Nitobi adds Dreamweaver to Complete UI
October 2nd, 2007Vancouver, BC – October 1, 2007 – Ajax experts, Nitobi Inc., releases Complete UI 2007 Q3 today with support for Adobe Dreamweaver, and with improvements to its flagship component, Nitobi Grid. Complete UI includes nine Ajax-powered components that significantly improve user experiences for any web application. With today"s release, even beginner web designers can implement dynamic, Ajax-powered design elements in their web applications, such as embedding a spreadsheet or calendar.
Nitobi components have been popular with Ajax developers since Nitobi Grid and ComboBox first launched in 2005. Today"s release introduces Complete UI to a much wider web development and design audience because the components now support Dreamweaver, the industry-leading web design and development tool.
"Supporting Dreamweaver Extensions means more developers can use Nitobi components in their applications. Until now, most of our customers have been hardcore Ajax developers. Now, users can simply drag and drop our components into their applications using Dreamweaver," said Andre Charland, Nitobi co-founder.
"Web designers and developers rely heavily on Dreamweaver to create interactive, compelling web applications that provide a richer experience for their customers," said Mark Hilton, vice president of Adobes Creative Pro Business Unit. "Adobe is committed to supporting the adoption of AJAX and Nitobis Complete UI suite makes it simple for designers, with various levels a coding background, to work with Dreamweaver and AJAX to build advanced user interface elements into a web page."
"Nitobi"s Complete UI is a powerful set of components that will give Dreamweaver users the ability to present data in an engaging format in a fraction of the time," states Michael Lekse, Vice President of Sales and Services at WebAssist. "Dreamweaver professionals looking to enhance their user interface functionality should turn to Nitobi with confidence."
The easy drag and drop feature for Dreamweaver reflects Nitobi"s philosophy of fast, easy web application development–a key selling point of Complete UI. Complete UI components are designed to be easy to implement and to help create web applications with intuitive and graceful user interfaces. The Complete UI suite includes:
- Grid — A cross-browser spreadsheet with Excel "copy/paste", LiveScrolling, and more.
- ComboBox — A drop-down menu with autocomplete functionality, similar to Google Suggest.
- Calendar — A high-performance calendar picker that can be used with Nitobi Grid or in standalone web applications.
- Callout — A rich, skinnable tool-tip that prompts users with real-time feedback and helpful instructions as they navigate through an application.
- Fisheye — A tool bar menu featuring fisheye magnification, similar to Apple OS X tool bar.
- Spotlight — A tool for creating stylish guided tours of websites and applications.
- Tabstrip — Folder tabs for navigating to different sections of a web application via Ajax or iFrame requests.
- Tree — A hierarchical data view, similar to the folder view in Windows Explorer.
- Ajax Toolkit — A library of fully-documented tools used in Nitobi components that can be re-used in your own applications, or to build your own components.
In addition to Dreamweaver support, Complete UI includes enhancements to Nitobi Grid, including expanding spreadsheet-style rows and even better performance.
The Complete UI suite is platform-agnostic and works with a variety of development frameworks, including Java, PHP, ASP.Net, Classic ASP and Coldfusion. Pricing for Complete UI starts at US $429. For more information on Complete UI, visit www.nitobi.com. Download a 30-day free trial at www.nitobi.com/download/.
About Nitobi Inc.
Nitobi Inc. (www.nitobi.com) has been creating web-based software components and enterprise solutions for customers around the globe since 1997. Nitobi"s customers include Bank of America, Time Warner, KBR and NASA. Nitobi is an active member of the OpenAJAX Alliance and has recently authored a book on Ajax entitled, Enterprise Ajax published by Prentice Hall PTR.
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