About Planetcast Presentations, Inc.

planet·cast
[verb]: to transmit multimedia information around the planet.
[noun]: an accomplished internet development and consulting group.

Founded in April 1996, Planetcast Presentations, Inc. is a multi-faceted web development group based in Toronto, Canada.

Upon founding, Planetcast was one of the first providers of live-event web broadcast services (so-called webcasting) on the internet. Our business focus remains corporations with global or trans-national audiences, best positioned to profit from worldwide dissemination of their events over the internet.

In formulating these unique solutions, we have also developed a notable expertise in web design and web strategy development. Under our rapid-response web design team, corporate clients can turn to Planetcast for fast, effective action on web projects of any size, complexity, or deadline.

RECENT CLIENT TESTIMONIAL:

“Many thanks to our webmaster, William Stratas, and his team at Planetcast for retrieving this discussion board from oblivion. We were spammed with a passion, but have survived, due to their expertise. To anyone with web needs, I cannot recommend this company highly enough.”

— GARTH TURNER / www.garth.ca

William C. Stratas is founder, president, and chief technology officer of Planetcast Presentations, Inc. An accomplished information age entrepreneur, William has a varied background in real estate book publishing, health care corporate communications, photojournalism, and political speechwriting. Born and raised in Toronto, Canada, he carries a rich knowledge of communications, marketing, publishing and media. This diversified skillset affords him excellent perspective on the multi-dimensional demands and opportunities of the internet.

WILLIAM IS AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF:
» Business Network International (BNI)
» Interactive Multimedia Arts and Technologies Association (IMAT)
» Toronto Internet Developers Association (TIDA)
» Young Entrepreneurs Association of Canada (YEA)

As a demonstration of his previous work in photojournalism, William invites you to visit his online photo gallery of Historic Moments in Canadian Politics. He is also pleased to act as voluntary host and webmaster for the Mac Ammo Information Site, a worldwide information and evangelism source for Apple Macintosh computer users.

About This Web Site

The new Planetcast corporate web site was launched in mid-January 2002, and features the industry's most advanced code for device-independent web access.

Known as XHTML 1.0, this code standard is more suitable than previous standards as a basis for the deployment of commercial and industrial web-based applications. It is the reformulation of HTML 4 as an application of XML, and therefore is the first step toward a modular and extensible web based on XML (Extensible Markup Language). XHTML provides the bridge for web designers to enter the web of the future, while still being able to maintain compatibility with existing HTML 4 compatible browsers. XHTML 1.0 was released on January 26, 2000 as a Recommendation by the W3C.

“XHTML 1.0 connects the present Web to the future Web, It provides the bridge to page and site authors for entering the structured data, XML world, while still being able to maintain operability with user agents that support HTML 4.”

- Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director

Planetcast builds all new client web sites to this high technical level, and we test every page on every site for the highest possible compatibility and validity with the XHTML 1.0 standard.

FOR FURTHER READING:
» Read the official XHTML 1.0 specification
» Jeffrey Zeldman, a notable web developer, explains application of XHTML
» Search the Google database for references to XHTML tags

Tuesday May 13, 2008 / 22:39 ET

NEW MAGAZINE LAUNCH
October 2007 - Watch for the upcoming launch of Dine Magazine, edited by respected Toronto restaurant critic Sara Waxman. Planetcast has been selected to develop the web strategy for this new publication. Site launch is expected in the third week of November.

OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE FOCUS
June 2007 - In response to sustained customer demand, Planetcast announces expanded business focus on consultation and development services for open-source software solutions. Businesses across the world are ready to embrace the power and flexibility of open-source software for business advantage. Our web site will be revised in a few weeks to reflect this new change in focus.

SITE OVERHAUL LAUNCHED
March 2007 - Planetcast is please to launch SuperiorFrench.com as a renovated web site strategy for a notable business translation service. Our contribution includes brand identity as well as standards-compliant web code.

ARCHIVE of PAST NEWS»

“I invite you to contact me for full details on all the specialized services that Planetcast offers.”

— William C. Stratas, President