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Domains are confusing. There’s no reason a normal person should have to worry about CNAME records or things like that.

This is why we’ve partnered with Hover.com to provide 1-click domain setups for your 22Slides site. Now, instead of carefully editing your DNS records yourself to get your website to work, you need only to click a button and it’s all done fore you.

We’re constantly working to increase the value our service provides to our clients, and today we’re happy to announce the addition of PayPal “Buy Now” buttons!

You can now quickly assign prices to images on your site to sell things like prints and collect payments via your PayPal account.

To try it out, find the “PayPal” section in your “Add-ons” page of your control panel and enter your PayPal email address. Then you can “flip” any image on your website over by clicking the icon at the bottom right of its thumbnail and enter pricing options there. That’s it!

Over the last few months, the name of our game has been refinement: We launched a new home page at 22Slides.com that features a more polished look at feel, reminiscent of the classic European photographic equipment we draw much of our inspiration from, as well as made tons of small improvements throughout our system, some of which are listed below:

Websites

• Added the ability to remove “22” logo from websites, to allow a completely custom look
• Added support for HTTP redirects
• Added support for our download blocker add-on to sites’ home pages
• Improved current page indicators and URLs when using custom home pages
• Improved referral spam blocking
• Added classes to different types of Tumblr blog posts to allow unique styling for each type of content
• Fixed numeric alphabetization of files in the Dropbox file manager add-on
• Improved small alignments of default skin in areas
• Added {year} variable to copyright notices, to allow custom copyright notices that automatically update with the current year

Control Panel

• New WYSIWYG text editor to allow text to be formatted without the need for Markdown
• Increased image upload limit from 23MP to 25MP to better accommodate more common full-resolution images
• Revamped page creation process, eliminating some steps to make the process faster
• Fixed thumbnail cropping in latest versions of Google Chrome
• Added indicator that points out which page has just been created or edited
• Subtle design changes to help communicate which elements on different pages are editable
• Changed language on payment page to be more clear for European areas
• Made “changes saved” feedback notification more visible
• Fixed page naming issue that would sometime add a “-1” to the end of a page’s URL when it wasn’t necessary

Mobile Sites

• Enabled mobile site add-on by default
• Moved mobile navigation button to the right, to better-accommodate one-hand use with today’s larger phones
• Improved appearance of “blurbs” in the navigation
• Removed arrows from navigation items that aren’t drop down menus, to reduce clutter
• Added support for custom copyright notices in the footer

If you’ve ever been concerned about losing valuable search engine placement when reorganizing your website, renaming pages, or even when switching to 22Slides from another website service, we just introduced the ability to remedy this by creating permanent 301 HTTP redirects.

For example, if you have a popular page on your site at the address “portfolio-ii” and you’d like to rename it to something like “portraits”, now you can create a redirect from the old address to the new one and retain all your search engine points.

Also, if you’re switching to 22Slides from another service, you don’t need to worry about losing your most valuable pages’ search engine value. You can simply create redirects from the old URLs to the new ones.

We’ve joined Instagram! Follow us at @22slides.

We’ll be using the account less for announcing things to do with 22Slides itself, but rather to feature some of the great work our customers do.

If you’re a client of ours and would like us to feature some of your work, just let us know, or tag your photos with “#22slides”.