We have added a feature to RunYourWebsite.com which allows you to have our system automatically generate a Sitemap for your website and update it any time you add or remove content.  A Sitemap is a specially formatted list of the pages on your website, designed to help search engines find their way around your site more easily and completely than just automatically following links.

Additionally, with one click you can submit your Sitemap to the major search engines and have your site showing up in searches even faster and with no extra work!

The feature is optional, so once your site is set up how you want it, you can just click to turn it on in the Search Engine Optimization control panel.

As always, we will be constantly working to refine and improve the feature, and we welcome any feedback or questions you have.

We have updated the layout of our control panel to use larger buttons and show the full text description only when you mouse over.

This change makes it much easier to get around your control panel quickly, as well as work on a smaller screen like a smartphone, tablet, or netbook.

Take a minute to familiarize yourself with the change. The organization of the control panels is unchanged, just the graphical presentation of each button.

With RunYourWebsite.com you now have a mobile version of your site automatically!

Smartphones and other mobile devices are becoming a more and more important way for people to access the internet, but with their smaller screens the best website design for a computer user is not always the best website design for a mobile user.

Many large professional websites have their design teams craft completely separate versions of their site designs for mobile users at great expense. You now have that same great feature automatically as part of your RunYourWebsite.com service. The best part is that you don't need to do anything at all to start using it.

Starting today, when a visitor comes to your site from an iPhone or other smartphone, our system will automatically detect it and show them a slightly modified version of your site that is friendlier to the small screen size, but is still based on your full sized website design. Every time you update your regular website design, the mobile design is updated instantly as well.

By default the visitor will see the mobile website when on a smartphone, and at the bottom of the page will have a link to view the standard version of the site instead. While this configuration is ideal for most users, we also have added a Mobile Website control panel where you can adjust your settings, and choose one of several different options.

Please let us know if you have any questions, and if you have a smartphone check out the new feature by visiting your website from your phone!

We have updated our Social Media control panel, allowing you to directly link your Facebook and Twitter accounts, and to post updates to them directly from your control panel.  We will be adding some more great features to take advantage of these tools over the next several weeks.

Inspired by Tom's Shoes program where for every pair of shoes purchased they give one pair to a child in need, today we are happy to announce our Sites For Good program.

For every normal user we have building their website with our RunYourWebsite.com system, we will be giving away a free website on our system to any individual or group trying to make their community or our world a better place.

These donated websites will be our full featured Professional package including all features and the same great dedicated support our paying users receive, and will include domain registration and annual renewal at our expense.

This is a program we have been running unofficially for some time, but it is now officially part of our business and is available for anyone.  We will be providing some more details on the guidelines and more in the coming days, but in the meantime anybody can sign up for a 30 day trial and let us know that they are interested in having their site provided by our Sites For Good program.

So if you know anyone who is working to make the world a better place and could use our great website builder service for FREE, let them know.  We are making this retroactive to count all of our current users, so we have website to give away immediately, and we will keep adding them as our regular user base grows.

RunYourWebsite.com is very pleased to announce a major control panel revision which we just launched.

New Organization

The control panel is now organized around the main things you will do rather than how you do them.  This means that in addition to our Design tab, we now have a Content tab and a Marketing tab.

Content Tab

The Content tab replaces both My Web Pages and the Cube Modules tab, and shows you all of your content in one place regardless of what kind of content it is.  You can add new content to your site here, either selecting one of our advanced modules (Blog, Store, etc.) or by creating a new editable page which you can now build in seconds with our Page Wizard templates rather than having to start from scratch each time.  Also, when editing a page manually, we have upgraded our editor significantly, and moved the toolbar to the top so you can see your page as it will look while editing.

Marketing Tab

The Marketing tab puts all of our existing marketing features like your Contact Manager and Website Reports together with some great new features, most noticeably our Newsletter feature.  This great new tool allows you to send out HTML email newsletters to people who subscribe on your site, and uses the new Email Stationary feature which automatically creates an email look based on your overall site design.  New marketing features are coming soon, including Search Engine Optimization, Social Media, Autoresponders, and more!

Easier Than Ever

We hope the changes make managing a great website easier than ever, and allow you to stay in contact with your customers more than ever before!