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Easier editing of calendar events

Some of you were making good use of the calendar feature and had many events listed. This would make things a little unwieldy when you went to edit the calendar, having to scroll through a list of all the events that were in your calendar.

We have changed things so when you click to edit a calendar, it only shows you the events for the current month. In order to view events for other months, we have a navigation area which will allow you to select which month you want to add events for.

We have also made some slight changes to the rendering of the calendar:

• We added a heading above the calendar to show the day of the week.
• We got rid of the extra week above and below the calendar view to make it look more like a normal calendar.

New design group

Today we added another great design group called “Nature.” This group highlights some textures and colors found in, you guessed it, nature.

We hope you enjoy them and are able to put them to good use.

Sample from “Nature” design group.

Server move complete

We have successfully moved Net-at-hand to it’s new server and implemented the new features that were mentioned in the newsletter.

Please contact support if you experience any issues and we will resolve them as soon as possible.

New feature—more content for zones

Beginning December 17, users who have “show advanced settings” enabled in their user profile will see new zone options available for designs that have a sidebar. Note that these new options are not available for all designs. Designs, such as the “Default” group, that do not have a sidebar, will not be able to use these new features.

Titles

Some zones will allow you to add a title to be displayed above the zone. For example, if you have a list of links in the “Sidebar 1” zone, you can easily add a heading to that zone that says “Links.”

Recent blog posts

“Recent blog posts” will give you a list titles for recent blog posts which are links to those posts. This will be useful if, for example, you have a blog section called “Recent News.” You can setup a zone to display “Recent news” that shows the titles from posts added to that blog section.

Upcoming events

“Upcoming events” will list the titles of events in a specified calendar, with links to those events. You can select the number (1-10) of events that you want to list in the zone.

Menu for folder

Zones currently allow you to show the “Main menu,” which automatically creates a menu for top-level content items, as well as a “Custom menu” which allows you to build a menu with custom names and addresses.

A new menu will be added to the list which will work the same way as “Main menu” except that it will list the items that exist in the folder you designate. This can be useful for creating navigation that appears when the user navigates to a folder.

New feature—improved blogs

Starting December 17, the blog content type will be improved over its previous incarnation. In addition to normal text-based posts, blogs will also be able to hold images and audio files saved in the MP3 format.

When you add an image to a blog, it will work similarly to how it does when adding them to albums. The text you add will be automatically displayed below the image.

Audio files that are added to a blog will automatically display a player for the audio file below any text you add. (Note: audio files can also be attached to pages the same way that images and files are.)

New server coming soon

During the month of December, we will be moving Net-at-hand to a new server that is going to serve us better in the long run. We will send out an email to all Net-at-hand users with final details of the move, but most users won’t have to do anything and will notice no difference.

The only people who will need to do anything because of the move are those who are using their own domain name for their Net-at-hand websites. The new server will have a new IP address, which means that those users will need to update the information with their domain registrar (we will post the new information on the help site when the time comes).

The wrong color

Some of the designs that were released last week had an incorrect color assigned to the labels on the contact form. This issue has been fixed on all of them. We apologize for the problem.

New features, new plans, & new designs

Last weekend we released many exciting new things here on Net-at-hand. We won’t list them all here for you, but you can read through the newsletter we sent out announcing all the new things.

If you have not yet tried out Net-at-hand, there has never been a better time.