Take a Peek at the New Version of WST Page Designer
The WST Team has been working hard to make the WST Page Designer even easier to use.
We've packed in more features, easier navigation, expanded screen workspace, a better
WYSIWIG experience, and yes! faster speeds.
Take a look at our demo and see how we've changed your website creation experience. And when
you get a chance to test drive the new editor yourself, please take a moment to let
us know how you like it. Your feedback is what drives the changes we make in the
application, so keep it coming!
How do I go "behind the scenes" on my pages now to add key words, page descriptions, meta tags, etc? I clicked on "Show Properties" up at the top of the new Page Designer and nothing happened except that all the buttons for Page Designer were disabled and "Show Properties" had changed to "Show Designer." What is up with that?
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Hello Jenni,
I tried launching Properties window by clicking Show Properties in a WST account. I was able to view the page where you can enter meta tag, etc.
Can you contact our support team with a screen shot?
Thanks,
Gomathi
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Will there be an ability to upload a document file while editing in a block? Or will we still have to close the block we are editing and open the manage tab to upload a document?
If this is included it would streamline workload more than any layout change for those of us who upload a lot of document information for our users.
thanks
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Hello Lisa,
We are working on the ability to upload a document when you edit a block. This feature will be available soon.
Thank you for your feedback.
Thanks,
Gomathi
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Hello,
First of all i want to say:
Good job on making the navigation easier to work with! Thank you!!!
I wanted to ask - i have 10 pages on my WST account. 1 of them is named Blog - but its not really blogging with an rss feed for news. Is there anyway of turning a certain page into a news feed? how to do that?
In other words i dont want to put a code that will pull news into my site from other sites, but rather push news out as if it was a blog. Is that possible?
Thanks.
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Thank you Bina for your feedback.
We will definitely add your suggestion to our feature release.
Gomathi
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WST page designer improvement release is immediately easier to use and a welcome change. Thanks for the effort; yeah, Team!
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Thank you Emil for your feedback.
Gomathi
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Hi, I have a Google Sitemap problem that seemed to start a few days ago, perhaps the same day you upgraded WST.
I have 5 sites that use WST, and I've just started getting an error message when I launch the Google Webmaster Tools from WST.
All 5 of my sites are giving me the following error: "All the URLs in your Sitemap are marked as having dynamic content. Because dynamic content is difficult for search engines to crawl and index, this may impact your site's performance in search results. Check your Sitemap to make sure your site information is correct."
Is this related to your upgrade, and is there anything I can do to resolve this?
Thanks,
Paul
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Paul,
You and many other WST users are the victim of a new Google change that isn't highly publicized. In WST, when setting up your sitemap, you have an option to specify change frequency (Manage > Google Sitemap). The default setting is "ALWAYS", and you have additional changes of hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, never. Previous crawling theory held that you would get better ranking if your change frequency was ALWAYS so that it would get indexed more often, but it looks like Google has changed the rules of the game.
I can't find any supporting documentation at Google, but looking at similar posts on webboards, it appears that if all of your pages are set to a frequency of ALWAYS, Google interprets that as being a dynamic site, which is very difficult for a crawler to index and rank appropriately over time. This setting now apparently hurts your site ranking.
To resolve this, go into your WST account and use the Manage > Google Sitemap option and set you page change frequency to something that more realistically represents how often your content is changing. Google's crawling policy has always been akin to 'honesty is the best policy', and sites have been penalized for trying to adjust their rankings via various ploys, and this is just a continuation of the same theme. At the end of the day, as search engine users, we rely on Google's ranking neutrality, sometimes I just wish they'd let us know what they're up to!
Thanks for bringing this to our attention as it will help all WST users
WST Staff
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On the website I want to display some samples of pictures I've taken. But I don't want people to right click and save them off. Is there an easy way to stop this? I'm not an HTML expert.
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Please refer to this article how to protect your photos on the internet.
http://help.godaddy.com/article/2246
Hope this information is useful for you.
Thanks,
Gomathi
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I wondered about the same thing, so I used the "mouseover feature" and then changed the mouseover image to an image that only had text on it that had my company name and copyright date on it. So when someone right-clicks on the photo, the mouseover image shows up instead but goes away when mouse is moved away.
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Rosanna,
That is a great idea. Thanks for sharing with us.
Regards,
Gomathi
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I added the mouseover feature to the images I didn't want copied, so when a visitor right-clicks your image, the mouseover image takes it's place and goes away when visitor moves mouse off the image. I created a copyright text but saved it as an image then uploaded the image and used it as the mouseover image. It was a lot simpler and quicker way of protecting my images.
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I started with WST shortly before you made your changes. What a welcome relief that was! I've been slightly spoiled by running my own apache server in the past, but I had to get this site off my desktop. I'm looking forward to more "ease of use" improvements in the future. (The ability to edit my website from a Linux box with firefox comes to mind.)
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Thanks Laurie for your feedback. We are planning more releases that will improve ease of use.
Regards,
Gomathi
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Hi,
I just wanted to say that the new page editor is awesome! It's super easy to use, and I think you guys did a great job.
Also, thanks for updating the forum, but I've just noticed that the signature field won't accept HTML code anymore, it would be cool if you guys could fix that.
Thanks!
- Dude
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