Ecommerce - product image display
The product thumbnail image feature has been enhanced. The images are now easier to setup. With the site builder preview/flash upload enabled, you can upload multiple thumbnail images at the same time for a product. The new thumbnail option displays the thumbnail preview images directly below the main product image on the product detail page. When a thumbnail image is clicked, the main product image will change to display the larger image for the thumbnail. This option lets customers view more product images directly from the product detail page.

Ecommerce reports

• Profit/cost report
• Sales by state
• Sales by country
• Updated graph/chart style

Rotating banners and overlay text
The banner/header system has been enhanced to support rotating banners and custom overlay text/HTML. The rotating banner feature enables you to setup a sequence of banner images. The header area will cycle through the banner images fading in and out between each image. Other options include banners that randomly display, each time a page is viewed.

In addition to multiple banners, a text/HTML overlay can be setup that goes on top of each banner in the sequence. You can set the text, size and the position of the overlay. One use of the overlay text would be to create clickable text/image links that are in the banner area.

To setup rotating banners and overlays, go to the design area and click the "header & images" link. Then click the "rotating banners/overlay" tab.

Customize fonts and styles

• Text/css menus
  Customize the colors and style for text based menus. Customizations include font color, style and background color for the regular menu, selected menu and hover over menu. (for this feature to be available you may need to reselect your layout or reselect your menu button style)
• Forms
  Customize the style for your website forms. Adjust the font size, colors, borders and spacing of your form fields/labels.
• Product catalog display
  The product customizations allow you to set the borders/backgrounds/colors/fonts/styles for over 20 different areas in the product catalog display. The customizable areas include the product title, product links, labels, price fields, description text, title areas and more.

Tabbed accordion view
The new accordion mode displays a vertical list of tab names with the tab content below the tab
name. The update also includes an option to set the font size for the tab and accordion text.

Countdown timer component
Add a countdown timer to your website. The dynamically updating timer displays the number of days, hours, minutes and seconds to the date that you specify. You can set a destination page that users are taken to when the counter expires. Edit any page, click the add button and choose the countdown timer from the standard/HTML menu.

Map button
A map button has been added to the user account details page and the order detail page. Click the map button to open a new window that displays a map of the users contact address. For orders the shipping address is also added to the map window.

Mobile admin
Access basic information and reports from your mobile phone. View website traffic statistics, view user account/contact information and view store orders. For more information, go to your main site admin page, click the "my account" link in the left side menu and then click the "mobile admin" link.
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Misc updates

• Set the font size for tabs in the tabbed content component
• Updated image manager resize and crop features to work in FireFox
• Added new view to image manager to see files
• Added option to center align the main menu
• Popup calendar for date selection (blog, calendar, coupon editor)
• Text editor 2.0: background preview - allows you to see how your text will look on dark or light backgrounds

Design system

• New logos
• Updated banners
• Gradient maker (background images)
• Layout properties - updated page for selecting page width

Site builder preview - misc updates

• Misc graphic updates and adjustments
• Added drop down menu to page properties button

Ecommerce - product images display
The product thumbnail display has been enhanced. You now have the option to display thumbnail images directly below the main produc image. Visitors can click a thumbnail to view the image without having to open a popup window. To enable this feature go to the shopping cart settings page.

• Enhanced product thumbnail image display
• New report : sales by state
• New report : sales by country
• New report : sales by profit/cost
• MapIt - view customer location and shipping address on a map

Rotating banners

• Setup rotating banners : load a sequence of images that automatically fade in and out for each of your page banners
• Setup text/HTML overlay on each banner image. This feature lets you customize the text on top of the banner and setup links in your banner area
• To configure rotating banners, go to the design area of the site builder. Click the header & images tab and then click the rotating images tab.

