You may have heard that Google recently updated it's ReCaptcha spam filtering plugin to be more user friendly. Their ReCaptcha plugin is meant to be a "Turing Test" to determine if the entity filling out your forms is a real human or a computer "spambot". And in a stroke of genius, Google used that opportunity (all those human eyes and brains answering the question) to scan and interpret old books (or streetview addresses) with hard to read words and numbers that their "reading" software couldn't figure out. Unfortunately (and amazingly) ...

Load Balancer Maintenance for Security Patch   Rackspace notified us that they will be performing critical maintenance of all their Cloud Load Balancers this week. The maintenance affecting our servers will take place and rebooted in the time period between Monday July 13, 6:00pm to 11:00pm PST, a more precise timeframe based on service will be provided below.   The reboot should only take less than a minute and all websites should come back online on their own. But we will be monitoring the process and will respond to any problems ...

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 ...

We've launched two additional new free design templates called "Fantôme" and "Sken", which are described by our designer as: 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 ...