Over the last couple years more and more customers have been asking for the ability to provide additional logins with restricted access to their Member's Area.  Generally the reason was to divide the content management tasks among several people in the organization while maintaining the final control over Publishing the site.

 We recently added a sub-account feature that is in beta testing.  So now you can provide restricted access to certain pages and features within your web site.

 For example -- if you would like someone from your order fulfillment center to only access the order list and not access any other portion of the site you can simply create an account with this set of restrictions.

 We are looking for about 10 total beta testers.  Beta testers will receive this feature for free while in the beta testing stages.  We have 3 beta testers so far.  Please contact support@websiteforge.com if you wish to participate.

Shane Merem
www.websiteforge.com
Website Design and E-commerce

As all of you know, we recently added a left hand navigation to the Member's Area.  This menu is faster and offers an easier way to navigate.  It's also faster and does not require a screen refresh.  For the last couple months we left the older Top Navigation there to help you with the transition.

 Last Sunday we finally finished the transition and removed the Top Navigation.

 We received two support tickets over the last week asking what happened and where certain things were.  Take a minute to click and expand the branches on the new menu.  I think you'll find it faster and easier.  Especially on sites with large numbers of pages and products.

 Shane Merem
www.websiteforge.com
Web Site Design and E-Commerce

Recently a customer of ours selling large volumes of chocolate found that once an order's total weight reached the maximum shipping weight of UPS -- the shipping calculation went nuts.  Since the shipment would not be one large box, but actually several smaller boxes this caused obvious problems.

 We resolved this by splitting the total weight and calculating the shipping as separate containers.  This is an option you can now control in your shipping settings. 

 Contact support@websiteforge.com with any questions about large shipments or split shipments.  (over 70 lbs, over 150 lbs, etc. )

This year my resolution is marketing.  The Website Forge system has matured and grown substantially.  I cannot find anything else like it yet it's like the proverbial "Worlds Best Kept Secret".

 This blog, video presentations, help files, bulletin boards and more will help provide the proper perspective that the Website Forge deserves.

 I'll start writing weekly and hopefully more often.

 2007 should be amazing!

Hey.  I am just checking out the Word Press blog.  My well trusted programmer Eugene said it's a great product.

It has a way to play videos too.  This is a video I put on the site recently.
Testing.

Download link

We have recently added a few more flexible discount options:

- Quantity based discounts (example: 0-10 pieces for 1.00 each/11-50 pieces for .90 each)
- Customer based discounts. You can now create a configurable discount on a per item, per category, and
per order basis. The discounts can be given in percent, dollars, and free shipping. Also buy x, get y free.
- More flexibility in terms of combinations.

Contact us at www.websiteforge.com with any questions or comments.

We know that Website Forge is the best solution for your web site application. However, you must
remember the saying "A bad product marketed well is better than a good product not marketed".

This means
we need to make sure you have every marketing advantage out there.

That is why Website Forge has the following key features:

- Website forge is compatible with Google Sitemaps. Google sitemaps is a new technology used to assure
each and every product is properly added to the search engine database to maximize your keyword reach
and rankings. EVERY SINGLE Website Forge web site is instantly compatible with this technology. Other
Search Engines like Yahoo! and MSN will also pick up on your full site content as a result.

- Website Forge sites allow Search Engines to crawl the pages EVEN with dynamic content.

- Every customer receives FREE PERSONAL search engine optimization from a REAL LIFE SE expert.
Canned software packages NEVER provide the right solution. Every site is different and requires special
attention.

Make sure your web site has every possible advantage to promote your success.

Contact us today at www.websiteforge.com to learn more.

We have heard several complaints that a web site design company in Utah is selling web sites at very low prices. Prices that seem "too good to be true".

Turns out that there is one big "catch". They are keeping the ownership of the domain name. This means if you purchase a web site from this company -- you don't really own it.

Every person reported that they were tricked into purchasing under this false pre-tense. One business owner actually found out only after she canceled her contract within 24 hours of her web site purchase. ALL FOUR of the domain names she wanted were purchased and held hostage.

She immediately contacted this company asking why they would "steal" her domain names and they only offered to sell them to her for hundreds of dollars each. Her only other option was to pay for a year of hosting "in advance" and then they would turn over the domain names.

This is not only illegal. But it is unethical. Make sure when you make a web site purchase decision that you own your domain name. These days domain names are valuable and domain hi-jacking should not be tolerated.

Shane Merem
shane.merem@magnusoft.com

Website forge is pleased to announce upgrades to our e-commerce discounting engine.

- Promote your products with Buy X and get Y Free
- Apply Global discounts on any item, group, price range or quantity configuration
- Apply discounts for specific groups only

Discounts can be applied in Dollars, % discount, free shipping or any combinations.

Website Forge Team
Shane Merem