Viviti Blog

BRAND NEW Jigsy Title Styler

2011-11-22T15:48:00-08:00

This is really exciting and just went live this week. You can now easily style your Jigsy.com websites title and subtitle without going in and editing your CSS.

When you mouse over your title or subtitle you will see a new "style" button in the top right hand corner. Clicking that will open the new style editor.

You can change the font size, letter spacing, line height, font color and font style. Everything is done with easy sliding and draging - no typing required! It really doesn't get any easier than this. Login to your website now and try it out for yourself!

You can also check out the new style Editor on Youtube! Don't forget to use the promo code: TurkeyDay2011 before Nov 28. It will save you 50% when upgrading your Jigsy account. Happy Thanksgiving!

Finding the Perfect Image

2011-10-18T13:30:00-07:00

Choosing the perfect image for a website that does not have a visual theme can sometimes be an overwhelming task!

What would be best to use? An Illustration or a picturesque landscape? How do you know it will say the right thing to your audience?

Imagery does more than just jazz up a website. Photos reveal a website’s attitude to its users. A Doctor and Barber both take pride in their trade, but their approach to doing business, will be indeed very different.

Think Practical

Getting started is easy: Get rid of photos that don't work for technical reasons. Throw away those vertical images you were considering if your website template calls for a horizontal.

Shape
What shape do you need to fill? Landscapes images work best in horizontal spaces. Portraits work well vertically. Large spaces can accommodate wide-angle and macro shots.
Tone
Do the colors and tone in the image match the website’s theme? Does it match your firms colors?
Focus
Is the photo blurry? A blurry background is ok if the foreground elements are in focus. But unless the composition is deliberately fuzzy, avoid it if it isn’t sharp.

Brandstockphoto.com is a good place to help you get started. They make premium tailor made photos for businesses with an embedded sign of your brand.

Use this code for a $10 discount @ Brandstockphoto.com - vB212

Summer Releases

2011-07-15T09:10:00-07:00

Would you like to your site featured on the Jigsy.com front page? Submit your entries to our facebook page!

New releases on the way in the next few weeks which will include some new features.

New Jigsy release - more new features!

2011-03-24T16:15:00-07:00

The Jigsy development team is out with another release for our builder and tools, this time including the following bug fixes, enhancements and feature requests:

Captchas added to the form component! Enabling this can help you fight spam received through this component.

Added list view to file manager - view your uploaded files in list form instead of thumbnails!

New Github component!

Added page redirects - set a page location and where that page should redirect to! Perfect for typoed page names or old page names that have been deleted.

Added ability to set a URL in facebook like component.

We are also happy to announce that Jigsy.com have been awarded and recognized as “Best Web Tool” provider by Web Hosting Search, A leading company in providing Web Hosting reviews and here are the exact words from them. “Jigsy.com has been awarded and recommended as a best web tool provider by WebHostingSearch.com who provides the best reviews for some of the web hosting providers on the internet.

Keep an eye on this blog and our releases page as usual for news on upcoming features!

Jigsy.com

2011-03-02T16:37:00-08:00

As you probably know by now, Viviti has recently rebranded as Jigsy.com. The Re-brand has been in the works for some time, and we hope that you like our new look! Rest assured that your website, building functionality and account parameters remain exactly the same. Keep on the lookout for a follow up email to you regarding your account and special re-brand promotions.

We do realize that there will be some transition pains for you, our existing members, to work through; however we hope to have done everything possible to ensure that the transition between Viviti.com and Jigsy.com will be as seamless as possible to you, our most important partners!

There are a few suggestions we have to help make this transition easier for you! To review them and / or ask a question please view our support forum here

Shopping Cart!

2011-01-18T16:45:00-08:00

It’s finally here and ready to roll into your Viviti.com site today!

The new shopping cart features three main components, and will easily integrate into your site. First and foremost, you now have the ability to create a “Shopping bag” for your site that will allow your visitors to easily drag and drop items into the checkout. The next component is a product search through which you can create a simple search box for the products you sell. Customers visiting your website can now browse through items quickly, easily, and efficiently, making for a better shopping experience. Finally the product listing component displays products from your online store. It enables customers visiting your website to select and purchase items that they wish to buy.

Upcoming builder features to look for!

2010-09-27T17:10:00-07:00

Always working to bring you the most fully featured and easiest to use builder out there, we're close to releasing another update! A few things to watch for include:

Completely re-designed and even easier to use dialogs, with improved speed
A backup and restore system for your site content!

Other features will be included with these releases of course - these are just a few highlights to let you know about while we work to finish up and make them available to you. Stay tuned to this blog as we'll keep you posted!

