We’re very pleased to announce that the new (and improved) Toolbar is now live!

You can still get to the new Toolbar in the same way, e.g. ‘View’ –> ‘New Toolbar’, or if you’re already using it you’ll get the updates automatically.

Here is a quick summary of the advantages of the new Toolbar from the last blog article.  Hope you like it too.
New Toolbar highlights
The major drive for this change was to better organise the features available and create the structure so that we can expand services further in the future. The advantages of the new Toolbar are:

• Use the full screen browser for editing – you can move edit tools outside the boundary of your site
• Zoom in/out while editing – you make your site bigger/smaller to help you ’see’ it in full glory
• Sticky edit tools – the Toolbar remains at the top and the Editor will remain on screen as you scroll up and down
• Show off-screen objects – if you drag something off your site (outside the boundary), you can choose to hide or display off screen objects while in Edit mode (new under ‘view’)
• Detailed insert menu - more objects can be added in one click, including some new HTML snippets (’Insert’ menu)
• Quick pages menu – includes quicker ways to add pages, copy pages and change page length, plus edit meta data (for search engines) more quickly (see ‘Pages’ menu)
• Links to other services – Google Analytics, Webmaster Tools, AdSense can all be viewed without leaving your site (new ‘Services’ menu)
• Copy site/transfer site feature – allows you to create copies of your site as the basis for a new site (not for backup)
• HTML widget - add any HTML snippet to your site using our HTML widget snippet (e.g. Google Gadgets, all Widgetbox widgets, all Amazon widgets and more).

And if you want to give it a go why not build your own free website.

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