Website designers can now easily create weblogs based on Movable Type and TypePad by using the new version of Adobe's authoring software for Web and mobile content which includes palettes for Six Apart products

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — April 5, 2005 — Professional website designers can now easily bring the weblogging capabilities demanded by their customers to their website designs as a result of joint development efforts between Six Apart and Adobe.

Six Apart, the industry leader in weblogging software and services, and Adobe collaborated to build a set of visual tools that lets designers easily create and update Movable Type and TypePad templates right from the rich GoLive design environment. The new features were announced in conjunction with Adobe's announcement yesterday of the Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium Edition®, its design environment for creative professionals, which includes the Adobe GoLive® CS2 software.

"Adobe GoLive CS2 is a leading development platform for architecting Web and mobile experiences," said George Arriola, senior product manager for mobile and pervasive publishing at Adobe. "As weblogging has become part of the communication mainstream, and companies are increasingly demanding that their web presence include weblogs, we wanted to make sure our website creation software incorporated the best possible tools to support weblogging. Our joint development work with Six Apart will make it easier for designers to meet their clients' weblogging expectations."

Palettes of tools that allow designers to create TypePad and Movable Type templates have been built into GoLive CS2, making it easier to create powerful and attractive blogs and sites. This greatly reduces the complexity and manual labor involved in creating a complex weblog. Further, the tools are designed to support mobile weblogging, which is the practice of posting text or photographs from a mobile phone to a blog.

"This collaboration puts Movable Type and TypePad design tools into the hands of some of the world's best and most accomplished website designers – the two million professionals who use Adobe's products," said Barak Berkowitz, Six Apart's CEO. "Adobe intuitively anticipated the increasing market demand for weblogging and we're proud that our weblogging tools are now built into their flagship website creation product."

About Six Apart Ltd.

Six Apart Ltd., based in San Francisco, CA, is the company behind the Movable Type publishing platform, the TypePad personal weblogging service and LiveJournal, an online community organized around personal journals. Founded by husband and wife team Ben Trott and Mena G. Trott in 2002 and funded by Neoteny Co., Ltd. and August Capital, Six Apart’s sole focus is to create tools that enable millions of individuals, organizations and corporations to participate in the Web’s full potential by publishing their ideas on the Internet with simple, yet powerful software and services. For more information about Six Apart, TypePad, Movable Type and LiveJournal, visit the Six Apart corporate weblog at http://www.sixapart.com/.

Six Apart is a trademark of Six Apart Ltd. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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