New Viviti Release

2010-07-15T13:01:00-07:00

This week we released yet another update to Viviti. There is lots of bug fixes and some new features as well. You can check out all the details of the new release here.

Keep building those websites!

Our World Cup Promotion is almost over!

2010-07-06T16:40:00-07:00

With the World Cup of football/soccer just about finished, we are also getting close to the end of our world cup promotion. You have until Monday to use the promotion code VUVUZELA to get 10% off on your next order of Viviti! So hurry up and upgrade your account now before it's too late!

Resellers are loving our new partner programs!

2010-06-24T13:03:00-07:00

We recently received some amazing feedback from one of our newest Viviti resellers, Continual Palingenesis.

"I am stoked at the service, proud to be working alongside you bunch and excited about offering my clients a system so sweetly simpleand richly functional. Having built 3 sites on the cms now I continue to be impressed at the ease of use and look forward to the innovations you seem to keep coming up with."

Continual Palingenesis is a Viviti reseller based out of the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island, you can check out their reseller account here.

More new Viviti features, this time it's all about Facebook

2010-06-18T14:53:00-07:00

All our Facebook fans will have something to be excited about with this new release. We have some new features which add more Facebook functionality to Viviti.

The two new Facebook components are the Facebook Like Button, and Facebook Activity. With the Facebook Like Button you can add the new Facebook Like button to pages on your Viviti website. The Facebook Activity component displays stories both when users like content on your site and when users share content from your site back to Facebook. If a user is logged into Facebook, the plugin will be personalized to highlight content from their friends. If the user is logged out, the activity feed will show recommendations from your site, and give the user the option to log in to Facebook.

We also fixed some bugs and added some new themes. To see the full list of features in this new release please check out our Wiki.

E-mail with Viviti!

2010-05-03T15:22:00-07:00

We are pleased to announce that we are now able to offer e-mail hosting to the list of features available with Viviti! Starting right away you are able to add e-mail to your current plan for the price of $10/year per domain name.

Viviti E-mail features:

POP3/IMAP and Webmail access
1GB of storage per mailbox
Unlimited number of mailboxes!
Virus and Spam protection
E-mail forwarders and auto-responders

To get started on setting up your e-mail just login to your Viviti account and select the “Add a new account” option under the e-mail section.

Don’t have your own domain name yet? Viviti now also offers domain names starting at $10/year and up.

You can read the full details about this release here, as well as full details about the e-mail service on our Wiki.

Viviti now has built-in video support!

2010-03-29T17:07:00-07:00

We are very pleased to be back with yet another release! This release includes a brand new component which lets you play video files you have uploaded without having to use the YouTube component! You can now use the Video Player component to play video files you have uploaded to your file library. To make sure your videos work properly make sure they are in the H.264 format, otherwise your video will not play properly.

Here is the complete list of bugs, features and enhancements:

Bugs:

Fixed an issue that caused pages to be available at their old url for awhile after renaming the page.
Usernames with spaces in them now work correctly on the Friendfeed Component.
Improved error handling when responses from Facebook and Twitter are invalid/broken.
Fixed errors when adding an external image that is taking a long time to respond.

Features:

Themes no longer require heading, subheading, nav or copyright, but they are still recommended!
Added Video Player Component. Play MP4 (H.264) right on your website!

Enhancements:

Customization options for reseller sites.

We're planning lots of other small releases over the next couple of months, so stay tuned for more updates!

Viviti launches a brand new website, three new partner programs, and built in domain support

2010-03-18T16:00:00-07:00

Is has been a very busy week in the Viviti office, but thanks to the huge efforts of our development team we are excited to be able to announce a new version of Viviti packed full of some impressive features.

Viviti.com has received a brand new skin and our site pages have been re-designed to be easier than ever to read, navigate and discover what Viviti is all about. This will help new and prospective members learn about what we offer with no fuss or confusion. Check out our Introduction to Viviti video in the top right corner of the main page!

One of the most commonly requested features is the ability to register and manage domain names within the Viviti website builder. We are excited to announce that starting today you can register and manage your own custom domain names within the Viviti website builder!

We are also pleased to be launching the following three new partner programs for Viviti:

Designer Program – The Designer program is tailor made to fit the needs of design studios by allowing them to easily provide their clients with a very easy to use CMS, while saving the studios a lot of implementation time on their designs.
Reseller Program – Is best suited to companies wishing to rebrand Viviti and sell it to their customers from their own website as their very own website builder!
API Integration Program – Designed to fit the needs of clients wishing to seamlessly integrate the Viviti website builder into their current suite of on-line applications.

