Service Pack 4 Released!
SP4 is a free upgrade for Web Studio owners and for 30 day trial users. It includes some really great new features while enhancing existing features and solving some nagging problems.
First on the list is our new Drag and Drop PayPal Shopping Cart. It is as easy to use as the rest of WebStudio, requires you to now nothing technical, and will enable you to get your online store running in minutes, not days or weeks.
We've replace the old slide shows and text fx with brand new Flash based Slide Shows and Text FX. The new ones are even easier to use than before with the reliability, speed, and class that Flash brings to party. Add some photos, select them in order, drag the Slide Show onto them...you're done! Web Studio simple!
SP4 is fully compatible with Internet Explorer 7.0. This was a tough one and included the engineers and QA testers at Microsoft working overtime to fix the bugs in IE 7. They did a fantastic job and we now full compatibility.
SP4 is fully compatible with Microsoft's Windows Vista. Again, the Microsoft engineers dove right in and made it all work together as it should. When you're ready for Vista, Web Studio will be ready for you.
There's a bunch more great changes, click here to read all about them.
May 06
June 06
All of the stuff that's New Online could fill an entire newsletter! Here's a brief tour.
Video Tour of Web Studio: we have added a series of informational videos to our site to help illustrate Web Studio's famous ease of use and powerful features. Take the Video Tour.
July 06
Search Engine Ranking Help: we've added a section on the site to help you with Search Engine Rankings. It contains all of the methods, strategies, knowledge we've obtained and used over the last 5 years. For a demonstration of how well these can work, go to Google and search for "website design software", without the quotes. You'll notice we're #1 out of 256,000,000 or so other pages. Use our techniques and you can dramatically improve your rankings as well. If you search for "web design software", without the quotes, you'll see we're #4 or so and are on the first page in the "sponsored links".
August 06
Web Studio Article:Take a look at this article written by Steve Cochard, our CEO and designer of Web Studio. Originally on the Smart Company website, it includes some of his thoughts about web sites and business as well as three case histories of actual Web Studio customers. You may be one of them or know them from our online forum!
Web Studio Blog: We've entered the internet age (ha-ha) and started a blog! It focuses on tips, techniques, and info associated with obtaining a website, maintaining it, marketing it, and selling via the internet. It doesn't address Web Studio specific issues, see our online forum for that. You can get to the blog via the Resources menu on our site or click here.
September 06
October 06
Help Sites: There have been help sites dedicated to Web Studio since 1998. These sites were created by Web Studio forum moderators and others who want to share their experience with others. We've had a few new ones surface recently loaded with tons of tips, techniques, and resources for use with Web Studio. Note that these sites are not affiliated with Back To The Beach, they are owned and maintainted by individuals who are extremely knowlegeable about website design and Web Studio. Here's a list of them:
November 06
December 06
