Social Sharing is Now Optimized in Your Site

Whether we like it or not, the Social Web is here. Gone are the days of static websites where you can simply put up your website and wait for it to be found by search engines. What matters now is as soon as you publish your site, you need to share it as well. Two new features make this a SNAP with your Earthgrid Powersite.

Instant Sharing on Publish Page

The first feature is 'Instant Sharing' - the moment you make a change to your website and press the Publish button - for a few seconds you'll see a box that looks like the one below. With one mouse click you can 'Tweet' or Publish your newest page to your wall or Facebook comment field, Google+1, Linked IN or email. Get in the habit of tweeting and 'facebooking' as soon as you publish your page!

Social Tools in Page Options
Has this ever happened to you: you are excited to share your freshly published website or page with your Facebook friends, but when you paste the URL into Facebook's status box, Facebook does not find all the images or gets the title or description wrong? Our latest build of Earthgrid Powersites includes Social Tools, which gives you full control again over your page titles, page descriptions and thumbnail images as your content is shared on Facebook and Google+. You can define Social Tools settings for each page individually in the Page Options Panel, or for your entire site in the Site Properties Panel. As with Search Engine Optimization, Page Options will override site-wide settings



What's even better is that if you have already defined titles and descriptions in Search Engine Optimization, Social Sharing can directly use those. As you can see, you are in full control of how your content gets shared! Earthgrid's Social Sharing uses a technology called Open Graph, which was originally published by Facebook but has since been adopted by Google for its +1 sharing. This means that every Earthgrid Powered website has built in website optmization for social sharing built in!

Mobile Swipe Support for Image Galleries
In just a few short years, "swiping" through a set of images has become a standard gesture, and is now pretty much expected behaviour for image galleries. Earthgrid's Image Galleries now support for swipe gestures on mobile devices and tablets that run the iOS or Android Operating Systems. Support for swiping is automatically added to any galleries you have already published. Swiping is supported by the Slideshow, Filmstrip and Mosaic visualisations, as well as in the Large Image Viewer and in Animated Page Images. This feature has been tested on iOS on iPads and iPhones, and on Android 1.5 and 2.2. We will continue to test and support more devices and platforms. If you have a device that is currently not supported, please don't hesitate to contact us and let us know.

You probably are already familiar with content management systems such as Wordpress, Drupal and Joomla. What all these systems have in common is that the 'Administrator' interface is on a different screen and requires some technical expertise or training to understand to make design or stylistic changes.  Designers typically go back-and forth between the published view and the admin view as they design their site. In contrast, Earthgrid PowerSites allow you to edit the contents of your website directly on screen.

To get you started, we have created a 'Getting Started Guide' so that if you're already familiar with building a web site, you should be able to build an Earthgrid Powersite in less than an hour - even in 30 minutes!  In today's high-paced world your customers expect more than just a web site.

They expect a professional design, multiple navigation panels, database CRM, business applications like news and events and appointment scheduler, Facebook/Twitter integration, members areas and dynamic content.  Earthgrid PowerSites provide all these benefits and more for a low monthly cost which includes hosting, software license and all the tools you need to power your online business.

Need help? Our tutorials and live webinars will show you exactly how to maintain your website yourself without a webmaster.  Or, if you prefer, our certified designers can build a website for your business from start to finish.  Contact us for details.

• Integrates with Google Analytics and Google Maps
  
• Intuitive Editing Interface - PowerSites make it super-easy to edit your site content. Just rollover and click to edit.
  
• Fully Customizable Designs - PowerSites designs are sophisticated, yet flexible enough to match your brand.
  
• Email Marketing Tools - With PowerSites you can collect email addesses directly from your site and send out targeted email campaigns with ease.
  
• Online Forms - Powersites' form editor lets you create feedback, subscription, and other web forms with just a few clicks.
  
• E-Commerce - PowerSites allows you to create an online shop that best fits your business needs and budget.
  
• Search Engine Optimization - All sites built with Earthgrid Powersites are search engine-friendly out of the box.
• Member Areas - Member Login allows you to restricts access to valuable content.  

"The moment I signed up, I had full control over my site (and i'm not an IT person.)"

"Earthgrid's technology is transforming communication and optimizing our ability to efficiently organize and communicate in a moment." - Erik Lawyer, One: The Event

Our innovative tools save you time and money in both the development and ongoing maintenance of your clients' websites:

• Fast, easy and customizable during development
  Starting with one of Earthgrid's templates, you can tailor your client's sites with a custom look and feel that expresses the essence of your client's business and your artistic style. You can deliver a custom-looking web site in less time than an open source "dime-a-dozen type" site at a fraction of the cost.
  
• Simple, intuitive tools that allow you to maintain your sites at a fraction of the time of similar tools.
  Earthgrid includes an easy-to-learn and easy-to-use editing tool, much like a word processing program, for fast updates to the content of your clients' websites.
  
• Need Help?  Our easy-to follow video tutorials and in-depth support system show you everything you need to know to become a Web Wizard with Earthgrid.