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Frupee is in Beta

Hello, We have released Frupee.com, a do-it-yourself social network builder. You can test it at: Frupee.com
Thanks,

VillageChief

posted @ 11/19/2007 9:10 AM by Web Piston News

Web Piston In Spanish released

Hi,
We are very proud to say we have released Web Piston for the Spanish and Latin American market. Many new Spanish speaking Pistonites are joining the Web Piston family of friends.

Bienvenidos!

To see Web Piston is Spanish please go to http://es.webpiston.com

Thanks,
VillageChief

posted @ 6/5/2007 3:47 PM by Web Piston News

New Web Piston Sites released

Hey guys, We just released the new Web Piston and the new site for baby websites. Please feel free to visit them and send me any feedback or comments to suggestions@webpiston.com.

Also, we are working hard on a redesign of the "Advanced Console" so that you guys can modify your pages and add pages using a What You See is What you Get (WYSIWYG) editor. We feel this will greatly enhance the site building experience for our advanced users. We are planning on releasing the new advanced console some time in April.

Thank you very much.

VillageChief

posted @ 3/7/2007 11:07 AM by Web Piston News

Web Piston 9 has been released!

The latest version of the Web Piston site builder is now available. Web Piston 9, is by far one of the most advanced site builders in the market and still maintains its user-friendly interface. Web Piston 9 boasts increased performance enhancement and the numerous features and functionalities have been updated and refined. Web Piston 9 is backwards compatible, so if you are running on a previous version, no need to worry, you will have access to all the new features and functionality.

New Features & Functionality

- Contact Forms are saved to the database & can be retrieved at any time
- Rotating Image Block accesible from the home page and add a page consoles
- Upgraded Servers: 4 Processors, 438GB Space, Increased Transfer Rate

posted @ 2/12/2007 9:57 AM by Web Piston News

January Update

Dear Web Pistonites,
We have been working on the next release of Web Piston diligently and we are in the final stages of beta testing. We should release Web Piston 9 some time in early February.

We are also on the final stages of releasing webpiston.es, the Spanish version of Web Piston for the Spanish market. We plan on releasing WebPiston.es in early May of 2007.

Finally, we have uploaded Web Piston 8 to download.com. If you would like to download it please click on the download button below.

Get it from CNET Download.com!

When we get closer to the Web Piston 9 release I will let you all know.

Best regards,
VillageChief

posted @ 1/19/2007 5:50 PM by Web Piston News

December update

Dear Web Pistonites,
We have moved to our new office located in North Tampa. We are very happy as we are purchasing the building instead of renting the space. Our new facility is designed for our development crew and technical support group, allowing us to grow easily as the company grows. The transition to the new place was very efficient, we started the move late Friday afternoon and we finished the move late on Sunday.

With that said, the development efforts for Web Piston have continued strong as always. We are getting close to release Web Piston 9. The new release will include very cool functionality, like a rotating image block that will allow you to add a slide show to any page, a contact form backend, so you can see all the contact forms that visitors fill in directly from the Web Piston console and a migration of all our email to Imail.

We have decided to move our email server to Imail as it provides best of breed antispam and antivirus software. Imail is an industry leading email solution. We will have all the Web Piston email accounts migrated to Imail by the end of January. Your level of spam will decrease significantly as soon as we implement it.

I will keep you posted with new developments.

Enjoy the holidays.

VillageChief

posted @ 12/11/2006 2:22 PM by Web Piston News

Web Piston udpdate

Dear Web Piston Users,
We have been very busy in our new development cycle of Web Piston. We are currently working on awesome new technology that will allow you to customize you site even more. We are also working on moving our email platform to Imail as we believe they have superior functionality that our site owners will love. We expect the move to be done some time in December. As always, the migration will be painless and transparent for you guys and we will give you ample notice of our maintenance hours.

I am proud to say this year has been great for us and I would like to thank all our faithful customers and fans that give us such good feedback on the tool to allow us to constantly improve it.

