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| WEDNESDAY, JUNE 02, 2010 | |
Announcing our Sites For Good program |
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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. |
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Posted At 01:06 PM by Michael Labels: Sites For Good |
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| FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 05, 2010 | |
Control Panel Overhaul! |
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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! |
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| THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2009 | |
Submenus! |
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We are very pleased to announe an important new feature for our websites: submenus. Now your side column menu can have submenus that come out when the visitor moves their mouse over the menu item. As part of the change our menu control panel has been updated, and the heaer menu is now managed there was well. There are also a few basic settings to customize the side column menu as well, and we are adding more. We have launched with a very simple interface, but are working on drag and drop to change your menus, as well as drop down menus for the header menu. We greatly appreciate any feedback on this new feature and are happy to answer any questions that may come up. |
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Posted At 08:11 PM by Michael Labels: Control Panel Menu |
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| WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 09, 2009 | |
New Drag and Drop Cubes Control Panel |
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Our new updated Cubes control panel allows you to drag and drop to add, reorder, and remove different modules from the side columns of your website. We hope you love this new intuitive design as much as we do! It is the first of many control panel overhauls we have underway to keep making every aspect of running your own website simpler and more powerful. We are also expanding some of the configurable options in our cube modules. For example our Blog module now allows you to add a label list or a label cloud, and many more changes will be added gradually to all of our cubes. We welcome any feedback from our terrific customers who help us make RunYourWebsite.com more powerful every day. |
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Posted At 07:09 PM by Michael Labels: Control Panels Cubes |
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| WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 2009 | |
Updated File Manager |
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We just added a new update to our File Manager for the RunYourWebsite.com Website Builder. The improved file manager separates different file types into tabs, has improved preview and delete options, but the most important improvement is for file uploads. You can now select multiple files at once when you upload. As they upload you can see their progress, which makes it a lot easier to upload larger files. Upon completion each file uploaded will offer confirmation. There are two options when uploading. The first is the familiar resize which automatically adjusts images to one of three available size options to easily convert larger digital camera images into web friendly images. The second is an option to determine what to do if the uploaded file exists. In addition to overwrite and skip, you can choose to rename the old file (which will become image_1.jpg as an example), or you can have the new file be renamed. We already have more new features planned for the file manager which will continue to improve and help make building and managing a website easier than ever. As always we appreciate the great feedback we get from our customers which help us improve our Website Builder, and hope to get some more on these latest changes. |
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| SATURDAY, JULY 18, 2009 | |
Theme Updates: Logo and Widths |
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We have been adding to and improving our website Themes as well as Color Schemes which allow you to get a complete look and feel in two clicks. Our Themes have always been about flexibility to be more than just website templates. The first major step for this was our Color Schemes and allowing every theme to adapt to any set of colors you choose. We are now adding to this flexible widths, allowing some themes to be different widths from our standard, but more importantly allowing them to be adaptable to any widths you specify. We've added a couple new themes that take advantage of this flexibility, and soon we will add controls to customize these widths after selecting a theme. Additionally, you can now upload a Logo in the header control panel that is features on some (but not all) of our theme designs. A few new Color Schemes have been added as well., and a variety of small control panel layout improvements have been added as we continue to refine our UI. We hope these changes help our customers build even better websites, and as always we welcome feedback and suggestions. |
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| Posted At 02:07 PM by Michael | Link 0 Comments |
| WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2009 | |
Control Panel Improvements |
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We are at the beginning of a long series of really cool improvements planned to our control panel which our long time users will notice right away. First of all the general appearance of the main control panel is evolving, and you will notice some new colors and tabs. In the future the control panel will be skinnable so you will be able to choose the look you like best. The main control panel is now full width, hiding any side columns you have to allow a more consistent and workable space. The side columns will still show up in any of the control panels relating to web design, but when you are fulfilling orders in your store, managing your contacts, etc. they columns limit the space available and have been hidden to allow a better work space. Another major improvement we are very excited about is the header image upload feature. In the past header images had to be a specific size, which meant editing an image outside before importing, and made it more difficult. As of today you can upload any size image and within our control panel crop and resize to get your header image just right. We also are gradually adding more new controls to make editing your site faster and easier. One of the first to check out is the use of sliders in the spacing section of the customize control panel. Instead of typing in a number, clicking save, and waiting for a refresh, you can instead drag the slider and in real time see a preview of what your site would look like with that setting. When you find the one you like click save to keep it! As always we really appreciate the great feedback of our users who are a key driving force in our evolution. |
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| Posted At 04:06 PM by Michael | Link 0 Comments |
| TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 2009 | |
Webpage Revision Feature |
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We are very happy to announce a major new feature we have been developing for a while: Webpage Revisions. Behind the scenes for a while we have been keeping a copy of your previous version of a page any time you save changes, so that you have access to them in an emergency. Up until now this has been a feature we access for you when something gets deleted by accident, etc. Today we have integrated this feature into the My Web Pages and making it available to you. This new feature makes it easier to make big changes, try things out, and always get back to where you were before if anything goes wrong. We know it will make it easier for you to build and manage a great website, and that is our core focus. So take a look, and as always, please let us know if you have any questions or feedback. Input from our customers has always been a key to making RunYourWebsite.com the best it can be. |
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| Posted At 01:06 PM by Michael | Link 0 Comments |
| MONDAY, MAY 04, 2009 | |
New Website Design |
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We are in the process of redesigning our own website at RunYourWebsite.com, taking advantage of our new CSS themes and several new features the new structure allows. We will be phasing in more changes to our own site as well, and will try to consistently make it an example of our best new features as we roll them out. |
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| Posted At 01:05 PM by Michael | Link 0 Comments |
| MONDAY, MAY 04, 2009 | |
Completely Revised Themes |
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We recently overhauled our entire Theme system, adding 20 new themes, and making a great new control panel allowing you to preview your theme and a color scheme together for tons of different website looks. Our new themes rely less on Flash and are built using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), making them more flexible as well as allowing them to display well on more devices (smartphones, etc). Now that the groundwork has been laid, you will start to see new themes added regularly and more new features to take advantage of the increased flexibility. |
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