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Sitebuilder News Last Updated: Oct 18th, 2007 - 13:12:25


Site Builder System Update: 9/07
By Keith Hickman
Sep 4, 2007, 16:37

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The next site builder update should be available later this month.  We are in the process of finalizing the update and testing.  The update will include the follow enhancements.

Update Version: 4.12

Search Marketing/Getting Started Guide
The marketing and search engines area is being reworked.  Much of the information in the existing marketing area is outdated and requires quite a bit of reading.   The new content is designed to be quick and easy to read.

We are splitting the current marketing area into two separate guides.  The Search Marketing Guide will focus on search engine optimization, submission, pay per click and other traffic generating strategies.   The Quick Start Design Guide will include tips/ideas for building your website, focusing on the content, design and building a top quality web presence.

Search Marketing Guide
  - Search Engines
       1. Overview
       2. Target keywords
       3. Setup meta tags
       4. Optimize website
       5. Generate site map
       6. Submit website
  - Pay Per Click Search
  - External Links
  - Email/Newsletters

The new design guide provides a quick resource and overview of strategies for building an effective website.  Each of these areas feature a simple list of ideas/tips to consider while setting up a website.

Quick Start Design Guide
  - Website Plan
  - Content
  - Credibility
  - Readability
  - Navigation
  - Consistency
  - Design
  - Speed

Templates
The update includes about 10 new templates/layouts

Design: Design Manager
The design manager has been enhanced to allow customers to save all of their design settings and give each design set a unique name.  Customers can save as many design sets as they wish and then reload the design settings through the design manager.

The design settings are portable.  Future updates will allow a design set to be download from one website and uploaded to another.

Design: Select Layout
The layout selection page has been re-organized into five layout categories (popular, new, basic/clean, dark, all layouts).   Each layout category is displayed in a tabbed box.

Design: Text/CSS menus
Customers can enable non-graphic text based menus. 

Design: Logos
Over one hundred new logos have been added to the system.

Page Properties Enhancements
The page properties can now be accessed directly from the page editor.  The page properties button has been added to the main site editor bar between the add page and edit page buttons.  When the page properties button is pushed, the properties window slides down, allowing you to change page settings, modify the page layout, assign security access and set page specific meta keywords/description.

Form Builder
Support for file uploads through the form builder has been added to the system.  There is a 2mb limit of upload file size.  The uploaded files are sent with the form email as attachments.

Tutorials
New tutorials have been added for the content rotator, file upload utility, setting up wholesale products, fonts and copying products.

Ecommerce

Google Checkout
Support for Google checkout has been added.

Coupon Enhancements
New coupon restrictions allow you to set which products can be used with a coupon (select specific products or exclude specific products).  You can restrict the coupon to only apply to products that are not on sale.   A new discount type has been added "By X get Y free".

Product Search
The product search feature is now available from with in the store manager   This is helpful for customers that have a large number of products.  They can easily find and update product entries

Product Images
There is now an option to delete product images when deleting products.  This option is enabled through the advanced store settings.  There is also a message on the product delete confirmation box that will instruct users on how to enable the delete option

VAT tax support (value added tax)
The VAT tax option displays the VAT tax amount along with the base product price.  VAT tax display is enabled through the international settings page.   The system uses the first sales tax entry in the sales tax settings to determine how to compute the VAT amount.

Additional ecommerce enhancements
  - Fedex shipping labels
  - ACH (echeck) support (linkpoint, verisign, authorize.net) - enabled by request
  - minimum/maximum order quantity enforcement per product
  - innovative merchant solutions gateway (QuickBooks)



Keith Hickman
Director, Marketing  & Web Development
Advanced Web Site Publishing
http://www.awsp.com/
Phone: 281-554-9557  Ex. 111
Fax: 281-554-9558
Cell: 713-724-7483
Toll Free: 1-866-900-AWSP (2977)


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