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Quick Edit

350.com Customer Support — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:18:00 +0000

Edit your webpage whilst viewing it in your web browser. It’s quick and easy!

We have created a Quick Link button for you, which you click to instantly activate the editor for the current page that you are viewing. Just go to www.350.com/editpage and drag the button into your links bar. Then visit one of your pages and give it a click to try it. If you don't have a browser that supports this drag and drop, then right click the link and add it to your links bar through your Favorites.

Photo Gallery tutorial

350.com Customer Support — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:00:00 +0000

In the recent release was a Photo Gallery feature so we want to give you a quick demo on how to turn a handful of photos into a gallery on your webpage.

The great thing about 350pages is that you can do everything to create a gallery of perfect images. There's absolutely no need for any other software – you have the uploader, photo galleries and photo editor all in 350pages. To show how simple it is, we will be using some very large and unoptimized images.

We will upload images of Chinese Dragons. They are all different resolutions, so we want to resize them first and we can do that very easily with the Java uploader.

If we set all of these images to be uploaded at the Medium size, you can see that they all changed to a similar, smaller size.

Notice that the third image doesn't change. This is because it’s already within the boundaries of the Medium size, and so stays at its original setting. We then select the upload button.

Next, we select a webpage to put them on. Select to add a new Gallery. With the gallery editor now on screen, we click ‘Add’ and select the photos we want and then click on the ‘Use’ button. We won’t use any of the editor's other options at the moment, so simply click ‘Save’ to see how the page looks with the gallery on it.

See how our images are now even smaller? These are thumbnail versions of the images which are copies of the uploaded images, reduced in size so that they can be easily displayed on a webpage. This makes a website much easier to view, rather than having much larger images on the page.

So why did we resize the images in the uploader? The answer is simple - when you now save and publish the page and look at it on the web, you will be able to click on the thumbnail images to open the larger version in a slideshow format. As they were resized on upload they are all consistent in presentation.

Now, I'm sure you noticed our gallery is unbalanced at the moment - there are six images, with four displayed on the first line and only two on the second line. So, from within the Gallery Editor we now click on the Settings button and change the number of columns to 3.

This is the result.

Much better!

There's a lot more to the gallery editor than just these functions. You can also add captions to each of your images, as well as replace gallery images with graphics, paragraphs or e-commerce buttons. For further information select the Help ? or view the video on Creating Photo Galleries.

Vertical Templates

350.com Customer Support — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:59:00 +0000

You can now be even more creative with 350pages with the launch of a vertical graphics option. To see it in action look at the new template set, Vertigo.

In the graphics editor, go to the Effects tab, and choose the orientation of the graphic from the Rotate menu - it's as simple as that! Now you can have headings and button bars scaling down the side of your template, or even upside down!

350pages Standard and Lite now live

350.com Customer Support — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:00:00 +0000

We have now released 350pages Standard and Lite, two new versions of our groundbreaking 350pages website creator tool. If you are looking for a few more pages, webspace and an advert free look to your website, the Lite account is for you. However, if you are looking for the most complete web authoring program on the market, the 350pages Standard account is a perfect solution. With additional graphics, clipart, photos, a vastly enhanced photo editor, the ability to copy pages and button bars across your website, enhanced object properties, forms, thumbnail creation and slideshows, HTML and e-commerce tools, you'll be hard pushed to find a better webpage builder out there. 350pages Standard is just $79.99 USD/£45.99 GBP/€74.99 EUR.

Please look out for our guides on how to use our new and powerful photo gallery and captioned images features very soon.

Uploading Images before Creating your Webpages

350.com Customer Support — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:18:00 +0000

We recommend that you upload your images into your File Manager before you start to create your webpages. This is easy using the Upload option in the Home Control Panel or in the File Manager.

Many modern digital cameras take photos at huge resolutions and with huge filesizes that would not be suitable for display on a webpage. Using this upload you will need to resize your photos prior to uploading them (We are hoping to release a new Java uploader very shortly that will compress photos upon upload). Please see this guide for more information.

You can upload up to 6 files at a time from the Upload window. Click on the Browse button and find the file on your computer from the window that appears. You can then enter your descriptive tags (separated by a comma, for example "australia,koala,sydney") next to the browse box for that file. Repeat for all of the files you wish to Upload, and then click on the Upload button. The files will then appear in your File Manager. Bear in mind that you may have a few minutes to wait if your files are large.

Registering Your Website For Google Webtools

350.com Customer Support — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:16:00 +0000

If you are wanting to drive traffic to your website, Google's Webmaster Tools can be of huge benefit in analysing your performance on the Google search engine. The Webmaster Tools will show you how Google sees your website, and will alert you to any problems Google have with indexing your site into their search engine. In addition, you can get statistics on the searches from Google and how they attract visitors to your site.