Finally, we are also working on a new improved image bank that we will release very soon.

Best regards and enjoy the upcoming holiday,

VillageChief

posted @ 11/20/2006 12:59 PM by Web Piston News

Web Piston 9 is in the works

Dear Pistonites,

I just wanted to keep you updated with our progress. We are currently working on adding a contact form database to the contact us page so user requests will be both emailed and saved in the database. This will allow users to download their client information and use it mailings and other types of user interactions.

We are also working on a build your template assistant that will allow our users to build a template from scratch for their site. We are very excited about this new development and it will provide the first template builder of its kind. It will allow our users to make their sites as custom as they wish. We are planning on releasing this functionality at the end of the year.

I will keep you posted with our development progress.

Thanks,

VillageChief

posted @ 10/16/2006 5:53 PM by Web Piston News

Web Piston releases Fanadu.com the online community for Sports Fans

It is only so often that an innovation comes along packing the power and promise to start a new craze.  The Tampa based software firm responsible for one of the most popular, highly acclaimed website builders, Web Piston, has developed another cutting edge system.  Fanadu, will change the way fans interact during their favorite events. 

Fanadu is a MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) that will allow fans to take pictures, at a football game for example, using their camera phone and send it via email to their teams Fanadu website, where they get posted in real-time.  However, Fanadu does not only stick to camera phone photographs.  People using their digital cameras can send pictures to Fanadu via email as well.  Or if they want, people can upload their photos directly to the Fanadu website. 

The purpose of Fanadu is to bring communities together, allowing them to share their experiences with other fans.   When people visit the Fanadu website, they can vote on the pictures, such as best fan outfit, cutest baby fan, best party and so forth.  Moreover, the fans unable to attend an event can check out the pictures and comments on Fanadu as they come in, gaining a sense of the atmosphere.

Fanadu is dedicated to housing the memories people would like to share and remember from their favorite events.  The service is free of charge and will be available for numerous event types, such as concerts, soccer, hockey, baseball, nascar and many more.   However, Fanadu is not limited to the actual event, some of the best pictures come from people gathering at their local sports bar and getting all hyped up about the game.

Fanadu is proud to support their home team, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and give their local community something to have fun with.  During the first home game, Fanadu employees will be joining their fellow Buc fans before, during and after the season opener.  For its official launch, Fanadu employees will be walking around with some specials guests, taking pictures of the fans and the tailgate parties, which will then get uploaded to www.fanadu.com

There are designated areas on the Fanadu website for each individual team as well as each different event. Fanadu is the perfect sit for NFL pictures and football fans.

posted @ 9/12/2006 12:20 PM by Web Piston News

Web Piston 8 is up and running

Dear Web Piston users,

We have released Web Piston 8. The release has been very clean and now some new exciting functionality is available. The main changes are:
 
  • Build a page assistant
    • Allows users to build any number of pages using the assistants framework including photo albums, images, paragraphs of content, and upload media files
    • Allows users to easily change the sites navigation structure
  • New photo albums
    • Redesigned using JavaScript for ease of use and improved performance. If you have the old photo albums on your site just publish again and the new photo album technology will replace the old photo albums with the new while leaving your pictures intact
  • New upload media block
    • Allows you to upload media files (mp3, doc, PDF, mpeg, and many more) to your site very easily for visitors to download. Sharing files has never been this easy
  • Calendar Of Events Assistant
    • Helps you generate a calendar of events for your site. This allows users to see what you are up to and contact you directly from the calendar to RSVP for an event.
  • Portfolio Assistant
    • Allows you to upload photo albums of your work so your clients can easily see your prior "masterpieces".

We have also added many more small changes to Web Piston to make it even easier to use and more feature rich. Please go to your Web Piston console to try all these exciting new changes.

Thank you.

