April 20, 2008 - New Features Added

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

October 18, 2007 - New Features Added

Designs/templates
10 new templates/layouts have been added to the system. In addition, the select layout page now displays layouts based on a layout category (popular, basic, dark, all, new)

Design manager (enhanced)
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.

Text/css based menus
CSS text only menus can be enabled through the menu page in the design area. There are about 7 menu styles to choose from.

Logo builder
Over a hunderd new logos have been added to the logo builder.

Page properties (enhanced)
The page properties screen has been enhanced to allow for the configuration of page specific meta tags, layout selection and sidebar configuration. A new page properties button has been added to the edit bar at the top of each page. Added the option to disable left/right sidebars per page.

Text Editor 2.0 enhancements
In the style area you can now set 3 different title styles. When using the text editor you can use the styles.

Page editor/components

• Youtube component
• Formbuilder - new form field for file upload

User accounts signup form
There is a new account signup form that includes a company field.

Ecommerce enhancements

• fedex shipping labels
• ACH/echeck support (available by request)
• enhanced coupons (product specific coupons)
• Customer submitted product comment/review system
• Product search inside store manager
• VAT tax support
• Option to delete product images when deleting a product
• Product setup fee option
• Order mangement enhancements - multi order move in order manager

April 25, 2007 - New Features Added

Browser Icon
The latest versions of most web browsers show a small icon in the address bar for websites and on the web page tabs. This new site builder feature lets you set the browser icon. You can either choose one of the standard icons or upload your own .ico file.

Click view site, then click the settings button. Click the button to choose an icon from the icon library or upload your own .ico file.

Blog Comments
Visitors to your website can post comments on your blog posts. When comments are posted, you will receive an email notification. You must approve comments before they are published on your website. To enable user comments, go to the blog settings page. For each blog post, you must check the enable comments box to allow visitors to post comments..

Mailing List Enhancements
It is now easier for visitors to signup for your site mailing list. You can add a check box on any form (using the form builder) that will let a visitor add their email to your general mailing list when submitting the form. The new auto responder feature lets you setup a series of emails that will be automatically sent to your general mailing list subscribers. You can configure the emails to automatically be delivered at daily intervals.

Content Rotator
Use the content rotator to setup a section of your web page that rotates/changes each time the page is viewed or have content that is set to display on specific dates. To enable content rotation, edit any page, click the add button and choose the content rotator from the design accents menu. Setup each of your content sections and add content.

Photo Display Components
The photo display components have been enhanced to make it easier for you to upload photos and setup photo galleries/rotators. The new photo components support upload of multiple files and automatic gallery generation. You specify gallery settings (image sizes, layout, style and other properties) and the system will generate all the image files for the gallery.

Google Maps
Place interactive Google maps on your site using the Google maps component. To use the component you must first obtain a map key from Google. NOTE: Currently the Google maps component is only supported for a single domain. If your site has multiple domain names then you can only have the map display on one of your domains.

Text & Styles
We have reorganized some of the links on the design area and provided new options for customizing your text. The new "Text & Styles" area of the design manager includes links for setting up your page titles, group boxes, shopping cart as well as layout settings. NEW: You can now set your default style for your site text, site headings and links. This includes the font name, size, color and style attributes such as bold, italic and underline.

Edit your site, click the design button, then click the "text & styles" link.

Custom Font Names
The standard text editor has been updated to allow you to specify your own font names for styling text. Your font names will appear in the font drop down selection list for the text editor, page titles and group boxes. IMPORTANT: If visitors to your site do not have a font installed on their computer, they will not be able to see the text in that font (text will be displayed in the default font for their browser)

Edit your site, click the settings button, then click the "Editor Settings" link on the left side of the page.

User Account Import/Export
Export your user list and create/update user accounts by uploading a user import file. Use the import to set user account information and specify which user groups the account should be in.

Click the admin tab, then click the user accounts link. Click either the import or export link.

Page Name Format (dashes)
Configure how spaces are handled in page names. To set the page urls, you can choose to have spaces replaced with either a "-" dash or a "_" underscore. To set the page name, view your site, click the settings button and then click the "editor settings" link. This setting only applies to newly created pages. Existing pages will not be changed.

