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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This should be the easiest thing to do after all it just represents who you are. The website could reflect your personal interest in a subject or products that you sell or recommend with 150% confidence.  Your unique voice for many opens up the Pandora’s Box of self – who am I?

Some might say that I am taking the moral high ground after all it is just a website, right? It may be the type of moral landscape that you choose not to engage in.  For me, it is about conscious choices – your choices and my choices rather than anyone being right or wrong.

There is a frenzy on Twitter to get more followers.  They were cascading into my tweets a couple of days ago.  At first, I felt excited then I looked at who these followers were and what their sites represented.  Something in my gut started reacting and I begun unfollowing many.  Every so often I discovered an interesting follower with whom I agreed or whose perspective challenged me – these were keepers.  The process even led me to some dark places that I discovered that I didn’t mind going to. This is part of the journey in developing your website too and making personal choices.

It is near to impossible to escape marketing language that surrounds our daily lives or to avoid  using this language on our websites.  Just being aware of this provides us with space to consider and determine if this is the way we want to be presented.

When you begin building your website ask ‘Does this represent what I stand for?

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