Admin user interface up-dates

The updated site builder includes new colors and icons to produce a more constant user experience on desktop as well as tablets. The side navigation menu is now collapsible, creating more space in the main content areas for adjusting settings.

Mobile website responsive/css
The new site builder update will instantly create a smartphone website based off of your alreadying existing main website pages. There is no need to edit the mobile website. The mobile site uses responsive/css design techniques to tweak the display to fit on smaller resolution devices.

When editing your site, you will see "website" and "mobile" links at the top right of the edit area. These links allow you to easily toggle between desktop and mobile views of the page that you are currently editing. The automatic mobile site could be disabled if you want your full web site to display on mobile devices. Custom settings include adjusting the mobile navigation bar, enabling your main menu, and choosing to enable/disable your site logo and banner.

The automatic mobile site can be disabled if you want your full website to display on mobile devices. There is no need to worry about or adjust image sizes (option to manually sizes images is still available if you wish to use it). You simply upload your images and the system scales the images to fit/fill in the content area. The new image styles take advantage of CSS features included in new HTML5 browsers (latest IE, Firefox, Chrome and most mobile browsers). The styles can apply to default images on your site, photo galleries and all of your product images.

Image gallery
Image galleries will be much easier to manage. If you prefer to use it), there is no need to worry about or adjust image sizes (option to manually sizes images is still available. You simply upload your images and the system scales the images to fit/fill in the content area. You just need to set the number of columns to use for the display. The images are adjusted to fit if the page width grows/shrinks.

Image styles
The new image styles make use of CSS features included in new HTML5 browsers (latest IE, Firefox, Chrome and most mobile browsers). This includes images with rounded corners, enhanced borders, shadows and circular shaped images. Choose from up to 4 different styles of images and apply them to your web-site. The styles can apply to default images on your site, photo galleries and all of your product images.

HTML5 audio support
If it is available in your browser, the updated audio player takes advantage of HTML5 support. This allows the audio to work much better across different platforms and devices like phones and tablets.

Payment gateways
Two new payment gateways have been added
- Stripe
- PayMill

HTML5 microformats
Support for HTML5 microformats has been put into product pages. Microformats are extra information added to the HTML of website pages that make things easier for search engines to index your website. It also allows for websites such as Pintrest to display more detailed information about your services and products with the Pintrest Rich Pins feature.

Design
New layouts and background images have been added.

POP3 email accounts can now be upgraded to IMAP email accounts.  IMAP is an email protocol which keeps email stored on the server and allows a better email experience when customers are using multiple email clients/devices to access their email.  It also provides a backup of email in case the device storing messages fails.  

System Update 4.40 - Fully Deployed

All systems now include some new and exciting features!

Button component

Add link buttons to your pages. NOTE: buttons style may change when you view your site with different web browsers.

Linked list component

Use the updated link list component to easily create linked lists with sections. The links component also supports the button styles and has a horizontal display setting.

Design

• New layouts
• New Google fonts

Misc updates

• Mailing list default font setting
• IPAD text editor
• Default styles for accordion and tabs content areas
• ReCaptchaTM setting - enhanced form spam protection

Overlay/popup window

• add text, images, components
• open on page load
• delayed open
• click link to open

System Update 4.40

We are currently updating all systems to include some new and exciting features!

Button component

Add link buttons to your pages. NOTE: buttons style may change when you view your site with different web browsers.

Linked list component

Use the updated link list component to easily create linked lists with sections. The links component also supports the button styles and has a horizontal display setting.