Edit your site, click the settings button, then click the "Editor Settings" link on the left side of the page.

Ex. "Contact_Us" or "Contact-Us"

User FTP Accounts
If you need to have a place to exchange files with customers, you can enable the User based FTP accounts option. When this option is enabled, customers can login to an FTP account on your site and transfer files. To enable user based FTP accounts, click the "user account settings" link and check the "Enable FTP access for user accounts" box.

Message Board
Enhanced to allow message board posts to include formatted text.

Sitemaps.org (Google sitemaps)
Many of the top search engines now allow you to provide them with a sitemap of all the pages on your site. Having a sitemap does not increase your search rankings, but it does help the search engines index your site. You can also view additional information about your site through the search engine tools when using a sitemap. To learn more, edit your site. Click the settings link and then click the "search engines" link.

File Upload Utility - Preview
Use the File Upload Utility to view a list of files on your website, transfer large files (larger than 20mb) and to upload multiple files at the same time. The File Upload Utility is a java application that you can run from the site builder. A link to the file upload utility is available from the file manager and the image gallery components. Requirements: you must have Java Version 5 or greater installed. You can download the latest version of Java by going to http://www.java.com.

Ecommerce: Wishlist
To enable the wish list feature, go to the store manager page. Click the shopping cart settings link and check the "Wish list/gift registry" box. With the wish list feature your site users can add any product on your site to their wishlists. Users can use the wishlist to save the items for purchase at a later date or they can give their email addresses to friends/family to purchase items off of the list. This feature can also be used as a gift registry. Users can setup an account, add items to their list and specify how many of a each item they would like. The system tracks purchases and will remove items from the wish list once all the requested quantities have been purchased.

To enable wishlists, go to the store manager, click shopping cart settings and check the "Wish list/Gift Registry" option.

Ecommerce: Generate U.S.P.S. shipping labels
On the order management pages you can click an option to generate a printable U.S.P.S. shipping label for your order. To print labels you must have a U.S.P.S. Web tools account and contact U.S.P.S to enable your account for production delivery confirmation and express mail labels. You must add your own postage fees to the shipping labels.

Ecommerce: Copy Product
It is now easier to setup a large number of products that have similar descriptions/options. Once you setup a product you can use the "copy this product" button to create a copy of a product. You can then edit the copied product entry and make any necessary modifications.

Ecommerce: Payment Gateways
HSBC, Pay Trace, Sterling Payment, PayJunction

Ecommerce: Misc

• Google Base export for products
• Product link generator (generates link with tracking code)
• Ecommerce shipping flat rate by weight
• Added product cost field to the product import/export - will be used for future reports
• New checkout option to use either a state drop down selection list or text entry field
• Customize the "Coupon/Gift Certificate" label
• Removed "no products in category" message when viewing an empty category page
• FEDEX package tracking

Misc Fixes/Enhancements

• Added select page button to user account configuration page for selecting the login and welcome pages
• Fixed link editor to allow use of either full link name. ex "http://www.linkname.com" or just "www.linkname.com"
• Account login component - added option to enable a create account link below the login component
• Billing history - added link for a printable version of the page

September 23, 2006 - New Features Added

System/Help

• Added new site sidebar area above the page sidebars.
• New tutorials

Community

• New all users view and user account search

Ecommerce

• New ecommerce reports - select report period (day, week, month, year and custom ranges). Bar graphs and pie charts have been added to many reports.
  • Sales by product
  • Sales by customer
  • Sales by payment type
  • Cart analysis
  • Search phrases/keywords
  • Low inventory
• Multi order complete fuction
• Added customer id and package tracking information to export
• Added product cost, keywords and description field to advanced product setup page
• Shipping - residential/commercial
• Shipping - enable insurance purchases
• Payment Gateway: eway.com.au

August 12, 2006  - New Features Added

Design

• New banners (sports, business, realestate, city life, food, politics, education, legal, medical, travel)

