InSBeC - Piece Builder Progress Log

	Progress Log
February 23, 2010	Today we enabled free spell checking for our CKeditor fields. It works well, and we hope that it's helpful.
February 21, 2010	Many improvements have been made over the past week including the added support for contact forms. Now your Contact and Support pages can have new life and will allow your customers to send requests without you having to expose your email address in your web pages. This will prevent our customers (you) from being spammed by web crawlers that extract email addresses from "mailto" tags. We are also working on new documentation for our users. This documentation will be supplemental to our current flash help. When this documentation is available, we will make it available on our customer website.
February 15, 2010	Added a new service called Piece Builder™ Freedom. We will setup your website for you, when you purchase this package. New services to support our Freedom package will be added over the next week.
February 14, 2010	There were some errors in the eCommerce vs Standard demonstration video, so it was rebuilt and re-released today. Additionally, IE isn't displaying the "Loading..." message, when loading flash videos. This makes it appear that the videos are broken, so I have added a note at the top of each flash video page informing viewers that it may take up to 30 seconds to load a video. Video sizes range from 1.75 to 15.6 MB. For better viewing use Firefox.
February 13, 2010	Created and inserted an "Already Live" page for the test build location for eCommerce and Standard builders. The page replaces the pages in the test location. This will inform users that they have already made their new website layout active after selecting the Piece Builder™ "Make it Live" option.
February 12, 2010	After receiving customer feedback about the content on our checkout page, I updated the page to make it easier for visitors to read. This is the same cart that will appear on the Piece Builder™ eCommerce customer checkout pages. It's much nicer looking and has a PayPal checkout button. Thank you for the feedback for improvement!
February 7, 2010	Several administration upgrades were made this week in addition to the release of six new help videos. In the help page, new help items will appear as it does in the image below. The new help tag will remain as a marker for up to one week. This will make it easy to identify newly added information. Help for page color configurations, configuring items, configuring shipping charges, setting item options, and ordering items in pages have been added.
February 5, 2010	Today I've added a new video that shows users the purpose of Width and Row selections for the Product Layout page. This video is pretty cool, and gives you a better idea of how to effectively setup your product pages. I hope you like it. I enjoyed making it.
February 4, 2010	Some users noticed their computers slowing after watching some of the flash videos earlier. I did some research on the problem, and found that there is a virtual memory management issue with the conversion of the videos from .avi to .swf. The videos have been reproduced with the memory management feature enabled, and I watched all of the videos this morning without any notice of PC slowing. I don't believe you will have problems with the videos any longer. Please let us know if you do. You'll find the flash videos here.
February 2, 2010	Added functionality to create a site "urllist.txt" file that can be uploaded in Google Webmaster Tools. This will help robots easily locate the map for your website. When you upload this to Google, the location is http://www.mydomainname.com/urllist.txt, .net/urllist.txt, or whatever the extension. This helps simplify your responsibilities as a website owner. Each time you run the "Make it live" operation, this list is rebuilt dynamically... I am working on further improvements, and will post them as they become available.
January 31, 2010	It is official! Today is the official release of Piece Builder™. Our customers will find comprehensive flash help, so they can get started on their websites. I will continue posting updates to this log, so individuals can be informed about what's going on with our new content management and payment processing system. There is still more help to write for more complex features like item options. Much of what users will find is that they can figure things out on their own without much additional help. We're excited for this release!