April 2008

We've Listened to Your Feedback...

Over the past year, we've gotten lots of emails from customers offering both praise and suggestions on how to improve things. While the good stuff is always fun to hear, your comments and suggestions are invaluable. How else are we to know what you like and don't like?

So we're taking your suggestions to heart and will be implementing some changes in our new templates:

Dynamic Web Templates: While most like the ease of .dwt pages, many others feel that they are best used for quickly making and formatting new pages. Many do not seem to realize that .dwt pages do not need to be published to your web hosting server. In response, we will be placing .dwt pages (one for each page layout) into a Templates folder.

Include Content: FrontPage users loved the ease of "include pages" and those who moved up to Expression Web are missing this feature. The good news is that you can download a free Add-In to bring this feature into Expression Web. http://www.panemanager.com/wumain/default.asp. We will also be adding include pages in our new templates. By bringing back include pages, you can now change the navigation links, footer content, etc. without having to update the .dwt pages. Makes it very fast and easy.

Less is More: We've always placed "how-to" information on each template page. The problem comes when you delete our content to add your own; you also might miss some important information. We are now placing any important details on the template's Getting Started page. Also, we give you a .pdf file of this information so you can have it handy when needed.

Expanding Our Product Line...

We've been experimenting with Dreamweaver for a while and have decided to expand our product line to also offer templates for this program. While we love Expression Web, we also find Dreamweaver CS3 to be an outstanding program. There's a good reason it is widely recognized as the industry standard.

To keep things simple, we have revamped our sister site, My Arts Desire, and have placed our collection of Dreamweaver templates there. So now we can bring the same great templates to the Dreamweaver market.