Enhanced text editor
[not enabled by default: see system update notice on main admin page for more information]

• Selected font/settings display. Shows the current font, size and style of the selected text
• Page anchors
• Paste plain text, past from MS Word (fixes html)
• New link selector with support for popup windows
• Integrated with standard image selection/upload page
• Full screen editing mode
• Find/Search replace
• Print

No design - blank/intro page

• Switch any page to a no design page
• Set page width/margins, background color and enter site text
• Enable sidebars

Enhanced file manager

• Easier navigation and faster loading
• Sort by filename, size, date
• Search for files using the name filter
• View preview images
• Select number of files to view per page
• New media directory for organizing your audio/video files

Enhanced link builder

• Easily setup links to other websites, secure sites, pages on your site
• Link to files on your site
• Create links to popup windows

July 12, 2006 - New Features Added

Features

• Blog page. To add a blog to your site, click the add page button and select the Blog page type.

Site editor

• Add page. When creating a page you can select checkboxes to set it to underconstruction and enable page security (requires the password protected pages upgrade).
• Message board. Message board now utilizes image confirmation to prevent automated message posting.
  When using password protected pages and the message board, the message board will automatically fill in the customers email address.

Design

• Six layouts added..
• New banners added.

Mailing List enhancements

• multiple mailing lists (general/account based)
• registered users can select which mailing lists to join
• history - view mailing list history
• mailing list templates (choose a template, make your own/save it to use again)
• status: view job status (pending or percentage complete if currently sending)

Ecommerce

• Enhanced coupon support. Set the total use count for each coupon and how many times it can be used by each customer.
• Enhanced order archive management. Orders are organized by month/year.
• Subscription system. Customers who have purchased subscriptions to your website can now login to their account and update their billing information online.
  Donation based subscriptions are now available. The customer enters in how much they want the recurring charge to be.

May 1, 2006 - New Features Added

Design:

• New Templates/Layouts
  Six new design layouts have been added to the system. To see the new layouts, edit your site, click the design button and choose the "site layout" link.

Ecommerce:

• PayPal Payments Pro
  Support added for the PayPal Payments Pro service. Integrate your store shopping cart with PayPal Payments Pro. The PayPal Pro payment service allows customers to choose to have an integrated checkout experience at your website or to go directly to PayPal to purchaes products/services from your website. PayPal Pro requires that you have a properly configured PayPal business account.

To enable PayPal Payments Pro, go to the store manager, click the "Payment methods/merchant account" link and choose "PayPal Payments Pro" from the list of avaiable gateways on the right side of the page. Click the set button.

• Product detail layout
  New product detail layout added. The item price, options and add to cart buttons are shown at the top of the product page to the right of the product image.
• Subscription/recurring charge system
  Create subscription based store products that will charge customers on a recurring basis for access to your website or services.

February 10, 2006 - New Features Added

General

• Updated editor text/font styles
• Enhanced navigation menu for site settings and ecommerce
• New community connection and news area. The community connection contains current news, updates as well as a feedback/suggestion system.
• Minor modifications to the look of the page editor
• Reorganized the links in the setting area. New sections include (title/footer, search engines, site search, user account settings, referral booster, and advanced/HTML)

Design:

• Quicklinks Bar: The quick links bar can be enabled from the page list. Use the Quicklinks bar add additional navigation and information at the top of every page on your site. Options include (link to home page, my account link, search box, shopping cart, custom links and custom html)
• New Templates
• Customizable banner height and width (non flash banners)
• Banner transitions: Set how the right side of the banner blends into the design and fills the right side of the banner area.

User accounts for ecommerce/password protected pages:

• New users account setup page: go to site settings, click user accounts from the menu on the left.
• New option for visitors to create their own accounts on your site (can be set to require a passcode to authorize new accounts).
• Login/Registration page: By default visitors are taken to the "my account" page when they login or register with your site. Use this new option to set a welcome page for new users and a default page when users login.