Image management

• Updated resize/crop tools (works with FireFox)
• New option to view/select images with image previews in the file manager

Menu

• Center align the main menu (may require that you reslect your layout or reslect your menu style)
• Menu customizations : new option to customize the text/background colors and style for the text based menus

Text and style customization

• Product display : customize the fonts, colors and style for the product catalog display
• Forms : customize the fonts, colors and style of forms on your website
• Tabbed content box : customize the font size for the tabs

Tabbed accordion view
This new mode for the tabbed content box displays each of the tabs as a vertical list. You can click each of the section titles to open the accordion section.

Site builder preview - misc updates

• Misc graphic updates and adjustments
• Added drop down menu to page properties button

Misc update

• Text editor 2.0 - new option to help edit text on dark and light backgrounds. The background preview link (located at the bottom of the text edit area) allows you to preview what your text will look like on dark and light backgrounds. This option does not change the background color.
• Popup calendar for date selection (blogs and events calendar)
• Misc system optimizations
• Countdown timer component

Design system

• New logos
• Updated banners
• Gradient maker (background images)
• Layout properties - updated page for selecting page width

Ecommerce

• Updated store home page
• Support for editing coupons
• Links from website to store/product management pages
• Multi currency (get estimate of price in a different currency). Requires that you add currency selection to the store sidebar component.
• Require consent checkbox during checkout. Add box with custom message that requires shoppers to check the box and agree before continuing with their checkout.
• Option to verify email address (enter 2 times) during the checkout process

Multiple gift certificates and coupons
Customers can now use multiple gift certificates when checking out through your website. The system will still only allow one coupon but allows gift certificates to be used with the one coupon.

Design system

• Quicker design updates - design updates are displayed without the page needing to be reloaded
• Overlay windows in place of popup windows for design element selection
• Logo changes
  • Upload/select logo while editing a page
  • Logo builder is easier to use
  • Easy buttons for logo upload or select from library
  • Link added to access advanced logo settings
• Backgrounds
  • Many new backgrounds added
  • Easily change/test site backgrounds
• Groupboxes
  • Many new groupbox styles added
  • Easier to select and customize your groupbox styles

Overlay property windows
We are replacing many of the popup windows (browser window opens up in a new window) with quick overlay windows. The overlay windows open inside your current browser window.

Social networking
We have added several new components that interact with many of the social networking websites.

• Twitter feed. The twitter feed component displays the contents of a twitter feed on your website. NOTE: If twitter experiences any downtime, the page containing this component will load much slower.
• Share my site/social networking links. The share my site component adds links to many of the top social networking websites directly to any of your pages. These sites include twitter and facebook.

Landing page/tracking pages
Create landing pages to track referrals or links from other websites. Give the landing page a tracking code. When visitors go to the page the code is tracked in the visitors session. When the visitor places an order or submits a form on your site the tracking code is included.

Mailing list tracking
With the mailing list manager any links that you add to the email will automatically have a tracking code added to the link. This tracking code will allow you to track orders and form submissions that are received from visitors clicking on a link from your newsletter.

Form builder auto response emails
Setup an auto response email to be sent back to visitors when they fill out a form on your site.

Other/misc updates

• Block IP address - go to the advanced settings page to setup IP adddress blocking
• File manager support for back button to navigate file manager pages
• 2 new link paragraph components

Help/tutorials

• The tutorials page has been redesigned to make it easier to browse the available tutorials

The new system update is now available.

Design system

• Quicker design updates - design updates are displayed without the page needing to be reloaded
• Overlay windows in place of popup windows for design element selection
• Logo changes
  • Upload/select logo while editing a page
  • Logo builder is easier to use
  • Easy buttons for logo upload or select from library
  • Link added to access advanced logo settings
• Backgrounds
  • Many new backgrounds added
  • Easily change/test site backgrounds
• Groupboxes
  • Many new groupbox styles added
  • Easier to select and customize your groupbox styles

Overlay property windows
We are replacing many of the popup windows (browser window opens up in a new window) with quick overlay windows. The overlay windows open inside your current browser window.

Social networking
We have added several new components that interact with many of the social networking websites.

