Here in Oklahoma City, we woke up to temperatures in the 60s today. Hey, I'm not complaining about the beautiful opportunity to sit out on the deck and have breakfast in the cool of the morning, but this definitely puts a damper on the HEATWAVE. Where's the 100 degree weather? Bah. I guess we'll just have to turn up the heat inside!
We've got you covered no matter what the temperature is outside. The HEATWAVE rolls on and this week, we're bringing out another amazing feature that's been at the top of many wish lists. It's evites! They'll be added to every website on our WaterCMS, SkyCMS and LightCMS systems. Here's a little bit about them. There will be more details to come when they launch later this week.
A brand new element
Evites are a brand new element that can be added to any region on any page. You'll add them just like you add text elements or form elements. When you add them, they drop a form on your page that allows your visitors to enter their name, their email address, and the addresses of multiple friends plus a personal message. The user sends the evite and their friends get an email with content that you configured in your evite settings, plus the personal message from their friend.
You create the content for your evite by using our WYSIWYG editor. This means you can add images, tables, text, links, documents and more to be sent out in the email when your visitors send the evites.
How can I use evites?
You might set up a general evite to direct people to your website. Your users could send it to invite their friends to check out your business, church, group or other organization. Or, you might want to set up evites for individual events. Evites make it easy for people to spread the word about your events by inviting their friends.
Of course, you might think of a million other uses for the evite functionality and if you do, please let us know how you are using them. We look forward to rolling them out later in the week. Stay tuned for more information once they are live.
Scheduled for release on Wednesday
Evites are tentatively scheduled to go live on Wednesday, July 16th at 8:00am. There may be about five minutes of downtime for the system as the code changes are rolled out. Once they are live, you'll have full access to evites through any website on our system, even free accounts!
Posted on
Tue, July 15, 2008
by Tim Wall