From: ken@elsop.com (Ken Churilla)
Subject: COMMERCIAL: LinkScan 4.1: Huge Performance Boost & New Features
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 13:12:08 GMT

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  LinkScan 4.1: Huge Performance Boost & New Features

San Jose, CA, April 21, 1998 - Electronic Software Publishing
Corporation (Elsop) has augmented the blazing speed of LinkScan's
external link checking with new processes that greatly 
increase its speed validating internal links. CPU usage has
been reduced by 30-50 percent and elapsed time to check a site
has been cut nearly in half over earlier versions of LinkScan.

     Elsop Introduces LinkScan/QuickCheck

The added convenience comes from a separate program supplied with 
LinkScan called QuickCheck. Following a full site scan, a user may
decide to correct some errors in a few documents. QuickCheck enables
the user to run a quick link validation on a single document (URL)
to confirm that all of the errors were fixed and that no new errors
were introduced in the revision process. LinkScan/QuickCheck
may be run as a CGI script or from the command line.

     More features enhance usability and functions of LinkScan 

Elsop has also added the ability to validate FTP links and added
syntax checking of mailto links. Another important new feature is
the "All Pages Linking To ..." Report. This report helps webmasters
quickly identify the impact of removing a document or file by listing
all of the pages that link to it. Other new features in version 4.1
include support for server-side image maps, support for the HTTP
Proxy-Authenticate feature and some new error conditions such as
the additional status code "Location Header Not Absolute" and the
status code "URL Contains Unsafe Character". The latter code
indicates a link contains an 'unsafe' character; probably a control
character or a non-encoded space (spaces in URL's should be written
as "%20"). Numerous enhancements have also been made to the 
LinkScan Configurator and several minor bug fixes and improvements
are in this release.

     Added convenience for LinkScan/Dispatch

Numerous enhancements have also been added to LinkScan/Dispatch. 
These include additional configuration options and the ability
to automatically email selective status reports to multiple
recipients or document owners. The Dispatch facility enables
senior management to monitor and manage the maintenance of 
documents and sites which are the responsibility of different
webmasters from a central location. 

     LinkScan Customers

LinkScan is being used by such large and diverse organizations as 
Hewlett-Packard, NEC, Sun Microsystems, Silicon Graphics, the 
University of Cambridge (UK), the United States Department of 
Defense, the Vancouver Public Library (Canada), the California 
Institute of Technology, Australia's Commonwealth Department of 
the Environment, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northwest 
Airlines, Brown University, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics 
Engineers, The MITRE Corporation, the Ford Motor Company, the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Walgreens Pharmacy, the
Boeing Company, Rueters, Business Week, and Molecular Simulations Inc.

    Broken Links: The not so hidden site killers

Elsop's studies show that most websites have major problems. These
include up to 30% of the external links being broken along with missing 
files and orphaned pages. Why? Because it's just too time consuming and 
difficult to quality assure a large website manually and other programs
have been too slow and cumbersome to use. 

    The Solution to Website Quality Problems: LinkScan 4.1

The solution is to use a powerful automatic link validator to test
every link on your website. LinkScan is the answer. It is the most 
thorough and fastest quality assurance tool available for this task. 
LinkScan is essential to a professionally managed web site. It's also
easy to use because it sets up all directories and permissions and 
builds your configuration file automatically. Most first time users 
have LinkScan installed and running in minutes. 

Designed to work on both internet and intranet servers, LinkScan can 
test over 40,000 links per hour because it is the only link checker 
that uses multi-threaded simultaneous processing. Linkscan has 
successfully worked on websites with over 250,000 pages and more than
50,000 external links making it the pre-eminent tool for intranets. 

   SiteMap & TapMap: Display an entire website on a single page

LinkScan also produces two revolutionary types of maps of websites. 
LinkScan's SiteMap enables the user to produce a site map that
includes every link on a website arranged in a hierarchical format
that resembles a book's table of contents. LinkScan's TapMap is an
expandable and collapsible site map that allows viewers to tap down
through the various and multiple levels of a website to quickly and 
easily navigate and explore the website by tapping on a few control 
icons. 

    LinkScan is the cure for broken links

The message to Webmasters is: Don't get caught with your links down.
Don't let your visitors think your site sucks! You can now identify 
and fix those problems today. Free fully functional evaluation copies
of LinkScan 4.1 may be downloaded (less than 240 Kbytes) from the 
company's website at: 

http://www.elsop.com/linkscan/

    Pricing, Upgrades, and Volume Discounts

LinkScan 4.1 is priced at 750 dollars per server. Version 4.1 is a free
upgrade to purchasers of version 4.0. Upgrades from versions earlier
than 4.0 may be purchased for 250 dollars. Volume discounts are
available in single order quantities of five copies or more. Orders
may be placed online via a secure server. Visa, MasterCard, and
American Express cards are accepted in addition to payment by check
or money order.

ABOUT ELECTRONIC SOFTWARE PUBLISHING CORPORATION (Elsop)

Founded in January, 1997, privately-held Electronic Software Publishing
Corporation's  mission is to provide the most advanced high-quality
software for quality assurance and management of internet/intranet
websites. Elsop prides itself on providing very responsive and 
comprehensive customer support and assistance to prospects and 
customers alike.

EDITOR'S NOTE

All Electronic Software Publishing Corporation news releases are
available on Elsop Home Page at http://www.elsop.com/. 
You are also welcomed to take the Elsop Company Tour on this
page which provides a comprehensive view of the corporation

EDITORIAL CONTACT

Kenneth R. Churilla
President
ken@elsop.com
1-408-997-7370
Electronic Software Publishing Corporation
6214 Meridian Avenue
San Jose, CA 95120-4915
http://www.elsop.com/



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