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Forms are everywhere online. They give us the ability to take what would otherwise be a flat page of text and images and start sending information to the person or people behind the webpage. It’s then that the page becomes a tool rather than just a reference. WebSite Tonight has always offered forms available in all sorts of customizable shapes and formats to make your site more dynamic and useful, but what happens when your site attracts the attention of less than scrupulous characters? Wait a minute… is THAT where all that spam is coming from via my website’s form?

As a long time user of WebSite Tonight (and someone who hates spam as much as you) I am glad to present our new CAPTCHA feature to the Website Tonight forms. As a bit of background, CAPTCHA is an acronym for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart” and you can see them anywhere from your MySpace login to Go Daddy’s password reset. CAPTCHA’S are usually an image of a series of characters or a word, hidden inside of a background of squiggles or slashes that prevent image recognition software from reading it. The form user is requested to type in the characters as they see them and if they’re correct, the form is submitted.

WebSite Tonight’s CAPTCHA features dynamically generates images using randomly created number patterns, which means that no matter how many times a spambot may try to pick up a pattern and get around the form protection, they’ll never find it as there is no set list. Every new CAPTCHA is a new pattern specifically made to be easily readable for your human users and difficult for anything else.

This feature is available for all Deluxe and Premium users as of right now, and if you’re already familiar with the WebSite Tonight form editor, you’ll be pleased to find out that you can add it and move it around in exactly the same fashion you would with any other form field. Republish your project and there you are, spam-free living.

If it’s online, and you want to keep the bots out, there are few ways better than CAPTCHA to do so. We have been looking forward to offering this feature for a while and look forward to your feedback on it. As always, let us know what you think!

We promised more background-image goodness, and as of today we're delivering. Ever find the perfect template for your website (from our huge selection), but you just can't get your website "just right" due to the fact you cannot change the background images within the template for each page separately? Well, for Deluxe and Premium account holders, now you can!

It's as easy as you going to the already familiar "Change Template Images" screen from within the Designer (which can also be accessed by double-clicking a background image thanks to a recent update) and changing images as you did before, but before clicking "OK" you will see the optional "Apply changes to this page only" checkbox in the bottom left. That's it; you've now applied your desired changes to your current page only. If at any time you change a "site" image (checkbox unchecked), that site-wide image will only affect other pages that do not have page-specific images already.

These changes open the door to much more creativity, and we’re excited to see what our users come up with next!

Although we have wide variety for flash intros in our pre-built library, you can insert your own flash intro if you prefer by using the 'Upload custom Flash file' option.

All you need to do is:

1. Go to 'Flash Intro' page from 'Add-Ons' menu
2. Click the option 'Upload custom Flash file'
3. Upload your flash file

and you are all set.

Don't you just love the simple things that save us time? We sure do. With today's update, one of the changes is now you can double-click any of the background images within the Designer to quickly go to "Edit Template Images" with your image already selected. We appreciate any new ideas that save time while keeping things as accessible as possible for our users.

On the subject of background images, we've got some great stuff in the pipeline for you in the coming weeks, so stay tuned!

One of the best things about the Internet is instant accessibility to content. But what if you don’t want everyone to have access to the content of your Website Tonight website?

Easy! Let’s password protect the pages so that only those with the proper username and password can see them. This is great for family websites, personal pictures, and any other type of site where only one person or one group should have access to your pages.

But what if you want to be a little more selective over the different pages on your site? What if you only want a client to be able to view their own page within your site? What if you only want to show certain galleries to certain people? The limitation becomes a pain and forces you to either have to find another way around or to potentially put sensitive material in the plain sight of others and this just won’t do.

Well now you have the option to add a different username and password set to nearly any of the pages in your Website Tonight project, giving you the ability to secure your information on a case by case basis with an easy to use interface.

Log into your account and from the ‘Manage’ dropdown, select ‘Password Protection’. The page you arrive at now has a new set of options at the top which will allow you to choose to either use the single username and password option for all selected pages like we allowed previously, or to opt to set a unique username and password combination for each page you’d like to keep private.

As soon as you make your choices, hit OK and republish your site, the next time a visitor requests any of these protected pages, it will be required that they use the password options that you have chosen on the pages you want. It’s as simple as that, and just as easy to modify if you change your mind or need to restore public access later on.

Thoughts? Questions? Things to point out? We’d love to hear from you, so write us a comment and let us know how Website Tonight works for you!

You have waited  so long for this, and at last it is here ! Multiple image selection!
When you go into the page designer, and choose to add an image, you can now select several images from your photo gallery. Notice the check box on each image. Simply click each image that you wish to insert, and click "OK". All the selected images will get added to your page block.
You can delete multiple images too, by selecting the images and clicking the "delete" button at the top. The "select all" feature allows you to mark all the images for insertion/deletion, and "select none" deselects all of them. Similarly, you can add multiple images to your photo album, or delete multiple images from your photo album by the click of a button. No more selecting images one at a time, and going back and forth between screens.
Further, if you select the "Upload Files" menu option that takes you to your list of uploaded images and files, you will notice that you can now delete multiple files and images from that list. We hope that you will like this feature , and await your suggestions for further improvements.