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Radio World 02.26.2009 - Peak Broadcasting, a broadcaster with radio stations in the Boise, Idaho, and Fresno, Calif., markets, is using the Platformic Web design tool.

The CEO of Peak Broadcasting is Todd Lawley; the company uses Platformic to support its content and branding efforts. The project involved building a series of sites for 11 stations in Fresno and Boise.

Platformic calls itself an "end-to-end online Web development environment and content management platform" and said its service has been used to develop sites for companies like Comcast SportsNet, Bicoastal Media and Broadcast Company of the Americas
Platformic says an unusual aspect is that users can create layouts "visually" and manage content from a browser quickly while maintaining look, feel and design integrity. It said Webmasters do not have to enter Photoshop files into Dreamweaver, FTP content to a site and enter code or rebuild the same elements repeatedly on every page. "Platformic takes flattened Photoshop files directly; Dreamweaver or other Web development software is not required. Programmatic elements of the Web site are made by pointing and clicking to add any of the dozens of 'tools' included with the enterprise edition." Users, the company says, can update sites or change their entire look in minutes with no downtime.
Below are just a few of our clients sites, built using the power of Platformic. Please click the thumbnails below for full size photos.
Here at the Platformic blog it's a pretty loose forum. While I don't really think that anyone is going to post a blog about their cats (well, maybe Eric might ...) we post about a range of stuff that might be of interest to a client of a CMS or someone looking to work on websites and although Platformic does not provide graphic design services we do work with a host of people who might be interested in graphics and for certain who at some times might use Photoshop so I wanted to share something that I learned today which blew me away (and I have been using Photoshop for 15 years now!)
Google recently announced that it has acquired a social RSS service called Postrank which is a huge indication of their commitment to their social strategy. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that this move is an indicator that social media and services continue to have a very big impact on the web as we know it today. The future will surely continue down the social road.

So what does Postrank do anyway? Here's a quote straight form their web site on the subject:

"Our platform tracks where and how users engage, and what they pay attention to — in real-time. PostRank social engagement data measures actual user activity, the most accurate indicator of the relevance and influence of a site, story, or author."
As sure as the sun will rise in the morning, your site users are going to end up hitting a 404 error page at some point or another. But what you provide them when they hit that pages can actually tell a lot about your site, and can help turn your what is technically a fail for the user into a win, if done properly.

By definition (remember when definition was pulled from encyclopedia rather than wikipedia? I guess I am dating myself somewhat here), a 404 page is:

"The 404 or Not Found error message is a HTTP standard response code indicating that the client was able to communicate with the server, but the server could not find what was requested. 404 errors should not be confused with "server not found" or similar errors, in which a connection to the destination server could not be made at all. A 404 error indicates that the requested resource may be available again in the future."