We've released a great new feature for the calendar which lets you turn on a map that sits above the calendar or event list. The map shows the location of each event. The markers are clickable and will either open up the event details in a popup window or go directly to the event details page. This is particularly useful if you have several events spread across the community and you want to help people find the gather that is closest to them (e.g. community groups). This feature is activated by turning on the "Display Map" option on the ...

Businesses need to make sure they have taken every step to be found online. This means having a beautiful, SEO optimized website, having a presence on the social media platforms where your customers frequent, and also being listed in appropriate business directories such as Google maps. The problem is, as the online gatekeepers evolve, their recommendations for businesses change. All the time. Recently, I discovered Google had lovingly converted Gutensite's Google Places profile (the old business listing recommendation) into a lonely, ...

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. See it Live

We're excited to share that Church Relevance included 2 logos designed by Gutensite in their best church logo designs for 2013. The logo we created for  City Church San Francisco made their best of for 2012 so it's our second year in a row! They included our branding for the Resurrection Brooklyn Church Network and Imago Dei Church in their list of "Distinctive. Memorable. Timeless" and "aesthetically pleasing" logo designs. See their full list of Great Church Logos

Inc. recently ran an article and infographic about the biggest challenges small businesses have with their websites. We've been saying this stuff for years, so we thought we would share. The main problems small businesses have with their website include: No Clear Call to Action Poor Design that Doesn't Impress and Engage Difficulty Updating Content No Way to Measure Success Poor SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Not Optimized for Mobile No Designated IT person Our CMS makes it easy to update your website, our support team helps ...

This is probably too geeky for most people, but for the sake of transparency I wanted to let you know what our status is in regards to the recently popularized "Heartbeat" security threat. "Heartbeat" is a flaw in OpenSSL, a protocol that manages the secure connections of the servers that run 2/3 of the websites in the world. Essentially it allows hackers to theoretically view 64KB of the current memory space (that's a lot of data). This random, raw data, but it could contain secure information like passwords and private SSL keys. Lots of ...

Today we are proud to announce an official partnership with Rackspace® Hosting (NYSE: RAX) as the primary CMS for their Marketplace. Our hosted website builder & CMS makes it easy for Rackspace small business and nonprofit customers to design, deploy and grow beautiful and powerful websites. Gutensite's user-friendly technology and dedicated expert support helps clients make websites that accomplish real world conversion goals, which become a valuable part of their organization’s business strategy. By leveraging Rackspace’s OpenStack®-based ...

A great website should be one of the most vital parts of your business strategy, not only easily paying for itself but driving a significant portion (if not all) of your business sales. We have clients whose businesses were completely transformed by their website. They saw what worked and now invest hundreds of thousands of dollars in their website year after year, because it delivers a great return on investment. Unfortunately, many people "get a website" because they think it's what they are "supposed to do". They don't have a strategic ...

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.

Introducing the Wolfram, a rich, dramatic portal with floor-to-ceiling background images. Comes in 5 colors: Stormy Blue, Camel, Blood Orange, Emerald and Pink Fusion.

We're excited to announce that the new year is taking off with a new partnership between Gutensite and HealCode, whose MINDBODY widgets integrate seamlessly to provide class schedules, class descriptions, staff profiles and prospect contact pages. Visitors can register to become members online, view trainer schedules, make appointments and register for special events. Packaged with Gutensite's exceptional features & design, health clubs and spas can get their websites in top shape. Learn more at Gutensite for Health & Fitness Or ...

Per our published schedule and instructions, the old servers are now decommissioned. If you cannot access your site, it is because unfortunately you have ignored all the emails we've sent you over the past month and you never took the necessary 5 minutes to update your domain's DNS records. For those who subscribe to our Domain & DNS management service, we were able to update the DNS without any hassle. But for all others, this was your responsibility. In truth, we have helped out many other clients who are not subscribed to our service, ...

Do not ignore this CRITICAL information about your website and our major server upgrade and migration. In order to ensure the long term reliability of your website we have been working hard on your behalf for the past four months to create a brand new server infrastructure with the redundancy and scalability that will serve you far into the future. There may be some elements that are temporarily inconvenient and frustrating for you over the next few days of migration. I am really sorry for those things in advance, but this upgrade is ...

We appreciate all your patience as we've been focused for the past 4 months on a major server infrastructure upgrade, to rebuild and migrate our hosted CMS to Rackspace's Cloud servers. This has required a rewrite of how we deploy websites, how we roll out updates and versions to the core code base, how we manage hosting, how we connect with databases, and many overall changes to how the CMS works across multiple web servers, connecting with a cluster of read and write database servers, and other servers for extra services. We've grown ...

Gutensite has been nominated as the Best Cloud/Hosted CMS at the 2013 CMS Critic's Choice Awards! We were among the top four platforms to receive this recognition and voting has now begun for who will win the final honor. Please take one minute to cast your final vote before Sept 30, so we can win and gain valuable recognition that will help us grow and make Gutenite better for you! *You can ignore all the other categories. There are thousands of Content Management Systems on the market that you could use to build your website. So we are ...

In July we bagan officially working on rebuilding Gutensite 2.0 from the ground up, with a new codebase and new server architecture. But shortly after we began, our existing servers gave us a fright and we knew we had to step back and make certain that the server architecture for 1.0 was fully stable and will continue to be scalable far into the future. So we have been heads down for the past 2 months working on this massive overhaul. The migration has been progressing steadily and is nearly complete! We have successfully migrated all ...

Responsive Design has become THE biggest buzzword in web design circles this past year, and with good reason because a well designed responsive website allows mobile visitors to view a beautiful version of your site even if they are on their smartphone. This means you don't need to maintain a separate "mobile version" of your website, things just look awesome for everyone. View one of our demos on your smartphone or open the demo on your computer and just resize your browser window to watch how the layout changes automatically to "respond" ...

As part of our long term server infrastructure upgrades, we are integrating with Rackspace's Cloud Files to store all your images, documents and multimedia. Cloud Files provides 3 redundant copies of your files (in case any single version gets corrupted or is on hardware that fails), and it delivers those files to your visitors through a CDN (Content Delivery Nework) that caches a copy of the files closer to the visitor which speeds up your site load times. It also allows us to offer unlimited amounts of scalable storage and fast bandwidth at ...

Interested in making changes to your Free Gutensite design? Now you can customize your own Gutensite! Our Co-Founder, Chadwick Meyer provides a thorough tutorial on CMS Critic with step-by-step instructions how to change the design of your site. If there's something on your site that you want to customize but just aren't quite sure how, let us know and we'd be happy to speak with you about the endless customization possibilities to help you stand out from the rest!

As mobile devices now account for almost 25% of all web traffic, responsive design is more important than ever. While our websites have been 100% mobile friendly and HTML5 compatible for many years, we're now creating new free designs that are 100% responsive. How is responsive design different from mobile friendly/HTML5 compatible? No more need for pinching and zooming to view parts of your tablet or smartphone screen. Now the content and design seamlessly resize to look good on any size screen. Currently, we are in the process of ...