VillageChief

posted @ 8/28/2006 2:21 PM by Web Piston News

Nearing completion of version 8

Hello again everyone.

It's been a while since my last post here, but that's because the whole development team has been working on tons of new features. We've got some completely new stuff, some advancements in current functionality and some behind the scenes changes coming to Web Piston very shortly.  It's been a lot of work but  I think you'll be pleased with the new version. Here's a list of some of the new features we're getting ready to release:
  • New Photo Albums - The photo albums are switching to a new more browser friendly format. No more need for the java plugin to view your photos. The albums also have a sleek new interface.(for a sneek preview go to www.webpistontest.com)

  • The Calendar Assistant - A large number of you have requested it, and now calendars are coming to Web Piston. They have the same easy to use console based approach to adding events, optional email contact forms for each event, and a nice flash based interface.

  • The Portfolio Assistant - You can show potential clients your work easily by creating portfolios of your projects. The portfolio assistant allows you to add descriptions of your work along with photo albums showcasing  your projects.

  • Media  Download Blocks -  You'll be able to add downloadable items to your website easily  using our  media download blocks. The blocks will be available to add to your homepage and the new "Add A Page" assistant (See Below).

  • The Add A Page Assistant - This assistant hands the control over to you - easily create a page for anything. The assistant allows you to create a page using the paragraph blocks from the home page assistant and more. You'll be in charge of deciding wether you want images, media downloads, paragraphs or photo albums or any combination of them on the pages you create.  This gives you the freedom to create the pages you  want.  We even added our search engine optimization system to help you increase the visibility of your new pages on the web.

  • The Navigation Console - We've added a way to easily create, edit, and delete links from your site's navigation menu. It features a drag and drop interface and real time preview of your menu.

  • And more!
We are finishing up the development stage of these features, look for the release soon!

-Matt

posted @ 7/12/2006 11:13 PM by Hacking Web Piston (Development Blog)

Web Piston 8 update

Dear Web Piston users,
We are moving along very well with Web Piston 8. We are finishing up work on the new "build a page" assistant that will allow users to build any type of page through the assistant interface. We are also finalizing the calendar of events assistant and the new portfolio assistant.

 

The calendar of events assistant will allow you to add a calendar of events to your site so visitors can see what events you are planning or attending. It also allows users to send you an email so they can register for the event. This was one of the most requested features from the customer survey and we believe will add a lot of value to you. You will be able to access the calendar assistant from the Web Piston console.

 

The portfolio assistant will allow you to add a portfolio of you work to your site including photo albums. You can show your users what you have done in the past and what you can do for them in a very easy manner. Take some pictures of your work and upload them for everybody to see!

 

We will release Web Piston 8 very soon. We are on the final stages of development.

 

I will keep you posted with our progress. If you have any comments and suggestions please do not hesitate to send me an email.

 

Thanks.

VillageChief

posted @ 7/6/2006 9:47 AM by Web Piston News

Summer update

Dear Pistonites,

I have not posted too much lately and I wanted to give you a brief update. We sent a suggestion survey to our users and we would really like to thank everybody for the excellent feedback we got on Web Piston. We have added some features to the development pipeline based on the survey.

 

We are currently working on the next version of Web Piston. This will include a Build a Page Assistant that will let you add any type of pages through the Assistant interface. We have also updated the photo album so it runs completely in JavaScript so viewers do not need to download the Java applet to view the photo albums. We are also working on a Portfolio assistant, an upload media assistant for uploading documents and media, and a calendar assistant.

 

We are going to release the new functionality in small increments. Some of the new updated will be coming out very soon. I will keep you posted through the blog and email.

 

Have a great summer.

