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June 2022
June 2022
When is migration required?
Your website on the retro 1.0 version of our platform will continue to function until at least June 2023, and after that we will keep the old platform working as long as is necessary/reasonable to prevent sites from going offline. So in the next year we would love to help everyone migrate to the new platform, because it's just better for you (new functionality, new designs, etc). And we are encouraging that transition sooner than later particularly because the legal ADA compliance requirements for disabled persons are urgent.
Is there a learning curve?
The new version of Gutensite is easy to use. We have a simple introductory training video and our proactive support can continue to assist you as usual. Most editing/management tasks are very simple, so after you learn the basics you'll have no problems.
Is migration free?
We will automatically create a website account on the new platform and migrate all your data/pages from 1.0 to 2.0 for free. But ...
June 2022
June 2022
Over the last few years, we have been working on the overly ambitious project of rebuilding our Website Builder and Content Management System based on modern coding standards, cutting edge design, and advanced functionality. It's been an incredible challenge for our small team, but we're super proud of what we've created. And when our automated billing system is complete in the next few weeks, we will be ready to launch!
The beta testing phase with the first 25 clients was successful and we are now ready to migrate all current client websites from the 1.0 platform to 2.0. Keep in mind that we have limited capacity, so you should start the process as soon as possible to get on our schedule.
Did you notice our new website? It is a great example of what your site can look like on the new platform with a little planning, or look at our home page to see a few other featured sites.
If your website is more than a couple years old, that's reason enough to upgrade, because you are ...
June 2022
June 2022
Did you notice we just launched a new version of our website? Go to https://gutensite.com to see what's new. Look around and imagine how your business could be helped if we transformed your website in the same way. This new site represents a model of how we want to help you leverage our new 2.0 platform to human optimize your website through good strategy, writing, design and functionality, so that it becomes the hub of your Digital Marketing Strategy and funnels visitors to your clearly defined conversion goals.
Read more about how we can help you create your own Website Strategy to be more successful online. Then let's discuss your personal goals and how we can set a scope and budget that will provide you the maximum return on investment.
August 2015
August 2015
We're experimenting with a new category of Limited Edition design options, and our first offering is the Sterling template, a clean, modern and elegant design featuring full width image, translucent navigation bar, and fully Responsive for all mobile devices, with a smoth menu pull out drawer on mobile. This beautiful design includes stylish animations and transitions that add great sophisticated touches to the UI and UX.
The Sterling is only available to the first 50 websites that want something a little more unique, for only $1000. This new approach will allow us to create truely premium designs at a reduced cost, while still ensuring a significant degree of originality for your website.
Like any template, the design can be further customized if you need anythingn special. Let us know what you think about this new option.
July 2015
July 2015
As we continue developing the next 2.0 version of our platform, there are a lot of features we wish we had all along in 1.0. In general, we are trying to spend all our time developing 2.0, but if the features are easy to implement we've try to add some basic version of them to 1.0 as well.
One of the new features that is really important in 2.0 is the ability to visually select the layout of your page, from a lot of beautiful alternative layout options. For example, you may want your content showing up in list page design that looks like a landing page with slideshow and modules, or in a 1, 2 or 3 column image grid, or a text list, or in a calendar, or on a map, etc. Or you may want your profile to have a large photo across the top of the page versus a smaller photo embedded on the right. You'll have that flexibility.
For 1.0, we have just added is the ability to select a few alternative layouts on some of the popular content types.
Now for Profiles, you can select the standard ...
July 2015
July 2015
We've launched two additional new free design templates called "Fantôme" and "Sken", which are described by our designer as:
Polished and sexy with an epic full-width slideshow and a home page profile area that places your profile image and contact info front and center.
These two templates are similiar, except the Sken is light while the Fantôme is dark.
These new designs are fully responsive and mobile friendly, with a collapsable side menu drawer that hides the menu and slides out on smaller devices. There are also nice touches of CSS animations and transitions that give the site a polished UI.
To experience the new designs, definitely click around the Fantôme Demo site as well as the Sken Demo site and view the different color themes for each.
Maybe you'll consider upgrading your own website to this new beautiful free template if you need a refresh and want a design that is really ...
June 2015
June 2015
We have designed a bunch of new free and limited edition design templates that we're rolling out over the next few weeks. Checkout our Design page for a list of new designs that are available or coming soon.
First to be released is the our "Bild" template. This is characterized as:
An engaging, investigative news style design with a full-width slideshow. Primarily black & white with small powerful color accents.
But a picture is worth a thousand words, so look at the demo site and click around the options.
This is our first template with a floating menu. And of course it features a lot of nice CSS animation touches to make the links and buttons come alive.
If you haven't updated your website design in a while, or if you are still using a custom design that isn't mobile friendly and "Responsive", consider updating to this new free ...
August 2014
August 2014
One of our new agency partners is working in a very specific niche to provide fitness clubs with a bundled package which includes a Gutensite website that is carefully integrated with another common third party industry platform. This integration requires a lot of expertise and work to setup on a case by case basis, so he turned to Gutensite to help him automate the process of setting up new websites in an efficient and scalable way so he can serve hundreds and even thousands of clients.
Fortunately we already have a great automated setup process. When someone creates a new website, they select an "emphasis" (e.g. business, church, realtor, health & fitness, etc) and we are able to prepopulate their new website with default menu structure and content that makes sense for that type of website. This is really helpful so that new users aren't overwhelmed and forced to start from scratch. It's easier to edit an existing structure than to try to figure out where to even begin.
We're ...
June 2014
June 2014
We have released several new designs in the last few months and we haven't had time to brag about it! Today we are launching Alloro. The visual equivalent of afternoon champage, this design is timeless, traditional, luxurious and makes all the content it touches turn to gold.
February 2014
February 2014
Meet Pinnacle—vintage travel poster meets passport meets playbill. For the adventurous and the romantic. Comes in faded blue, slate, classic red, saffron and mahogany.
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