22Slides

Today we made a big decision about a very small feature: We added the ability to remove the 22Slides branding from our websites.

Since the beginning, we’ve relied quite heavily on this little logo to get new clients, so removing it is a big deal to us. Cutting out a major source of leads isn’t exactly a typical business practice, but we feel it is something that our existing clients will appreciate (and we think it’s more important to cater to our existing clients than chase new ones).

The option can be found toward the bottom of your “Settings” page in your control panel. Enjoy!

We’ve just replaced our old Markdown editor with a new WYSIWYG editor for text pages that will make formatting your text, changing styles, alignment, adding links, contact forms, etc much easier.

Along with this change comes a few more smaller refinements as well, like a redesigned UI for changing a text page’s layout, automatic email obfuscation (to help defend against spammers), and helpers for adding images and video to your text pages too.

We all know how convenient automatic online payments can be. You setup your card info just once and never have to worry about it again!

Except when that card you’ve been using expires. Updating your card info with every vendor/service/website that uses it can be a major pain.

To remedy this, banks are rolling out a new feature that automatically sends your new card info to vendors that have your old card info, which means your credit card details will always be up-to-date without you having to lift a finger.

22Slides just added support for this last week, so from now on, you won’t have to worry about updating an expired payment card with our service.

The presentation of your work on mobile devices is more important than ever, which is why we do our best to allow your website to do your work justice, no matter what medium your viewers favor, and why we continue to make improvements whenever possible.

We recently made some changes to our mobile site add-on, refining the footer area to make things appear more light-weight and shift more focus to your work.

We’ve also made improvements to the way sites are displayed on tablets, specifically sites with sidebar layouts. Now, the sidebar stays put just like it does when viewing on a desktop computer, instead of scrolling out of view with the content, creating a much more consistent experience across devices.

We realize it’s a lot of work to organize a new portfolio. Going through old catalogs, cleaning up images, deciding how things should be organized and how the website should look all take time, and sometimes 14 days to do so just isn’t enough.

So we’re changing our trial period from the ever-so-common 14 days to a full 30 days to give people more time to see if 22Slides is right for them.