Cassini Web | An Alternative Web Design Company

Yeah, it's release time again! Believe it or not we get just as excited as you do at these times. The months of hard work all come together and we get to push new things out to the iDesign-ophere And this one is a biggy too.

We're seeing the largest overhaul to the edit environment in the last 5 years as we drag SiteMaker kicking and screaming into the present and pave the way for the future. The long awaited HTML widget is now out of beta, works in all browsers (ooooohh), and opens up libraries of additional content. And you can now copy an entire site too...

Following the successful release of the Membership features in May, we had some requests for a few tweaks and additional options. So being the friendly and agile guys we are, we thought we'd do them (while continuing with the other things we're working on).

Want to know how to grow your website with more members and advocates? How to interact, manage and develop a better relationship with your visitors? Want to create members-only/client-only pages or sections? Want to post information or updates from your website to Facebook/Twitter? Build a collaborative website with edit rights for different people?

Well then, the membership release is what you've been waiting for! After many months of development it has finally arrived, jam packed with new features and a lot of improvement. Read on for more detail...

Joe: Here is a true account from the development team of what happens when you leave them by themselves for a week, as told by Adam (one of our dev guys). Perhaps we should leave them alone more often...

Adam: So there we were, back from our Christmas holidays and nary a manager in sight. 'Organise yourselves this week' they said, giving the tech team free reign to work together and see what we could come up with. And what a week it turned out to be...

So this is Christmas (laaa, laaa, laaa, laaa), and what have we learned (laaa, laaa, laaa, laaa), another year older (laaa, laaa, laaa, laaa), etc.

Anyway, you don't want to hear about that, you're interested in Santa's Goodie bag, or should I say Google bag...

Keeping up the theme of releasing Google based widgets at Xmas we thought we'd add the much requested Google maps feature to SiteMaker so that you can help your customers find you - if you want them to find you ;-)

We are very pleased to announce that we have released the changes required that now allow you to transfer your .co.uk domain names to Cassini Web! Once your domain is transferred to us, you will benefit from the free email (5 mailboxes and infinite aliases) that other domain customers get. So what are you waiting for?!

After a long wet summer, we've finally got some news to cheer you up. It's release time again! We've streamlined a few widgets, added social network bookmarking, and we're setting the stage for releases later in the year. You can also now transfer your domain names over to Cassini Web and use our website builder if you're with another provider. So have a look through the notes below and let us know what you think. Enjoy!

It's release time again and this one is a biggy! Lots of things we've been waiting to get out for for a very long time, with something for everyone. Get ready for some excitement, quiet in the back row please, here it comes...

Apparently, spring arrived last week, but with the Arctic weather that hit the UK over the weekend you'd be forgiven for thinking we'd returned to mid-winter. But this week does mark the arrival of our 2nd release for the year with some goodies and some bug fixes. We continue to finish and refine two larger projects - domain name registrations and a new File Manager - and these will be launched very soon. But rather than keep you waiting we wanted to give you a few new features to play with while we polish the other features and we wait for the real spring to arrive.

So what's on offer this month? You'll find details below:

New Features

• 'Viewport' added to make editing and managing files easier
• Improvements to W3C compliance and some tidy up
• HTML version of page now opens in new window
• Making Title tags more prominent in the HTML
• 'Show Homes' page and links added to moonfruit.com
• Addition of 10 new templates
• New SEO guide added to the moonfruit.com portal
• Improvements to multiple selection with changes to using the Control or Shift keys
• Ctrl key required for 'logout' from widgets when editing

Bug fixes

• Making the File Manager more context sensitive when adding images, audio and video
• Resetting the Video widget will now hide the video provider label

It's the first release of the year! Hurray! And hopefully a good one too. We've got a few big changes to site navigation, some edit improvements and some bug fixes/enhancements. Details below.

So the new features are:

• Updating page URLs and bookmarking
• Undo/redo (for moves and scales)
• SEO improvements (page title changes)
• Forum improvements

Bug fixes;

• Kewego videos work again
• Thumbnail generation improved for galleries