For months folks have been asking when we were going to get our stuff together and start offering Pagelime in multiple languages. We’ll the wait’s over, and as always we tried to raise the bar on internationalization for a web-app: We have developed an interface for you to translate Pagelime into any language or language-culture combination right from your account management dashboard!
Dear PageLime users, we’ve recently looked at our cloud hosting energy bill, and after sifting through our accounting, determined that our main expense is air conditioning. This is unacceptable, and we decided to proactively move our entire hosting operation to a custom server facility to be built here. This move will literally cut our air conditioning costs in HALF, and allow us to offer better long-term service to our customers.
Obviously this move will take some time, so expect a few months worth of down time while we put together the expedition and explore possible approaches to what we determined to be the optimal location for the new facility. We’ve also been advised that this area does not have high speed internet access, but only AOL dial-up. While we don’t expect this to be an issue, we are building a backup cloud infrastructure, as outlined in the image below:
We’re commited to offering the best service on the market, and as such we will continue to find new ways to innovate and improve our web-app with great ideas like these. If anyone’s interested in joining our mountaineering expedition, please leave your contact details in the comments, and we’ll get in touch. Survival rate is very high… but iPhone 3G coverage is poor.
Happy April 1st.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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:
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:
Eventually, everyone gets it right, but that first try is what we’re trying to cut down on. So here’s what we did:
On Monday we launched a brand new PageLime out into the world. We’re calling this PL2: Judgment CMS. When we released the initial Public Beta of PageLime, we did it fully prepared to have the full force of the Internet mob choir smack down upon us without hesitation. Instead, we were presented with some praise, lots of encouragement, and some constructive criticism. We took the praise in stride, used the encouragement to work harder, and have now pushed out the new version of PageLime, after taking into consideration the feedback that you offered us.
PageLime is now lighter and friendlier in its presentation, allowing for clients to feel more comfortable spending time in PageLime editing their sites.
PageLime is now brand-able, providing designers and developers with the ability to upload their own logos and choose from an assortment of color schemes.
PageLime can now be hosted on a sub-domain of your choosing, allowing users to completely mask the off- site service aspect of PageLime to their clients.
PageLime now has a more intuitive interface. Small changes, like having close buttons in the upper right corners and one click publishing, speeds up and enhances the overall content management experience.
PageLime is now 100% more Limetastic.
We want to thank all the people who signed up for the BETA, and hope you continue to use PageLime for your CMS needs. - Tom and Emil
P.S. Some lemons were hurt in the making of the new PageLime…as many as we could find.
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