350pages Blog

A note on Google and 350pages

2010-01-14T09:30:00.000-08:00

Google have announced a new feature which helps them to correctly index your website if you are using your own domain name, so we have coded this into 350pages to ensure that your site will be found even easier in Google.

January 2010 Newsletter

2010-01-01T07:00:00.000-08:00

See the January 2010 newsletter here.

Happy Christmas & New Year

2009-12-21T07:31:00.000-08:00

We wish you a very Happy Christmas and enjoyable New Year celebrations.

Website Checkup

2009-12-16T23:03:00.000-08:00

Whether your website needs major surgery or just a minor facelift, getting an outside expert's opinion before you begin promoting it can help you get the most out of your investment while avoiding costly mistakes.

Have an expert evaluate your site for as little as $95, GBP £65, €70.

New Colour Schemes and Colour Properties

2009-12-04T05:20:00.000-08:00

We've introduced a great new colouring system to make it even easier for you to create really good looking web pages, Instead of editing separate colours on your website, we've now introduced a choice of pre-designed colour schemes for your website. It's much easier and results in great coordinated website colours.

The page and site pickers now show images of the template styles in various colours. In the layout pickers you will see the colour schemes at the top. Click on any one of those to see the layouts change into the chosen colour, so you can see exactly what the template set looks like in various colours.

Subscribers to the full version of 350pages still have the facility to change every element of the colour scheme thus personalising the website even more. Colours can be chosen prior to creating a site or changed after and then copied across to all the other pages. To do this you simply go into your FileManager, check the boxes of the pages you want to update and then select the Update Properties option. You can select your source page and which elements you wish to update and it will be done automatically for you.

December 2009 Newsletter

2009-12-01T04:04:00.000-08:00

See the December 2009 newsletter here.

RSS Feed

2009-11-02T09:23:00.000-08:00

Add live, frequently changing content to your website with an RSS feed, eg. news, cartoons or quote of the day. Simply insert an RSS feed object on your webpage and the content is automatically updated when the provider updates the common feed. If you have a blog site, such as blogger.com then you can include your own RSS feed on your 350pages website.

From your 350pages editor - select to add or replace an object on your webpage and choose the RSS News Feed. Simply enter the web address of a website with an rss feed, enter the number of articles to appear on your webpage and whether you want to show images. That's it!

You can customize the appearance of the RSS feed by setting the object properties for different text or background color, transparency, alignment, border and padding, just as you can for any other 350pages object.

See an example here!

November 2009 Newsletter

2009-11-01T09:15:00.000-08:00

See the November 2009 newsletter here.

Free graphics for Christmas

2009-10-22T16:09:00.000-07:00

Fed up with looking for graphics to create your own Christmas cards and tags, or to use in a project?. Thinking of creating your own online Christmas Greeting webpage, to show your friends and family?

This Christmas Graphics Super Pack has over 1500 images and is royalty free! You can download the graphics in minutes!

Find out more

Canvas, Borders and Padding

2009-10-04T11:47:00.000-07:00

Enhance your photos and text blocks with colored frames and borders. There are many types of border available but I have used a simple rectangle to demonstrate the effects on images and text.

Let's start with your images. When you add a new framed image you can set the canvas color and margin, the text color and the frame color, style and size. In the object properties you can further enhance the image by adding a border which is an outer frame. If you wish to have more space around your image or framed image, then you can add some padding.

With your text paragraphs or RSS News Feed, you can change the text color, background color and add a border in a variety of styles.

When you add more padding on a paragraph this will have the effect of giving more space between the text and the border.

See the different effects here.

.in domain

2009-10-01T08:00:00.000-07:00

By popular request, we are now able to offer a large set of .in domains for all our Indian customers. Those available are: .in / .co.in / .net.in / .org.in / .firm.in / .gen.in / .ind.in

October 2009 Newsletter

2009-10-01T01:39:00.000-07:00

See the October 2009 newsletter here.

350pages Makeover - Empires Apart

2009-09-26T03:22:00.000-07:00

Whilst 350pages provides the tools for you to create your own website, there are times when you need the professional design input to achieve your goals.

Brian Landers of Empires Apart had a problem - his book had a split personality

Brian and his daughter had created the original website around the design of his UK book cover. He was lucky enough to secure a contract in the USA for the sale of his book. However, the UK publisher (Picnic) and the US publisher (Pegasus) approached the design of the book cover quite differently.

So we set upon a makeover. See the full story here!

Color selector in the Quick Site Creator

2009-09-12T05:10:00.000-07:00

The Quick Site Creator now has a color selector for faster creation of your website. Simply select New Site and choose your template design, page names and layouts, colors and webpage header, then your website will be automatically created for you so you simply have to personalise the content.

Global Properties Updater

2009-09-11T11:23:00.000-07:00

Now you can update the web pages on your entire website very quickly. Have you ever built your website and then decided to change the colour or style of your navigation bars? Now you can make your changes on one template and then globally update all the other pages.

From within the File Manager, simply check the boxes of the pages you want to update and then select the Update Properties option. You can select your source page and which elements you wish to update and it will be done automatically for you.

Framed Images and Galleries

2009-09-03T12:46:00.000-07:00

Frame your images with curved or ornate corners and even shadows, to show them off better on your webpage. You can frame single images or all of the images in your photo gallery. When you select to Replace or Add a new object you will notice that the 'Captioned image' object has now changed its name to be a 'Framed image' object due to the extended features.

You can set the frame color, style and width, as well as setting the caption and thumbnail size. As with all the features of 350pages, frames will continue to develop.

Extra Security

2009-09-03T12:41:00.000-07:00

Fraud is very prevalent nowadays so we have installed extra security to help protect your credit card. During the payment process you may be asked to authenticate your credit card with your card issuer.

This is an external process that is not monitored by 350pages, only by your card issuer.

September 2009 Newsletter

2009-09-01T08:56:00.000-07:00

See the September 2009 newsletter here

Webpage Thumbnails

2009-08-08T03:38:00.000-07:00

Now you can see your webpages as a thumbnail image in a similar way to viewing your images. Take a look in your File Manager and hover over your pages to see the small image.

So if you forget the content of your webpage, you can easily identify it prior to selecting it for editing, and you can easily see which pages you have already created.

August 2009 Newsletter

2009-08-01T06:01:00.000-07:00

See the August 2009 newsletter here

Contact Form Changes

2009-07-22T13:22:00.000-07:00

To help speed your website creation, you will now see a new Contact page layout in each of the templates sets. This has been created using the Form object so you can customize it as you wish.

Roll-Over Button Bars

2009-07-16T05:58:00.000-07:00

For added effect, your navigation buttons can now change colour when your visitors run their mouse over it. In the color picker of the button graphic editor you will find a new option to set second colors. (full version only)

Adding links to captions under images

2009-07-10T03:24:00.000-07:00

Make your e-commerce website even easier for your customers - you can now include links in the captions under your photos. Captioned images are now also the default setting in galleries.

July 2009 Newsletter

2009-07-01T06:00:00.000-07:00

See the July 2009 newsletter here

Upload images from the editor

2009-06-11T08:44:00.000-07:00

You can now insert your images directly onto your webpages without having to upload them first into your File Manager.

Look for the upload button in the Selection box-my files,
when you are choosing to insert/replace an image.