Cyberakt Becomes ComponentArt.com

I am very excited today to announce that my very good friends over at Cyberakt, the makers of ASPnetMenu and RichContentRotator, have changed their name to ComponentArt, and launched a brand new website and new products. Man, this new site is sexy as hell. The quality of the site design is far better than any other component vendor out there, myself included. It's not too cluttered, it's easy on the eyes, and it makes excellent use of blacks, whites, and reds. As any decent graphic design book or magazine will tell you, these are the three best colors for designing things for readability, especially in print.

Oh man, they have one of the coolest treeview controls I have ever seen. You can nest other controls in the different nodes, you can have menu data come back from the server to the client (very much like the out of band callbacks in Whidbey) and all sorts of other things. You could do some really cool stuff with these controls on a blog, especially the new Snap control. Snap lets you do the Web Part stuff that will be available in Whidbey today. You can drag parts of a web page around, and it will automatically remember your layout if you come back to the site. Man, I'd love to have some free time to tough out LonghornBlogs.com with all these nifty controls.

Miljan and his team are the best in the component business, and I salute them. Great job guys, and congratulations on the new launch!