• Twitter feed. The twitter feed component displays the contents of a twitter feed on your website. NOTE: If twitter experiences any downtime, the page containing this component will load much slower.
• Share my site/social networking links. The share my site component adds links to many of the top social networking websites directly to any of your pages. These sites include twitter and facebook.

Landing page/tracking pages
Create landing pages to track referrals or links from other websites. Give the landing page a tracking code. When visitors go to the page the code is tracked in the visitors session. When the visitor places an order or submits a form on your site the tracking code is included.

Mailing list tracking
With the mailing list manager any links that you add to the email will automatically have a tracking code added to the link. This tracking code will allow you to track orders and form submissions that are received from visitors clicking on a link from your newsletter.

Form builder auto response emails
Setup an auto response email to be sent back to visitors when they fill out a form on your site.

Ecommerce

• Updated store home page
• Support for editing coupons
• Links from website to store/product management pages
• Multi currency (get estimate of price in a different currency). Requires that you add currency selection to the store sidebar component.
• Require consent checkbox during checkout. Add box with custom message that requires shoppers to check the box and agree before continuing with their checkout.
• Option to verify email address (enter 2 times) during the checkout process

Store home page

• Settings links are now divided into 2 sections (store setting and advanced settings)
• Graphic buttons added to the top of the store pages for quick access to store manager features

Multiple gift certificates and coupons
Customers can now use multiple gift certificates when checking out through your website. The system will still only allow one coupon but allows gift certificates to be used with the one coupon.

Other/misc updates

• Block IP address - go to the advanced settings page to setup IP adddress blocking
• File manager support for back button to navigate file manager pages
• 2 new link paragraph components

Help/tutorials

• The tutorials page has been redesigned to make it easier to browse the available tutorials

Form builder

• Contact/Leads DB. Use this option to save a contact record in your user database with basic contact information when a form is submitted.
• Select which user groups contacts are added to.
• Option to register users for multiple mailing lists from a form.

Mailing lists/user accounts

• Setup multiple general signup mailing lists and use the form builder to create mailing list registration forms.
• Mailing lists auto response messages can now be enabled for all mailing lists.
• Navigation and links have been optimized to make it easier to access mailing list/user functions.
• The user group properties page now allows you to change the group name.
• Links on the users list pages to easily switch between groups.

Blog platform enhancements

• New blog styles/layouts
• Setup and manage categories for blog entries
• Blog categories displayed in the sidebar links area
• Sidebar links now display the number of posts for that link
• User comments can be set to display on the blog detail page
• Use standard groupbox/title styles in the blog sidebar area
• Blog manager allows you to view posts and manage pending comments

Upgraded 2.0 text editor

• The 2.0 text editor is now the default text editor for Firefox, Safari, Opera and Google chrome.

Sitemap/Robots.txt

• Sitemap files are used by search engines such as Google to better index all the pages on your website.
• An optimized sitemap.xml file is automatically generated as you edit your pages.
• Sitemap file includes all pages, blog posts and product catalog detail pages.
• The system now generates a default robots.txt file.

Design: custom page banners

• Upload custom banners on a per page basis
• To upload a custom banner for a page, edit the page and click the "header options" link in the banner area.

Design

• New themes
• New system banners
• New backgrounds
• New groupboxes

Ecommerce

• The default product search has been enhanced to allow customers to filter search results by product category and price.
• Better support for phone/manual order entry has been added. To enter a manual order, click the phone order link on the main store page.
• Google checkout support has been added (open beta test)
• AVS/CVV results are now displayed on the order detail page. (NOTE: for results to display, this feature must be supported for your payment gateway)
• Australia post support

Media Components
The system media components have been upgraded.

• New integrated flash media player supports playing .flv (flash) video files as well as many other video formats
• Easily switch between the new flash media player and the standard browser plugin media player
• New option to upload videos directly to your YouTube account from your website

Misc Changes

• Account information change notice. Anytime your account information is updated or your password is reset, you will receive a notification email.
• An option to delete user accounts has been added.
• Create categories for calendar events.
• Message board topic sorting.
• Spam filtering enhancements
• Website settings and ecommerce settings pages overview pages provide an at a glance view of your configuration settings.

