We finished up a new set of free designs last week. In keeping with our San Francisco street naming motif, these ones are called "Laurel" and there are three options for color and accents. They are a high end, modern but elegant design with a prominent image promotional area on the home page, as well as the option for individual unique images on each subsequent page (for those who really want to customize the design). Anyone who uses this template will instantly look like a very established, well funded organization. So go get started!

We have installed a new bold template called Endeavour, in honor of HMS Endeavour a Royal Navy research ship which was commanded at one point by Captain Cook on his first voyage of discovery in 1768. Our Endeavour has a large photo slideshow area on the home page, ample featured content areas, large chunky links, and some great hidden features. For example, individual pages can specify their own unique image which will show up in the header. If a page doesn't specify an image, it will display one of several random images you set for all ...

We've added a great new Cost Calculator to our Cost Page that we hope will clear up a lot of confusion. It's amazing what a mini-app like this can do to help people visualize their whole project. What used to require 4 different pages of explanation and comparison, can now be done in one small chart. It's fun to use and hopefully people will better understand all the service options available. This sort of a calculator is something that lots of clients should consider adding to their site, because like a picture is worth a thousand words, a ...

We've improved the settings for Podcasting, so that now you can control the specific category and subcategory directly from Gutensite, as well as keywords for the entire Podcast Category (plus individual keywords for each podcast).

It's been a long time coming, but we are proud to announce that Gutensite has finally come out of beta and has now reached version 1.0. We had a very long list of features we felt were essential for a good Content Management System and now that we've reached our first goal, we can now begin promoting ourselves. Since turning 1.0 we've already begun working towards 2.0 with a huge list of upgrades planned. But don't mind us if we bask in this accomplishment for a few minutes. Some of the recent upgrades to the Control Panel this month ...

“SEO” is a buzz term that gets thrown around a lot these days... it stands for “Search Engine Optimization” and refers to steps you can take to increase your website’s rankings on prominent search engines such as Google and Yahoo!. Companies everywhere (some trustworthy, some not) are trying to sell their SEO expertise. In general, we don’t trust most of their promises, but we do believe basic SEO practices are essential, which is why all our sites are built with these principles in mind. Our CMS offers fantastic control over the most ...

Did you know that your website has advanced statistics and tracking capabilities? You can easily enable third party tracking codes from vendors like Google Analytics (free) or other commercial products like Visistat. Simply create an account with the vendor and retrieve your account ID. Then login to the GutenAdmin and enable tracking for that vendor. See our Traffic Analysis and Statistics FAQ for a step by step guide for Google Analytics, then you'll know how to do it for other vendors as well. Why is tracking important? Well, for one, it ...

If you are on a budget, but you want to have a lot of multimedia on your site, consider piggybacking off popular video sites like YouTube and Vimeo. You can upload your files to their site, then use the embed code on your site. Our Multimedia Resource Library allows you to upload your own files directly, or to link to an external file (on another server), or simply paste in the embed code provided by the third party sites. Then in the Multimedia section of your site, we'll display the video according to the method you've chosen. And if your ...

Did you know your URL's could be more friendly? Some people call them SEO friendly, because human readable URLs that utilize keywords are "supposed" give a boost to your page's ranking. We don't know if that's true, but at the very least they make the page's address much easier to remember and less intimidating to send to a friend. So instead of this blog being accessed at: http://www.gutensite.com/3311098 We've given it the Friendly URL: http://www.gutensite.com/blog/main Doesn't that make you happier? Well recently we've added this ...

Well if you didn't already have enough to be thankful for this Thanksgiving, we've just given you another reason. For those that use our integrated Mailing List software, you'll be happy to know that we've taken another step to integrate the software seamlessly into your site. Now your site can automatically display a nicely formatted list of all your past newsletters. Whenever you send a newsletter, your list will update itself. Here are the instructions: 1. In SendStudio (www.yourdomain.com/sendstudio) when you send an email campaign, ...

Sometimes businesses, churches, and other organizations can underestimate the importance of having an attractive, professionally designed logo. A well-designed logo, like a good website, makes for a very strong first impression – oftentimes potential clients make a judgment about your organization when they view your logo/site. Unfortunately, many people try to circumvent design expenses by either designing a logo themselves, or getting a friend to do it. From time to time we also see open "contests" for design submissions, which usually end ...