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If you haven't tried editing your website lately, please do! Over the past month our engineers have been busy. Website editing is now faster and easier than even we thought possible. We also got rid of the annoying "docking zones" that used to appear. The site editing is now Wysiwg. Just a few of the upgrades to Talkspot over the past few months: Completely replaced the template email system (for producing fancy looking emails) Added a new widget for doing fancy...

Creating newsletters and promotional emails has just been made that much simpler! With Talkspot's new version of our email templates you can put together professional looking emails and newsletters in no time. Select from our library of email templates for the pre-configured design to fit your needs. With Talkspot's email templates we make it easier than ever to design great looking email promos, invites and informational emails. Link headlines, photos and buttons directly to your...

Do you want to accept Credit Card or PayPal payments for goods or services? Are you a landlord looking for a way your renters can make convenient payments online using their Credit Card? Are you a charitable organization wanting to collect onetime, or recurring monthly donations? Talkspot makes it easy with our new version of our Payment Widget. Once you have set up a Merchant Account with Braintree, you can easily connect to your Braintree Account with our Payment Widget. Once the...

Written: April 21 2016 Talkspot has gone through a lot of changes in the last number of months. Many of the Widgets have been replaced with newer more robust versions and the the flow of the application has improved. See this list of recent changes, from a significant server upgrade to a much improved billing system and more customer focused support articles: Server Upgrade: Talkspot purchased two new very beefy servers and has moved the database and production instance...

Add news feeds to your website! These are updated constantly and done such that the content is searchable by search engines. This gives both search engines AND visitors a reason to visit your site often. - Combine news feeds - Automatically adjusts to match your website design - Content is automatically refreshed - Fast!

Talkspot has created and launched a new blogging system, Blog1. New instance of your blog will now be driven by the Blog1 blogging system. New Blogging Features 1. You now have a Draft mode so you can edit your articles online and publish them once they are ready. 2. Place active maps within your blog articles. 3. New Social Media Sharing options, visitors can now pin your article to Pinterest or Email a link of you article to someone. 4. Add Vimeo and YouTube videos to your...

Talkspot server maintenance is scheduled for the night of the 26th and early morning of the 27th between 10pm and 2am PST. There is a possibility that during this time your sites may experience intermittent outages. These updates will effect: Website Servers Email Servers No data or email traffic will be lost during any outages.

The mail server is schedule for routine maintenance October 19th. This maintenance should not affect any email accounts.

We've added a menu widget to the system. The new widget will replace the current menus. This is one more step in moving to fully responsive layouts at Talkspot.com. The new menu will size down to a mobile menu version when previewed on phone or tablet. Learn more at http://talkspotsupport.com/kb/a120/replacing-your-current-menus-with-the-new-menu-widget.aspx In this update we also fixed bugs in:

Forum/BBS Widget

Weather Widget

Video Widget

Social Media...

Getting found on search engines is the most important a factor in determining how successful your website is going to be. Search engines are your store front in today web environment so you want to show up on main street not D street. Here are some tips on setting your site up for success. Talkspot News