March 7th, 2010
A few months ago we rolled out repeating regions, and ever since, we’ve had two types of bubbles: edit bubbles and repeat bubbles. This was fine for the time, as these two were separate features. Over time, however, most people are starting to use these in conjunction, so we decided to consolidate the bubbles and use this as an opportunity to redesign them.
As you can see from the picture attached to the post, the new bubbles will range from the super simple edit bubble, to the full blown combination repeat/edit bubble. The repeat controls do not show until you mouse over the little blue arrow that suggests there are more options on this bubble than just editing.
The new bubbles will be black with a grey outline and a glass effect. This style will provide the best visibility on both black and white pages while remaining color agnostic (we love the lime green edit bubbles, but sometimes it just interferes with a page design).
On a final note, this style will allow us to add more features to the bubbles as we build them. For example, we’re planning drop-in modules like image galleries, calendars etc for more advanced users. The bubble design will be flexible to accommodate sites ranging from the simplest ones with just a few editable areas, to more interactive ones with additional modules.
As always, let us know what your thoughts are in the comments or in the forum.
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February 19th, 2010
Pssst… take a quick look at one of the things that’s been keeping us busy over the past few months: PageLime Touch.
Yes! It’s the rumored and long awaited PageLime iPhone app. On the preview site linked below, you can watch a video showcasing some of the user experience and functionality. Just like our web-app, this version of PageLime will be fully brandable for our Professional users.
Check it out, get excited, and let us know what you think:
Click here for a sneak peak of PageLime Touch
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February 12th, 2010
So PageLime works great when you need to make changes to content, images, or links on your site. But what if you want to add a new link to your primary navigation? In this post we’re going to outline some thoughts about the approaches we’re thinking about for solving this problem.
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January 15th, 2010
Whenever you open a page, or navigate to a page in the PageLime editor screen, it gets automatically added to the sitemap. A lot of folks never even use the sitemap, but out of those that do, a lot of folks pointed out that navigating to each page takes a bit if you want to populate the whole sitemap at one time.
Today we released a simple screen where you can select files from your FTP server to get added to the sitemap quickly. Administrators can see the new button: “Add existing files to the sitemap” in the right column on the sitemap screen.
As always - feedback is welcome, including suggestions and gripes :). Shoot us a note with your thoughts or add a comment below.
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December 7th, 2009
Most of you lime-loving PageLime enthusiasts were greeted by two things when you signed up for an account: a personal message from Tom, and the built-in demo site on your brand new PageLime account - itislimetime.com.
The site’s always been cheesy, had poor grammar / spelling, and terrible stock photos (the lime puppy? thanks Tom). Well it’s time we say goodbye and welcome our new site, presented as a side scrolling story of how PageLime began, full with the Lime King, the Lemon uprising, the Lime resistance, and much more!
This story is only the tip of the iceberg. In future editions we will reveal all kinds of shocking twists! Is the Lemon Lord actually Lime King’s brother? What other nefarious allies have the Lemons enlisted to subvert the resistance? Find out the answers to these and more in the next edition coming soon!
Enjoy.
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December 1st, 2009
After a bit of development, usability testing, and user feedback, we feel pretty comfortable releasing repeating regions for PageLime. What are repeating regions you ask? Jeez, we need to explain this one too? Here goes:
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November 11th, 2009
We’re testing an updated site registration form, which we plan to roll out sometime in the next few weeks. The updates are an effort to simplify the form, and are in response to how people have been using PageLime, and what kinds of sites are getting registered the most.
Even though our original site settings form went through countless hours of usability testing, we’ve recently noticed that folks are consistently having trouble with two fields:
- FTP Home Directory
- Site Homepage URL
Eventually, everyone gets it right, but that first try is what we’re trying to cut down on. So here’s what we did:
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October 26th, 2009
Tweet with the tag #pagelime for a chance to win a package that includes a $125 gift card to the NikeID store, a case of Vitamin Water, and a DURKL windbreaker / t-shirt combo.
Visit www.pagelime.com/giveaway to find out more!
Tags: giveaway, promotion
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October 2nd, 2009
This is another quick feature post, this time, about editing SEO fields (title, keywords, description) on pages with PageLime. We’ve allowed account administrators to update page SEO fields and metadata for some time, but we were undecided on how to lay out the feature for end users. The general feedback has been split into two groups: the group that thought their clients should only have access to change the page title, and the group that thought all metadata should be exposed so that it can be managed by all PageLime users.
Our compromise is a new SEO feature that can be turned on from the Site Features screen for each site. The feature will allow PageLime users to update a page’s title, keywords, and description meta tags. Also, the SEO fields work seamlessly with Content History (if you have it enabled on a site).
To give the SEO feature a test drive, turn it on for a site as shown below:
Once the feature is enabled, a new button will appear on the Page Editor toolbar on the right:
The SEO Button
Clicking this button will bring up a overlay that allows you to update the three standard SEO fields: Page Title, Description, and Keywords. You will also notice a little preview of what a page result might look like in Google.
Ultimately, we don’t feel that this is our last play in SEO management for a site or that the user experience for the feature is 100% polished. This is just a quick release that people have been asking for, that takes care of a real user need. Next, we’ll focus on improving the user experience of the SEO form, and perhaps adding other fun SEO tools (such as keyword suggestions).
Feedback is welcome!
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October 2nd, 2009
So a lot of folks have asked us to provide some way of limiting the number of icons (tools) available in the WYSIWYG editor that pops up when you click on a green bubble in PageLime.
We’ve recently released two features that cover this request:
- You can append “-text” to your cms-editable CSS class (for example: “cms-editable-text” or “tomiscool-text“), to restrict the number of icons/tools available for that area.
- You can configure what tools are available for HTML vs. Text areas in a new tab in the settings for each site.
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