Page Editor/Components:

• RSS feeds: Place RSS feeds on your site. RSS feeds link to other sites with current articles/news.
• Link component: New option to setup custom link types and to select https:// links.
• Media components: There are now 2 separate components for media files (Audio and Video)
• Search box customizations. Use new settings to customize the size/style of the search box.
• Guestbook now uses security code to prevent automated robot submissions

Page List:

• New option to show all the ecommerce product categories.

Ecommerce:

• Advanced inventory tracking: Use advanced inventory tracking to track inventory at the product option level.
• Auto saved shopping cart: The new cart system automatically saves a visitors shopping cart so that it is restored when they return. Users can also create or login to their account to save their shopping carts.
• Option to hide products with 0 Inventory.
• SiteLink QuickBooks import program: Download the SiteLink program to import store orders directly into QuickBooks
• Print shipping labels
• Print invoices and orders - print button added to invoice
• New ecommerce reports (coupon usage, tracking code)
• Optimized order management navigation: Easier to manage and process orders.
• Order options: setting to make product option fields required.

System:

• Google site maps support: The system has been updated to return 404 error page for google sitemaps. This allows you to verify your site through their system.

October 1, 2005 - New Features Added

Design:

• Group box enhancements: add icons to group box titles and new group box styles.
• Advanced layout settings: go to "Design", "advanced layout settings" to adjust your site spacing.

Page Editor/Components:

• Side bars: All layouts now have 2 side bars on the left and right side of the page.
• Tabbed group box: Edit a page, Add, Design Accents, Tabbed Content.
• Form verification code: enable option to require a code displayed in an image to be entered before a form is submitted. This can help prevent spam/automated form submissions. To enable this option, edit the form and "Enable form security".

Ecommerce:

• Subscription services/recurring billing beta test: contact support for more information.
• Time display for orders: Set your default time zone and date display. Go to "Store", "General Settings" to set your default time zone.
• Add products to multiple categories: edit a product and click the "Choose product categories" link on the product.
• Add a charge: This option lets you add an additional charge onto an order through your payment gateway. To add a charge, go to the customer order and click the "Add Charge" button.
• Customization/international settings: customize shopping cart field names and set the default country. Go to "Store", "Customization/international settings"

November 6, 2005 - New support option available.

A support forum is now available to post questions, comments, etc. regarding how to use our software, setup email, and other topics. Forum is located here - www.ebizwebpages.com/main/support_forum

August 17, 2005 - New Features Added

Design:

• New logo styles
• New banners
• New bullet menu styles with customizeable bullet icons

Page Editor/Components:

• Links list: new style to show links in a drop down list format.

Ecommerce:

• Shopper account login. Shoppers can login and view account information and order status/history
• Product/category reorder options (sort alpha, move to top, move to bottom....)

General:

• Account login form. For accounts with password protected pages, add a login form to any page.

June 18, 2005 - New Features Added

Design:

• New logo styles
• New Banners
• New group box styles
• New page title styles with customizable icons and support for 2 colors of title text

Image management:

• Advanced image upload: use the advanced image upload feature to upload images to a specific directory and to automatically size the image/create thumbnails when uploading.
• Image file manager: Quickly find and manage images.
  • Show images names, preview images, or full images
  • Sort image list by name, size, or date
  • Select number of files to display per page
  • Displays the image dimensions
  • Alpha view - choose a letter to show all images that start with that letter. Ex. click "b" to show all images that start with the letter "b".
  • Create directories
• Image gallery: new option to upload the detail image and create the thumbnail at the same time.

Image tools/resize options:

• Dynamic resize: set the width/height or use drag/drop to scale your images.
• Quick resize: setup common image sizes to quickly resize images to common sizes.
• Crop image
• Thumbnail generator: easily create thumbnail images

Page Editor:

• Page group links component: use the page menu component to setup links list/menus for page groups and ecommerce.
• New page layouts with section dividers

Page List:

• Copy page: click the copy page button to create a copy of an existing page on your site.

Ecommerce:

• Froogle export: added text description and product category to export
• Additional export options: added shopping.com and yahoo shopping export formats
• Enhanced product search: added sorting options and display types. To enable the new search options the search index needs to be rebuilt.