NoteWay Notes Newsletter #4
Welcome to our next edition of NoteWay Notes, the official newsletter from NoteWay Media. This edition includes more tips for what to avoid when building a website, along with new features that are available on your NoteWay website.
Please read on and enjoy!
The NoteWay Team
www.noteway.com
In This Issue
- New Text Editor Available For Website Pages
- Featured Article: Things To Avoid On Your Website, Part 2
- Tell-A-Friend About NoteWay and Get a Month of Free Service
New Text Editor Available For Website Pages
NoteWay has added a new text editor to the Control Panel. This can be used whenever you are updating text on any of your website pages.
This new text editor offers more features than what was previously available. You can now align your text with left, right, or center, or block alignment. It also offers a more streamlined way for entering hyperlinks within your page.
Best of all, this new text editor is compatible with a variety of web browsers. It works on Mozilla Firefox for Mac and Windows as well as Internet Explorer for Windows. NoteWay is also working on making it compatible with Safari for Mac in the future. This makes the new text editor more flexible to update your website from anywhere even if you aren’t sure what type of computer will be available.
NoteWay is pleased to include this new text editor as part of your NoteWay service. We hope it helps provides another convenient way to update your website even while you are on the road.
Featured Article: Things To Avoid On Your Website, Part 2
As I mentioned in my last article, “Things to avoid on your website”, one of the keys to building a successful website is to make sure that it’s compatible across browsers and platforms. I also mentioned the importance of avoiding unnecessary bells and whistles that may potentially turn away your visitors. In this follow-up article, I’d like to discuss some additional things to avoid on your website.
Frames
Frames allow you to divide the pages of your site into several different regions, or “frames”. In graphical browsers, each frame has its own scroll bar, and a link in a given frame can cause a new page to be displayed in that same frame without affecting the other frames. This functionality can be very useful in certain situations, especially when you’re dealing with a complex web-based software application. However, there are some downsides to using frames on a site whose primary mission is to present information.
The problem with frames is that all the pages of your site will appear to your visitors as having the same unique URL, or address. An example will help to illustrate this. Let’s say your site is www.mysite.com. If you were not using frames, your home page would be accessible at www.mysite.com, and your contact page might be accessible at www.mysite.com/contact. However, if you do use frames on your site, both the home page and the contact page will have the same address: www.mysite.com. The trouble starts as soon as someone tries to bookmark your contact page. Every time they try to access this page through their bookmarks, the home page — not the contact page — will be displayed, and this can be both confusing and annoying. Another consequence of all pages having the same address is that it makes it difficult for other sites to link to pages within your site other than the home page.
Tell-A-Friend About NoteWay and Get A Free Month of Service
NoteWay is proud to announce the launch of our Tell-A-Friend referral program. This is our way of thanking our existing customers for helping to spread the word about NoteWay.
The Tell-A-Friend referral program allows our customers to get a free month of service for every friend they refer to us. Each NoteWay customer will receive a free month of service for each friend that signs up for a NoteWay website and maintains their account for at least 30 days.
If you’re an existing NoteWay customer, we’ve made it easy to get started. NoteWay customers can refer friends directly from the NoteWay control panel and track the status of these referrals. Simply follow the link below to log into the control panel and then follow the link at the top that says “Start referring friends now!”. This will take you to a form where you can quickly send out invitations to your friends via email.