If you are interested in any of these partner programs please do not hesitate to contact us for more information.

To see the complete list of new features and bug fixes feel free to check them out here.

The full press release is also available here.

Viviti is number one!

2010-02-11T13:57:00-08:00

We made it to number one on the Techvibes Victoria Startup Index for February 2010! Not only did we make it number one in the Victoria list, we also are now in the top 30 Canada wide!

"We've been excited to watch the continual growth of Viviti, and are happy to see our name at the top of the Techvibes startup index for the area. We're got lots of work ahead of us but it's a nice landmark to reach!" says Jerrett Taylor, Lead Developer on the Viviti project. “The timing couldn’t be any better as next week we are launching our API platform, which is the next big step for Viviti.”

We would like to extend a special thank you to all our users for making Viviti such a success!

First new release of 2010!

2010-02-09T16:50:00-08:00

We have just put the finishing touches on our first release of the year and it's a big one! Our developers have not only been busy improving existing services and adding even better functionality, but have been taking the time to implement lots of great suggestions sent to us by members!

Here's a run down of what we've just made available today:

8 new themes!
Added a popout option for the Audio Player Component. Allow your viewers to listen as they browse!
Signups and logins are now always done securely over SSL.
Fixed an issue with recaptcha stopping all comments.
Fixed an issue causing titles over replaceable images to not be editable, in Firefox.
Fixed issue with the blogs Atom feed that caused some readers to not display the site url properly.
You can now announce a blog post whenever you're publishing from an unpublished status.

There's much more of course, and you can get the full list over on our Releases page. One of the more notable things you may find there is the mention of an API for our upcoming Integration Program. Keep an eye on this page for more details about that and other awesome new goodies as more information becomes available!

Big plans for 2010!

2010-01-04T12:34:00-08:00

As we enter a new decade, the Viviti team is hard at work preparing a new batch of goodies to kick off the new year! Keep an eye on our Releases page to watch for developments as they post them.

A few recent updates of note:

8 new themes!
Keyword and page specific meta tags are now available.
Improved buffering feedback of the Audio Player Component.
Several improvements to our Wordpress blog post importer.

We're looking forward to rolling out many more much anticipated features throughout the year, to make this one the best ever for Viviti's members.

Here are just a few in our sights for 2010:

Domain registration!
Improved Hostname Mapping tools to make configuring external domains easier than ever!
Improved Help system within the builder!
Site content backup functionality!

Of course, this is just a short list of big new developments to come, as we work to make our builder the best out there. We have lots of other great stuff planned for this year, and as always, you'll hear all about it here on our Blog.

Stay tuned for an exciting new year at Viviti.com!

Holiday savings come to Viviti!

2009-12-09T16:20:00-08:00

This holiday season you can now save on your Viviti order. When you use the promotion code "HOLIDAY09" to upgrade from a free account you will receive a 15% discount! This discount can be used in combination with other discounts on our site, for example if you sign up for a year you get 10% off, add the promotion code of "HOLIDAY09" for 15% off and you will get a total of 25% savings! This holiday special will be running until the end of the Month, so hurry and get your website up and running today.

Fantastic fall err.. winter updates!

2009-11-27T13:56:00-08:00

The snow season has finally come! As some of you may have already noticed between snowboarding and skiing we recently put live a bunch of new changes. Here are some of the more distinguished ones:

5 exciting new themes available in multiple layouts (Jungleland, Cerulean Elegance, Fluid Solution, Warped and Business Company Red!)
Added basic uploader for those having issues with our standard, flash-based uploader.
Additional spam prevention in the form of optionally setting a captcha to be required in Blog comments.
Custom date/time format for Blog posts.
We added "break" functionality for Blog posts in the Visual Editor. Blog post content will be cut off after the break is inserted and the content will be replaced with a 'Read more...' link that goes to the Blog post.
Themes with multiple layouts will now let you visually select a layout by selecting an icon in the Page Settings dialog.
Added icons for layout variations in the theme selector.
Advanced users can now edit their Robots.txt file.
Added shuffle and repeat options to the Audio Player Component dialog.

You can see a full list of all changes here.

As usual if you have any feedback, or are experiencing any difficulties with any of these new features let us know!

Movember!

2009-11-03T11:47:00-08:00

Movember is the month formerly known as November where men start clean shaven and commit to growing a Moustache. That’s right, we are bringing back the Moustache this November to raise funds and awareness for men’s health – specifically prostate cancer. We've decided this year to help raise money for this cause, and in the process to grow some really great moustaches!

If you want to help out, we've got a good Movember team going and you can check out our progress and donate to the cause:

Happy Movember :)