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Startup Nirvana

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

For small companies like us (read, no marketing budget), we know how valuable good press is. Because sadly, just having a great product doesn’t mean the world will beat a path to your door. So we are tickled pink when we get good press coverage.

Yesterday, we were covered in Mashable, here: http://mashable.com/2008/09/16/websketch/

And today, we were covered by KillerStartups, here: http://www.killerstartups.com/Web20/websketch-com-customize-your-web

If you like our service, please vote us up on KillerStartups. We want to see if we can get on the Top 10 list and stay there :)

Winner of our TechCrunch50 iPod touch Giveaway

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

We had an opportunity to showcase our service at the TechCrunch50 Conference in San Francisco last week. Along with that, we had a show-only drawing for a brand new Apple iPod touch. We are happy to announce that the winner of the iPod touch drawing is Ben Choi. A hearty thanks goes to everyone who participated.

We are on the radio

Monday, September 15th, 2008

Internet radio, that is. We were recently interviewed for the PricewaterhouseCoopers Startup Show regarding our launch of the WebSketch service. You can catch it here:

http://wsradio.com/internet-talk-radio.cfm/shows/PricewaterhouseCoopers-Start-Up-Show/archives/date/selected/09-04-2008.html

Comments Plus. Featured Sites. New Page Properties.

Friday, September 5th, 2008

Comments Plus

Comments just got a whole lot more fun because when someone leaves a comment on one of your sites, we now let you know! New email notifications let you know as soon as someone comments on one of your site. And when you log in you can see all the new comments since your last login, or in the last day, week, or month even. You can even see comments you’ve left on other people’s sites in case you want to keep an eye on the ones you’ve commented on. We also figured out that dates are pretty much useless for communicating how recent a comment is, so we ditched the date and replaced it with when a comment was left. So now you’ll see comments as being left “25 minutes ago”, “2 days ago”, “1 week ago”, etc. :-)

Featured Sites

You told us that seeing featured sites on the home page is cool but that you wanted to see them when you logged in too. That made sense to us, so we did it. Of course we don’t want to make you see them if you don’t want to, so you can hide or show them whenever you feel like it.

New Page Properties

Now you can set the link color, underline style, hover color, and hover underline style so your links will stand out and look great! We also picked a new default line height that works better for a wider variety of Web content. But don’t worry, if what you really want is to be able to change it yourself, now you can. ;-)

That’s it for this post. As usual, we’re already busy working on more cool stuff, so check back again for more updates from the team!