Converting videos to Flash, and playing them back in a Flash video player has been one of our most requested features. This new addition allows your members to upload a video clip in virtually any format supported by FFMPEG (required for the video conversions), and automatically convert the video to a Flash format. In addition, our software will also automatically grab a frame from the video which will be used as the video thumbnail. This removes the step of having to upload a thumbnail for each video. Included below is a screenshot of the converted video, embedded in our new Flash video player. Let us know what you think!
Staying in touch with your members is important. That’s why we’ve added a News feature to the new version of webDate. The News feature allows you to easily post announcements or news articles with the click of a button.
If you’re running the multilanguage version of the software, you can select the language the article is written in. Pick a title for the news post, along with a date to publish it, and use the WYSIWYG editor to write the body of the article. It’s as simple as that! Post as often as you’d like, and manage your postings any time.
We’ve received frequent requests from customers on how to promote their site and if we could help. We didn’t have the resources at the time to undertake website promotion – until now.
I am happy to announce that our newest service for Search Engine Promotion/Optimization has launched. We’ve started off slow with a few clients, and the initial results have been extremely positive. We’ll be putting up case studies in the future to showcase the success. In the meantime, the results we’ve achieved for our own site speak to our abilities. We rank in the top 10 search results for all of our targeted keywords, and many of those rank in the top 3.
We’re excited to offer this new service to our customers. From our experience, the cost of search engine promotion and optimization is orders of magnitude less than you would be spending on advertising campaigns through Google Adwords, banner ads, or other pay-per-click services. We’re confident that we can improve your ranks in the search engine, and drive more traffic to your website.
For more information, please check out our consulting page.
Making your site interactive is very important in keeping your members busy and coming back. It also helps greatly in converting non-paying members to paying members. webDate 4.0 will have a new Polls feature which will allow you as the administrator to create new polls for your site.
The Polls feature will allow you to create an unlimited number of polls, and easily see the results on the frontend. Simply add a new question, and up to 10 answers for the polls. You can enable/disable polls on the fly, and restrict voting to registered members or all visitors including guests. Poll results will be visible to your members on the frontend of the software.
One of the most commonly asked questions about webNetwork that we receive is “how can I contact all of my members to make an announcement?”. We haven’t had a great answer to that question, until now.
webNetwork 2.0 will feature a Newsletter feature which will allow you to email large groups of members. You can email all members at once, or to specific profile types. For example, if you want to encourage musicians to upload new music and sell their songs through our webStore software, you can select “Musician profiles” and easily send out a quick mailing. The newsletter feature supports HTML emails, and you can optionally export the entire list of members to a tab delimited file which allows for easy importing into other applications.
