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PixelMill Introduces "PixelMill Skins^TM" for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

(Davis, Calif.) - October 31, 2007 - Leveraging the entry of the latest version of SharePoint, PixelMill today introduced a new catalog of Web Themes and Template "Skins" specifically designed for Windows® SharePoint® Services 3.0 to give its users the ability to transform the "out-of-the-box" SharePoint site design into a variety of customizable designs.

Advances in SharePoint Services 3.0, which includes a number of design enhancements that make building Themes and Templates much more cost effective and easier to implement for users, prompted PixelMill to develop its first phase series of Skins for business users. Its years of experience designing with SharePoint and providing custom design services for business enabled PixelMill to readily adapt to evolutions in SharePoint. PixelMill's design contributions to more than 60,000 Web sites and its adaption to back-end solutions allowed it to quickly introduce to the design and developer market enterprise and small business solutions that offer increased flexibility and choices in implementing the look and functionality of SharePoint products and services.

PixelMill's online Skins catalog introduction (http://www.pixelmill.com/products/website-templates/vivid-office.aspx) arrives at a time when hosting solutions for SharePoint now provide significant collaboration capabilities and flexible, cost effective packages giving small to mid-size businesses a solution they can grow with for internal team and external partner collaboration, and even maintenance of their own public-facing web site. Anticipating SharePoint's increasing relevance, PixelMill has already begun developing new solutions that will move beyond "skinning" SharePoint sites to providing Web site designs that use SharePoint as a content management tool.

"We're investing in efforts that give small businesses the ability to use dynamic content in Web sites that anyone on the team can update," said PixelMill CEO Jason Reckers. "With our new Skins, we're enabling companies today to create and deliver world-class Web presence using multimedia and e-commerce components supported by simple, easy to use and powerful back-end solutions such as SharePoint."

PixelMill began its work with SharePoint in 2003. At that time, PixelMill, through its Vivid Office brand, packaged and developed a number of complementary products, design templates, and instructional guides featured in the Microsoft® Right Tools Toolkit and on www.sharepointcustomization.com. PixelMill experts also developed effective strategies to help users implement these designs into their Windows® SharePoint® Services Web sites.

Supporting its entry into Skins for SharePoint, PixelMill's online seminar series featured at PixelMill EDU, helps designers and developers transition from FrontPage to SharePoint Designer. PixelMill's educational series is designed to help customers learn how to effectively work with SharePoint Designer for both static Web sites as well as easy integration with SharePoint. The series also puts focus on users converting from FrontPage to SharePoint Designer since previous versions of SharePoint used FrontPage to edit design, Web Parts, and data view integration tools. PixelMill EDU is available at http://www.pixelmill.com/services/seminars-webinars.aspx.

PixelMill, established in 1998, serves as the Web's central source of solutions for web site builders offering an extensive array of high quality templates, images, video, audio, add-ons, platform-specific solutions, training, and custom services for developers' Web design needs. PixelMill's extensive digital library features high quality, guaranteed royalty free and free of copyright concerns, templates and tools with more than 2,000 Web, Microsoft® Expression® Web, SharePoint Designer, Adobe® Dreamweaver®, FrontPage®, and HTML templates, more than 1,800 PowerPoint® templates, over 9,000 stock images, and over 4,500 royalty free music tracks.

Media Contact: Chris Doyle, 916.847.0261 cdoyle@pixelmill.com

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Transform your out of the box SharePoint site in less than 60 seconds!

I thought it would be best just to show the video of how you can use a PixelMill WSS SharePoint skin to transform your plain SharePoint site in less than a minitute. You can use the skins with SharePoint Designer or without. Watch this short video (which is less than 60 seconds :-)) and see how easy it really is! 

Also, be sure to check out our skins on sale now at PixelMill.com. 

Use coupont code t91D2jPdYhC during step 2 of the checkout process and receive 15% off your order (one time use only).

Adding Content to your Expression Web or SharePoint Designer site.

When moving content from one website to another or adding content from any other source (Word, Outlook, etc.)use notepad so you don't add any extra unwanted code or formatting to your site.

Watch this short video showing how to properly move your content over to your new site.

Reckers Featured 2007 Adventure Travel World Summit Speaker

(Davis, CA) - October 1, 2007 --- The Adventure Travel Trade Association (ATTA) has named PixelMill Inc. CEO Jason Reckers as a featured speaker at the global trade organization's third annual Adventure Travel World Summit in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, October 4-7, 2007.

Reckers will join more than 50 adventure travel pioneers and experts representing marketing, Internet, technology, risk management and other disciplines spanning several industries. Future consumers, purposeful-travel trends, and leading-edge destinations headline, while strategic insights, best business practices and practical tools sessions complete the 2007 Adventure Travel World Summit (www.adventuretravelworldsummit.com). Themed, "Conversion: Transforming Possibility into Reality." Summit presenters will provide 500 delegates with a valuable array of perspectives aimed at challenging conventions of the global adventure travel community.

Reckers specializes in pairing online tools and resources with long established business strategies to build an effective web presence for small to medium sized organizations. He joins Eric Brodnax, Vice President, Orbitz Worldwide and General Manager - Away.com & Outside Online, and Robin Goldberg, SVP Marketing & Business Development, Blurb.com, among others, in presenting strategic insights on:

• Indicators & Strategy for Search Engine Optimization - Reckers will contribute broad strategies for small to medium size operators looking to make SEO more of a long-term business strategy versus a task list of short-term solutions.



• Pacing the Web's Lightning-Speed Advances - Reckers will provide experienced perspective on emerging video/music technologies, search and mapping innovations, and advances in content and web site management tools such as SharePoint and blogs.



• Fueling Social Networking for Organizational Gain - Reckers will focus on current and developing online options for businesses to benefit from the social networking trends as well as provide perspective on how social networking tools are an extension of long established networking strategies in business.

"Jason was selected for his ability to address cutting edge issues and solutions adventure tour operators, tourism boards, specialty agents and related businesses require to keep pace with this rapid-evolving industry," said ATTA Director Chris Doyle. "He joins an esteemed line-up of presenters whose collective expertise and diversity are designed to lead others in adapting to and leveraging change for positive results."

"Participating in this Summit and engaging with an adventurous and influential audience is ideal for addressing and advancing established and emerging web technologies to benefit the adventure travel industry's rapid global expansion," said Reckers. "This is a gathering of the industry's who's who and will give us all a chance to think about our respective businesses, with whom, and how we can work together in this new age of adventure travel."

About the Adventure Travel Trade Association
Established in 1990, the Seattle-based ATTA (www.adventuretravel.biz) is a global membership organization dedicated to unifying, professionalizing, promoting and responsibly growing the adventure travel market worldwide. ATTA Members include tour operators, destination marketing organizations, tourism boards, travel agents/agencies, guides, lodges/resorts/attractions, media, and service providers. Host of the annual Adventure Travel World Summit, the ATTA provides professional support, development, education, research, marketing, career building, networking and cost-saving resources to its members.

About PixelMill Inc.
PixelMill, established in 1998, serves as the Web's central source of solutions for web site builders offering an extensive array of high quality templates, images, video, audio, add-ons, platform-specific solutions, training, and custom services for developers' Web design needs. PixelMill's extensive digital library features high quality, guaranteed royalty free and free of copyright concerns, templates and tools with more than 2,000 Web, Microsoft® Expression® Web, SharePoint Designer, Adobe® Dreamweaver®, FrontPage®, and HTML templates, more than 1,800 PowerPoint® templates, over 9,000 stock images, and over 4,500 royalty free music tracks.