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St. Paul, MN – June 11, 2004 – The Maryland Daily Record Web site has been awarded first place in the best Web page design category by the Society of Professional Journalists Maryland Chapter. The site is located at mddailyrecord.com.

iProduction president Stephen M. Laliberte said that The Daily Record won this award because the publication took a path of steady improvement. “The Daily Record pursued ideas that worked and shed ideas that didn’t work,” he said. “The publishers understand the importance of the Internet and made the investment necessary to win on the Web.”

About The Maryland Daily Record

Based in Baltimore, The Daily Record is a century-old newspaper that covers finance, real estate, investment, construction, technology, health care, government, small business, and legal news in Maryland. The Daily Record is read daily by more than 30,000 businesspeople, while nearly 1,000 subscribers purchase Daily Record Web site content each day. Christopher A. Eddings is the publisher of the newspaper. Mark R. Cheshire is the Editor-in-Chief.

The Daily Record was founded by Edwin Warfield, governor of Maryland from 1904 to 1908. Warfield started the paper before he entered politics, and it remained in his family for four generations. In 1994 Dolan Media Company purchased The Daily Record. Dolan Media, headquartered in Minneapolis, is a leading provider of business information services. This rapidly growing information company specializes in law, construction, credit management, finance, technology and commercial real estate publications throughout the United States.

More About iProduction

iProduction is a privately held software company headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota. Publishing entities of all sizes rely on iProduction’s flagship product, the Internet Publishing System™, to manage online content, sell subscriptions and site licenses, process payments, deploy e-newsletters, manage site advertising, collect and process test and survey data, and manage online fulfillment. The majority of iProduction clients choose iProduction’s ASP (application service provision) program to avoid hiring programmers or purchasing host computer systems. Large publishers with many online titles choose to license iProduction software to dramatically reduce per-site operating costs. iProduction clients include magazines, newsletters, business journals, newspapers, and corporate marketing departments. iProduction will celebrate its 10-year anniversary during 2004.