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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.

New Chat Client Launched!

In order to further assist the growth of our community we have recently added a new chat client for site admins and users to exchange ideas about websites, networking, marketing, etc.

Click here to launch the chat client

Please take a few minutes to log in and check it out. I personally will be in the chat until around 6pm EDT today.

 

 

New Site and Page Tools Help You Get Noticed

In this new update (v1.47) we've expanded on the rate site feature that has been floating around the corner of your website. Site rating is still there, but we have added two additional options that will help promote your site even more.

Here's the down low on the Spruz Site Tools features and how they can help you and your visitors.


The Add Page option gives you and all of your visitors the option to add your web page to a multitude of community bookmarking systems. This will get your site out and linked from as many sites as possible, allowing people interested in the information on your site to find you. This will also help your search engine ranking immensely.

The Send Page option gives your visitors the ability to easily send an e-mail message to their friends recommending they visit your page. Needless to say, this will increase your site traffic and member signups.

The Rate Site option, which we have had for a while now, allows users to give you feedback on how your page looks, quality of content and several other key areas. This gets your site recognition in the Spruz system as well as gives you important information to help you make your site better and more appealing to your internet audience.


In summery the new Spruz Site Tools give your community members and site visitors the ability to easily promote your site.


Other updates include:
The addition of an insert HTML button on WYSIWYG editor on the page builder that will make it easier to add videos, music, pictures, and other scripting when editing or creating your additional pages.

Additional bug fixes and site load tweaks.


We are continually working on system wide improvements. If you have ideas, suggestions or have spotted problems. Let us know about them, we take suggestions to help point us in the direction of what we need to improve or fix first, followed by current system enhancements, and finally new additions.

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