UGAL - Latest News

New version of the Rich Text Editor

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:40:57 GMT

Our Content Management System has been updated over the last few days with a new version of its Rich Text Editor. The update is automatic and free and is now available to all the websites created with UGAL.

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25 themes for your website

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:22:27 GMT

We just added 6 more free website themes to our collection, bringing the total to 25. Here is the "Glitter" theme:

See all themes available for your website

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Your website just got faster!

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:11:09 GMT

With always more websites hosted with UGAL, it was time to revisit the network architecture that was in use since UGAL launched. We are happy to report that the project is now completed, and that you should experience a pretty dramatic increase in the speed at which web pages are delivered from our servers to your web browser.

While we were at it we worked at improving the time it takes to generate the pages of your website. Queries to our databases are now (much) faster and more data is cached in memory for faster rendering. Our goal is to never spend more than 200ms (milliseconds) to generate any page of your website. We are well below the mark for most of the pages we serve, and are still tweaking the few remaining "slower" pages.

Contact us at support@ugal.com if you think of an area where UGAL could do better. A few milliseconds shaved here and there add up to improvements that us, the humans, can feel.

Enjoy faster websites!

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Invite other website administrators

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:59:42 GMT

Another often requested feature just made to our servers and is available for your website: you can invite others to become administrators of your website. Gone are the days of sharing the same password between collaborators!

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Login to your website using your own domain name

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:57:58 GMT

You can now login to your website from your own domain name, not only from its ugal.com address. Simply go to http://www.yourdomainname.com/login and enter your email and password. Or click the "login" link at the bottom of every page of your website.

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More designs for your website

Tue, 13 May 2008 17:26:14 GMT

Good news for the website creators: more designs where just added to our collection. Available for free with your website, you can customize those designs with a banner of your own and they are all available in three layouts supported by UGAL.

Enjoy!

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UGAL CSS Design Kit update

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:46:51 GMT

Our CSS Design Kit has been updated and version 2.2 is now available for download. The update reflects the changes made to UGAL over the last few months.

UGAL's CSS Design Kit is a reference for web designers who design their client's websites on top of UGAL. It details the HTML markup generated by our Content Management System and gives them instructions on how to decorate it using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

If there is a designer you'd like to work with for your website, send him/her to http://www.ugal.com/designers. Your website will look exactly as you specify while you still benefit from the Content Management capabilities of UGAL.

Email designers@ugal.com for any questions about designing websites powered by UGAL.

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Use Flash for your website banners

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:43:25 GMT

There is one place where we think that Flash can help your website: the banner that sits on top of your pages. The functionality has been on the todo list for a while, and we are very happy to have it finally available: on top of image based banners (.gif and .jpeg files), UGAL now lets you upload Flash banners (.swf files):

Other banner related functionalities that make UGAL unique stay of course available:

You can simultaneously use banners of multiple type (gif, jpeg or Flash) for your website.
When multiple banners are available, one will be randomly picked for every page request, introducing a subtle dynamic effect to your website.

Enjoy, but don't go too flashy!

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Photos and slideshows

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 10:14:37 GMT

Product Catalogs and Portfolios are among the first pages to benefit from the new interface, with new and improved photo management features:

Uploading photos is now much easier.
Photos can be re-ordered by single drag and drop.
Legends can be attached to photos.
Photos can be displayed in a slideshow.

When editing a product or a project, there is now a "Photos" tab dedicated to the management of the associated photos:

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Easier Management Interface

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:40:31 GMT

A number of interface changes to ease the management of your pages just made it to our servers - and to your website. Instead of having to navigate to multiple places to manage your pages, you can now do it all from the same page:

The screenshot above shows what you see when you click on "manage page properties" for a product catalog (the example is for UGAL's website plans product catlog).

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