Annoucements
New Member Update Coming Soon. Please Read!
Category: Annoucements

There are some new changes coming to the member system on your Spruz powered website that is important for you to know.  These changes will be applied to your site effective Monday the 27th of August with version 1.51. This update was discussed in the last developer chat. Join us for our next Dev Chat on August 30th at 7pm. The link to the chat log of the last chat is at the bottom of this post.

In the 1.51 update we have changed the way members work within a site. This update is designed to make understanding how members work with your Spruz powered website easier.

New Changes with the Member System:

#1 New scalable site security structure for members and groups that is based on a level policy of 0 thru 9. Level 0 is public access, Level 1 logged in valid user, with Level 9 giving full admin rights. This will give you greater control over your pages, and other areas as they become available.

#2 All site security and member management will be handled via the Member Management page. You can now search all members that have registered on your site and set access levels on your members.

#3 Group Members has been removed as a primary area and changed to be accessible only if you have the group members page added to your. Group members have been reserved to be used as an to store people that would have higher than normal access to your site. You can control the access level of those members by the group by default groups have an access level of 2. Group member security overrides any member security. The Group Members can be used for Family members, Staff or senior members of your group.

#4 Pages and Links – We have changed the access for those areas to work based on the access level you have assigned to your members. By default at page/link has an access level of 0. That means anyone with a higher access level then 0 will be able to see the link and access the page. If you wanted to make a private page that only logged in members can see, you will set the access level to 1. Level one by default will allow any registered member to login and see the link and the page after clicking the link.  

#5 Member Management Page – You can now delete, ban, change, and lock member access from member management. We are also adding an email component in a future update to allow you to mass message or email all your site members.  You will also be able to view all your site members and search though them on this page.

#6 Other Admins cannot delete or remove the admin level of the Site Creator.

#7 People that already have Spruz Accounts that log into your site will automatically become a site member on your site. There will be additional permission options added in a future update to give you the ability to approve old registered accounts.

 

Some Future Additions that will be released in the near future:

#1 New Member Permission Policy Area – This will allow you to set your site as an invite only community and change other default permission settings to give you the ultimate control over your site permissions.

#2 New Scalable securities for Admin Areas, this will allow you to set the security of some sections to a slightly lower level. Thus allowing you to give some with lower access the ability to post only news on the site, while still limiting access to other areas.

 

A large part of this member update was needed in order to add additional frame work for the upcoming forum release. The new forums will be far more customizable and allow for greater moderator control of the forum threads.

Other changes included in this update:

Spruz Shop Changes: We have added the ability to set styles for your items. This means you can create a new style for color as an example or size. This will allow for

Next Developer Chat
Category: Annoucements
Thursday August 30, 2007 at 7pm EST

     In the latest addition to the Spruz (www.spruz.com) community, we have recently released a full featured chat client on the Spruz site. The primary reason for new chat client, is to draw the community together and to give the more experienced users the opportunity to help the newcomers discover the power of Spruz.

    You can visit the chat client at anytime by visiting http://chat.spruz.com , feel free to create your own room, for your group or to enjoy the live video and voice capabilities of the chat client.

    We have scheduled our second live developer chat using our new chat client, this Thursday Aug 30th at 7PM EST. It will last one hour and you all have an open invitation to join us there at http://chat.spruz.com. We will be answering some of your questions and taking suggestions from the community about the direction of the Spruz system and community and we be talking about some new exciting features and improvements coming to the Spruz system in the near future.

Spruz is the only free interactive website community that allows you to create your own unique website.

Spruz Developer Chat Scheduled!
Category: Annoucements
Saturday August 18, 2007 at 3pm

 

    In the latest addition to the Spruz (www.spruz.com) community, we have released a full featured chat client on the Spruz site. The primary reason for new chat client, is to draw the community together and to give the more experienced users the opportunity to help the newcomers discover the power of Spruz.

