We've updated the info module with social bookmarks, a "Get link code to this page" link, the ability to have custom CSS and Javascript per page, ads with per-page preference to determine which pages to show them on, and the option to set all external links to nofollow.  We've also made the interface easier to use and more compact.

Click here for the new version of the info module.  Instructions are in infoModuleChanges.txt  We recommend that you update all files if upgrading, unless you've made some customizations.

We've updated the news module to allow searching by tag like many social bookmarking websites do.  We've also added the rel="nofollow" attribute to all external links to improve SEO.  Additionally, we've added code to make sure all links are absolute in order to ensure that they work in RSS feeds.

Attached is the new version of the news module.  Instructions are in NEWS_MODULES_UPDATES.TXT.  We recommend that you update all files if upgrading, unless you've made some customizations.

 

For those of you out there using Google Apps, you may have noticed that Google has added a lot of new features lately, like working in Google Docs and email offline, and templates for presentations, spreadsheets and forms. One thing I'm pretty excited about is Google Docs now allows PDF file uploads, in addition to word processing, spreadsheet and presentation files. So if you have a nice, jazzy PDF of a price list, newsletter or sales sheet, you can post it in Google Docs and share it with your staff or clients. A feature I've been waiting for for a long time. You still can't edit PDF files....but I wouldn't be suprized to see that feature coming soon.

One of the painful parts of getting your company information out there on the web for better Google page rank is manually posting news and other information to the main blogs out there, such as Blogger and Wordpress. Since Blogger has the feature to post items via email, we've added a new feature to the preferences section of our news module that sends out an email every time you post something new. So that means that if you are using our CMS and our updated "News" module, your Blogger account will update automatically with the new post. That means more exposure for you, with no extra work. As for Wordpress and Facebook, they can subscribe to your news RSS feed (look in the widgets sidebar for Wordpress), so those can get updated automatically too. Cool, eh?

We highly recommend Google Apps to all of our hosting clients and one of the few things that made Gmail (or any webmail for that matter) not as attractive is it required an internet connection in order to work (IE: view old emails), since it's a webmail system. That is not the case anymore! Utilizing the new "Google Gears" technology, now you can access your Google Apps Email even when not connected to the internet!