Load Balancer Maintenance for Security Patch   Rackspace notified us that they will be performing critical maintenance of all their Cloud Severs the tart of next week. The maintenance affecting our servers will take place and be rebooted ion Monday October 19. A more precise timeframe will be provided once that information is made available.   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 ASAP.   This ...

Cancelled Scheduled Maintenance Rackspace previously notified us they would be performing scheduled maintenance of all their Cloud Servers between Wednesday August 19, 9:00pm to Thursday August 20, 3:00am PST. This maintence has been cancelled and dealyed for an upcoming future date.   Rackspace notified us they will be performing scheduled maintenance of all their Cloud Servers in two weeks from now. The maintenance affecting our servers will take place and be rebooted in the time period between Wednesday August 19, 9:00pm to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: 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 ...

Great news, Google Maps now provides border outlines of cities and neighborhoods. We've converted the maps on our community detail pages (where this is most relevant) to show the borders. We hope you like it! For those of you interested in embedding maps on other pages, Google has a great tool for this.

Over the past few weeks we have upgraded our entire server infrastructure to new, faster, more powerful machines, solid state drives, more CPU and RAM and upgraded software. That means faster web servers, database servers and new load balancers. These changes should improve performance for your website and also give us more flexibility to scale and respond to future server failure scenarios. To take full advantage of these changes we require 5 minutes of work on your part. We need you to point your Domain's DNS to a new IP address. This is ...

Gutensite has built a really great system to deploy websites in bulk, using Master Sites that are cloned to create starter content for the new website. This is how your new website had default content when you first got started. Now we've made this tool available to our partners. We've been working with partners who need to provide websites to a network of clients, e.g. Real Estate Brokers that need websites for hundreds of Real Estate Agents, or Churches that need thousands of websites for all the churches in their denomination, or Design ...

Gutensite has added integration for a new user-friendly website analytics and heatmap platform called Ptengine. Analytics can be a really powerful tool to help you get more out of your website, but platforms like Google Analytics can be hard to learn and even harder to decipher what you should do with all this data. So other companies like Ptengine are trying to make a product that is much more user-friendly and actionable. Give them a try and let us know what you think. One of the greatest features is their heatmap, where you can see exactly ...

Server Maintenance for Security Patch Rackspace notified us that they will be performing critical maintenance of all their cloud servers this week. The maintenance affecting our servers will take place and rebooted in the time period between Tuesday March 3, 8:00pm to Wednesday March 4, 4:00am PST, a more precise timeframe based on service will be provided below. The reboot should only take a couple minutes per server and all websites should come back online on their own. But we will be monitoring the process and will respond to any ...

In order to display your properties as a beautiful brochure, we always recommend entering your properties manually into our property tool. That lets you upload gorgeous full screen images, videos, and special information to create a compelling "Single Property Website" for each property. You can even assign a unique domain or friendly URL to each property. Another advantage of uploading your own properties is that you can keep a long list of your sold properties, as a portfolio (and include exclusive pocket listings). However, if you are ...

We've updated the Real Estate property search for MLS IDX feeds, so that if the MLS provides the information, you can now search by neighborhoods in the normal "Location" field. That means the location field is smart enough to parse searches for:   City County Zip Code Neighborhood (e.g. Haight Ashbury) Street Address Street Name   For convenience, the Neighborhoods auto-complete as you type any portion of the name (to make sure you spell them right), just like city and county have always done. We've also added a few other ...

For those that pay attention to security issues, we were alerted to the "Shellshock" vulnerability on thursday (9/25/14) and we applied the security update to our server as soon as it became available. So our servers are secure from this vulnerability. This is a huge security event. The bug allows anyone to issue any commands as the Apache web server user (with their permissions). Within a couple hours of the announcement, commercial servers and personal computers around the world were already being scanned for this vulnerability and ...

We've just completed a fantastic new upgrade to our online store, which allows you to setup an ecommerce store and instantly accept credit cards without any additional monthly credit card processing fees. This is facilitated through Stripe, a refreshing new service that acts as the merchant account and payment gateway, all in one, which accepts payments from all the major credit cards with no additional hassle. You can create a new account instantly and have your store up and running in minutes. Traditionally you would have to establish a ...

We have updated our multimedia players to rely solely on the browser's built in HTML5 player. This ensures greater compatibility across all browsers and devices, desktop or mobile, and less glitches. Long Time Coming This is a move we initiated several years ago, but at the time we were unable to fully transition to an HTML5 only-player because not all browsers support the HTML5 audio and video tags. What also complicated the transition is that not all browsers support the same media formats. For example, Firefox still doesn't support the ...

Great news, we've updated the MLS pages to be more beautiful and optimized for viewing on mobile browsers! We are excited to announce that we have redesigned all the MLS pages so that they have a fresh look that is beautiful and also optimized to look and work great on Mobile devices. There are still the same options to display the properties in a grid, list or map view, and all display beautifully on Mobile devices. And we have added larger photos for MLSs that have HD images, a much nicer slideshow, and many other great enhancements....

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 ...