 

VillageChief

posted @ 6/28/2006 4:18 AM by Web Piston News

Web Piston 7.5 update

Dear Web Piston community,

We are very close to finishing the alpha version of Web Piston 7.5. For this release we are going to be adding the following functionality:

  • FAQs Assistant - Allows users to easily build a Frequently Asked Questions page.
  • Testimonials Assistant - for building a testimonials page of your success stories
  • Portfolio Assistant - For displaying examples of your work as photo albums
  • Pay Pal Integration - For automatically adding buy now buttons for your products
  • Image blocks - For uploading formatted images to your content regions

We are planning on releasing by the end of May. I will keep you updated. Do not forget to email me any comments or suggestions.

Thanks,

VillageChief

posted @ 5/8/2006 6:07 PM by Web Piston News

Web Piston 7 update

Dear Pistonites,

The Web Piston 7 release has been very successful. We are adding some really cool new functionality for Web Piston 7.5 such as a Frequently Asked Questions assistant, a testominials assistant, portfolio assistant, and an enhanced photo album block. We are working very hard at adding awesome new functionality to the tool and would love get feedback from you guys as to what you would like to see on the next Web Piston release.

Please feel free to post comments to this blog.

Thanks.

VillageChief

posted @ 4/19/2006 10:00 PM by Web Piston News

Post Release

The official current production version of webpiston is 7. We made it throught another release.The implementation had a few kinks, but we worked them out and had everything functioning perfectly in short period of time. The release has been an overall success and we are adding more users than ever.

Web Piston Development Version 8

Even though we just released a version of WP, a lot of work has been put into version 8 already. Plans for the next version of Web Piston were already being written up before the release of version 7. There is a lot of planning, design, and development ahead, but right now the post release calm is kind of nice.

Template Design

I have been working on a CSS based template for web piston. Since the release I have mede some progress but I still have a few things to add before I add it to the list of templates available for use in web piston.

posted @ 3/24/2006 1:14 AM by Hacking Web Piston (Development Blog)

Web Piston 7 is live

Dear Pistonites,

We have finally released Web Piston 7. You can test out the new functionality in the Other and Contracting site categories. Also, you can see our brand new templates. We are very proud of the release and would welcome any feedback on the new functionality and templates.

We are starting work on Web Piston 7.5 right away, adding new cool features such as a Personal Site assistant, Pay Pal in the products assistant, Testimonials assistant, and much more. As usual, I will keep you posted with the developments.

Thanks.

VillageChief

posted @ 3/16/2006 12:59 PM by Web Piston News

Welcome!

Welcome to the Web Piston News Blog!

I am the VillageChief in charge of Web Piston. I work on the product design and manage the development and marketing of the tool.

We are soon going to release Web Piston 7. I will keep you posted.

See you soon.

VillageChief

posted @ 3/2/2006 1:24 PM by Web Piston News

Welcome To Hacking Web Piston

Hello Readers.

 I am Matt (villagetech) , the lead developer of Web Piston. This blog will serve as a chronicle of development,  ideas and thoughts about Web Piston. I also want to provide a base for users to further customize their sites using  some of the underlying  systems that make up the web piston platform. Though WP is designed to be an easy to use site builder, anyone can add some more advanced functionality their site a little extra effort.

WP Status Update:

  Web Piston 7 is currently in internal beta. This release is one of the largest updates since the introduction of our assistant technology. The major changes for this release are: The introduction of the contractor assistant (to help contracting firms easily build web sites), New Templates,  and new Search engine optimization tools. A lot of work was also done on the core components of WP for better publishing, faster site setups and more.

 The contractor assistant has many new features that we will be adding to the existing assistants (business, hobby, etc.) shortly after the release is finalized. These  features include:
  • Page creation through our "Paragraph Console" - a system that breaks pages up into blocks of content (paragraphs). This system allows users to build a very customized page easily without having to worry about layout design.
  • Search engine optimization help system including keyword analysis and optimized text generation.
Last but not least, Web Piston Village. You are looking at it. We have forums, we have blogs, and a little SEO.

-Matt (villagetech)

posted @ 3/1/2006 9:09 PM by Hacking Web Piston (Development Blog)





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