DevTech  Announces FREE Preview Edition of SiteSurfer , a Java  Information Navigation and Search Product.

Keystone, CO Nov. 2 -- Today at the Colorado Software Summit, DevTech, Inc. announced the availability of the Preview Edition of their new SiteSurfer product for information navigation and searching. SiteSurfer provides easy to use, yet powerful, searching and navigation capabilities for web sites, networks, and local files.

Using SiteSurfer, people are able to move around web sites and locate information faster and easier than ever before. SiteSurfer is used by individuals who want to find information quickly or rapidly navigate through complex sites; and by information providers who wish to provide these capabilities to their own users.

Written in Java for portability to any platform, SiteSurfer requires neither special knowledge, nor special capabilities, such as CGI, ASP, or JSP. Anyone who has access to a web site, information stored on a network, or documents on a hard disk, can use SiteSurfer. And yet, SiteSurfer does not skimp on functionality. Advanced features are present and plentiful, and yet still easy to use.

SiteSurfer provides a portable and ideal means to provide rapid navigation of personal and commercial internet and intranet web sites, CD-ROM publications, and other information sources.

Highlights:

 * Written 100% in Java for portability
 * 100% client side solution; no CGI requirements
 * Intelligent user interface guides you step by step
 * Index local and remote information, even through a proxy
 * Suitable for web sites, network files, local files, CD-ROM publications
 * Flexible and powerful embedded search engine
 * Highly compressed search indices
 * Customizable indexing fields, including Title, Author, Description, Keywords, textual content, and user defined fields.
 * Optional interactive site map.
 * Optional interactive table of contents.
 * Finds unlinked pages within a site
 * Finds and diagnoses bad links within a site
 * Easy to use graphical interfaces
 * Highly customizable applet interface
 * World class customer service and support

The SiteSurfer Preview Edition is a FREE version of SiteSurfer that DevTech is making available for evaluation purposes.  The Preview Edition is fully functional, but will cease operation after December 1, 1998.

SiteSurfer (http://www.devtech.com/SiteSurfer/) will be available from resellers; and through VAR channels, including web designers and hosting services; and directly from DevTech.  Pricing will be announced shortly. The SiteSurfer manual is available on-line at
http://www.devtech.com/SiteSurfer/doc/.

ABOUT DEVTECH

DevTech is a software development and consulting company.  Recognized experts in object technology, DevTech produces commercial products, and provides a wide range of consulting services to software development firms, corporate developers, and other consultants.

For additional information on DevTech and SiteSurfer, contact DevTech, Inc. at (803) 790-9230, or visit their website: http://www.devtech.com.
 

ABOUT COLORADO SOFTWARE SUMMIT

Colorado Software Summit is an intensely technical conference, created by and for professional programmers who are working with Java. Conference sessions emphasize real-world programming in Java, with practical examples and plenty of source code to illustrate concepts and techniques. Many of the tutorials are presented by the lead programmers, analysts, architects and designers of the tools they are teaching you to use, while the remainder are taught by people who are using those tools themselves to build comprehensive projects.

For additional information on Colorado Software Summit, visit their website: http://www.softwaresummit.com.

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