The Products: AOLpress and AOLserver

[Editor's note: This piece is a continuation of the story about Linda Dozier of America Online, which appeared in the August 1996 issue of WWWiz.]

AOLpress is an HTML authoring tool currently available for Windows, Macintosh, and UNIX. It seamlessly combines a Web browser with full-featured authoring and editing in the same window. It supports authoring of HTML 3.2 and most Netscape and Internet Explorer extensions, including WYSIWYG construction of tables, forms, and image maps. It also has advanced features not available in other packages; examples include support for group authoring through a Lock-Unlock feature, MiniWebs for managing collections of pages, and AutoLinks to convert plain text into HyperText. When used with AOLserver, it supports remote development of Web sites—no more cumbersome ftp'ing, just Open-Edit-Save to servers anywhere on the Internet.

AOLserver is the most powerful platform for developing applications for the Web. In addition to the integration with AOLpress, AOLserver offers secure sockets for electronic commerce, Illustra's integrated object-relational DBMS and full-text search engine, interfaces for adding SQL, Tcl, and C plug-ins, and hierarchical access control. AOLserver's performance leads the industry. Its multithreading and multihoming architecture can host hundreds of Web sites on a single machine.

AOLpress and AOLserver are the core software for PrimeHost, America Online's new Web-hosting service. With three levels of service—Domain, Commercial, Dedicated—PrimeHost suits the distinct requirements of small to large, complex organizations, and provides businesses with cost-effective, end-to-end solutions to easily create, publish, and manage their Web sites. Highlights of PrimeHost's service offerings include: registering a business' domain name with the InterNIC, providing customer service support 7 days a week, and offering 24-hour site monitoring by their operations group. PrimeHost also provides marketing exposure to all customers, highlighting customer sites in the America Online area and listing them in the Member Directory in the PrimeHost Web site.

The central role the software plays in PrimeHost has led America Online to incorporate the AOL brand in the products' names. They were formerly NaviPress and NaviServer, and as part of the GNN, AOL's premier Internet service, they are available as GNNpress and GNNserver.

For more information, to download the software, or to sign up for PrimeHost, contact: AOLpress; AOLserver; PrimeHost or call (800) 879-6882.