News

9th July 2010 Updates

There's been quite a few updates over the past six weeks, but we've been so busy we've not had time to update the site!

• On 24th May, we added "Alternate weeks" (i.e. every other week) for defining lodge meeting frequencies.
• The 30th May saw the launch of our Affiliate program.
• The 4th July saw the launch of our 3-month free trial offer.

In addition, we've added a range of new skin styles:

Big Space	Simple Blue 1	Simple Blue 2
Old Manuscript 1	Blue Boxed Keystone	Red Boxed KT Cross
Simple Red 1	Simple Red 2	Clean Blue

To change your skin style, go to Site Designer->Advanced Styling and use the drop-down list at the top.

Remember to click Save to apply your new style.

17th May 2010 Updates

You can now alter what is shown in the Member Landing Page when a user logs in to your website.

This can be used for special member-only announcements.

This is specified within Site Designer -> Website Preferences -> Member Landing Page (Basic Members) and Site Designer -> Website Preferences -> Member Landing Page (Full Members).

For more details, refer to the help on the Site Designer -> Website Preferences page, or from Home -> Help & Tutorials within the Changing the Style of your Website section.

14th May 2010 Updates

Sub-Menu's are now supported on all Freemasons-Web websites.

For more details, refer to the help on the Site Designer -> Menu Bar page, or from Home -> Help & Tutorials within the Managing your Website's Menus section.

5th May 2010 Updates

A new Help & Tutorials page is now available: Home -> Help & Tutorials

This page contains all the online help in textual form, and some video tutorials.

More video tutorials will be added over the next 2-3 weeks.

3rd May 2010 Updates

The following new features have now been added to Freemasons-Web:

• Personal "Favourite Events" List

  You can now keep a track of all the events you're interested in from member sites.

  When logged into a lodge/chapter web-site, you can now add an event from their event page into your own personal list of favourites.

  This list can be viewed by logging on to www.freemasons-web.com and selecting Member Options -> My Favourite Events.

29th April 2010 Updates

The following new features have now been added to Freemasons-Web:

• Member Lists & Member Messaging

  You can now see a list of all the members of the sites you're a member of (but only the sites you're a member of). This is available on the Member Options -> Member List page.
  There's also the option to send a member an email by clicking the button next to their entry on the list.

• Email Privacy Options

  As part of the messaging functionality mentioned above, you can decide whether your email address should be visible to Basic Members, Full Members, Site Managers or Site Administrators. This option is available on the My Account page.

  By default, your email address will only be visible to Full Members of sites you are a member of. Your email address is never visible to the general public within Freemasons-Web.

• News Item Security

  You can now apply membership security to News Items, as is currently available with events.

  This may be useful should, for example, a brother pass away and you wish to let your members know.

• Multiple Date Ranges on Sign-Up

  When signing up for a new website, you can now enter any number of date combinations for your regular meetings.

  This is to cater for lodges/chapters that have a number of irregular dates, or exceptions in their schedule.

In the Pipeline...

Some of the following have been suggested by members as future enhancements, and will be available at some time in the future:

• Video Tutorials

  We are currently working on video tutorials for the majority of the site-administration part of Freemasons-Web.

• Email Reminders of Favourite Events

  As a follow on to the "Favourite Events List", we plan to introduce email reminders for your events.

  SMS text-message reminders to your mobile phone is also planned, but later in the future.

• Page Templates

  When available, you will be able to create pages based on a selection of common templates - such as home-page layout, syllabus page, list of Office Bearers, History Pages etc.

• Lodge & Chapter Directory - Find A Meeting

  We are in the process of creating a database of all Lodges and Royal Arch Chapters in the UK. When completed, a service will be available to search for meetings based on area, date and masonic order.

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We would like to thank all the members who have given feedback on Freemasons-Web, and especially for the suggestions of future enhancements.

Should any of you wish to suggest a new feature for consideration, please contact us.