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Today you may notice some changes with your management bar and settings pages. Today's update brings some changes that improve usability, and offers some new site and login options. This update opens the doors to some really awesome new features that you will have access to in the near future. The parts of this update you will notice the most include, improved design and navigation for changing website settings, registration settings, default profile settings, profile questions, and advanced options.
In this update we have discontinued the Website Intro feature but we have added a new feature that gives you ability to set a different home page for your members. Thus you can have one home page that your visitors see by default and one for your members. The reason behind the Intro removal is many. Part of our obligation to you is to help you grow your website, you may not realize this but intro or splash pages increase website bounce rates by over 150%. While some may feel intros are cool to use, for your visitors and future members having an intro in place can give people one more hoop to jump through to get to the content of your website. For Spruz, the intro feature was one more option that our system has to manage. Thus because of this, we feel it is best to discontinue this feature.
Here is a Break Down of the changes:
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Site Settings, and Profile Settings Options - These links have been merged into Manage Settings
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New Design - A new design was applied to the settings pages to give it a cleaner more organized look.
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New Settings Arrangement - The manage settings page has been broken up into differant areas you can change settings for. This should make it much easier to find settings
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Inline Help - Often it is hard to understand what each setting controls, and why it's there. Each option now features a help block that gives more in-depth detail quickly when you hover over, or click on an option. This replaces the old Question Mark you had to click on.
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Terms and Privacy Agreement - You can customize what your members agree to when they join your website. We have started you out with a template to use if you don't want to make your own.
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Custom your members start page - This is a feature you will only find on the Spruz Platform. With this setting you can set a different start page for your members. See an example at www.Sweetuniverse.net or www.skysa.com
In part 2 we will have a new content template management page, that will open the door for eventually being able to change all the default text in the platform, even create your own language packs. For example the Login Menu Templates are already controlled by this system. We will be expanding this functionality to all systems. Part 2 will include a new management page to update and set your template with a similar look that was used for the new site settings pages.
We do hope this update makes things easier to find and manage for our new users. Again if you have problems because of this update DO NOT COMMENT, Commenting will not help you. Please use the support ticket area to report all issues.
Thank you,
The Spruz Team!
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