove themselves as ‘mashers’ – ones who have mastered our platform and are able to deliver sophisticated, pixel perfect websites in record time,” said Nicole Denil, Sitemasher’s vice president of marketing. “Our goal is to give the design community the power and performance of high end, high cost tools but in an affordable, much more manageable manner. Our online platform automates the complexity of building and managing a website so the emphasis can be on delivering a killer website in less time and less cost.”

Website Design Contest Details
Sitemasher created the Website Design Contest to recognize excellence among design students and design industry professionals in implementing powerful websites using Sitemasher.

• Design students will receive a cash prize for education and an award they can use to grow their career and resume.
• Design professionals will receive a cash prize and an award to promote their excellence in design and proficiency with Sitemasher.

To enter the free contest, participants simply visit www.sitemasher.com/website-design-contest.

Websites will be judged by a panel of experts and will be scored on the following:

• Design: Judged based on overall visual concept, an intuitive navigation scheme and a high quality of execution.
• Usability: Judged based on basic techniques such as label links and images that enhance usability throughout the design.
• Functionality: Judged based on the extent participates maximize multiple media types and promote user interactivity.

About Sitemasher
Established in 2007, Sitemasher provides a fully managed, hosted website solution that seamlessly integrates website building, content management, analytics and search engine optimization (SEO), all within a single platform. Phil Calvin, chief technical officer, began developing Sitemasher in 2006. Ron Moravek, chief executive officer, joined the new corporation in August 2007 along with Curtis Terry, chief financial officer and chief operating officer for Sitemasher, both from Electronic Arts, Canada. Eric Dorgelo, vice president of development, joined the team from Rockwell. Nicole Denil joined Sitemasher from Microsoft Corporation. Eric Carlson became the sole venture capitalist and partner in December 2007.

Sitemasher to reduce developers' cutting, pasting

Briony Smith (07 Oct 2008) has written a story on Sitemasher at ITWorldcanada.com

A Vancouver startup launches a hosted offering that simplify the work that goes into designing Web sites and content management systems. It's also putting its money where the cloud is

Web site development service Sitemasher went live Monday with a new service geared toward making developers’ lives a little easier.

“We wanted to take the complexity out of Web sites,” said Sitemasher’s CEO, Ron Moravek. “Usually you have to deal with the CMS, the hosting, and the design."

Sitemasher instead offers developers a hosted solution that makes the more annoying parts of Web design less hideous. The browser-based system offers a simplified design structure, along with a completely integrated CMS. Said Moravek: “The CMS maps in real time as you go along, building in the roles and permissions as well.”

The drag-and-drop feature updates the schema easily, while the software-as-a-service functionality cuts down on maintenance time, courtesy of fast updates. “We talk to a lot of companies that employ armies of people who just cut and paste all day long, but this allows you to cascade the information to all your networked sites,” said Moravek. This keeps the designer and key developers in the equations, but cuts out costly and unnecessary coding staff who man the Dreamweaver or SQL, he said.

Read more at www.itworldcanada.com.

Sitemasher Selected for Software 2008 Innovation Showcase

Sitemasher was one of 14 exclusive companies selected for the Innovation Showcase at Software 2008 in Las Vegas April 29th and 30th. According to Software 2008, "The Innovation Showcase is the stage on which the most exciting companies can present their solutions to a top tier audience of industry leaders." With a PR blitz of videos, podcasts and press releases, this year's Innovation Showcase companies will be in an outstanding position to garner attention from key CIOs, software and SI partners and venture capitalists. In addition, 20,000 Interop attendees will have access to the Showcase presentations!

Don't miss Sitemasher at Software 2008's Innovation Showcase
http://www.software2008.com/showcase/

Contact: Nicole Denil, VP Sales and Marketing
Sitemasher Corporation
305-733-4275
nicole@sitemasher.com