Go to the Google Webmaster Tools home page, and enter your Google Account log-in details (you can sign up for a Google Account if you don't already have one). When you have logged in, enter the web address of your website into the box (for example, mysite.350.com) and click Add Site. You will then be able to see the statistics and information on how Google works with your website by clicking on the Diagnostics and Statistics buttons. These tools can assist you to tailor your website in the best possible way to be indexed in Google's search engines, thus improving the level of traffic you receive to your website.

QuickGuides and Resources

350.com Customer Support — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:23:00 +0000

You may already be aware of our Library. It's a website packed with tutorials and QuickGuides for enhancing your website with a variety of services.

We have now added five more QuickGuides featuring some of the latest Internet tools and services, including instructions on embedding YouTube video and Google Calendars.

Visit the library here

We've also put together a list of web resources that can be inserted into your website, most of them with just a snippet of HTML. Inserting HTML into your 350pages website is a very simple process, and we have a step by step guide on how to do that here. The resource page is here.

Experiment with your website, and you might just create something beyond your own expectations!

Domain Names

350.com Customer Support — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:49:00 +0000

If you're looking for your own web address identity, a domain name might be the perfect match for you, giving you your own unique address on the ‘net.

You can now register a .com, .net, .org, .co.uk, .org.uk, .eu and .info - and if it's already taken, our system will let you know right there and then. With 350pages you can also configure your domain by adding e-mail redirects as well as deciding the folder it should point to within your 350pages account.

Getting your domain name is simple. From your 350pages Home Control page, click on the My Account tab...

... and you will be taken to the Services page, where you can sign up to our various paid services. In the Domain Name box, enter the domain you would like to register (and choose the appropriate extension from the drop down menu, eg .com and then click on the Buy button for the Domain Name service. You will then see the payment confirmation screen, where you will input your credit card details. Click the Purchase button and once your credit card has been processed successfully, the service will automatically be added to your account.

You will find a configuration button in the Purchased Services list where you can add your e-mail redirects and point the domain to a specific folder in your account.

Please note that all services are automatically renewed, but they can be cancelled from within 'My Accounts' by clicking the Cancel button on the appropriate service.

Advert Free Webpages

350.com Customer Support — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:35:00 +0000

You can have Google advert-free webpages for less than half the cost of a cup of coffee a month! The perfect solution for a professional looking site!

For just $20/€15 EUR/£10 GBP (ex. VAT) a year, you can remove advertisements on your pages.

Getting your advert-free webpages is simple. From your 350pages Home page, click on the My Account tab and you will be taken to the Services page, where you can sign up to our various paid services. Click on the Buy button for the Advert-Free Service. You will then be taken to the payment confirmation screen, where you will input your credit card details. Click the Purchase button and once your credit card has been processed successfully, the service will automatically be added to your account. The pages will automatically republish removing the advertisements in the process.

Please note that all services are automatically renewed, but can be cancelled from this screen by clicking the Cancel button on the appropriate service.

Moving The Object Bar

350.com Customer Support — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:20:00 +0000

Occasionally on some templates, you may find the Edit Bar getting in the way of another object that you want to edit. But you can move the edit bar out of the way at any time. Simply move your mouse to the position that you want to place it, hold down Ctrl on your keyboard, and then click. It's as simple as that!

And finally, we also now have an examples page on our website, available here. If you're struggling with ideas for site content or style, you can log onto this page to see our personal favourite creations from our customers. If you have a page you wish to submit to our examples page, send the link to support@350.com so we can take a look.

See you in the New Year!

Linking Pages

350.com Customer Support — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:17:00 +0000

Seasons greetings everyone! All of us at 350pages wish you the very best over the holiday season and hope you get whatever it is that you wish for. If you're wishing for a website, we can grant you an early present with 350pages, so dive in and check out our newest features.

Linking Pages:

We think you might like to take a closer look at some of the features within 350pages on a regular basis here on the blog, and the first we've chosen is the Button Bar Editor. On templates that have a button bar - either vertically or horizontally orientated, the button graphics are grouped together so that they can be edited quickly together. Let's say you had created four pages in a template set and wanted to link them together. By hovering the mouse pointer slightly outside of the buttons, you will see that the edit bar shifts to the top of the entire group of
buttons.

Click on the edit function on this bar, and you can see the menu of all of the buttons together.