    You can visit the chat client at anytime by visiting http://chat.spruz.com , feel free to create your own room, for your group or to enjoy the live video and voice capabilities of the chat client.

    As the first of many community events, we have scheduled a live developer chat using our new chat client, this Saturday Aug 18th at 3PM EST. It will last one hour and you all have an open invitation to join us there at http://chat.spruz.com. We will be answering some of your questions and taking suggestions from the community about the direction of the Spruz system and community and we be talking about some new exciting features and improvements coming to the Spruz system in the near future.

    We hope to see you there this Saturday, and feel free to check it out and interact with the community on our live chat whenever you want.

Spruz is the only free interactive website community that allows you to create your own unique website.

Make some money and have some fun.
Category: Annoucements

We will pay you from $10 - $50 for quality video tutorials about using the Spruz system.

We get e-mails all the time from members of the Spruz community inquiring about job openings, most of which people are wanting to do from home. So we have decided to open up some opportunities for community members instead of hiring on more staff to fill the need at this time. If this goes well, we will try to bring even more opportunities to our loyal community. Below are details about what we currently have available for you to do.

Technical: Each tutorial video needs to be between 3 – 5 minutes in length, if the project you are teaching requires more time to explain all the steps please break it up into multiple parts. Multiple parts will count as individual videos for payment. Make sure to have clear easily understandable dialog and quality screen capture that is easy to make out. Keep in mind that your tutorial video will be viewed in the YouTube player, so optimize your video for that size.

Submission and Use: Once you have recorded your tutorial video on one of the needed topics listed below, upload your video to your YouTube account. Then send an e-mail to staff@spruz.com with the link to your submission and the words “Spruz Tutorial” in the subject.  Your tutorial will then be reviewed by our staff for accuracy, quality and usability.  If we decide to use it on the site system we will contact you to arrange payment and delivery of the original file. If the video needs to be improved first we will send you a critique listing what needs to be corrected before we can use your tutorial.  Please be sure to follow the guidelines or we will not be able to use your video, only quality tutorial videos will be accepted.

Subjects that we currently need tutorial videos for:

  • Full site creation on the Spruz system from start to finish, multi part is fine, all the basic site components. Everything but styling.
  • Using the Design Editor and Overlays, including adding custom images.
  • Adding Custom Header And Footer with the Custom Scripting Section
  • Embedding Music
  • Setup and management of Groups and Members
  • Managing Site and Forum Permissions
  • Using the File Manager
  • Forums Setup and Management
  • Using dynamic pages and page elements in the page Builder
  • Setup of the Shopping Cart
  • Managing the Shopping Cart

Finally please go to this site for tips on making good video tutorials. http://www.blendernation.com/2007/01/31/how-to-produce-a-good-video-tutorial/

Only quality tutorials will be used, but the rewards will be many as not only will you get the money from us and also you will be credited in the video with your web address if you want it included. The amount of pay will be factored based on depth, length and quality of the video. Approval for use will be at our sole discretion.

For questions please contact staff@spruz.com
So you want more themes?
Category: Annoucements

Thank you to all of you who have given us feedback, it's extremely important so that we know what you like so we can give you more of it!

As I've read through all the feedback we have been getting (yes we read them all, so if you see something that we can improve please let us know) one thing stands out above the rest: WE WANT MORE FREE THEMES! While we would love to be able to hand craft a free custom theme for each and every one of you, there seems to be no way that we could do this. For some reason all the graphic designers that we were able to find want some green stuff in exchange for all their work, go figure…

However we did not let that stop us. Getting interest from designers in the community about creating themes and Spruz support sites, we have been working on a way to get this organized and benefit everyone. As our first step toward this goal we have opened up a new forum on Spruz.com for everyone to post theme requests and for designers to interact, getting to know what you want.

Go here to post your theme requests and style ideas.
Be descriptive please.

Here at Spruz we know that the strongest part of our system is the community, now is your chance to get what you want. Let's grow together!

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