NEWS IN BRIEF

Trial System Introduced

Rather than charge a timewasters fee , we now have a 3 day cooling of period to allow potential webmasters to try out the system before their website is fully integrated (it should take Mr. or Mrs. Average a couple of hours or so to complete the trial and have a passable website). All previous applicants reimbursed their fees.

Widgets added

No site is complete without reference to the plethora of third party web widgets , the main ones being Google widgets all the ones we look at seem to work fine (we are happy to help webmasters with integrating these if required)

File Size Limitation

To prevent huge file uploads have hard coded a limit of 20K which should be ample for most clients also only graphics files can now be uploaded (for security reasons)

Launch Success

Our initial goal of getting all web pages indexed on the major search engines has been achieved quicker than we expected (the main one being Google) we shall also be considering promoting through offline means - flyers and clothing ads

Web site Indexing Issues Addressed

Noindex Nofollow robot commands inserted into in main duplicate pages to prevent duplication problems

To ensure search engine bots get to crawl our members sites a web sites directory has been implemented , webmasters should also ultimately benefit from our free traffic from these pages

News and Blog Feed Added

We followed a customer request and added the ability for webmasters to display their own blog(s) or news feeds , this requires the URL of the feed to be inserted instead of our URL , webmasters can do this themselves in HTML mode on the blogfeed page provided (or ask us)

Multi Page Sites

We have added all the main themes from Dotcomwebdesign and made the themes easy to browse through . Customers can order the site of their choice and it will be delivered in a few hours in a sub domain of ad9.co.uk browse themes

Single Page Sites

These are NOT editable by the client , the fixed single page sites are for promoting our sponsorship affiliate program only - customers can also choose Example Promoters Page . The splash page (as it is also known to savvy affiliates is created automatically when an affiliate joins the sponsorship plan)