We have four pages, but here are six buttons - so let's eliminate the bottom two buttons (News and Contact) by clicking the small X on the right for each of them. Then we will rename the other four buttons to match our four webpages. Now we will set up the links. On the home button, click on the drop down menu and choose "350 page or object". You will see the 'Link To' button on the right changes to a drop down menu. When you click on this, it will display a list of every file in your
File Manager - so you simply click on the appropriate page. Here's an image of a completely linked website from the buttons we were editing:

Groups

350.com Customer Support — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:49:00 +0000

If you're snap happy with your camera like me, then you'll want to put your photos onto your webpages in a gallery style. So we have created a 'Group copy' and we have also added more template layouts in various styles. These new layouts - Ayin, Pe, Pe-1, Kaf and Zayin, each feature the ability to duplicate the row of photos with captions.

This is perfect if you wish to create a gallery of your holiday/family snaps or want to present a page full of your products. If you hover your mouse near to the row of content, you will see a reduced editing bar:

Simply click the Insert button, choose Copy of Group from the menu, and click the above or below button to duplicate the group!

For those unsure of what the new layouts look like in the template picker, take a look at the screenshots below taken from the various sets. Remember they are available in a wide number of our templates for all different kinds of look and feel.

Currently, you can't upload photos whilst you are editing a webpage - but we are working on it! In the meantime, the workaround is to upload all of the images you want on a specific page before you start the creation process. Planning out your page in advance will certainly help you to achieve that, and we have a few helpful tips on planning available at our QuickGuides page located here.

So now you can create as many photo galleries as you like.

Extended Characters

350.com Customer Support — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:01:00 +0000

Good News! From now on you can use accents and punctuation in graphics and in the details of "My Account".

¡Buenas noticias! De ahora en adelante se puede usar acentos y signos de puntuación en gráficos y en los detalles de "My Account".

Until now, support for non-standard characters on 350pages has only been available in our text editor. This update enables extended characters to be used in graphics too. Check out our sample graphics below, all constructed in 350pages today:

All latin based characters can be inserted into graphic dialogs now, although only those above will appear onscreen. All others, such as Chinese characters, will appear as a question mark. All characters can be used for Alt tags - especially useful for search engine submission. You can also update your My Account details with these characters.

Another request has been for video tutorials for 350pages. I am pleased to say that these are now in production to provide you with easy instructions for creating your website using 350pages. As always, we'll let you know here when and where to find them.

And remember that we are still looking for testers. If you're interested in getting your hands on our latest developments before anyone else, please drop us a line at support@350.com.

Montages

350.com Customer Support — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:31:00 +0000

On Friday, we promised a new graphics feature - Montages which are a new selection of graphics that you can insert into your page. These graphics will adapt to your page's theme color and blend in! See an example of two differently coloured headings below:

When you change the theme color, the Montage will automatically update as well. These new montages are primarily designed for those templates with an image in the top right, however, you can use them wherever you like on your page. Expect more to come soon which will be tailored to various categories. Montages are available from the Insert menu as either Image options or Graphic options.

Undo/Redo is here!

350.com Customer Support — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:52:00 +0000

Another new feature! As promised, the undo/redo feature is now fully live and functional, and can be accessed at any time from the page controls.

The two buttons with arrows on the bar of the page controls act as your undo and redo controls. If at any time you make a mistake, such as deleting an image by accident, simply click the back button on the left to restore your page to the last version. It's like the undo mode in your word processor or image editor. If you decide that you want to keep the change after all, simply click the forward button on the right. It's as simple as that.

In addition, we've also added a few layouts to our template sets. In Synergie, Kaf, Zayin and Zayin 2 are now available, and Kaf is also available in Classic.

As you can see, all of these give you new options for displaying your images. Putting text next to an image can be more effective for describing something, or presenting a news article. Look for these layouts in other template sets soon.

Next Tuesday, we will have another great surprise (hint - it's to do with graphics) for our 350pages users as well, so keep your eyes peeled.

Enjoy your weekend, and don't forget to update your webpages!

Trifecta of Templates

350.com Customer Support — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 17:41:00 +0000

As we mentioned yesterday, the new sets of templates are now selectable from the New Page button in the 350pages homepage.

Ludus, is the latin for sport, but of course, all our templates are fully customizable and can be used for anything! We think that Ludus is the perfect style for a local club site or a fansite for your favourite team, with plenty of page options for creating fixture tables and roster databases, and plenty of places to insert the latest photos from your team's library. We will be adding more logos and images for other sports into the Library resources very soon so you can use it for your favourite sport - give us your feedback and we will try to include some images for you!

Jade is a precious ornamental stone that was first discovered in the Far East, and this template set follows its namesake by taking on a very oriental tone. With a gallery style focus, it could be the perfect template for the holiday snaps that you took on your exotic travels or for a high-class e-commerce center. You'll notice the beautiful reflective touch at the foot of each layout in the set - just the thing to show off the quality of your 350pages website.

