Authoring Systems

The European Organization for Nuclear Research, or Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire (CERN), maintains a large network of scientists dedicated to high-energy physics research. Although this network reaches across Europe and much of the globe, collaboration is essential and constant. CERN developed the World Wide Web to allow its scientists to, easily exchange information via the Internet. Now, CERN uses Microsoft FrontPage as its software of choice for creating Web sites within its massive network. CERN values FrontPage's ease of use, advanced Web publishing tools, and compatibility with other software. tech news

American Airlines Passenger division is the largest scheduled passenger airline in the world. The challenge for American Airlines was to develop training courses for employees in divisions such as Flight Attendant, Pilot, Maintenance and Engineering, Reservations, and Airport Customer Service. In the early 1990s, the group saw an opportunity to incorporate the advancing technology of computer based training (CBT) into its training and development programs. At that time, a highly skilled group of designers and developers worked with Macromedia Authorware to convert more than 400 hours of Security, Cargo, and Customer Service training to CBT. Today, the Corporate Flagship University delivers hundreds of hours of training each month using Macromedia Authorware, Macromedia Flash, and Fireworks. tech news

Come online for an insider's view of FrontPage and search engines. Paul Colligan, webmaster of FrontPageWorld.com and author of Special Edition Using Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003, will share his insights into ways that FrontPage users can attract more visitors to their Web sites. Join the discussion and learn the tools and techniques to provide the exact information search engines want - thereby generating more "hits," driving traffic and increasing revenue. tech news

Southern California Edison wanted to update an existing intranet site built in HTML to create a dynamic application that would provide support technicians with a centralized place to quickly and easily reference approved solutions to common desktop problems, as well as serve as a portal for all approved driver and patch specifications, and installation procedures. Jason Shea, IT Specialist/Engineer 3, at SCE suggested using Macromedia products to build an application customized to their needs-for a lot less money. tech news

The Department of Children and Family Services (CFS) provides protective services to children and families. The 300 child welfare workers in the Alameda County Department of Children and Family Services depend on the official Practice Guide when doing their jobs. Previously, when a child-welfare regulation or practice changed, the department disseminated updates on paper-a process that was both inefficient and costly. But when the department put the guide online using Microsoft FrontPage, it faced an additional training burden for its non-technical content specialists. Macromedia Contribute promised to let the department avoid the hassles of training non-technical users while allowing technical staff to maintain all-important control over the site. tech news