The football season is winding down and our Fall Kickoff is coming to a close as well. Today, we pushed live a few more features and we’ve got one more push scheduled for next week as our grand finale. But don’t worry, the end of Fall Kickoff does not mean the end of new features. It just means the end of all of the playful and rather uninspired football allusions. We’ve got plenty more new additions ahead so stay tuned. For now, here’s a look at what’s new today.
Multi-currency support in the donations element
This oft-requested feature is now up and running. You can now accept donations in a variety of currencies by simply choosing the currency you want on the settings tab of your donations element.
Significant speed enhancements
Today’s release also unleashed a lot of backend improvements, including some significant speed enhancements. These improvements are especially noticeable on pages which include blog elements. We measured an almost 100% improvement in load time on our Element Fusion home page (which contains our small blog list) as a result of this update.
Coming tomorrow: new default template
Tomorrow, we’ll be changing the default design template for our entire CMS system. You will really only notice this change in two situations:
- When you create a new business website under your account, the new design will be used by default on the new website. Of course, you can change this design at any time.
- If the design you are using has an error in it, the system will automatically load the site in the new system default template, allowing you to continue to access your site while you work to correct any errors in your own design.
The new default template will be the Northern Light design, which you can see featured on this blog post.
Stay tuned for next week’s finale
There’s more new stuff on the way next week, just in time for the holidays. Stay tuned.
Posted on
Thu, December 10, 2009
by Tim Wall
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