Spruz Owners' Community For owners of websites powered by the Spruz Platform

We have just applied a new update that makes it a bit easier to manage your blog. We have added edit and delete options directly on the blog category list, improved the way blogs entries are created, when editing blog entries you can now change the category, the blog is now paged so that it returns all entries rather then only the top 20 on a given search, category, or view and we will have New Blog Approval options coming really soon.

On the Shopping Cart we have added some new options, including Quality Control for items and we have added a new Save and New Button when saving a new item that makes it easier to go right to the next item you are adding.

Some fixes and updates:

• We have carried over design 9 slicing so that on themes with 9 slicing the style will apply to the event calendar, forums, knowledge base system, search pages, and so on in order to give a more consistent look to websites.
• Corrected a problem that still pops up with image uploading where on occasion some images won't process correctly. (Please report if you still see issues)
• Updated the member email confirmation process to make it easier to understand and we added an option right on the confirmation page for the member to change his email address just in case it was miss typed when registering. When the email is changed it automatically confirms the account as well. Remember you can change how long a member is on your site before they must confirm their email address by going to your site properties page and setting the require email confirmation option.
• We addressed a couple other usability issues that mainly would apply to people first creating a website.

Remember to visit our Owner Community at http://my.spruz.com and post your suggestions, ask for help, and check out the knowledge base. If you see something off, or have a suggestion on small improvements we can make to existing features then post them in our idea room forum at http://my.spruz.com/forums.

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Have you visited our Idea Room? We use the Idea Room forum to collect feedback from you, our valued user about upcoming updates, feature suggestions and improvements.

Our Idea Room is located on our Official Platform Community website (http://my.spruz.com). Our Platform Community Website was created for all site owners of sites powered by the Spruz Platform to meet, exchange ideas, and build relationships. One of the most important aspects of our community is how we want to listen to your needs, in order to bring new features, improvements, and help you grow or earn a living from your website powered by our platform.

Give it a visit, share your ideas, and grow!

You may notice a few changes with Drag and Drop on the content builder, changes to the support ticket system, minor improvements for the knowledge base system, and changes with Profile Info and Settings.

We have made some overall improvements to the dragging and dropping on the Content Builder. Now when you pick up to move a box it collapses to make it much easy to see where you are dragging the box to. This along with some other minor adjustments to make editing your dynamic pages a little easier.

The support ticket system has been moved to function from our main website. All the links and they ways you get to support tickets is the same. But this improvement solves an issue where if a site is erroring or has other issues there really was no way to enter a ticket on the problem outside of your website. We have also added a full text editor for entering your ticket details. This way you can easily insert images for us to see!

The knowledge base adding and editing of content has been greatly improved. We have added a full editor for updating content and the admin options for adding content, deleting content, etc has been made more clear.

The profile info option has been split into 2 pages.

Personal information Page: This will collect basic account details, and such. Including the setting for changing rather or not the member wants updates from the website.

Profile Settings Page: On this page users will control more of their profile display settings, and options.

In addition to these changes we have made a few other smaller adjustments.

Some of these changes are new and may have bugs. Please report bugs as they occur via support ticket.

We have recently changed up some things on the Support Communtiy website. Taking advantage a new theme from our theme library and we are making use of the new member activity options to show only member related activity.

We have also started up a Poll for you to cast your vote. We will have more polls in the future about important issues, ideas, and features.

Remember this site is about YOU and your desires to building, managing and growing a successful social website around you or your business.Visit our forums and engage with other site administrators like you!

You may notice some small changes on your website. We have been working hard to clean and polish many areas of the website.

Here is a list of recent updates that have been applied to your website released moments ago;

• Cleaner Welcome Bar: We are testing out a new look to the top bar that used to say Welcome Name. This account menu bar has been changed a bit to give a cleaner look to your website when you member logs in. We are still working on the best format and options to present in that space when a member logs in.
• Forums Edit Options - The edit options that control editing, moving and deleting forums will now be visible by default if you are an admin you can toggle them by clicking on the sort/manage button. This was done due to a large number of complaints from new users because they were unable to find out how to add moderators. We have identified this as the controls being hidden by default for admins.
• New Member Activity Box Option - You will not notice that on your member activity box a new option when you edit it that will allow you to select different activity display options. We noticed on sites with heavy forum activity it often drowned out the member profile activity. Now you can select to display all activity, forum activity or just profile activity.
• Streamlined the process for new users when they first create there website and go through the content wizard process.
• We made improvements to the Social Content Wizard Template by changing the page layout, added a login box instead of login text and a number of other tweeks.
• Theme Revamps - We have updated all themes from our basic theme series to give them all a very clean look with rounded corners for the boxes and added 3 new themes to that series.

We have so many new things we are working on as posted in other annoucments! Please give us your feedback.