Domain manager

• View all domains associated with your account
• View domain status and expiration dates
• Register new domains or add an existing domain to your account

PREVIEW: advanced file uploader

• Easier file upload with one click and file selection
• Upload progress display
• Use multi select to upload multiple files at the same time with the file manager and image galleries
• To enable the advanced uploader, go to an upload form and click the link to try the advanced uploader
• If you have feedback or problems using the advanced file uploader, contact support and switch back to the default file uploader

PREVIEW: advanced page editor

• Quicker page editing with in page features
• Easily move components on the page without a page reload
• Overlay component editor makes it easy to access the component edit pages
• Component updates are instantly applied to your page without needing to reload the page
• Optimized component menu for adding/inserting and accessing component properties
• To enable the advanced page editor, edit any page and click the change link inside the section 1 header
• If you have feedback or problems using the advanced page editor, contact support and switch back to the default page editor

Ecommerce : phone/manual order entry
Better support for phone orders and manual order entry has been added. To create orders manually go to the store manager and click the "phone orders" link in the view/process orders section.

Ecommerce : Google checkout
Support for the Google checkout gateway has been added (open beta test)

Ecommerce : Misc

• AVS/CVV results : The order details page now displays the results for the AVS/CVV match from your payment gateway. (NOTE: for results to display, this feature must be supported for your payment gateway)
• Australia post

Design

• text/style preview on the color selection page
• new backgrounds
• color scheme generator updated - text/style preview & an option to set the background color
• text & styles - pre defined text styles optomized for dark/light backgrounds
• footer style - option to customize the footer text/links and the footer menu
• new designs in the design library

System Update: 4.14c

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Form builder

• Support added for multi column forms. In the form field list add a column entry to set where a new column starts.

Ecommerce

• Option added to set the default product category overview and product detail layouts. Go to the store manager and click general settings to setup the default layouts.

System Update: 4.14b

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Form builder

• Contact/Leads DB. Use this option to save a contact record in your user database with basic contact information when a form is submitted.
• Select which user groups contacts are added to.
• Option to register users for multiple mailing lists from a form.

Mailing lists/user accounts

• Setup multiple general signup mailing lists and use the form builder to create mailing list registration forms.
• Mailing lists auto response messages can now be enabled for all mailing lists.
• Navigation and links have been optimized to make it easier to access mailing list/user functions.
• The user group properties page now allows you to change the group name.
• Links on the users list pages to easily switch between groups.

 

System Update: 4.14a

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• Design: 26 new page backgrounds added
• Design: new option added to find an layout by the "layout id"
• Website: The site logo/banner is now clickable. When clicked visitors will go to the website home page.
• Message board: option has been added to require users to either login or create an account to post messages. Search feature has been added to the message board.

 

System Update: 4.14

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Blog Platform Enhancements:
The integrated blogging platform has been enhanced to provide for more flexibility and more advanced blogging features.

• New blogs styles and layouts
• Setup and manage categories for blog entries
• Blog categories and archive sections show number of posts on the sidebar link
• Set comments to display on the blog detail page or in a popup window
• Set blog sections to use site page titles or groupboxes
• New blog management page displays blog entries, number of comments and entries with pending comments

Upgraded 2.0 text editor
The 2.0 text editor has been upgraded. This upgrade enables text edit features for the following web browsers: Safari, Google Chrome and Opera. The 2.0 text editor has also been set as the default text editor for all non Internet Explorer web browsers.

Design : custom page banners
Support for customizing your site banner/header image on a per page basis. To use this feature edit any page and click the "header options" link. This option will allow you to upload your own custom banner for the selected page.

