I’ve had a few questions about how to spice up a Glösite with extra photos in the past few days. So I made a handy-dandy video explaining exactly how to do it. Just in case you have the same question..I hope you enjoy!
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The fabulous developers at Glö have done it again. Taken all your feedback onbard and turned it into fresh, new features for your enjoyment. Here’s the skinny on what’s been rolled out today:
1) Edit HTML on your Glösite pages
When you’re editing Glösite pages, you’ll now see a little button labeled ‘HTML’ on the text editor. With one click, a new box will open up where you can edit the HTML for the page to your heart’s content! This will enable you to add widgets and other fun stuff anywhere on the page. Of course, the widget box at the bottom is still fully functional in case you’re not feeling up-to-par on your HTML skills. For an overview of different HTML code options, I find W3Schools is usually quite helpful.
2) Edit background image and color on your Glösite
Glösite Page and Background Design
Giving you even more control over your Glösite look and feel – you can now upload images and change the background color of your Glösite. Just to clarify, the background area starts at the side edges of your Glösite page and extends out horizontally to the edges of the web browser your guests are using to view your site. You have totally flexibility here to choose a solid color or upload an image that complements your page design.
As an added bonus, you can now opt to remove the image from the main page area and just choose a solid fill color in case this works better with your background design.
Being able to edit the background design means that you have even more flexibility to either customize the look of an existing Glö design or else enhance a design that you create and upload yourself. For example, you can now create a Glösite that looks like this:
I found a bunch of coolio background design options by simply Googling “free wallpaper designs.” Remember that if you want a design with a repeat pattern, you’ll need something that lines up nicely at the edges. Then choose “tile this design” to achieve the repeat pattern effect.
3) Enhanced “email your guests” features
On the navigation links on the left side of glosite.com, you’ll now see a new option for “Manage Messages.” In this section you can email some or all of your guests with ease, including the option to:
- Email all guests
- Email guests with a specific tag
- Email guests who have not RSVPed for a particular event
- Email guests who are attending (e.g., RSVPed yes) for a specific event
After you’ve sent the email, you can also follow up to see which of your guests have viewed – just to make sure everyone received the message!
4) Include a direct link to your Glösite (automatically logs the guest in) in an email
Another other handy-dandy option in “Manage Messages” is to include a direct-access link to your Glösite in an email. This link will automatically log the recipient guest into your site – no need to enter their email address (though they will still need to choose a password the first time they view any password protected pages on your site. This is to ensure their privacy is protected)
Hope you enjoy all the new features! As always, let us know if you have new ideas.
Hey y’all! An update from Glö HQ.
We’ve been working hard behind the scenes at Glö to constantly improve things for you, our beloved Glö-bies. After all, you make the world go round for us. (Aww.) I’m always listening out for feedback about what’s working, what’s not and what new features you’d like to see. Over the past few months, we’ve been rolling out lots of new things – some big, some small. Many of you have probably noticed changes here and there, but we thought we’d make it official and give you a list of the major highlights:
Glö’s London HQ (wink, wink)
Designs
- More Designs! you shouted, and we heard ya. We added 30+ new matching Glövite and Glösite designs
- More Glövite fonts!, you pleaded. So we added a bazillion new ones. Now you can create even funkier announcements, invitations, save-the -dates and group thank yous. My favorite new font has to be Lemon Chicken…
Manage Guests
- Add guests without email addresses or last names (a massively popular request.) This makes it easier to invite couples when you know one half better than the other or families with children
- Upload multiple guests *with household names* from a .csv file (this was a great suggestion from Kerri, amongst others)
Manage Glösite
- Name pages anything you want (you guys get *incredibly* creative!)
- Set different colors for your title, links and text
- Specificy whether guests should login to all pages or just the Events & RSVP pages (another über-popular request, particularly by those who wanted to share a simple version of their site with guests early on in the planning process.) To see why we always require logins and passwords for Events & RSVP pages, check here.
- New editing functions (like bulleted lists and a paste-from-word option)
- A spell checker (a much needed feature for someone like me!)
- Include photos and images in the text portion of your pages. Just upload your pics to something like TinyPic and then grab the link.
- Remove unwanted comments from the guestbook page – you’ve told us that some things are better left unsaid…
Events & RSVPs
- Format the text description of your events (go bold or underline-crazy)
- Thanks to a suggestion on Off Beat Bride, see the # of guests invited to each event and the # of guests who’ve RSVPed “yes” to each event – this even works when you choose the yes/no/maybe option (see more info about this spandangaly feature)
- On view RSVPs, view and sort by the last date/time each RSVP was updated – to easily identify recent RSVPs and updates
During this initial beta period, we’ve also worked through some bumps as well. Mega thanks to those who’ve called any issues to our attention, and thanks for being so gosh-darn nice about it. When I’m panicking because things aren’t perfect for you, the fact that you tell me you love Glö makes a huge difference! You. guys. rock. As always, if something doesn’t seem quite right to you, you’re having problems, or your have a question – just give us a shout. We’re here to help!
Hope you enjoy the smashing new features! This week and next, we’re doing a few more things to help you tag multiple guests at a time, add individual guests to event guestlists from their profiles (great for when you’re adding the b-list one by one…), add groups of guests to an event guestlist, and email all guests with a particular tag. If there are particular features you’d like us to consider, just get in touch by emailing us.