Design

• New layouts
• New Google fonts

Misc updates

• Mailing list default font setting
• IPAD text editor
• Default styles for accordion and tabs content areas
• ReCaptchaTM setting - enhanced form spam protection

Overlay/popup window

• add text, images, components
• open on page load
• delayed open
• click link to open

Design

• 20 new layouts added
• New background textures
• More color options for new designs
• Larger design selection window
• Adjust quicklinks bar font size
• Enhanced design drop down menu for quicker access to design features
• Default styles for blog and image galleries
• CSS submenus now default to use menu slide animation
• Default groupbox spacing/padding
• New google fonts added

Header/banner

Design menu

Design manager - Design Explorer (coming soon)

Content slider

Photo gallery

Google maps

QuickEdit bar

Misc updates

• Page properties : advanced settings - set the page url (page name)
• Design manager enhancements

User accounts
The user accounts pages have been updated to make accounts easier to navigate and manage.

Tabs have been added at the top of the user accounts page that let you easily switch between the user groups and user accounts view. Navigation has been enhanced to make it easier to switch between user groups.

The user accounts details page now opens in a popup window for quick access. The selected user group checkboxes have been updated to make them easier to work with. A new link has been added to the user account detail page that lets you send a quick email to the user.

 

Mailing list
The site mailing list pages have been reworked to make the mailing list easier to use.

• Updated mailing list user interface.
• New email templates added (30+ new templates).
• New email templates automatically include social networking links in the template.
• Updated mailing list template user interface. You can now preview a template before selecting it.

New option to set the email "from" display name as well as a tracking code for the email. The tracking code is automatically added to links in your email. This allows you to track the effectiveness of your newsletters.

Form builder
New options at the top of the form builder make it easier to enable the contact DB and mailing list features on the form. The form builder user interface has been updated. There were a lot of options on the page which can make the form builder a bit confusing to configure. Some options have been moved into settings tabs.

Social networking
The social networking sharing icons now include the Google +1 button and LinkedIn buttons. You also now have the option to hide/display both the social widget buttons or the social icons. A new option to send a Tweet from with in the admin has been added to the marketing area. The blog manager has a direct link to send a tweet about a blog post.

Edit tabs [preview/experimental]
This updates includes an experimental new site builder header. We have added an option to try out a new set of tabs at the top of the site builder to get feedback. The new set of tabs provides quick access to the new marketing/reports area as well as direct access to core ecommerce functions for store accounts. It will be easy for customers to switch between the existing tabs and the new tabs.

Website edit header tabs

• admin
• view site
• edit site
• design
• marketing/reports
• help

Ecommerce edit header tabs

• admin
• website
• store setup
• products
• orders
• customers
• marketing/reports
• help

Marketing/Reports
The new marketing/reports sections provides easy access to the most important markting features that are integrated with the site builder as well as quick access to statistics, search engine submission and site guides. The core marketing features, blog, mailing list, social networking settings and twitter are all included.

 

Misc updates

• The view/edit tab drop down menu now includes links to the settings pages.
• Message board no longer requires capcha when you are logged in.
• Displayable user name for message board when user accounts/login required to post messages.
• Updated mobile/browser detection for stats and mobile pages.
• The drop down tab menu for edit site now includes direct links to all of the settings pages.
• Calendar uses timezone offset.
• Site page search now includes blog posts and HTML pages.

Media library page
Use the new media library page to create a sortable media list with embedded media player. Upload your audio/video files. The media library automatically creates a RSS feed/pod cast for the uploaded media.

Text editor
The text editor 2.0 now allows you to easily setup H1, H2, H3 tags via the style drop down. Simple select your text and click the style drop down to apply one of the header styles.

Blog

• The blog user interface has been updated.
• New option to save a blog post as a draft.
• Added support for integrating facebook comment system (enable from blog settings page).
• Blog manager now has direct links to easily send a tweet with link for new blog posts.

Basic traffic stats

• Basic traffic stats are now maintained for up to 3 years (this will only include stats collected after the update is installed)
• New option to reset all your traffic stats
• New option to reset your traffic stats referrers/search engines/keywords
• Stats have been updated to be tracked in the site owners local time based on their time zone setting
• NOTE: stats before this update will not reflect the correct timezone

Tell us what you think!
We are always looking to improve the quality of our services and your feedback is appreciated. If you have any ideas or suggestions let us know.