Design

• New themes
• Many new system banners have been added
• New backgrounds
• New groupboxes

Sitemaps/robots.txt enhancements
To help increase exposure in search engines, especially Google, the system will now automatically generate an optimized sitemaps.xml file as you make updates to your site. This file includes all your site pages, blog entries and product detail pages. The search engines use this file to easily index your site and to detect when your site content has been updated. The system also generates a default robots.txt file.

• Automated google sitemaps generation
• Auto generated robots.txt file for full site indexing

Ecommerce : enhanced product searching
The ecommerce product search has been upgraded to allow customers to filter search results by product category and product price.

Media Components
The system media components have been upgraded.

• New integrated flash media player supports playing .flv (flash) video files as well as many other video formats
• Easily switch between the new flash media player and the standard browser plugin media player
• New option to upload videos directly to your YouTube account from your website

Misc Changes

• Account information change notice. Anytime your account information is updated or your password is reset, you will receive a notification email.
• An option to delete user accounts has been added.
• Create categories for calendar events.
• Message board topic sorting.
• Spam filtering enhancements.
• Website settings and ecommerce settings overview pages provide an "at a glance" view of your configuration settings.

Domain manager

• View all domains associated with your account
• View domain status and expiration dates
• Register new domains or add an existing domain to your account

PREVIEW: advanced file uploader

• Easier file upload with one click and file selection
• Upload progress display
• Use multi select to upload multiple files at the same time with the file manager and image galleries
• To enable the advanced uploader, go to an upload form and click the link to try the advanced uploader
• If you have feedback or problems using the advanced file uploader, contact support and switch back to the default file uploader

PREVIEW: advanced page editor

• Quicker page editing with "in page" features
• Easily move components on the page without a page reload
• Overlay component editor makes it easy to access the component edit pages
• Component updates are instantly applied to your page without needing to reload the page
• Optimized component menu for adding/inserting and accessing component properties
• To enable the advanced page editor, edit any page and click the change link inside the section 1 header
• If you have feedback or problems using the advanced page editor, contact support and switch back to the default page editor

 

Site administration access
Use the new site administration access area to setup site administration privileges for users. With the admin accounts setting you can give users access to manage email accounts, view statistics, edit pages, manage images and access store order management features. To learn more about admin accounts, go to the main admin page, click the user accounts link and then click the "Administration Access" link.

Ecommerce: Enhanced shipping configuration.
A new advanced shipping configuration module has been added to the system. The new shipping rules allow you to setup when different shipping methods apply to customer orders. You can set which shipping methods are available to customers based on location (shipping country, state, zipcode) as well as order sub total and order weight. New product specific shipping settings allow you to set which products ship in their own box, to set an alternate ship from zipcode and to specify that a product requires a specific shipping method (ex. product requires overnight shipping).

Design

• New option has been added to let you set the site wide background and the background of the content area. You can choose from many different system backgrounds or upload your own.
• Main design page updated for quicker access to design features
• Design library updated with new designs and new design customization interface
• Color picker updated to allow for more flexibility. You can now enter the HEX color code directly into the color selection box.
• New groupbox styles have been added

System/Components

• The standard image upload page lets you choose an images size and select the upload location (folder) for the image. You can also create a new folder directly from the upload form.
• Image rotation: The image tools have bene updated to allow you to roate your images.
• Photo Gallery: Several new layout modes have been added to the photo gallery. You can also rotate images from the image gallery edit page.
• Google Sitemaps: Support has been added to allow for multiple google site map keys for sites that have multiple domain names.
• File Manager: The file manager has been updated to remember the file type/show count.
• Header & Images: New display mode added to tile your custom image across the header area (fills banner area for wider layouts)

Ecommerce

• Over 100 new shopping cart button styles have been added to the system
• New styles added for shopping cart icons (new arrival, special offer, clearance, free shipping)

Ecommerce:New payment gateways

• DPS-PaymentExpress
• epsSecureNet
• GoEMerchant

Design:

• Enhanced design manager - The design manager has been enhanced to allow you to save all of your design settings and give each design set a unique name. You can save as many design sets as you wish and then reload the design settings through the design manager.
• New templates - there are 10 new templates available in this release
• Text/css menus - enable non-graphic buttons in the menu
• Over one hundred new logos have been added to the system.
• Style support in 2.0 text editor for browser Heading styles (title 1, title 2, title3). Heading styles can be set from Design, Text & Styles, Default, Text, Text Titles

User accounts:

• User account signup form - a new form type is available that includes a company field.

