PICnet Blog » Soapbox Updates http://blog.picnet.net All the PICnet news that's fit to print. Wed, 14 Jul 2010 03:54:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Spring cleaning: New Soapbox tools give site that fresh, clean look http://blog.picnet.net/2010/04/05/spring-cleaning-new-soapbox-tools-give-site-that-fresh-clean-look/ http://blog.picnet.net/2010/04/05/spring-cleaning-new-soapbox-tools-give-site-that-fresh-clean-look/#comments Mon, 05 Apr 2010 23:07:46 +0000 Tim Forbes http://blog.picnet.net/?p=811 Museum Without Walls screenshot

We love it when new tools we drop into Soapbox get picked up and put to good use by our clients. We love it so much that we think specific examples are worth a mention every now and then.

Take Museum Without Walls, for example. They recently used a few tools that were added to Soapbox in February and March to do a little spring clean up of their site – all in just a few minutes.

What did they do, exactly? First off, they added a brand new slide show to highlight the various programs they offer to educate and engage students in the fight against racism and intolerance.

Second, they took a moment to add a customized page title to feature their tagline – Living History One Voice at a Time – in the address bar across their site and in search engine results.

Third, they upgraded their site statistics by implementing the Google Analytics plugin so they can collect data not just on page views but file downloads and off-site links.

And for a little bonus, they followed some advice shared at the latest Soapbox Salon and added a Facebook Fanbox to better integrate their site with their Facebook page.

All in less than an afternoon. All following step-by-step instructions. All with Soapbox. Spring cleaning was never so easy.

]]> http://blog.picnet.net/2010/04/05/spring-cleaning-new-soapbox-tools-give-site-that-fresh-clean-look/feed/ 0 Soapbox 2.0.11 Released: Seven tools to better manage your site http://blog.picnet.net/2010/03/16/soapbox-2-0-11-released-seven-tools-to-better-manage-your-site/ http://blog.picnet.net/2010/03/16/soapbox-2-0-11-released-seven-tools-to-better-manage-your-site/#comments Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:18:10 +0000 Tim Forbes http://blog.picnet.net/?p=759 We’re happy to unveil the latest release of Soapbox 2 and introduce you to seven handy tools we dropped into the toolbox in the wee hours of the morning.

Manage standard content more efficiently, reduce spam, mix up slideshow transitions, alert folks when they’re leaving your site, monitor the disk space you use, customize page not found errors, and maximize Google Analytics.

Whew! That was a mouthful for just the overview. For the full details, check out our Help Desk and Happy Soapboxing!

]]> http://blog.picnet.net/2010/03/16/soapbox-2-0-11-released-seven-tools-to-better-manage-your-site/feed/ 0 Non-Profit Soapbox 2.0.5 is released! http://blog.picnet.net/2009/06/11/non-profit-soapbox-205-is-released/ http://blog.picnet.net/2009/06/11/non-profit-soapbox-205-is-released/#comments Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:22:23 +0000 Pradeep Suthram http://www.picnet.net/blog/?p=282 Tonight, we launched Non-Profit Soapbox 2.0.5 to add some nifty features for our Soapbox clients.  We modified and updated a number of good features as requested, including some of the following:

  • the Display News module more effectively displays upcoming events
  • provides Soapbox administrators more access to editing their Web sites from the frontend (visitor’s) view
  • optimization to the search engine friendly URL system

We’re clipping forward at a great pace using our PICnet Agile methodology, and we’re bringing in bug and feature requests into each of our releases.  If you’ve got a request you’d like to see tossed into our queue, let us know, and we’ll be happy to review it in our agile process.  Hop over to the Support Center to submit your request, and we’ll take it from there.

Release 2.0.6 has begun, see you in a few weeks!

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