Our new global corporate Web site reflects a new visual design, a new information architecture, and the consolidation of our regional websites. The creation of this Web site has been truly collaborative. Thank you for your effort; you've been a terrific partner. – Melanie Stecker, Senior Project Manager, TogetherSoft

TogetherSoft and hesketh.com Share Accolades for Award-Winning Web Site

Raleigh, NC - 14 March 2002 — Yesterday's Web was about revolution. Today's Web is about evolution. It's about refining what you already have, making it more usable, more navigable, and more intuitive. TogetherSoft Corporation, an international software and services company with headquarters in Raleigh, NC, set out to evolve their existing Web site by partnering with local Web services firm hesketh.com.

For their collaborative work on the TogetherSoft Web site redesign, TogetherSoft and hesketh.com received an Award of Excellence in Online Communication from the Carolina chapter of the Society for Technical Communication at the chapter's annual awards banquet, held on March 13 at the Prestonwood Country Club in Cary. Dinner and dessert were served while award-winners of the 2001 Online Communication, Technical Publications, and Technical Art Competitions were rewarded for their accomplishments.

The Award of Excellence recognizes work that "consistently meets high standards and demonstrates an exceptional understanding of technical communication principles." Says Michael Tucker, Chief Relationship Officer at hesketh.com, "It is a great honor to receive this award. We couldn't have had better partners than Tim Hess and Melanie Stecker at TogetherSoft. We helped them focus their energies and they helped us learn about their organization and their objectives. We're especially proud of successfully completing this project during a time of rapid growth and internal change for TogetherSoft."

Launched last fall, the redesigned TogetherSoft site features pre-sales product and services support, access to the latest downloads and documentation, details about industry news and events, sitelets for TogetherSoft's 10 global offices, and information about the company's background and vision for the future. The site also brands TogetherSoft as an international organization with a history of delivering quality, communicates its corporate culture, and extends the reach of the company's Web presence. "The Web site redesign is really representative of our company's evolution," says Tim Hess, vice president of research and development at TogetherSoft. "hesketh.com really helped us move the site in the right direction - to be more externally focused. We now have a solid foundation that we can build upon as TogetherSoft continues to evolve."

The award-winning site can be viewed at www.togethersoft.com.

ABOUT hesketh.com/inc.

Specializing in distinctive B2B and corporate sites, vibrant online communities, and high impact applications, hesketh.com is a leading Web services firm that energizes the Information Technology sphere with its brand of design and development solutions. A hesketh.com design makes the most appropriate use of Internet technology, employs innovative information architecture, ensures cross-platform and cross-browser compatibility, and integrates corporate marketing strategies. http://www.hesketh.com

ABOUT TogetherSoft Corporation

Dedicated to improving the ways people work together, TogetherSoft Corporation provides software and services that enable enterprises to create high-quality applications quickly. TogetherSoft is the momentum leader among software development platform vendors - with strong revenue growth and significantly faster delivery of new product features to the market using its proprietary, patent-pending technologies. TogetherSoft solutions are used in some of the world's most innovative companies including The Home Depot, Cisco Systems, Bank of America, Nortel Networks, Sun Microsystems, and Sapient. http://www.togethersoft.com

ABOUT the Society for Technical Communication

The Society for Technical Communication is an international, individual-membership organization dedicated to advancing the arts and sciences of technical communication. The largest organization of its type in the world, STC's 25,000 members include technical writers, editors, graphic designers, Web and intranet information designers, translators, videographers, multimedia artists, and others whose work involves making technical information available to those who need it. http://www.stc.org