Jigsy Blog

We're excited about the features included in today's new release and think you will be too when you see what they can do for your site! Here's what's new:

Enhanced font editor - we offered a version of this in a recent past release, but this release builds on those tools in a big way. Comprehensive control over all of your site's fonts in all of the areas you'd want control over is a click away - look for the Site Fonts button on your Toolbar.

Make a mistake? You can always revert your changes to the default settings, so don't worry - experiment and see what this new tool can do for your site!

Equally exciting is the new ability to create primary navigation dropdown menus! This has been a much anticipated feature and we're proud to offer it to you now.

To use this, mouse over your primary navigation area and click the edit button. Notice the new 'Add a Submenu' button on the left side? That's what you'll need to use to create a dropdown menu - simply drag it below an existing menu item on the right pane - where you want it to display amongst your other navigation links:

You'll then be able to label this dropdown item and choose whether or not the text should also serve as a link, or be unclickable and simply work to display the submenu items.

When you're done, you should see a structure such as this:

Save changes and take a look at your work - pretty cool, huh?

More to come, but we hope you enjoy these features and use them to make your site better than ever!

Take a look at some fresh new themes we've just put together, which are now live and cover more site styles and requirements from our diverse group of members:

This is just a preview of course, and 9 more are included with this release! As always, if there are some themes you'd like to see us offer, or even changes to existing themes that would help your site look it's best, contact us - we'd love to hear from you!

In addition to these, this release included several bug fixes and enhancements for a better user experience and to improve performance and stability. More to come!

If you haven't already noticed, check out the 12 new themes we just added to our ever growing collection! Here's a preview:

To take a closer look, click on "Change Website Theme" on the "Manage Website" dropdown on your Toolbar. Want to see how it'll look for your site? Just apply the theme! Remember - applying a theme will not affect or otherwise modify any of the code, settings, or site content you've added - just the theme itself (if you've customized your theme source code, this will be lost, however).

Give them a try and let us know how they work out for you!

We are proud to announce our recent big update that sees a new theme for all of Jigsy.com as well as major leaps of improvement with our already stellar builder!

Here's a breakdown:

• The entire system has been re-skinned & vastly improved for clarity and an enhanced user experience. The new look, new feel, “rejuvenated” builder is simply fantastic to work with.
  
  
• The Website Editor’s new Drag & Drop functionalities make it  easier than ever to get the job done. Adding Content, Multimedia, Social Sharing, and Ecommerce from the dropdown menus is very simple… just Click , Drag  & Drop.
  
  
  
  
• The Photo Management System has been significantly modernized & includes an upgraded Stock Photo Library with thousands of professional photos. It makes searching, selecting and placing your perfect photo a breeze.
  
  
• The refurbished Tool Bar is now more user friendly and intuitive than ever.
  
  
• Bold, new icons for the Tool Bar and Content Category menus are well defined, for ease of use.
  
  
• 30 plus sensational new themes to help you shape your site, with many more on the way.
  
  
• Additional Unique Fonts within the system really help you take things to the next level.

As always, we welcome your feedback on these or other changes, ideas, suggestions for improvement - you name it! Don't see a theme style you'd like to use? Get in touch via e-mail, Twitter, Facebook or our forum!

We recently launched a much requested new component - Guestbook! Add a Guestbook to your Jigsy site and allow your visitors to leave you comments.

Use one so your wedding guests can leave you a personal message. Add one to your team site for encouraging messages. Guestbooks can be a lot of fun!

Adding and managing your Guestbook is easy. Add one to every page if you like!

Our latest release features a brand new component - Share Buttons - which displays icons from a variety of popular social networking sites that allow you to connect your site and it's pages to these networks! Just look for this icon in your component list:

We have also rolled out a handy new safe mode editing feature - this allows members to troubleshoot and manage troublesome code while having full functionality of the builder.  You can access safe mode by clicking the safe mode button when you are in the dashboard:

To get out of safe mode you can click the 'exit safe mode' button at the top of the Toolbar:

We have also enabled page specific site headers - you requested it and we have made it available!

Watch for new developments - there are many more exciting new features to come!

As summer draws to an end, the Jigsy team has been busy working to bring new features and enhancements to the builder!

A few notable new features include:

• Users can now create a custom Sitemap
• Page extensions can now be created, like .html .asp or .php to allow for redirecting pages from members' old sites
• Several new favicons
• Meta tags for pages improved - meta tags for pages changed from input fields to text area fields, to allow easier input
• Pages dropdown to handle large sites modified to better display large number of pages - these will display width-wise
• The first 200 characters of the beginning of a blog post are now automatically added to the post's meta description.

Not to mention the theme selection dialog in the builder is now 100% of the page width, so you can browse more themes at once and see a larger thumbnail when selecting a theme for the first time, or choosing an alternate theme.

As always, we value your feedback, so if there's something you like, dislike, or a feature you'd like to see, please contact us!

Hello again!

It's  time for another update.    Since this feature should speed up the process of adding images, I'll make this update quick, too.  We've added a quick-size option to images.  Now when you are adding an image to your site you will see a new tab in the editor after selecting the image.  This new tab will have several pre-selected sizes that you can apply to your image.   Here's what it looks like:

Click on the image to enlarge

Shown above are  five basic options for square images.   You should be able to find a size that suits your needs from these options.   Also, if you have a rectangular image,  you can switch the toggle to show rectangular quick sizes.  For those with triangular and circular images, we're sorry.  

That's it!  Now you can quickly add photos without needing to play around with pixel numbers,  sliders,  or any of that jazz.  Just choose your size and go.  

Once again we've been burning the midnight oil to produce some pretty nifty enhancements to the Jigsy builder.   Today we've released enhancements to our blogging service, editors and well... just about everything!  We're pretty excited about these updates as they address a number of concerns and suggestions that you've provided us with.  Let's take a look.

The first thing you may notice is that there's a whole new layout to the editors.  All of the same options are still there, but we've enhanced the interface for you.  We've moved the content templates  down from the top of the editor over to the left hand side.  This will give you more room to write out your posts and updates.  If you're not familiar with the "content template" functions, they allow you to easily set up paragraphs to work with or around photos, just as I'm doing in this paragraph.  Also, as you can see below, the editing tools are now pinned to the top of the editor now so they won't ever leave your sight again.

For you bloggers out there, we've introduced a feature you've all been asking for:  Auto-save!  Now when you're working on lengthy blog posts you won't have to worry about losing your unsaved changes to power outages, kids, gremlins, or any other sources of mischief and mayhem.   The auto-save option is enabled by default and will save a draft for you automatically every minute.   You can disable it if you like by clicking on a check box located at the bottom of the editor.   Yes, I did say "draft" back there.  You can save your changes as a draft if you're not quite sure that you like them, or if you simply don't have time to finish a post you started.   I'm heavily relying on this new feature already!  When you save as a draft the post will still show up in your editor, but it will be greyed out.  This will allow you to preview what it should look like when you go live.  

Here's what the post options look like:

You can see that there is a check box to toggle the auto save feature, and the buttons to save your post as a draft, or publish live if you're ready to show what you've got  to the world wide web.

But wait, there's more!

We've redesigned the way you add and move blocks on your pages.   We've replaced the old anchors with shiny, slick new ones.  This should give you a much cleaner interface to work with when adding new blocks to your pages.  The placement and function of each location on your page will now be clear as day.	We have also changed how your existing blocks will behave when you're moving an existing block to a new location.  Before, blocks would jump and shift around wildly as you tried to find the perfect new spot for your block.  No more.  Now the existing blocks will wait patiently for you to finish your action before they jump up and move to accommodate your change.

That's all for this week!