Like Jade, the Spinel is a precious gemstone and is the best name for the personal approach to this template set. Working best as a simple, sparse layout, this template set can suit a variety of different ideas - from business services to a personal blog. If you choose to customize this template, it's best to keep in mind that subtle color changes are the best way to make a very effective look.

Enjoy!

Testers Wanted

350.com Customer Support — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 14:30:00 +0000

We're pleased to announce that today we have taken 350pages out of beta. You won't notice anything different to the interface, but you will notice the new sets of templates. We've also tidied up some loose ends and minor bugs.

But, our work is never done, and we have turned our attention to our second phase of development, which includes a lot of features that some of you have already requested, such as the undo/redo functions and being able to upload your images straight to the page editor. We are looking for testers to be the first to sample new templates and features and give us any feedback that will allow us to improve the product further to make it the best webpage builder available. Of course, you will benefit from being able to customize your own sites with the latest and greatest bits and bobs from our developers before any one else.

If you're interested, please drop us an e-mail at support@350.com and (if you're selected) we'll give you the access you need to see the things that others don't.

Rob Bowker,
Customer Support Manager

Of templates and colors

350.com Customer Support — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:44:00 +0000

It's been a busy month here at ZyNet - we've been very hard at work to develop our initial release of 350pages, getting all of those final little tweaks and adjustments in place. We're pleased to say that today, with 9 template sets now in place, we are finally letting the public know all about it. Now we're working on some press coverage so look out in your favourite PC magazines and websites.

Both Artic and Wallace have joined our template sets in recent weeks - Artic is a bright and cheerful action packed template that would be perfect for a holiday site or an e-commerce site driven by a unique product, while Wallace features a more laid back, spartan look for those who want their content to lead. Be sure to check them out and let us know what you want out of these template sets - we can only satisfy your needs if you tell us. A new template set, Ludus, will be joining our selection very shortly, and we'll notify you as soon as we roll it out to our live server. If you're the sporty type, you're going to love this template.

One of the major changes we've made is with inherited colours. When you insert a graphic from our library, it will now pick up the theme colours you've used elsewhere on the template and adjust the graphic to reflect this. This will save you valuable time editing each graphic to ensure it matches the rest of your site's look. You can, of course, still change the graphic as you wish in the usual way if this is not to your liking.

Remember, if you need any help with 350pages, don't hesitate to click on the help icon or contact us - and we're looking forward to receiving your feedback for future developments.

Rob Bowker,
Customer Support Manager

350pages has launched!

350.com Customer Support — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 10:30:00 +0000

350pages has been released!

We believe that 350pages can really make it easy for you to create your pages. We've been working hard to release it and are now pleased that you can use the beta version and get a feel of what's to come.

As you will experience, we have tried to make the useability very intuitive so that you don't have to read pages of help. However, we do include Help facilities, if you need it. We have also created a Quick Guide and Tutorial which we encourage you to use so that you can get the best out of 350pages.

In the forthcoming months we shall be providing new features such as forms, visitor counters, photo galleries, picture frames and the ability to integrate third-party gadgets. We shall be extending the features of the Navigation Button Bars, the Drag and Drop Objects, Master Theme copy and Uploading a photo whilst creating your webpage.

We are aware of the need for choice and so we shall be releasing new template design sets every week. We shall also start work on the Community facilities, more on that later.

So, there's lots to look forward to and lots of plans beyond these.

Get started now! Create your 350pages at www.350.com

Nova Fisher
Chairman, ZyNet / 350.

Welcome to 350pages

350.com Customer Support — Tue, 29 May 2007 16:10:00 +0000

Hello, Welcome to 350pages.

Good News! We're nearing completion of phase 1 of our new page builder and we shall be launching with a free version soon.

350pages is the next generation Page Builder using the new Web 2.0 (Ajax) Internet technology. It comprises of many Objects that can be customised and dragged and dropped anywhere on the page.

350pages is really easy to use and it contains many unique features - the fully customizable, professionally designed graphics, the photo uploader that resizes on upload and the inbuilt photo editor, to name but a few.

What makes 350pages so special? Well, it's our vision and development plans based on our long experience in the internet industry and of creating website builders. We've been in this industry since 1994!

Our vision? We want to offer a one stop total solution for a multi purpose page builder that enables you to build websites and online scrapbooks, create leaflets and posters, and generate images for use in powerpoint. You'll also have galleries and slideshows and blogs.

We will develop the 350pages community so that you can share your webpages with your friends and family, make them public or keep them private.

The first phase will enable you to create your own web site easily and quickly and we hope that you'll enjoy the experience so much that you'll want to create over 350 pages!

Nova Fisher
Chairman, ZyNet / 350.