What to expect from this release:

• Easy access to tools you use most often
• More screen space to work on your site
• Quick navigation between sites and pages
• Simple and elegant look and feel
• Friendly welcome page with list of sites that you are working on
• Quicker access to your site after logging in
• Ability to add metadata to your pages

Don’t worry, you will be able to access all your sites interface and your published sites will remain live, so your visitors will still be able to visit your sites.

The support team worked hard to make sure that there are updated tutorials and a glossary of terms to help you along and they are ready answer any questions that you may have.

Apart from working hard on improving the interface, we also added two new features:

1. Google Webmaster configuration
Google Webmaster Tools provide you with detailed reports about your pages’ visibility on Google. To get started, simply add and verify your site, and you’ll start to see information right away. To get started, simply sign up with Google Webmaster, verify your site and then add your page properties in the Site Builder.

2. Flickr Lightbox Widget
This widget provides an attractive and intuitive way for displaying photographs on your site. It is a great way for photographers and artists to showcase their works. You can find this widget in the Site Builder, in the sidebar under “Photo Galleries”.

You can visit the SynthaSite Community and share your views or check out what others have to say about the improvements.

To view detailed release notes, click here.

We know that you are dying to check it out, so go ahead and create or edit your sites now!

Thanks for your patience.  We think you’ll really like the changes we’re making!

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Without giving away all of the details of our business plan, we can tell you that you’ll start to see us work a variety of monetization strategies into the product over the next 12 months.

Some of them will be fairly straight forward, such as selling domain names to users who want them (e.g., www.yourwebsite.com). Others will be more novel, such as partnering with other companies to offer you special services, like search engine marketing, appointment scheduling, local advertising, etc.

These companies want you as a user of their services and will pay us for referring you to them. In addition, we are also planning on launching our own advertising network, that will allow our users to get paid for placing advertising on their websites from our advertisers - yes, you will be able to make money from your website!! We have a whole bunch of ideas like this, but these should give you a feel for where we’re going.

As promised there was no downtime on the published (hosted) sites.

We are aware of a known issue which occurred as a result of the changes we made - image editing from within the Site Builder will currently not work. This is being worked on and we will let you know when it is resolved.

Thanks for your patience as we scale SynthaSite to meet the needs or our ever growing user community!

SynthaSite is not in a position to offer telephonic support at this time. However, we do offer free, prompt community-based support, as well as individual email support if you require it.

We want you to have a successful, enjoyable experience building your website, so please get in touch with us if you require assistance!

The SynthaSite Community Support Team

The new color palettes got such a great reception that we have added more - 15 more styles now offer multiple palettes and there will be more to come. In order to help you find the palette you are looking for we have added pagination for browsing styles.

Full details of the new features and fixes are documented in the release notes.

As usual, there is plenty new support material to help you get up and running or improve your existing site.

There are also some undocumented fundamental enhancements that should make publishing your website even smoother and faster.

As always, thank you for your feedback and continued support - it has been invaluable in getting us to the point we are today. The daily communication from you via our support center and Get Satisfaction is what informs how we prioritize each release.