Would you like to give your visitors the ability to upload files to your site? Now you can allow anyone to contribute pictures, sounds and other binary files to your site through Forms. Any files your site visitors upload are sent to you as a click-able link for easy download. You can collect important information while providing a fun interactive experience for your users!

Allow your visitors to Upload Files today using these easy steps:
1. Add a Text Field to any new or existing Form and set it to File
2. publish your site
3. visitors click on the Choose File field and upload!

Check out our Forms tutorial to learn more!

We know that you've been asking for an easier way to customize your designs. That's why we developed the Design Customization Interface. Now you can easily change your fonts, color schemes and background images.

Today we launched this enhancement and we think you are really going to like what you can achieve with it in just few clicks.  Several customizable categories allow countless design possibilities and an easy way to give your website a personal touch.

Start the interface and select the desired custom color scheme, font or background - that's all there is to it. It's fast, easy, and fun to use.

To improve the value of the information you can collect with your web forms, we added to more system default variables:

$geo_location - Visitor's geographic location in the format: City, Two letter country code
$site_referrer - The site where your visitor found and clicked on a link to your site.

Their values are available as Form hidden fields. In order to receive this inofrmaion along with the visitor's input, add a new hidden field to the form and set it's 'Default Value' to either of the above mentioned variables like so:


Then inside the email, you will see them like this:

Are you already pushing the envelope of the current SiteKreator galleries? You need different layouts, rich effects and a variety of navigation options? Then fasten your seat-belts! The new SiteKreator galleries are on their way with a plethora of new visualizations, navigation styles, effects, transitions and more.
            

Slideshow

A new version of our classic slideshow gallery with many new features. Select any of the new image effects, navigation styles and transitions. The play, pause, previous and next buttons are now inside the image by default, optimizing visual real-estate making the galleries much more flexible for integration inside your content.

Thumbnails

A classic gallery with image thumbnails displayed in a grid. Featuring a rich set of updates and options like flexible grid, thumbnail effects, page transition, selectable  navigation styles.
                

Filmstrip

A large slideshow with small icon previews of all the images inside your gallery, arranged in an easy to use filmstrip. The strip can go at top, left, right or bottom of the slideshow.
              

Mosaic

Again a slideshow with small icon previews, this time the icons arranged in a mosaic. A great way to display huge collections of photos or products.
              

Carousel

Impressive interactive presentation of your images in a carousel. Smooth sliding and scaling provide a great way to browse through the gallery.
              

  Slider

The gallery images arranged in a ribbon. The ribbon can automatically or manually slide revealing more images. Ideal for a photographic site header or a product display window.
              

New image effects are available in all visualizations. You can select from Reflection, Drop-shadow and Polaroid effects, automatically prepared and applied on page for you.

The visualizations share new navigation styles, creating a huge variety of possible configurations. Choose from Buttons, Buttons with Numbers, Numbers or Dots.

All new gallery visualizations come with a brand new large image viewer which opens inside the current page overlaying your content, as opposed to opening an irritating pop-up. The large view automatically fills the browser window revealing the biggest possible version of the large image.

You don't have patience to try all these awesome gallery visualization? Hold your horses - we are still working very hard to get them out of the door as soon as possible. We hope they will be available on SiteKreator.com within the next two months. But if you don't want to wait you can start creating your own gallery visualizations even today. Learn more how to do that here.

SiteKreator is committed to not only help you build a stunning web site, but also effectively market it and get traffic to it. Search engine optimization (SEO) plays a major role in your online marketing. Today we are very pleased to announce several changes to Manage Pages that could greatly improve your ranking in the search engines. All these changes are result of a direct collaboration with many active users who gave us ideas and provided invaluable feedback during the development.

Another SEO-related feature will help avoid your site being penalized for duplicate content - SiteKreator will no longer display your home page content under both its original name (usually main_page.html) and the standard index.html. Instead, all visits to index.html will be forwarded (with a 301 redirect) to the home page you have selected. If the home page is index.html, no redirect will occur.

We have also added several "convenience" features like:

• Page size is now displayed in the list of pages
• Delete multiple pages
• Duplicate pages
• Published date is in your local time zone
  

Also considerable effort has been put into optimizing the speed of Manage Pages, which should be noticeable any time you load it.

We are very excited to announce the availability of three new designs to compliment our already rich selection of professional designs. They are available to all SiteKreator Business subscribers.

Chara

Chara comes in 6 distinct color themes (Navy, Gray, Blue, Green and Red) and like all SiteKreator business designs it's completely customizable with your brand colors and graphics.

     

In addition to being one of our visually most-enticing and sleek designs, Chara comes with a few new features.

New collapsible panel at the top (see expanded panel in preview below). The content there is accessible for visitors after a click on the Expand button and visitors can reclaim the space by collapsing the panel back again. Ideal for contact information, site maps and other always-available information. Not sure you need the panel? That's taken care of - if you don't have any content inside, the panel will not appear in the end-user view of your site.

     

As many of you already noticed, recently we completely redesigned our main SiteKreator.com site. With the new design, we also introduced a few new packages. The most notable is our Business Deluxe package loaded with the full set of business features, 2Gb storage and a complete custom design. As more plans are being added we needed to rename few of the existing packages. For example, the Power package is now Business Premium, the Business package is now Business Standard and the Personal package is now Personal Complete.

In addition to this, all our packages got a significant increase in the storage. For example, the Business Standard now comes with a full Gigabyte, while the Personal Complete comes with 400Mb. This will give you more space for your photos and videos.

For more information about our new packages, visit SiteKreator.com.

With the Text and Images editor you may add video files and turn on/off a number of options like autoplay, controls and so on. However, depending on the format of the video file you uploaded, your visitor would need a browser plugin which may not be installed on his computer. This limits the visibility of your video files.  

A solution we recommended until now was to add your video files to YouTube or Google Video and have the videos embedded in your  site using an HTML snippet. Not anymore...  

The new option to add Flash Video (FLV) files inside the Text and Images editor allows to display video using the Adobe Flash Player - available on more than 99% from all internet connected computers. You may convert any video file (MOV, AVI, etc) to FLV format by using a simple convert tool, like On2 Flix Standard for example. Then just upload the FLV file from the usual Add Media  option in the Text and Images editor and your video will be visible to everyone. Learn more » 

And, now you can upload files (including FLV) up to 100 MB in size. Enjoy!

We are pleased to announce that we just released the official version of the new sign-up and change-design interface. Check out the new sign-up here.

• Support of a much larger number of designs. Only the designs currently visible on the screen are loaded. Expect many new designs soon.
• Filter by Design, Color, Industry, Year of release or just browse all designs.
• Option to see all colors for a specific design.
• Convenient zoom in/out with an option to select and browse previous/next design (you can even use the arrows on your keyboard).
• More control over the initial content of the site, like specifying the list of initial pages and their names, filling in the slogan, contact and about us information and more.

We hope you'll enjoy the new interface and as always, would love to get your feedback on it!

We just released a new version of SiteKreator that significantly improves the performance of the new editing interface on slow machines and Internet Explorer 6 (IE6). This was achieved by disabling some of the animation effects visible when adding/moving content elements or opening edit windows.