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09/1/08 Updates

We've been busy expanding on our free generators. In the spirit of this site, we've always wanted to make a generator that created at least semi-professional looking designs that you could use for free. we have finally created that generator. Expanding on our other sig generators, you can now choose a logo element, make a logo design, set the background to match your site, and add up to 2 lines of text in any position and color with our new logo generator. We are still adding backgrounds but we've uploaded 450 backgrounds to get you started. Also, we give the graphic away completely free, but if you need us to do professional mock ups, you can order those directly on the page that displays your logo. Click here to check out this logo generator.

08/27/08 Updates

We spent most of the week fixing broken links and setting up redirects to ensure that users with links to our old pages and content get redirect to the new locations.

We also launched a Free Glitter Text Generator. This generator has 59 different letter styles that you can chose from. There is a combination of both glitter and 3D animated text styles. You can see some glitter text samples as well as our other generators here

08/24/08 Site Stuff

Bottom Up site redesign

The site re-design has been a challenge. We moved to an Apache / PHP solution to take advantage of open source tools that would make our site function better. Our previous site was on a ASP / MS SQL platform and we had to custom build or purchase our web applications. This new platform will make the site easier to manage so that we can spend more time developing free resources as well as paid professional design services. Some of the features of the new site are

An open source shopping cart customized for our logos
A site directory for link exchanges
A ticketing system for user support
Improved site navigation and search functionality
A translation service on our site and shopping cart allowing users from across the world to understand the text on our site

The redesign and migration to the new platform is officially complete. (Well, not really completed as there will be bugs, which we will address ) DNS records should have updated globally by now allowing all our users across the world to access the new site.

It has been quite a challenge consolidating all the free sections into manageable sections to use in the new site format. We built the last site layout in the pre Web 2.0 era, and there were several features we were not addressing both for usability and SEO. This new site format addresses those concerns.

Keep checking back to our blog for updates on the site.

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