Page Editor/Components:

• 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 selected, 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.
• Page properties option to enable/disable sidebars per page
• Youtube component - have YouTube videos play within your site.
• 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.
• New tutorials have been added for the content rotator, file upload utility, setting up wholesale products, fonts and copying products.

Ecommerce:

• A product search feature is now available from within the store manager to allow you to search for products in your store to edit them.
• FedEx shipping labels - you will have to be certified by FedEx to use this feature.
• ACH (echeck) support Beta - support is now available for Linkpoint, Verisign, and Authorize.net. Contact support if you are interested in testing this feature.
• 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 coupon type has been added "By X get Y free".
• VAT tax support - The VAT tax option displays the VAT tax amount along with the base product price. VAT tax display is enabled through the Store, International Settings page. The system will use the first sales tax entry in the sales tax settings to determine how to compute the VAT amount.
• Delete product images when deleting products - you are now prompted if you wish to delete the images for a product when deleting a product.
• Minimum order quantity on a product - restrict orders to require that a minimum quantity of a product be ordered.
• Support for Innovative Merchant Solutions gateway (Quickbooks gateway).
• Gift certificate balance lookup component - allow customers to look up the balance on their gift certificate.
• Customer submitted product reviews - allows store customers to submit product reviews/ratings.
• A one time setup fee option on a product - allows for a fixed setup fee on a product which does not vary on quantity of a product that is ordered.
• Order mangement enhancements - multi order move in order manager

Page Editor/Components:

• Browser Icon - setup a browser icon (favicon.ico). Go to Edit Site, Settings.
• Blog comments - enable comments on blog posts
• Content rotator - setup content on a page that rotates every page view or based on a date
• Photo gallery page type
• New Photo Display Components (gallery, rotator, slider, thumb viewer, image bar)
• Google maps - the map component now supports Google maps. You will have to get a Google Maps API key.

Design

• Holiday banners
• Enhanced text/link styles - new setting page allows you to set the default font name, size, colors and styles for text and links.
• Custom font names - use this advanced option to add your own font name choices to the text editor, groupboxes and page titles. View your site, click the settings button and then choose the Editor setitngs link.

System/Help

• User account import/export - import users into a user group. Go to Admin, User Groups to import users
• Dashes in page URLs - you can change how page names appear in the URL to use a dash ("-") instead of an underscore ("_"). You have to rename the page for the URL of a page to be changed.
• Last Modified Date for pages - the page properties (Page List, Properties) shows the date you last modified the page
• User FTP Accounts - you can allow users of your site to upload files via FTP. To enable access, go to Edit Site, Settings, User Account Settings.
• Message board bbcode - allows text formatting in the message board.
• File upload utility - the file upload utility allows you to easily transfer files from your computer to your website. Upload images directly to photo galleries on your website.

Mailing List enhancements

• Mailing list signup from form builder - enable signup to the mailing list from the form builder
• AutoResponders/Drip Marketing - setup automated emails sent out to members of your mailing list at a specific number of days from the day they signup to your mailing list

Ecommerce

• WishList
• Google Base export for products
• Product Link Generator - to generate a link to a particular product that you can place on another website. Edit the product, select "Advanced Settings", and "Product Links"
• Copy Product - to copy a product, go to the product editor and select the "Copy Product" button.
• Ecommerce shipping - flat rate by weight
• USPS Shipping Labels/Delivery Confirmation
• FEDEX package tracking
• Payment gateways:
  • HSBC
  • PayTrace
  • Sterling Payment
  • PayJunction